PaintBucket Fill & Gradients in the GIMP

The next two tools are the Paint Bucket Fill tool and the Gradient Tool.
Both these tools allow you to fill in selections. One with a solid color or pattern and the other with a gradient. Watch the tutorial above or follow along below:

1. The Paint bucket fill tool is used to create either a solid fill or a pattern fill within a selection or you can fill an entire layer.
   
2. To use the Paint bucket tool, click on it and then choose your color or pattern from the properties box and then click inside the selection. It's that easy.
   
   
   
   You can change the opacity of the fill, choose to fill with the foreground color, the background color or a pattern fill. Click the Pattern and you'll get a lot of different patterns to choose from. You can also change the fill mode.
   
3. For the gradient tool , you can create tons of different types of gradients. These come in handy to creating depth to an image. To use the gradient tool, click and hold the mouse down and drag out a line in any direction and then let go of the mouse button. And a gradient in the direction you created will appear. If you don't like it, undo or just create another gradient until you find something you like.
   
   
4. The gradient tool also has a properties box, you can choose many different gradients and different effects...
   
   
   
   You can select a different gradient by clicking inside the box (the red to white fade). You can reverse the gradient, offset it, change the shape of the gradient, repeat and so on.

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