Hello, so recently I figured out how to get my tool options back But now I'm having color problems. When I try coloring my line art, there's some line that stays below the line art.

Here's a picture to show what I mean:
https://i.imgur.com/sFPspV4.png

I also notice when I use the fill bucket tool, it shows the lines as well! I even tried using a brush and going over it to fix it but it still doesn't work
How do I fix this problem?

You have lineart occupying a small proportion of the 1602 x 1204 image and that gives low spatial resolution, for your lineart drawing tool, with noticeable lineart colour fade. That might give the Fill Tool some confusion depending on its Threshold setting. At that size of lineart, it may be better to use a pixel brush with a size of 1.0 or 1.5 pixels.

You have the Tool Options docker back but you don't show it , for the Fill Tool, in the image you posted. It looks like you have feathering set to about 3 pixels. I suggest you try feathering of 0 pixels (unless you want the feathering) and Grow selection of 0 pixels or 1 pixel, maybe more, depending on the edge effect you want.

Were you using the selection tool to define a region for erasing? Do you have the lineart on a separate layer?

It would be useful to draw some simple lineart shapes with a pixel brush and then use the Fill Tool with different settings to see the effects that can be obtained.

P.S. https://imgur.com/a/WP2MRKd

ahabgreybeard wrote:You have lineart occupying a small proportion of the 1602 x 1204 image and that gives low spatial resolution, for your lineart drawing tool, with noticeable lineart colour fade. That might give the Fill Tool some confusion depending on its Threshold setting. At that size of lineart, it may be better to use a pixel brush with a size of 1.0 or 1.5 pixels.

You have the Tool Options docker back but you don't show it , for the Fill Tool, in the image you posted. It looks like you have feathering set to about 3 pixels. I suggest you try feathering of 0 pixels (unless you want the feathering) and Grow selection of 0 pixels or 1 pixel, maybe more, depending on the edge effect you want.

Were you using the selection tool to define a region for erasing? Do you have the lineart on a separate layer?

It would be useful to draw some simple lineart shapes with a pixel brush and then use the Fill Tool with different settings to see the effects that can be obtained.

P.S. https://imgur.com/a/WP2MRKd

Ahh thank you for coloring her It looks nice!
Also, I went back to check the fill tool options (that's the only thing I understood ) and here The feathering is set to 0...So if it's not that...what is it? All my stuff is on separate layers...

Here:
https://i.imgur.com/QzZOhJw.png

I was concentrating on what looked like Fill tool feathering, hence my suggestions. Your Fill tool options look fine, even if your Threshold setting seems high but that's ok with your lineart as it is.

I'm going to take a guess that you had an active selection at the time you used the Fill tool, as indicated by the dashed line around the body and the icon at the bottom left of the Krita window. (I initially thought you did this during erasing.) This may have caused problems, especially if you used the Contiguous selection tool which can give strange masking effects. I can't think of why you would make that selection.

Try removing the selection, use Select -> Deselect from the main menu bar. Then, for a fresh start, delete your colouring layer and make a new layer for colouring.
I hope that will take care of the problem. As you saw from the Imgur link in my first reply, I had no problems with colouring your lineart using the Fill tool.

(You have gaps in the lineart at the end of the tail tufts which will need filling in. You also have small islands, in the sharp corners that will need a small eraser to open them up so they can be filled by the Fill tool.)

ahabgreybeard wrote:I was concentrating on what looked like Fill tool feathering, hence my suggestions. Your Fill tool options look fine, even if your Threshold setting seems high but that's ok with your lineart as it is.

I'm going to take a guess that you had an active selection at the time you used the Fill tool, as indicated by the dashed line around the body and the icon at the bottom left of the Krita window. (I initially thought you did this during erasing.) This may have caused problems, especially if you used the Contiguous selection tool which can give strange masking effects. I can't think of why you would make that selection.

Try removing the selection, use Select -> Deselect from the main menu bar. Then, for a fresh start, delete your coloring layer and make a new layer for coloring.
I hope that will take care of the problem. As you saw from the Imgur link in my first reply, I had no problems with coloring your lineart using the Fill tool.

(You have gaps in the lineart at the end of the tail tufts which will need filling in. You also have small islands, in the sharp corners that will need a small eraser to open them up so they can be filled by the Fill tool.)

I seriously don't know what I did or clicked to mess my thing up XD but All I do know is that I wasn't having this problem before I fixed my tool options. (Literally changed everything to default/ tried everything everyone suggested.) But I tried deleting that color layer and opened another, and it's the same :/ so I tried not using the contiguous select tool (I wanted to use the contiguous selection tool because I heard it was easier than coloring your line art very carefully and not passing through your lineart lines...But it seems it is the selection tool and not my brush tool...What did I click to mess up the selection tool :/? Also when I do try using the fill tool without the selection tool it fills the whole page blue...So that's why I use the selection tool...

Also here's a pic of the brush tool working (I use the ink brush):
https://i.imgur.com/yEoHVqE.png

Selection tool....*Sigh* still not working for me:
https://i.imgur.com/djgsFAf.png

Also, I would like to thank you so much for replying and helping me so much.

From what you just said, it seems that you've been using a brush to colour in your lineart and you used the selection tool to define the borders so that your brush wouldn't paint outside the borders. That is not the best or the easiest way to colour in lineart and with the contiguous selection tool you can get the strange effects that you've been seeing. The simplest way is to use the Fill tool, assuming there are no gaps in your lineart.

If there are gaps in your lineart, you need to fix them or the Fill tool will bleed through and run around all over the place, as would be expected. Also, if the Fill tool threshold value (seen on the tool options docker) is too high, it can 'punch through' your lineart and then run around all over the place.
So, it would seem that the Fill tool threshold value was too high at 77, as shown in the image you posted. I think now that it didn't punch through (assuming you used the fill tool) because you had the selection border blocking it.

Forget about the selection tool. Remove any active selection by doing Select -> Deselect from the top menu. Do not go near the selection tool. Do not think about the selection tool for a long time.

Use the Fill tool with the same settings you showed in your posted image, but take the threshold value down to 10. This should give you a good colour fill but with maybe some white/grey borders in places because of the fuzzy edges on your lineart. Then you can undo that fill action and try increasing the threshold to maybe 30 to see if that gets the filling closer to the solid black central part of your lineart. If you set the threshold value too high, it will punch through your lineart which will be obvious so you can undo and take the threshold value down. Always be aware that any kind of Fill tool bleed out can be caused by a gap in your lineart. (This is not a problem with the lineart you have except for the tail tufts.)

Actually, with fuzzy edged lineart, it's better to set the Grow selection value to 1 or 2 to push the colour filling further into the lineart so try that as well. Try a mixture of things with the Threshold and Grow selection values, undoing after each time, then do it again using different values to see the effects.

As we've seen, I can use the Fill tool on your lineart to give reasonable results so there should be no reason why you can't do it too.

ahabgreybeard wrote:From what you just said, it seems that you've been using a brush to colour in your lineart and you used the selection tool to define the borders so that your brush wouldn't paint outside the borders. That is not the best or the easiest way to colour in lineart and with the contiguous selection tool you can get the strange effects that you've been seeing. The simplest way is to use the Fill tool, assuming there are no gaps in your lineart.

If there are gaps in your lineart, you need to fix them or the Fill tool will bleed through and run around all over the place, as would be expected. Also, if the Fill tool threshold value (seen on the tool options docker) is too high, it can 'punch through' your lineart and then run around all over the place.
So, it would seem that the Fill tool threshold value was too high at 77, as shown in the image you posted. I think now that it didn't punch through (assuming you used the fill tool) because you had the selection border blocking it.

Forget about the selection tool. Remove any active selection by doing Select -> Deselect from the top menu. Do not go near the selection tool. Do not think about the selection tool for a long time.

Use the Fill tool with the same settings you showed in your posted image, but take the threshold value down to 10. This should give you a good colour fill but with maybe some white/grey borders in places because of the fuzzy edges on your lineart. Then you can undo that fill action and try increasing the threshold to maybe 30 to see if that gets the filling closer to the solid black central part of your lineart. If you set the threshold value too high, it will punch through your lineart which will be obvious so you can undo and take the threshold value down. Always be aware that any kind of Fill tool bleed out can be caused by a gap in your lineart. (This is not a problem with the lineart you have except for the tail tufts.)

Actually, with fuzzy edged lineart, it's better to set the Grow selection value to 1 or 2 to push the colour filling further into the lineart so try that as well. Try a mixture of things with the Threshold and Grow selection values, undoing after each time, then do it again using different values to see the effects.

As we've seen, I can use the Fill tool on your lineart to give reasonable results so there should be no reason why you can't do it too.

I'm sorry! I forgot to thank you! I decided to take your advice and stay away from the selection tool for a bit But I'm just coloring my lineart with the regular brush tool but I make sure that everything is colored and that nothing bleeds through! What I decided to do is just color my entire lineart and then lock the checkered board thing can recolor it that way if I need to

I'm glad that you've found a technique that works for you. I hope that you try some experiments with the Fill tool and realise how useful it can be.
Good luck with future krita artwork.