Discover the Fill Tool’s capabilities in Clip Studio Paint, an essential tool for flatting (the practice of layering base colors onto an illustration).
Customize the Sub Tools in the [Sub tool] palette to reference specific layers when filling, which is helpful when you prefer keeping lineart and color layers separated.
Selecting the Area to Fill
For maximum effectiveness with the Fill Tool, it’s vital to know how to select the area to be filled. This is particularly relevant if you are trying to flatten your artwork. There are various means available to select this area but one of the most efficient ways is using selection tools such as Lasso or Auto Select Tools; using these along with the Fill Tool ensures more precise and accurate coloring results when coloring work.
Start by making sure a selection is selected in the Layers panel. Clicking on the [Fill] button, which can be found in the top left corner, to fill your selection with solid color – by default this will be set as your current drawing color (for more information regarding color palettes see “Color Palettes” section below).
The options at the bottom of the window provide control of various parameters of fill. For instance, clicking Close Gap will automatically bridge gaps in your line art to allow fill to treat them as connected lines; you can adjust how large this gap is by using rectangles; additionally, tolerance controls how closely pixels must be of similar color before being considered the same hue.
Switch the Fill Tool between editing layers by selecting Refer Only to Editing Layer option. This option ensures that fill only affects pixels of layer that was clicked, making this useful when working with layers with multiple elements that need to be individually colored.
Use of Select and Adjust Tolerance options can also assist in solving issues like color bleeding and white halos between line art and fill. Furthermore, Paint Unfilled Areas gives you a way of manually filling any pixels that were not filled in automatically.
Lock Transparency can also come in handy when working with transparent objects; by selecting this and applying the Fill Tool, you’ll be able to make color adjustments while keeping transparent items intact.
Using the Lasso Tool
As part of creating an illustration, isolating details, characters, objects or anything else you need for work can often be the key to its success. To do this, a selection tool such as Lasso Tool will come in handy; with its powerful yet flexible selection tools you’ll have no trouble making complex selections that fit exactly how you want them – or even help eliminate unwanted parts from your composition and give a polished result!
To use the Lasso Tool, simply click it in your toolbar and drag across an area you wish to select. As you drag, the Lasso will close any gaps in your selection as it automatically fills it in with its color; additionally, width adjustments may be made by holding down Shift when dragging or using mouse or stylus buttons.
The Lasso Tool offers another useful feature in that it allows you to adjust and blur the edges of your selection, which can help ensure a seamless transition between it and other aspects of your composition. Furthermore, this can be combined with Polyline and Rectangle Marquee Sub Tools which enable more intricate selections that include curves or rounded shapes.
if your selections aren’t quite precise or there are pixels beyond your base shape that require manual filling, the Paint Unfilled Areas tool is a useful way to fill these areas by hand. It is especially helpful when working on illustrations that require flatting (the process of filling an artwork completely with its base color).
If you’re having issues with color bleeding and white halos, use the Tolerance setting to restrict which colors will be affected by the Fill Tool and ensure your selections remain as accurate as possible. With these tips in mind, you should be able to utilize the Fill Tool effectively and take full advantage of its features.
Using the Auto Select Tool
Auto Select Tool allows you to automatically outline areas you’d like to fill, which can save both time and effort when dealing with multiple layers that contain characters or objects that need covering up. With its auto selection capabilities, this is ideal when working on detailed pieces requiring fill-in. This tool can also be useful for isolating part of a character or object. To use this feature, select the layer that contains what you wish to outline before clicking on the Auto Select Tool icon in your toolbar – this will open a window containing preconfigured settings which you can alter using either buttons in the toolbar or menu options; for more details on customizing these settings see our Auto Select Tool Setting Guide.
Coloring requires using the appropriate tools and techniques in order to achieve desired results. One key aspect is preventing halos or white edges between colored areas and line art by aligning lines properly, and by adjusting Tolerance settings. Lasso and Auto Select tools may also help improve accuracy during selections.
Expand Selected Area is another tool available in the Select menu that can help refine your selections by expanding an already selected area by specifying how many pixels to expand by. This feature is especially helpful when isolating smaller details like individual hair strands. In addition, smooth or jagged expansion is customizable as needed.
As well as these tools, there are other features available to aid the coloring process. One such function is the Refer Only to Editing Layer Fill Tool which fills only pixels selected based on what is called for in an active layer selection you make – ideal when flattening art or keeping lineart and color layers distinct. Furthermore, Blur Border and Paint Unfilled Areas options available within Select menu help refine selections further.
Using the Paint Bucket Tool
Fill Tool is a standard component of digital art creation, used to produce various effects and techniques. Mastering its various Sub Tools will enable you to produce professional-quality artwork quickly and efficiently.
Understanding how the Fill Tool interacts with layers is paramount when using it for coloring projects; this enables you to separate elements such as backgrounds and lineart into individual layers for easier application of effects without disrupting other parts of your illustration.
Adjusting this setting enables you to tailor the Fill Tool according to your own specific needs and requirements, such as using one layer as a reference when coloring, or using different colors for different forms of line art.
Fill Tool by default refers to all visible layers when applying fills, but you can adjust its settings so as to only use specific layers, which is especially helpful when working on illustrations that involve several individual layers that need individual coloring, such as characters, objects or backgrounds.
Adjusting how the Fill Tool references vector lines when drawing shapes with it is also possible, providing greater accuracy for filling areas drawn using anti-aliased lines without gaps or errors. When enabled, this feature is known as [Stop filling at center line of vector]. This option may prove especially helpful when filling areas containing anti-aliased traces that create gaps or errors when filling an area outlined by anti-aliased lines.
Fill Tool allows you to select pixels with specific colors, which is especially helpful when creating effects like shadows and highlights. Furthermore, its scaling feature enables fine-tuning how much detail is applied when filling pixels.
