This tutorial shows you
to how to add color fills and outlines to objects in your drawing.
You can change the appearance of any object using a fill and you
can apply a fill to both open and closed objects.
The most common fill is a uniform fill. There are many ways you
can apply uniform fills including using the Color Palette or the
Uniform Fill dialog box. You can also leave objects unfilled,
or transparent. As well, you can copy fills from one object to
another, eliminating the need to recreate complex fills.
Select a topic:
Select an option:
This procedure shows you how to use the Color Palette to fill
an object.
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Texture fills are fills that look like clouds, water, gravel,
minerals, and dozens of other substances.
The Interactive Fill tool lets you apply a texture fill quickly
and easily.
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CorelDRAW represents PostScript fills on screen with the letters
"PS" (unless you are in Enhanced view).
There are three kinds of pattern fills: two-color, bitmap, and
full-color.
Select an option:
Apply a two-color pattern fill
Apply a full-color pattern fill
You can use the Interactive Fill tool to apply a two-color pattern
fill quickly and easily.
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The Interactive Fill tool lets you apply a bitmap pattern fill
quickly and easily.
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The Interactive Fill tool lets you apply a full-color pattern
fill quickly and easily.
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Select an option:
The Interactive Fill tool lets you apply fountain fills using
the mouse.
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The quickest and easiest way is by using the mouse and the on-screen
Color Palette.
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Select an option:
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Select an option:
Create color styles and apply them to objects.
Create color styles automatically from an illustration.
This procedure shows you how to create color styles while working
with an illustration.
When creating color styles, you can link colors together in a
"parent-child" relationship. A parent color determines
the hue of its linked child colors. Child colors are shades of
their parent.
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This procedure shows you how to create color styles from an existing
illustration.
To create color styles automatically, you must first select all
or part of an illustration.
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Tip
To set the program to fill
open curves click Tools menu, Options. Double-click Document and
click General. Enable the Fill Open Curves check box.
Tips
You can also drag
a color from the Color Palette to an object. As the cursor moves
over the object, it changes shape to
show where the color will be applied.
To remove a fill, select
the object with the Pick tool and click the No Color
swatch on the on-screen Color Palette.
Right-clicking the color
palette scroll bars takes you to the first or last color on the
color palette.
Tip
To remove a texture fill
select the object with the Pick tool and click the No Color
swatch on the on-screen Color Palette.
Note
Click the Edit Fill button
to adjust other options as required.
Note
To remove a pattern fill,
select the object with the Pick tool and click the No Color
swatch on the on-screen Color Palette.
Tip
To remove the fountain
fill, select the object with the Pick tool
and click the No Color swatch on the on-screen
Color Palette.
Note
As the cursor moves over
the line, a plus sign appears, indicating a new color step will
be added.
Tip
To access different tints
for colors, click and hold on the color on the color palette.
A tint flyout appears from which you can choose the tint you want.
Note
You can also drag a color
from the Color Palette to any object. Release the mouse when the
cursor changes to
.
Tip
To remove an object's outline
using the Color Palette, select the object with the Pick tool
and right-click the No Color swatch on
the on-screen Color Palette.
Note
The colors in your drawing
change to match the new parent and child colors.
Notes
The colors in the drawing
change to reflect the different child color and its associated
shades.
The fewer parents you choose,
using the Parent Creation Index slider, the more your drawing
may change color when you automatically create color styles. Parent
colors are created by a type of "averaging" of the colors
in a drawing and choosing colors on the spectrum which lie equal
distances between the drawing colors. The fewer parents, the fewer
"average" colors.