Fill bounded area tool leaves unwanted white margin

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seans_potato_biz
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Fill bounded area tool leaves unwanted white margin

Postby seans_potato_biz » Fri Nov 18, 2016 10:57 pm

I downloaded this image from Wikipedia Commons and tried to fill in the leg with grey using the Fill Bounded Areas tool.Unfortunately it leaves a white margin around the edge. Why might that be? Thanks.

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hulf2012
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Re: Fill bounded area tool leaves unwanted white margin

Postby hulf2012 » Sat Nov 19, 2016 1:11 am

Greetings

The Paint bucket tool has some differences compared with the bucket tool of other raster image editors.
Please check here how it works:
If you have problems:
1.- Post a sample (or samples) of your file please.
2.- Please check here:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/index.html
3.- If you manage to solve your problem, please post here your solution.
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seans_potato_biz
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Re: Fill bounded area tool leaves unwanted white margin

Postby seans_potato_biz » Sat Nov 19, 2016 2:06 am

Thanks for your help, Hulf! I will probably use the first approach that you linked me to.

I'm going to use the image in a YouTube video about a lamp I'm making to explain something about LEDs.
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