The Bucket Fill tool is used to fill areas of a layer or selection with either color or a pattern.
The Bucket Fill can be called in the following order, from the image-menu:
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The Tool can also be called by clicking the tool icon:
The Shift-b keys will change the active tool to Bucket Fill.
Ctrl toggles the use of BG Color Fill or FG Color Fill on the fly.
Options
The available tool options for the Fill Tool can be accessed
by
double clicking the Fill Tool icon.
The Opacity slider sets the transparency level for the fill. A higher opacity setting results in a more opaque fill and a lower setting results in a more transparent fill.
The Mode dropdown list provides a selection of paint application modes. A list of these modes can be found in the glossary.
This dropdown list allows the user to select one of many fill patterns to use on the next fill operation. The manner in which the list is presented is controlled by the four buttons at the bottom of the selector.
Gimp provides three fill types: FG Color Fill, BG Color Fill and Pattern Fill.
FG Color Fill sets the fill color to the currently selected foreground color.
BG Color Fill sets the fill color to the currently selected background color.
Pattern Fill sets the fill color to the currently selected pattern.
The option Sample Merged toggles the sampling from all layers. If Sample Merged is active, fills can be made on a lower layer, while the color information used for threshold checking is located further up. Simply select the lower level and ensure that a layer above is visible for color weighting.
The Threshold slider sets the level at which color weights are measured for fill boundaries. A higher setting will fill more of a multi colored image and conversely, a lower setting will fill less area.