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procreate colordrop not filling whole area
HeyBraza points at the colordrop threshold slider - the hold-and-drag gesture nobody discovers - so your fill stops leaking or under-filling.
you drag a color onto a shape and it either floods the whole canvas or barely fills anything. the cause is almost always the colordrop threshold, set by a gesture procreate never tells you about. here's how to control it on your ipad.
or do it yourself
- 1pick your color, then drag the color swatch from the top-right onto the area you want to fill.
- 2don't lift your finger - keep holding, and a 'colordrop threshold' bar appears across the top.
- 3slide your finger right to raise the threshold (fills more) or left to lower it (fills less), then release when the fill looks right.
- 4if it floods the whole canvas, your shape has a gap in its outline - close the line, or set the line-art layer as a 'reference' layer and fill on a layer above it.
- 5zoom in to spot tiny gaps where color is escaping and patch them before filling again.
let HeyBraza do this with you
HeyBraza is a tiny on-screen guide that points at the right buttons and talks you through it, on windows and mac.
downloadcommon questions
why does colordrop fill my whole screen?
the outline has a gap so the fill escapes - close the gap, or set your line layer as a reference layer and colordrop on a separate layer above it.
where is the colordrop threshold in procreate?
there's no button - drag the color onto the canvas and keep holding; the threshold slider appears at the top while your finger is down.