Managing fills and transparencies

Corel PHOTO-PAINT lets you browse bitmap patterns and fountain fills that are available on the Content Exchange or in your personal library. Any of these fills can also be used as transparency patterns. For more information, see Working with transparency.

The Content Exchange contains content provided by Corel or shared by users. To use the Content Exchange, you must sign in to your corel.com account. For more information, see CorelDRAW memberships and Using the Content Exchange.

You can browse the available fills and patterns, or search by keyword, mark fills and patterns as favorites, vote for fills and patterns that you like, or copy content from the Content Exchange to your personal library.

For more information about fills, see Filling images.

You can preview the fill or pattern (1), vote for it, copy it, or access other options (2), and search by keyword (3).

To manage fills and transparencies

1 .	In the toolbox, click the Fill tool or the Object transparency tool .

If you want to fill an object, you must select it by using the Object pick tool before applying the fill.

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Fountain fill

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Fountain transparency

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Bitmap pattern fill

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Bitmap pattern transparency

To	Do the following
Search the fills and patterns on the Content Exchange and in your personal library	In the Fill or Transparency picker, choose a category from the list, type a keyword in the Search box, and press Enter. You can also click a thumbnail and then click one of the keywords associated with it to perform a search based on that keyword.
Sort search results	Open the list next to the Search box, and choose one of the following options: Hot — Sorts search results based on the number of downloads, the number of votes, and the date on which the fill or pattern was added to the Content Exchange. Top — Sorts search results based on the number of positive and negative votes. Recent — Sorts search results based on the date on which the fill or pattern was added to the Content Exchange. Popular — Sorts search results based on the number of downloads of the fill or pattern.
Copy a fill or pattern from the Content Exchange to your personal library	Click a thumbnail, click the More options button , and click the Copy to personal button . Fills and patterns that are copied to your personal library can be accessed from the Fill picker.
Share a fill or pattern from your personal library to the Content Exchange	Click a thumbnail, and click the Share button .
Change the name of a fill or pattern in your personal library, or the tags associated with it	Click a thumbnail, click the More options button , and click the Edit properties button .
Delete a fill or pattern from your personal library	Click a thumbnail, click the More options button , and click the Delete button .
Mark a fill or pattern as a favorite	Click a thumbnail, and click the Favorite button . To remove a fill or pattern from your favorites, click the Unfavorite button .
Vote for a fill or pattern	Click a thumbnail, and click the Vote up or the Vote down button .
Report inappropriate content	Click a thumbnail, click the More options button , and click the Flag button .
Prevent a fill or pattern from appearing in future searches	Click a thumbnail, click the More options button , and click the Hide button .

This procedure applies only to bitmap patterns and fountain fills and transparencies.

You must sign in to your corel.com account to access content on the Content Exchange.

Fills and patterns in your personal library are saved in the My Documents\Corel\Corel Content\Fills folder.

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