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From Awardline.com CorelDraw For Those Using CorelDraw any time you want to create a fill you should use the interactive fill that is available in the toolbar.
4. Now drag your cursor over the rectangle. You will notice that your cursor has a paint bucket attached to it. See Figure 2.
5. Next click inside the rectangle where you want to start the fill. Do not worry about the colour etc as we will change this later on. 6. Now holding your left mouse button down drag to where you want the fill to finish – see Figure 3. Release your mouse.
7. The default colour is black and white while the fill pattern is linear. Note: when you want to change the attributes of the interactive fill you must have the interactive fill tool selected on the toolbar. 8. If you want to change the colour of the fill all you need to do is click on your desired colour in the colour palette. Now holding your left mouse button down drag your cursor over to the fill – you will notice that your cursor has the colour that you clicked on – see Figure 4.
9. Now drag your cursor over one of the two boxes that you want to change colour. See Figure 5.
10. Let go of your cursor. Your box goes the colour of the selected colour – see Figure 6.
11. If you want to change the second colour than select it in the palette and drag it over. 12. Now what if you want to change the fill type or use a different colour that is not on the colour palette. Well if you noticed when you start the interactive fill a fill property bar is activated at the top of the screen – see Figure 7.
13. The bar allows you to change a number of items. For example the default fill pattern is linear but you can change that but clicking on the pull down menu that is located beside the word “Linear” in Figure 7. 14. If you want access to all the colours and different colour models than click one of the colours that are in the menu. Just click the pull down menu and select “other” - see Figure 8.
15. If you want to access the “edit fill dialogue “ box you can click on the icon to the left of the property bar see Figure 9.
16. You adjust a number of other attributes via the property bar including the “fountain mid point”, the “fill angle” and the “edge pad”. 17. The power in this tool lies in the fact that you can change most the fills attributes by just using your mouse. If you want to increase the fill of one colour or lessen it you can drag on the “fountain mid point” slider – see Figure 10.
18. If you want to put more colours on the interactive fill line than all you need to do is double click on the dotted line. Again once you have created a fill box you can drag and drop a colour or once the box is selected you can select the pull down box in the interactive fill property bar. Figure 11 and 12 show the colour boxes and the finished fill.
19. To change the colour of a colour box click once on the box. 20. To delete a colour double click on the box. 21. If you want to change the fill pattern (for example Figure 11 is a linear fill pattern) than you can select the existing interactive fill and in the property bar select the fill pattern that you want – see Figure 13.
22. If you want to change the angle of the fill or the rotation of the fill than you select the interactive fill, than click on the object and than drag the interactive fill. Figure 14 shows the fill drag for changing the angle of the fill in a linear fill.
23. If you want to change the direction of the fill all you need to do is to click in the object and drag in the direction that you want to go. Figure 15 shows the fill in figure 14 changed to go the other way.
24. If you change your fill pattern to a radial fill you can expand the fill or rotate it. Figure 16 shows you the rotation
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