MS Paint / Autofill

[Renee]

Hi - I am having trouble filling my background. I know how to use autofill -
I pick the color & select the paint bucket. It does fill in chunks of color,
but how do you fill the entire section with color? I used to know a
short-cut (something like the tab button) and it would automatically fill it
all in. I'm tired of using my paintbrush to get down to the detail of the
outline.

Thanks so much for your help!

 

[Adam Albright]

Hi - I am having trouble filling my background. I know how to use autofill -
I pick the color & select the paint bucket. It does fill in chunks of color,
but how do you fill the entire section with color? I used to know a
short-cut (something like the tab button) and it would automatically fill it
all in. I'm tired of using my paintbrush to get down to the detail of the
outline.

Thanks so much for your help!

As with any paint program you first need to make sure all objects are
closed so color doesn't leak out where you don't want it. This is
common even with high end graphic programs like Photoshop. Even a one
pixel gap and mess up your art work.

For example if you draw a circle make sure it is closed then you can
use the paint bucket to paint it some color. To paint everything else,
ie the background move the cursor outside the circle, pick a new color
and again use the paint bucket.