: Photoshop: how to completely to fill an outline drawn with a brush? I drew an outline and filled the inside of it. But it did't get completely filled: there's a white gap between the stroke

@Sent7350415

I've found it works to just select with the magic wand and hit the paint bucket 6 or 7 times at a high tolerance.

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@Cooney243

Solution:


Draw a closed form;
Take 'Magic Wand Tool' and click out of shape;
'Select > Modify > Expand > 1 px' and repeated depending on the contour; (create action or shortcut)
'Select > Inverse' (Ctrl+Shift+I)
'Paint Bucket Tool' click 2 times;


If there is more easy for a transparent background, write.

Thank you!

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@Goswami567

Not entirely sure of your selection method. Expanding on Vincent's answer: Using the magic wand with tolerance at 64.



Produced this:



Filling with the appropriate colour, produced this.

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@Chiappetta793

You'll want to increase the fill tool's Tolerance before using it. You can see the value in the options bar, it's 32 in your screenshot.

Tolerance determines how many colour 'levels' will be caught in the filling. When you use the fill tool, you click a pixel, a white one in your example. Pixels more than <tolerance> levels removed from that first pixel will not get filled.

Since the stroke you drew with a brush in anti-aliased, it is surrounded by pixels in colours between white and your stroke colour. If your tolerance is too low, those will not be included in the fill and remain their original colour. This shows as an off-white inner ring.

Try to increase your tolerance level to 100 or more to obtain a nice fill without that inner ring.

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