Scratchpad paintbuckettutorial
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Title
Paint Bucket Tool
Author(s)
ryan lerch, ryanlerch at gmail dot com
Abstract
This tutorial covers the use of the Paint Bucket tool and it's options. The paint bucket tool was an addition to Inkscape in release 0.46.
Body
Basics
The paint bucket tool allows a fully bounded area to be quickly traced and generates a path that "fills in" that area. This tool is especially useful when "inking" line drawings; On the following example (it is one path that was traced from a bitmap) try using the paint bucket tool to fill in his hair and his face:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/images/Paintbuckettutorial-happyguy.svg
After using the paint bucket tool to "fill" the hair and the face, the result should look something like this:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/images/Paintbuckettutorial-happyguycolor.svg
The drawing now has 3 paths (the original, the path of the hair color and the path of the face color.) It is important to note that the paint bucket does not change the fill property of any object in the document, it merely creates a new path to represent the "fill".