Region Fill
Draw a shape on screen and fill what falls inside it, with the edge as something you place rather than something you have to get right in one gesture.
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Draw a lasso, polygon, circle or rectangle, then move, resize or invert it before committing. Each region has its own feather for a soft border, can paint through to hidden surfaces, and can be renamed, duplicated, saved to the library or turned into a reference image. Regions stay around as objects you can come back to, not one-shot selections.
Option bar
Two pills. The first sets how the shape is applied:
- Brush - Draw and let go and the fill lands right away, with nothing left on screen. The preview shows your brush color at its Opacity, with the selected texture inside it.
- Region - The shape stays as a movable, resizable window with a Fill button, so you can adjust it and fill more than once.
The second sets the shape:
- Lasso - Freeform. Drag to draw any outline.
- Polygon - Click to place corners. Hold Shift for 45 degree steps. Click the first point, or right-click or middle-click, to finish.
- Circle - Click the center, drag out the radius.
- Rectangle - Click and drag one corner to the opposite one.
The region window
In Region mode the shape gets a title bar. Drag the empty part of it to move the region like a window, and the radial gradient hotspot moves with it.
- X - Saves the region to Live Regions and closes it.
- Triangle - Opens the More options menu.
- Bucket - Fills the region.
More options
- Name - The region's name.
- Feathered edge - On or off. A soft border instead of a hard one.
- Fill outside - On or off. Inverts the fill.
- Paint through - On or off. Paints hidden surfaces as well as visible ones.
- Save Camera Relationship - Stores the current camera pose against the region.
- Restore Camera Relationship - Puts the camera back where it was. Comes alive once a pose has been saved.
- Duplicate region - Makes a copy of the region.
- Save to Library - Keeps the shape for reuse.
- Create Reference from Region - Turns what is inside the region into a reference image.
Notes
- Region shapes are screen-space. Save and Restore Camera Relationship bring the camera back to the exact view a region was drawn in.
- Alt or Cmd held is the camera passthrough modifier while you are drawing.
- Switching to Brush apply mode clears a finished region. Changing the shape cancels a drawing in progress but keeps a finished region.
- Region Fill is built for the desktop, with a mouse or a pen in hand.
