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CorelDraw 101: All About Fills
Fill Tool Overview
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Understanding Fill Types
The illustration to the left contains a selection of CorelDraw fill
types. The background square contains a bitmap fill; the circle, a graduated
radial fill; the rectangle, a solid color fill; the star a texture fill
and the text a linear fountain fill. These are basic applications of
each fill type, and each is covered in a step-by-step process in this
series. This simple example gives just a glimpse of CorelDraw's powerful
fill options.
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Solid Fill Overview
Uniform, or solid fills are the most basic CorelDraw fill. Select an
object with the Pick Tool (create one if necessary). Click in the color
palette with an object selected to fill. You can also use the Uniform
Fill dialog or click and drag a color from the color palette. Both methods
are described in the Solid Fill Topic in this article.
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Fountain Fill Overview
The illustration to the left shows the four basic types of fountain
fills. The top row features a linear and a radial fountain fill. The
bottom row contains conical and square fountain fills. The fills to the left
are accomplished by selecting an object with the Pick Tool, clicking
on the Fill Tool to open the fly-out. Click on the second icon to open
the Fountain Fill window. All fountain fills are completed from this
window. See the Fountain Fills tutorial in this series.
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Bitmap Fill Overview
Bitmap fills put pictures inside your objects. Use the fill editor to
create simple fills on the fly, or import your own bitmap file. The
text and oval to the left contain bitmap fills, the light star has a
preset 2 color pattern fill and the dark star a preset full color pattern
fill. These fills are accomplished by selecting an object with the Pick
Tool, clicking on the Fill Tool to open the fly-out. Click on the third
icon to open the Bitmap Fill window. See the Bitmap Fills tutorial in
this series.
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Texture Fill
CorelDraw's Texture Fill puts the power of a texture editor at your
fingertips. Hundreds of preset textures can be edited both randomly
and through precise settings, resulting in millions of possible texture
fills. Texture fills are accomplished by selecting an object with the
Pick Tool, clicking on the Fill Tool to open the fly-out. Click on the
forth icon to open the Texture Fill window. See the Texture Fills tutorial
in this series.
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Set Default Fill
When you create any object, a default fill is applied. The CorelDraw
default is "no fill" but you can set any fill as the default
fill. Make sure nothing is selected in your document, or set defaults
before you create any objects. Select the fill you want through any
method. A pop-up screen will ask you which objects you would like this
fill to affect. Choose to have the fill apply to all graphics, artistic
or paragraph text. Click OK and the fill you choose will become the
default.
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Remove Fill
Select object with the Pick Tool. Click on the "No Color"
well in the color palette. Or, click on the Fill Tool in the Toolbox
and chose the X icon. Both methods will remove the fill for that object.
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 Wendy
Peck is a working Web designer and writer living in NW Ontario, Canada.
http://wpeck.com
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Next page
CorelDraw 101: All About Fills Tutorial Index
Fill Tool Overview
Creating Solid Fills
Fountain Fill Overview
Linear Fountain Fill
Radial Fountain Fill
Conical Fountain Fill
Square Fountain Fill
Custom Fountain Fill
 
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