On your Paint Shop Pro desktop to the left is a paint can – this is your flood fill tool. With this tool you can change the color of your images and you can also change the color that surrounds your graphic images as well.
Let's say you have a new image opened 100 width by 100 height in white and you decide you would like to change the color of this image to blue.
You would do the following:
Style Pallete in Paint Shop Pro 7
The top color box is your foreground color and the box below is your background color. To flood fill your image, you will click on the color palette for the color you wish to use.
Lleft click on the flood fill tool
and then left click on the arrow in your style palette. Left click the
paint brush option. . This option is for solid colors - not textures or gradients. Be sure that the boxes under textures look like this:
For complete information on how to use the new color/style palette in Paint Shop
Pro 7, please refer to Understanding the New Style/Color Palette. I suggest that if you have a printer, you print it so that you can refer to it often.
If you have an image that is surrounded by a foreground color you would like to
change, you can use flood fill to accomplish this. You will need to go to your
magic wand and left click it. Bring the magic wand to your image and left click on the foreground color (the color surrounding your image) - you will see it selected or activated like moving ants. Take your eye dropper and left click the color palette and choose the color you want to flood fill.
Your top color will show the color you chose.
Now go to your flood fill tool (paint can) and left click it and bring it to your image and left click it again - the area that your selected will now be flood filled with the new color you chose. Take your magic wand again and left click it - bring it over to your image and right click it
on the image to deselect the area or to stop those ants from moving. You now
have changed the color surrounding your graphic.
Here is an example of changing the surrounding color. The first picture has a cat surrounded by the color purple.
Now instead of purple, you want the color surrounding the cat to be pink. First
you would select the area with your magic wand so it looks like this.
Remember, left click your magic wand, and left click inside the image.
You will take your eyedropper tool and pick the pink color you want to flood
fill and then left click your flood fill tool and flood fill the image with pink.
Don't forget to deselect it. This is what your image will look like:
You can also change the colors of images using colorful graphics as well.
Here is a graphic that has lots of color! Download the floral pattern for this lesson.
Start with making your new image 100 x 100 with color being white.
Open up your floral graphic. Now go to your color palette and left click on your arrow in the bottom color box under Styles. When the selections box opens up, left click on the box with the dots on it. . Then you will left click inside the bottom style box and the current pattern box will open up.
Scroll until you find your pattern:
and click ok. You will now see your pattern in the bottom box in the styles area of the color palette.
Making Text With Flood Fill Pattern
You can also make text with flood fill pattern like the one in the title of this page above.
Left click the toggle control panel on the top of the screen and then go to your
paint can (flood fill tool) and left click it. Settings should be:
Match mode is RGB value
Tolerance is 50
Opacity is 100
Open up your floral graphic. Now go to your color palette and left click on your
arrow in the bottom color box under Styles. When the selections box opens up,
left click on the box with the dots on it. .
Then you will left click inside the bottom style box and the current pattern box
will open up.
Scroll until you find your pattern:
and click ok. You will now see your pattern in the bottom box in the styles area of the color palette.
Left click the text tool and set up your text entry screen as you see below:
and click Ok. What you are doing is using the pattern as the FILL color (background color).
Your text is now flood filled and you will see the text moving – as if ants are going around it. Then left click your magic wand and right click over the graphic to stop the ants from moving.
You can do this flood fill with any pattern you find.
– this is your flood fill tool. With this tool you can change the color of your images and you can also change the color that surrounds your graphic images as well.
. This option is for solid colors - not textures or gradients. Be sure that the boxes under textures look like this:
and left click it. Bring the magic wand to your image and left click on the foreground color (the color surrounding your image) - you will see it selected or activated like moving ants. Take your eye dropper and left click the color palette and choose the color you want to flood fill.
Your top color will show the color you chose.
. Then you will left click inside the bottom style box and the current pattern box will open up.
and set up your text entry screen as you see below: