How to Fill an Enclosed Area with Both Texture and the Foreground Color in PaintShop Pro

PaintShop Pro distinguishes between a style and a material. A style is a solid color, gradient, or pattern. A material combines that style with an optional texture. For this task, you want a solid foreground color with a texture enabled. Open the foreground properties box, where you can configure the complete material. Using the Materials palette

A pattern behaves differently: it repeats an image containing its own colors and details. Changing the foreground color does not recolor that pattern. A texture uses the selected style, so a yellow color combined with a paper texture produces yellow textured marks. Choose Color as the style when retaining your chosen foreground hue matters. Using patterns

Work on a copy of your character artwork so you can compare the result with the original. Identify the exact region you want to fill, then inspect its outline at a closer zoom. For a first attempt, choose one uncomplicated region with a fairly uniform interior.

Flood Fill follows connected pixels that match its settings. A visible outline therefore needs to interrupt that connection; a gap can leave the interior connected to the surrounding background. A selection can restrict where the tool makes changes. Filling areas with colors, gradients, or patterns

Select the intended layer before filling. Corel’s tutorial notes that Flood Fill may prompt you to convert a vector element to a raster layer. If that happens, keep your editable original before accepting the conversion. This walkthrough uses a raster region rather than changing a vector object’s fill properties. How to use the Flood Fill tool

In the Edit workspace, display the Materials palette through View > Palettes > Materials. Click Foreground and Stroke Properties. The separate color boxes can change a color without changing the active style, so check that Color is actually selected rather than Gradient or Pattern. Using the Materials palette

Configure the combined material:

1. Select Color and choose your foreground hue.
2. Open the Texture page or tab.
3. Enable Add Texture.
4. Choose a texture thumbnail.
5. Adjust Angle and Scale, watching the Current preview.
6. Click OK.

Corel’s texture instructions specify these controls and show that the preview represents the style and texture together. Using textures

Start by judging texture size against the character region. Smaller Scale values repeat the texture more frequently; larger values enlarge its features and can lose detail. Angle changes its direction. For a small character, compare a fine texture with a coarser version before committing to the whole body. Using textures

Choose Flood Fill from the Tools toolbar; Corel also lists F as its shortcut. Confirm that the foreground material preview shows the color and texture you selected. How to use the Flood Fill tool

For an initial fill:

1. Set Match Mode to RGB Value for an interior defined by its existing color.
2. Begin with a low Tolerance, then increase it only if matching pixels remain unfilled.
3. Use Normal blending as a straightforward starting choice and set Opacity to 100.
4. Leave Use all layers unchecked when the boundary and interior are on the active layer.
5. Left-click inside the enclosed region.

Corel documents RGB matching, tolerance, blending, opacity, layer sampling, and the mouse-button behavior. Left-click applies the foreground material; right-click applies the background material. Filling areas with colors, gradients, or patterns

Inspect one application before clicking again. Repeated fills can gradually darken the result and fill in the texture, so additional clicks may change its appearance rather than simply repeat an identical result. Using textures

PaintShop Pro’s material textures can introduce translucency. Corel’s demonstration explains that darker areas in a texture become translucent or transparent, while lighter areas retain more of the applied material. A textured fill can therefore show the existing artwork or background through parts of its surface. PaintShop Pro Q & A session 4

Decide whether you want that underlying color to remain visible. For example, a yellow textured fill over a white interior may look different from the same fill over a blue interior. That comparison follows from the documented transparency behavior; it is an illustrative example, not a measured result.

If you want a consistent base beneath the texture, first fill the region with a solid color while texture is disabled. Then enable the texture and apply the desired foreground material over it. Use a contrasting base if you want the texture’s openings to be visible; use a closer color if you want a subtler variation. This two-pass approach follows from the texture behavior described in Corel’s demonstration. PaintShop Pro Q & A session 4

Diagnose the result by separating where the fill goes from what the material looks like. Change one control at a time so you can identify which adjustment helped.

Result	First check
Fill reaches outside the region	Undo, inspect the boundary, and restrict the area with a selection.
A narrow interior fringe remains	Increase Tolerance gradually and retry.
The wrong color appears	Confirm that you left-clicked and configured the foreground material.
Too much of the image fills	Check whether Match Mode is None, which fills all pixels.

These checks follow the documented matching, selection, and foreground/background controls. Filling areas with colors, gradients, or patterns

If the boundary sits on a different visible layer from the fill destination, check Use all layers. Corel explains that clearing this option limits matching to the current layer. Reconsider that setting when the active layer alone does not contain the outline you expect the tool to follow. How to use the Flood Fill tool

If the fill is flat, verify that the Texture button is enabled. If it uses unexpected colors, inspect the active style and material preview. The properties box determines the material being applied, even when a separate color box displays another color. Using the Materials palette

Use a controlled comparison on the same enclosed region. Keep the foreground color fixed, compare two texture scales, and inspect each at the size where the character will actually be viewed. Then compare the preferred texture over the existing interior and over a deliberate solid base.

This gives you three useful decisions: whether the texture is fine enough for the region, whether its openings reveal a suitable base color, and whether the outline still reads clearly. Choose the version that fits your character’s appearance, then record the color, texture, Angle, and Scale for other regions that should match.

Finish by checking the perimeter and viewing the whole character. The completed task is a contained region with the intended foreground color, a visible texture, and a deliberate choice about what shows through its openings. Save your working copy once those details look right.

• How to use the Flood Fill tool — Corel Discovery Center
• Using the Materials palette — Corel PaintShop Pro Help
• Using patterns — Corel PaintShop Pro Help
• Using textures — Corel PaintShop Pro Help
• Filling areas with colors, gradients, or patterns — Corel PaintShop Pro Help
• PaintShop Pro Q & A session 4 — Corel Discovery Center