: Filling in lines on scanned line art GIMP Is there an easier way to fill in the lines in a scanned drawing. Easier than just tracing the whole thing with the brush tool. I scanned in my

@Mendez620

You can fill-in the holes in the outline by doing:


Select-by-Color (click on black outline)
Select > Grow (1px)
Select > Shrink (1px)
Bucket-Fill (whole selection) with black


Unfortunately, in this particular case, this will still leave a rather jagged outline because your earlier thresholding to remove the background has also removed all the anti-aliasing. So to produce a smooth outline, convert the selection to a path and back again before bucket-filling, thus:


(first three steps as above)
Select > To Path
(right-click in the Paths dialog) Path to Selection
create a new layer (white)
Bucket-Fill (whole selection) with black

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