Automatic. Freehand. Advanced.
These are the 3 different coloring settings for Coloring Inside the Lines in Pigment. Depending on which coloring mode you have selected, your colors will either stay within lines or not. Please note that the basic fill tool will not have these options.
To find these coloring options, tap on the sliders icon in the top left corner of your coloring editor screen:
Freehand: when you have Freehand mode selected whether you're coloring line art or a grayscale, you'll be able to color freely anywhere on the page without the lines restricting where your color is placed.
Automatic: this mode only works on line art coloring pages. If you have Automatic mode selected then your color will be place within the lines of whatever section you are coloring in.
Advanced: this mode only works on line art coloring pages. In Advanced most you can either single or multi select specific areas you'd like your colors to be placed.
Check out this video for more details about where you can locate the coloring modes and how they work:
NOTE:
When images are imported for coloring, the Pigment app makes a determination regarding the nature of the image―is it line art or is it a grayscale image? If the image is determined to be line art, fills may be restrained by changing the Coloring Inside the Lines setting to Automatic. If the image is not determined to be line art, the app treats it as a grayscale image and the Coloring Inside the Lines setting will automatically be Freehand; this means the fills will bleed across the page or are restrained by the dragging of the Pencil point. The same things happens when you start from a Blank Page.
What's a bleed? Bleeds occur when the black lines don't completely touch (or aren't thick enough) allowing space between them such that when you try to color or fill a space within lines, the color runs out of the line and "bleeds" into areas where it's not intended to go.
Want to learn more about coloring Grayscale pages? Check out this article.
If you think you're having a technical issue with colors bleeding on imported line art, check out this problem-solving article.
If a line art coloring page offered in the Pigment library seems to have bleeds, please take a screenshot and send it to us by tapping Contact Support so we can fix it.