Two observations about the Fill Tool and one suggestion.
Posted: December 30th, 2020, 4:14 pm
The following two comments apply only to separate previews, not to Side by Side preview.
If you click on or near a point you make it active. If you then click on another point, you do not make it active because the Fill window got deactivated by the previous click. However, the color icon in the Fill window does show the color of the point which was clicked on last. The points and the color icon are synchronized even though the points are not made active.
There is another inconsistency: You can click and drag the point to make it active with the Fill window deactivated, but the click itself is not enough.
Besides, by clicking and dragging more points you seem to make them all active as they all display a cross inside the circle, but looking at the Fill window Color icon you see that only the last dragged point is in fact active - on condition that each point has a different color to make it possible to tell then apart.
You can easily find which one of the dragged points is active (dragged last) by switching to Display Preview and back to Display Input.
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The suggestion (see the image):
Let presume you have an image with almost solid sky with few isolated locations like those inside the metal ladder in the image (the ladder hoops are disregarded for the ilustration).
You pick the color and place one fill point in the sky and others in each isolated location. Now you have a solid color all over the sky.
However, when you decide to change the color of the sky, you have to remove the isolated points and start afresh because you can make only one fill point active at a time. You can also select each isolated point and try to tune it to the new color but it is near to impossible.
A way to select more points at a time would solve the it. For example pressing Alt key?
If you click on or near a point you make it active. If you then click on another point, you do not make it active because the Fill window got deactivated by the previous click. However, the color icon in the Fill window does show the color of the point which was clicked on last. The points and the color icon are synchronized even though the points are not made active.
There is another inconsistency: You can click and drag the point to make it active with the Fill window deactivated, but the click itself is not enough.
Besides, by clicking and dragging more points you seem to make them all active as they all display a cross inside the circle, but looking at the Fill window Color icon you see that only the last dragged point is in fact active - on condition that each point has a different color to make it possible to tell then apart.
You can easily find which one of the dragged points is active (dragged last) by switching to Display Preview and back to Display Input.
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The suggestion (see the image):
Let presume you have an image with almost solid sky with few isolated locations like those inside the metal ladder in the image (the ladder hoops are disregarded for the ilustration).
You pick the color and place one fill point in the sky and others in each isolated location. Now you have a solid color all over the sky.
However, when you decide to change the color of the sky, you have to remove the isolated points and start afresh because you can make only one fill point active at a time. You can also select each isolated point and try to tune it to the new color but it is near to impossible.
A way to select more points at a time would solve the it. For example pressing Alt key?