CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide part 48. Learn to create outstanding fine art and eye-catching commercial graphics with one powerful tool! CorelDRAW X5: The Official Guide is your comprehensive reference and workbook to get you started designing visually captivating CorelDRAW artwork. Learn, step by step, how to create the illustrations you've imagined, quickly assemble layouts for print and package designs, import and edit photos, master the art of typography and the science of color theory, make 3D scenes from 2D objects, and apply special effects to ordinary pictures. Packed with expert techniques and advice for creating professional-quality art, this. | 434 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide Ashape without a fill on your drawing page is like a brand-new coloring book. To make a coloring book and your CorelDRAW artwork more visually meaningful you need to fill your shapes with colors and textures. CorelDRAW has more than a half-dozen different types of fill you can apply to your shapes and these types have hundreds of variations. In computer graphics you have over 16 million solid shades of color at your disposal imagine what you can do with blends of colors colors in different patterns and colored textures The worst part of filling CorelDRAW objects will be deciding on a style of fill. The best part as you explore filling shapes in this chapter is that it s very difficult to color outside of the lines. NOTE Download and extract all the files from the archive to follow the tutorials in this chapter. Examining the Fill Types Each type of CorelDRAW fill has its own special characteristics Uniform fills apply flat solid color. Fountain fills make a color transition from one color to another in different directions sometimes also called a gradient fill. You can also create a fountain fill composed of more than two different colors. CorelDRAW ships with a lot of preset fills that this chapter demonstrates how to pick and apply. PostScript fills are good for repeating patterns. Although PostScript is a printing technology you don t need to print a CorelDRAW document to see a PostScript fill and you can indeed export a PostScript filled object to bitmap format and the fill will look fine. PostScript fills support transparency and are ideal for exporting to EPS file format to use in desktop publishing programs. And naturally a PostScript fill is valid for printing to a PostScript printer. Pattern and texture fills can fill shapes with bitmaps including photographs and a large supply of preset bitmaps is included with CorelDRAW. Mesh fills take multicolored fills and present you with the option of smearing colors
