CorelDRAW: Sharing and Managing Transparency and Fills

Working with bitmap patterns, vector patterns, or transparencies and fountain fills, we can apply Content Exchange for the transparency patterns, share fills, copy, search, and browse.

This chapter contains the following essential topics:

• Managing transparencies and fills
• Sharing and saving transparencies and fills

Managing transparencies and fills

CorelDRAW enables us to browse fountain fills, bitmap patterns, and vector patterns that are present in our personal library or over Content Exchange. These fills may also be applied as the transparency patterns.

Content Exchange includes content facilitated by Corel or shares by various users we should sign-in to corel.com account.

We may browse the present patterns and fills, or search through keyword, vote for patterns and fills, mark patterns and fills as favorites that we like, and copy the content through the content exchange for our personal library.

To manage transparencies and fills

1. Choose the object.

2. Press Windows > Dockers > Object properties.

3. Within the Object properties docker, click on any one buttons inside the Transparency or Fill section which is as follows:

• Vector pattern transparency
• Bitmap pattern transparency
• Fountain transparency
• Fountain fill
• Vector pattern fill
• Bitmap pattern fill

4. Open a Transparency picker or a Fill

5. Perform any action from below actions:

• Within the Transparency or Fill picker, select any category from a list, fill the keyword within a Search box, and click Enter to search the patterns and fills over Content Exchange or in our personal library.
  
• Open a list next to a Search box to sort search outcomes, and select anyone from the below options:
  • Hot: It sorts search outcomes according to download's number, vote's number, and date when pattern and fill was inserted to Content Exchange.
  • Top: It sorts search outcomes according to the negative and positive vote's number.
  • Recent: It sorts search outcomes according to that date when pattern and fill were inserted to Content Exchange.
  • Popular: It sorts search outcomes according to download's number of the pattern or fill.
  
  
• Click on a thumbnail, and press on the Share button to share the pattern or fill from our personal library for a Content Exchange.
  
• Click on a thumbnail, press on the More options button, and press on the Edit properties button to change any pattern or fill name in our personal library, over some tags connected with it.
  
  
• Click on a thumbnail, press on the More options button, and press on the Delete button to delete a pattern or fill from our personal library.
  
• Click on a thumbnail, and press on Favorite button to mark a pattern or fill as the favorite to remove the pattern or fill from our favorites, click on the Unfavorite
  

Note: This process uses only to fountain transparencies and fills, bitmap patterns, and vector patterns.

Patterns and fills in our personal library can be saved inside My Documents/Corel/Corel Content/Fills folder.

Sharing and saving transparencies and fills

After we modify or create transparency or fill pattern, we can add tags (also called "keywords") and save it inside any language of our choice. Patterns and fills are saved within a unique file format along with the .fill extension that preserves the information of the transformations used to a pattern or fills.

To share and save transparency and fill

1. In the Transparency or Fill section of an Object properties docker, press the Save as new

2. Within the dialog box Save pattern, select the language from a list box, fill the name for a pattern or fill, and type a tag that we wish to relate with it.

• When we wish to share a pattern or fill, enable a checkbox, i.e., Share this content, and select any category from a list.
  
• We should sign-in to corel.com account for sharing content.
  
• Patterns and fills in our personal library can be saved within the My Documents/Corel/Content/Fills
• Also, we can a pattern or fill from our personal library for the Content Exchange.