looking for illustration software

[Trevor Tizard]

Hi,

 

I'm looking for a piece of software that will take the bucket fill feature of MS Paint to the next level. Basically I want to import a line drawing (in some form of bitmap or jpeg) and bucket fill areas as I can in paint. However I want to be able to fill with paterns/bitmaps for wood, floor tiles, worktops etc. These patters should be both scaleble and rotateable. Ideally I'd like to have a library of fills to use.

 

In essence I want to take a bitmap of a kitchen perspective view and add finishes to the doors, worktops, floor.

 

Anyone have any suggestions.

 

 

 

Thanks

[STRAT]

photoshop elements

[aaron-cds]

In photoshop, you can bucket fill areas. For your floor layer that you bucket fill, you can then use the pattern effect to replace the solid color bucket fill with a bitmap that you can scale and rotate.

[Trevor Tizard]

Thanks to you both,

 

However, am I right in thinking I'd have to define my wood or tile texture as a pattern to bucket fill, and if so how do I then rotate and scale it?

[aaron-cds]

Thanks to you both,

 

However, am I right in thinking I'd have to define my wood or tile texture as a pattern to bucket fill, and if so how do I then rotate and scale it?

 

Yes, but it's probably not that difficult. You can scale it in the effects menu for the pattern fill. You can rotate it by rotating the bitmap itself, just guessing.

[Antisthenes]

use a layer mask and a large pattern fill behind it then use the free transform (holding control on the corners when moving) to make it match/skew.