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Applying bitmap pattern fills

Bitmap fills are bitmaps that you can use to fill an object or image. You can fill an area with a single bitmap. You can also tile, or repeat, a small bitmap across an area to create a seamless pattern.

It is best to use less complex bitmaps for fills, because complex bitmaps are memory-intensive and slow to display. The complexity of a bitmap is determined by its size, resolution, and bit depth.

Corel PHOTO-PAINT X7 provides a collection of bitmap patterns that you can access. You can browse the available patterns, search patterns by keyword, mark patterns as favorites, vote for patterns that you like, or copy patterns from the Content Exchange to your personal library. For more information, see Managing fills and transparencies.

You can modify bitmap patterns to suit your needs. For example, you can skew, rotate, or mirror the bitmap pattern. You can also create your own patterns from imported files.

After you create a new pattern, you can save it for future use or share it with other users on the Content Exchange. For more information, see Saving and sharing fills and transparencies.

Bitmap patterns created in Patterns, an iOS application that turns photos into bitmap patterns, can be opened in Corel PHOTO-PAINT. The bitmap pattern effects available in both Patterns and Corel PHOTO-PAINT let you create seamless patterns and adjust the pattern parameters, such as the pixel configuration along the edge of the tile and the brightness, luminance, and color contrast of the pattern.

Bitmap fills can be used to create interesting backgrounds and textures.

To apply a bitmap pattern fill Back to Top

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Merge modes control the way the foreground or fill color blends with the base color of the image. You can change the merge mode setting from the default (Normal) for specific blending purposes. For more information about merge modes, see Understanding merge modes.

To modify a bitmap pattern fill Back to Top

 

Click the Mirror tiles horizontally or the Mirror tiles vertically button.
Click the Radial or the Linear button in the Seamless area, and move the slider.
Enable the Edge match check box, and move the slider.
Enable the Brightness check box, and move the slider.
Enable the Luminance check box, and move the slider.
Enable the Color check box, and move the slider.
Type values in the Fill width and Fill height boxes.
Type values in the X and Y boxes.
Click the Row offset or the Column offset button , and type a value in the % of tile box.
To create a bitmap pattern fill from an imported image Back to Top

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The new bitmap fill appears in the Fill picker.


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