heatherchellette Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 I have been working with Paint.net for a couple of years and have never had this issue before. Suddenly, today, I tried using paint bucket to fill in a square and it filled in the entire image. I don't know if I accidently changed some setting on accident or what. Does anyone have any idea how to make this stop so that the paint bucket only fills in the area I have outlined for it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountnman Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 (edited) check your tolerance - the same one you use for magic wand as a work around, use rectangle select on the area you want to fill Edited August 23, 2011 by mountnman SARCASM- Just one of the many services I offer free to the public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heatherchellette Posted August 23, 2011 Author Share Posted August 23, 2011 Even with the tolerance at 0%, it still does it. The rectangle select works for now, thank you. But I'd really like to figure out what I did to get this setting this way so I can change it back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heatherchellette Posted August 23, 2011 Author Share Posted August 23, 2011 I just figured something out. When I click on an area with the paint bucket, it changes every single area that is the same color. So, that has to mean something, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFPrime Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Yep, it means that a smart idea is to always use the selection tools instead of the tools that just create the look.You see, the selection tools make it so you can ONLY work in the box that you made.If you use regular outline tools, it just makes it look different, no editing in that box.Hope i was of service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heatherchellette Posted August 23, 2011 Author Share Posted August 23, 2011 The selection tool only works in some situations, though. It's still a problem that it's filling in more than the square I've drawn out. In some squares, I have another object in them and it's even filling in that object too and no selection tool can account for that. Doesn't anyone know what setting I can change to make it start working the way it has for the past two years? I'm so frustrated. I was in the middle of working on something and I can't do anything else with it until I get this resolved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 You've probably inadvertently changed the flood mode from Contiguous to Global. Check for this setting in the toolbar with the Paint Bucket tool selected. More > http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/Toolbar.html ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heatherchellette Posted August 23, 2011 Author Share Posted August 23, 2011 That was it!!! Thank you soooo much!!!! I don't know how I did that, but now that I know what it does, it could be helpful in certain situations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFPrime Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Problem solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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