Hello,

I noticed when I was doing my shading that when I use a blur/blending tool within a selection, colours bleed through the border. Is there a way of stopping this from happening? Either in the tool settings themselves or in the selection settings? I havent had much luck so far.

Thanks

No there's no way, and it's a far more complex issue than it seems.

I think this is because the selection limits where you can make changes (paint/fill/erase) to the layer but it doesn't limit where a smudge engine brush can pick paint up from. The blender/blur brush can bring paint from outside the selection to inside the selection but it can't put paint down outside the selection.

If you make the selection and then do Ctrl+C followed by Ctrl+V, you create a layer that has just the selection content on a transparent background. If you then use a blender/blur brush on that layer, the worst that can happen is that you drag transparency from outside the selection into it, which has no effect on the overall image.
After you've done blending/blurring to your satisfaction, you can Merge the pasted layer with the original layer.

If you try that, it may work well for you or at least give a better overall result.

Oh dear

Will it be fixed in the future? It doesn't happen in Sai..

Thanks for the answer

ahabgreybeard wrote:I think this is because the selection limits where you can make changes (paint/fill/erase) to the layer but it doesn't limit where a smudge engine brush can pick paint up from. The blender/blur brush can bring paint from outside the selection to inside the selection but it can't put paint down outside the selection.

If you make the selection and then do Ctrl+C followed by Ctrl+V, you create a layer that has just the selection content on a transparent background. If you then use a blender/blur brush on that layer, the worst that can happen is that you drag transparency from outside the selection into it, which has no effect on the overall image.
After you've done blending/blurring to your satisfaction, you can Merge the pasted layer with the original layer.

If you try that, it may work well for you or at least give a better overall result.

Okay, Ill give that a shot and see how it turns out. Thanks for the suggestion.