CorelDRAW Help | Applying two-color pattern fills

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Applying two-color pattern fills

A two-color pattern fill is composed only of the two colors that you choose. In addition to specifying the colors, you can mirror the fill tiles vertically or horizontally, and you can set the size of the fill tiles. You can also skew and rotate the fill, and you can move its center.

Examples of two-color pattern fills

A two-color fill applied to an object (left). Next, the fill is resized (middle), and rotated (right).

You can create your own pattern fill from objects in the drawing window by using the Tools Create Pattern Fill command.

To apply a two-color pattern fill

1 .

Select an object.

2 .

Click Object

Object properties.

3 .

In the Object properties docker, click the Two-color pattern fill button

4 .

Choose a fill from the Fill picker.

5 .

Open the Front color picker, and click a color.

6 .

Open the Back color picker, and click a color.

If you want to edit the attributes of the two-color fill, click the arrow button at the bottom of the Fill section, and perform a task from the following table.

To	Do the following
Arrange the tiles so that alternating tiles are reflections of each other	Click the Mirror tiles horizontally or the Mirror tiles vertically button.
Set the width and height of the pattern tiles	Type values in the Fill width and Fill height boxes.
Move the center of the pattern fill up, down, left, or right	Type values in the X and Y boxes.
Rotate the pattern at a specified angle	Type a value in the Rotate box.
Slant the pattern at a specified angle	Type a value in the Skew box.
Specify row or column offset as a percentage of the tile’s height or width	Click the Row offset or the Column offset button , and type a value in the % of tile box.
Apply object changes to the pattern fill	Enable the Transform with object check box. Any transformations applied to the object such as resizing and rotating will be applied to the fill as well.
Apply the selected fill to the intersecting area of combined objects	Enable the Fill winding check box. For more information, see Combining objects.

You can also mix colors in a two-color pattern fill by pressing Ctrl and clicking a color on the color palette.

You can also apply a fill by clicking the Interactive fill tool in the toolbox and clicking the Two-color pattern fill button on the property bar. You can drag colors from the color palette to the interactive handles to change the colors of the fill. You can mix colors by holding down Ctrl while dragging a color to the interactive handles.