Issue: Paintbucket Fill is Slightly Darker

[eggxuted]

I am using the Paint-Bucket fill feature, "Wide Downward Diagonal," specifically, and the colors being used in the fill are, for some reason, darker than the ones in my color selection. Is this an unfixed bug or is there an easy fix?  

In picture #1, Dark Green & Teal are the sample colors.
In picture #2, you can see the result of using those exact sample colors and the fill feature.

Ignore the Red/Gray dashes and the deep Green at the bottom.

Edited May 27, 2023 by eggxuted

[Disk4mat]

Playing with your samples... I think the issue is that both colors are the same except the alpha. I was able to get the desired result by using the color picker and holding the CTRL key to sample the color as rendered (learned that from @Rick Brewster in another thread)... The opacity just makes what you are doing a little tricky.

 

Attached: lighter Aqua as Prim and Darker Green as Second. Also note Im probably using different sampling and fill settings aside from the diagonal fill you mentioned.

 

Edit: I cant say if this is a bug, unintended result or lack of application knowledge. But I feel like with the proper settings you can get what you need. I think many of the fill patterns are named Dark... and Light... because thats what the patterns are based on.

 

Edited May 27, 2023 by Disk4mat

[Ego Eram Reputo]

5 hours ago, Disk4mat said:

I was able to get the desired result by using the color picker and holding the CTRL key to sample the color as rendered (learned that from @Rick Brewster in another thread)

 

Explanation: The CTRL key forces sampling from the composite image including any background layer(s). In other words what-you-see-is-what-you-get. Without the CTRL key the sampling takes what is clicked on in the active layer - along with any Alpha values.

 

REF: https://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/ColorPicker.html#3

[Rick Brewster]

6 hours ago, Disk4mat said:

I think many of the fill patterns are named Dark... and Light... because thats what the patterns are based on.

The fill patterns are just whatever GDI+ (aka System.Drawing in .NET) named them. Ask Microsoft why they have whatever name they have

[Disk4mat]

18 minutes ago, Rick Brewster said:

The fill patterns are just whatever GDI+ (aka System.Drawing in .NET) named them. Ask Microsoft why they have whatever name they have

 

I was merely implying that if the names are dark xxxx and light xxxx then the patterns were designed to be as the name implies. If your color is Red and you select a dark pattern then you get a darker Red. I see no need to ask MS. I dont know if that was a joke or...

[Rick Brewster]

The hatch patterns are just bi-level masks. Light means you get more of the primary color, dark just means you get more of the secondary color. "Light" and "dark" aren't really good terms here, but it's just what they're called.

[eggxuted]

This still doesn't fix my problem. @Rick Brewsterdo you know a fix?

[Rick Brewster]

Sorry, no, I don't actually understand the problem you're having

[Lemonade]

On 5/27/2023 at 11:04 PM, eggxuted said:

I am using the Paint-Bucket fill feature, "Wide Downward Diagonal," specifically, and the colors being used in the fill are, for some reason, darker than the ones in my color selection. Is this an unfixed bug or is there an easy fix?  

In picture #1, Dark Green & Teal are the sample colors.
In picture #2, you can see the result of using those exact sample colors and the fill feature.

Ignore the Red/Gray dashes and the deep Green at the bottom.

Looks like layer opacity issue. Easy fix: create new document, add your picture (duplicate so it is 100% opaque, merge) and pick a color holding CTRL. On a new empty layer, paint with bucket. If there is no difference between colors on both layers, then check your working document and layer opacity.

[Disk4mat]

I had worked on a solution but @Lemonade's is way easier.

 

Magic Wand and select the country (I think thats what it is)

Set Primary and Secondary color

Select Gradient tool

Set repeat mode to "Repeat Wrapped"

Drag diagonal to fill and use the adjustment nubs of the gradient to fine tune.

 

Here is a screenshot

https://imgur.com/l4Bpp6e

 

[Lemonade]

@Disk4mat nice!

@eggxuted you are right, there is a color change if color is not set to opacity-alpha 255 when using any of the Bucket Fill types except Solid.
One way to avoid this is to work with solid colors and then change layer opacity, but every element with different fill type should go on a new layer.
Another easier way is what @Disk4mat posted with Gradient tool.

I'm using only left circle color here. Right circle is a color from fill types (diagonal, percent and so on).
 

Edited June 28, 2023 by Lemonade
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