How To Get Rid Of White Areas After Paintin ?

When using the Local Image Range option on Paint Fill Apply to increase detail, there are often uncovered (white) canvas areas left that may not be filled in by the Fill in the White Image Op. In a previous post on the old forum it was said that the Path Start parameters could be manipulated to accomplish this. How precisely is it done ?

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  • You can use any of the interpolator image operations to fill in solid color. it does this by extrapolating the colors at the end of the solid color region in to fill the solid color region.. the geodesic recursive interpolator is a good one for this. You want to have hard edges in your paint strokes for best results if using this approach.

    Another approach is to use path start parameters to focus the paint strokes onto certain areas. If the black space was white, you could set the luminance range to be on and to only start pant strokes in a high area. Or you could use an appropriate probability parameter in that control panel.
    • I answered this initially quickly last night and wrote one thing that was misleading. the luminance and texture range controls in the path start control panel key off of source luminance or texture features, not the canvas image. There's an Inhibitor control there that lets you choose to only have paint strokes start on white.

      You can also inhibit on blanking. the blanking buffer is a hidden buffer that can be used to store paint stroke coverage. you'd want to setup the blanking control to do brush blanking if you were using this, and probably turn off reset blanking since you are adding additional strokes to cover unfilled areas in a second autopaint step.

      there's a section in the user guide that covers this. i'll look it up later and post it here.
      • Thanks for the reply but the choice is an inhibitor in Path Star, implying that the choices are in fact opposites..
        Do you mean the "not white only" option ?
        What is te precise option under Inhibitor that you are referring to ?
        • The terminology is probably a little confusing. setting the part start Inhibtor control to White Only will make the paint strokes only start in (255,255,255) white areas of the canvas.

          If you play around with turning this on and off it should make sense.
  • Here's a tip that discusses how to control where automatic paint strokes are drawn when working with the paint synthesizer.
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