You could make your path a selection and then fill that selection.

There's a button at the bottom of the Paths tab that looks like a dotted-line square--that's Path to Selection. Click that, then fill. Should be fine.

Good luck!

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:56 AM, Uniklaps wrote:

Win 7 64 bit

Hi,

how can I use the bucket-fill option to fill an area surrounded by a dotted line?

The dotted line is a path; so if I use a line for the dots, the bucket-fill works.

But how can I step back after filling to change the path's line into dots again?

I appreciate your help!

Thanks

Konrad

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You could make your path a selection and then fill that selection.

There's a button at the bottom of the Paths tab that looks like a dotted-line square--that's Path to Selection. Click that, then fill. Should be fine.

IMHO, this is a partial solution. It works, but is sub optimal if the is ANY chance that you might want to edit this in the future.

The full correct solution would be to make a selection and save to a channel. Cancel the selection(this part is important!!) Create a new layer ABOVE the one with the path. Right click on the new layer and add a layer mask, with your channel as the "source". Ensure you have the layer(and not the mask!) selected in the layers window and just drag your color of course to the top layer. The new color will be constrained to the the layer mask created.

The benefit to this approach is that you don't destroy the original layer in any way since you did not modify it!!! Just make sure to Save the result xcf file so that if you need to change the color or whatever at a later time, you can easily open the xcf and just drag a new color to that top layer.

If you want to add an effect such as having the "filled" section have a slight blur to it for a gradual fade out, click on the layer mask for the top layer, and apply your blur.

Since I almost always use layer masks in my compositions, I can't honestly remember the last time I used the bucket fill tool(though I'm sure it has some uses).

On 07/29/2013 11:56 AM, Uniklaps wrote:

Win 7 64 bit

Hi,

how can I use the bucket-fill option to fill an area surrounded by a dotted line?

The dotted line is a path; so if I use a line for the dots, the bucket-fill works.

But how can I step back after filling to change the path's line into dots again?

Other have answered about creating a selection form the path and filling the selection, preferably on a distinct layer.

But even if you had a continuous line the plain-bucket fill would not give the expected result. Used that way it either leaves a faint space along the line, or gives it a jagged edge. The reason is that the edge of the line is made of anti-aliasing pixels, that either have a color which is a blend of the line color and the background color, or are partially transparent if the line is on a transparent layer. Then the bucket-fill in 'normal' mode always either completely paints the pixels (jagged edge) or doesn't paint them at all (space) .

If the line is on a transparent layer you can use the bucket-fill in "behind" mode. In behind mode the painting only applies to whatever transparency is left in a pixel. If you produced the line from a path, make a selection from it and fill it. Otherwise, use the wand to make a rough selection on the background, then "grow" that selection to include the edge pixels of the line, then bucket-fill.