Filling a shape that has a gap

[Floyd Benson]

Hello

Is there a way in photoshop to fill a shape that isn't completely closed so that the colour doesn't bleed all over the place.

Obviously, I know I could magnify in close the gap with a pencil tool for example, but I was wondering if there was a setting I could use that perhaps ignores a gap of a certain size before bleeding out (such as in Flash).


Thanks a lot for your time and patience.

Floyd

[ElectrifieD]

You can use the lasso tool to select the part you want to colorize

[tombothetominator]

or just the good ol' fashioned brush tool ( on a layer underneath your shape so that you dont have to be as finicky about drawing inside the lines)... depends on the complexity of the shape i guess. But to answer you question - no there is no tool or checkbox that will make the fill tool not fill in the contiguous pixels. If there is a gap, it will flood. To my knowledge anyway.