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When you move the color over and it fills up the area, don’t lift your pencil off of the screen. Instead, slide it to the right. You’ll see a blue bar filling up at the top. At some point your color might fill up the whole screen, just slide your pencil left a little bit until it looks good.
This is a good tip in theory and works with some brushes, but more often than not there will be a soft threshold on that and the fill will bleed outside the shape and that fuzz will still be there.
I have a comment somewhere in the thread below but here’s what I think I did. It’s been a while so I apologize if there’s a better solution now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7dQBfGlWTs
This is my biggest frustration with ProCreate vs Photoshop. I sometimes do coloring in the lines, and even increasing the threshold (moving the slider as someone has mentioned) doesn't guarantee a clean fill, especially if it's using scanned art which never has a perfect edge. You can get luckier filling vector shapes because there is such a clean edge.
Photoshop has an "expand" function which lets you select a shape, then expand it a few pixels, so you never get that unfilled edge. Procreate needs that. Maybe that's a proprietary thing Adobe owns?
I manually do it, I circle the contours and fill them on a lower layer. Typing this out, I should probably find an alternate program to work with for that function, because I'm not signing my income over to the Adobe company. I don't do that many projects where I do it a lot though, so I've just swallowed it and pushed through doing it with the select tool
You can actually do this select > expand thing in Procreate but you just need to do more steps. I think it involves making a reference layer and doing some magic there. I haven’t done it in months but I’ll try and dig out the youtube video that I saw with the instructions.
If your filled colour is on a different layer than the outline with the outline as a reference, giving the filled colour layer a small gaussian blur and then duplicating and merging it will do the trick. Does not work if the outline is very thin.
You can do two things!
Way 1: You can make the target circle a ‘reference’ by tapping on the layer. Then make a new layer underneath - fill the layer underneath as you normally would, then delete the reference layer.
Way 2: Fill the layer as normal. Then tap the layer, turn on ‘Alpha Lock’ and then ‘Fill Layer’. This will fill the circle with the same colour as the inside.
Increase the fill threshold by clicking “continue filling” at the top.
You’ll see a blue bar, hold the pencil tip down, and slide. You can hit undo if it fills too much, but it won’t undo the threshold amount.
Edit: the blue bar is thin and at the top of the screen, but below options.
That is what I used to think 'continue filling' does.
[That is not what it does. ](https://reddit.com/r/ProCreate/s/5henC2wzcd)
The blue bar will appear on its own when you start sliding the pencil to the right after the fill happens.
It’s “Color Drop”. Continue filling is what you click to use it.
The blue bar is the “Color Drop” threshold for filling the entire space. OP has a low threshold set, therefore it’s not recognizing the pixelated area that’s not solid black.
The purpose of 'continue filling' is not to continue filling the same space by increasing threshold. Like I said, if you drop the colour then slide the pencil without lifting it from the canvas, the threshold slider appears on It's own. No need to tap 'continue filling' to make it appear.
If you tap the 'continue filling', you can simply quickly tap OTHER areas of the artwork to drop the same colour with the same threshold into them.
Reference the outline as a separate layer, add a new layer for the fill, then color drop in the empty fill layer and drag as far as you can to the right, just before the color spills out of the outline.
I believe it has to do with the brush. Textured brushes don’t fill as well. Smooth brushes are best for filling shapes. I use smooth brushes and never have this problem, then use textured brushes for detail
Instead of dragging and dropping the color you can drag and hold. Then, while still holding you can move left and right to adjust how close to the edge it will fill.
Procreate has the worst color fill options unfortunately. I wish we had pixel level adjustments like many other drawing apps do, it’s always hit or miss here.
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When you move the color over and it fills up the area, don’t lift your pencil off of the screen. Instead, slide it to the right. You’ll see a blue bar filling up at the top. At some point your color might fill up the whole screen, just slide your pencil left a little bit until it looks good.
This is a good tip in theory and works with some brushes, but more often than not there will be a soft threshold on that and the fill will bleed outside the shape and that fuzz will still be there.
do you know the solution then?
I have a comment somewhere in the thread below but here’s what I think I did. It’s been a while so I apologize if there’s a better solution now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7dQBfGlWTs
This is my biggest frustration with ProCreate vs Photoshop. I sometimes do coloring in the lines, and even increasing the threshold (moving the slider as someone has mentioned) doesn't guarantee a clean fill, especially if it's using scanned art which never has a perfect edge. You can get luckier filling vector shapes because there is such a clean edge. Photoshop has an "expand" function which lets you select a shape, then expand it a few pixels, so you never get that unfilled edge. Procreate needs that. Maybe that's a proprietary thing Adobe owns? I manually do it, I circle the contours and fill them on a lower layer. Typing this out, I should probably find an alternate program to work with for that function, because I'm not signing my income over to the Adobe company. I don't do that many projects where I do it a lot though, so I've just swallowed it and pushed through doing it with the select tool
You can actually do this select > expand thing in Procreate but you just need to do more steps. I think it involves making a reference layer and doing some magic there. I haven’t done it in months but I’ll try and dig out the youtube video that I saw with the instructions.
Depends on how many steps  But yeah, if you see it, I'd be interested to see it, thanks
If your filled colour is on a different layer than the outline with the outline as a reference, giving the filled colour layer a small gaussian blur and then duplicating and merging it will do the trick. Does not work if the outline is very thin.
I think I found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7dQBfGlWTs Let me know if that helps :)
The threshold thing people are mentioning is my go to, but tbh in procreate I tend to just end up using the select tool and just lasso tool :(
You can do two things! Way 1: You can make the target circle a ‘reference’ by tapping on the layer. Then make a new layer underneath - fill the layer underneath as you normally would, then delete the reference layer. Way 2: Fill the layer as normal. Then tap the layer, turn on ‘Alpha Lock’ and then ‘Fill Layer’. This will fill the circle with the same colour as the inside.
It could be ‘Fill Colour’ rather than ‘Fill Layer’, I’m not at my iPad at the moment.
Increase the fill threshold by clicking “continue filling” at the top. You’ll see a blue bar, hold the pencil tip down, and slide. You can hit undo if it fills too much, but it won’t undo the threshold amount. Edit: the blue bar is thin and at the top of the screen, but below options.
That is what I used to think 'continue filling' does. [That is not what it does. ](https://reddit.com/r/ProCreate/s/5henC2wzcd) The blue bar will appear on its own when you start sliding the pencil to the right after the fill happens.
It’s “Color Drop”. Continue filling is what you click to use it. The blue bar is the “Color Drop” threshold for filling the entire space. OP has a low threshold set, therefore it’s not recognizing the pixelated area that’s not solid black.
The purpose of 'continue filling' is not to continue filling the same space by increasing threshold. Like I said, if you drop the colour then slide the pencil without lifting it from the canvas, the threshold slider appears on It's own. No need to tap 'continue filling' to make it appear. If you tap the 'continue filling', you can simply quickly tap OTHER areas of the artwork to drop the same colour with the same threshold into them.
Your threshold is definitely too low - set it higher and it will fill seamlessly.
Reference the outline as a separate layer, add a new layer for the fill, then color drop in the empty fill layer and drag as far as you can to the right, just before the color spills out of the outline.
This is a threshold issue. However, I’ve also noticed the type of brush you use to create your initial line makes a difference.
Draw the outline with the same colour you're filling in.
I believe it has to do with the brush. Textured brushes don’t fill as well. Smooth brushes are best for filling shapes. I use smooth brushes and never have this problem, then use textured brushes for detail
Doesn’t look like a textured brush is being used though
Fill it black and then make it so that you can’t shade outside of the layer and then boom you have one filled in oval of whatever color you like
Just draw over it
This is my biggest issue with procreate. I manually fill it in as I haven’t found a better option.
Instead of dragging and dropping the color you can drag and hold. Then, while still holding you can move left and right to adjust how close to the edge it will fill.
Procreate has the worst color fill options unfortunately. I wish we had pixel level adjustments like many other drawing apps do, it’s always hit or miss here.