Corel Photo Paint is a platform for image and photo editing developed by the Corel company. It has been specially designed for professional artists in the graphic and digital arts, for nearly two decades.
The various tools that can be found in the taskbar of Corel Photo Paint they are quite versatile, they allow you to create photo mosaics with a single image, add outlines to objects, change image colors, edit or create GIFs with objects and shadows. This allows the artist to transform a painting with ordinary objects into a completely different image, which provides the illusion of texture, bright colors and even geometric shapes.
How to use the interactive fill tool to fill an object in Corel Photo Paint?
Interactive fill is a new tool implemented in Corel Photo Paint, with which the artist can add gradient meshes, PostScript and fill object and figure models instantly to the image box. The steps to use this tool are as follows:
- Go to toolbar and select the option "Interactive filling".
- The options window for the various fill types will then be displayed.
- Sul right side of the platform you will find a curtain panel with type of filling to use, a left you will find the Default settings the type of filling.
Fill shapes
Some of the most used and frequent forms of fillers are:
- Square e Tapered fontana filling.
- Radial and linear gradient fill.
- Two-tone pattern fill and color.
- Texture filling.
- PostScript padding.
- Bitmap pattern filling.
And also in case the artist wants apply a simple fill, can leave empty the fill box and at the end of the menu you will have the option to open an adaptive color window and from there you can add the background color to the fill and color in the outlines and borders.
When you click on the option Fill, it is necessary first select the object to which you want to apply the effect. If you have not selected it before, a dialog box will appear to assign the effect to new objects, if you select this option the effect will be applied to the image in general.
Subdivisions of the fill effect
Importantly, each type of fill effect has subdivisions on how the user can add it to objects. A simple example can be the uniform filled, pressing this option you can apply in the section «Templates», «Mixer» and «Palette».
These in turn have various types of applications such as color mixing, color harmony filling, colored or black and gray oriented palettes.
The artist can assign different types of fill effects until the desired effect is achieved. To find the right texture and illusion for the image or photograph.
Proper way to apply interactive fill tools
Corel Photo Paint has an application option called "Applying area fills". This tool can select an area called "Outlined Area" with the "Smart Fill" option.
Smart Fill pre-detects the contours and edges of an object to be applied as a closed path. This tool can also detect the edges of the loops and fill them.
It also allows the creation of new objects, since it establishes a parallel figure that can be filled, creating figures and applying colors, also obtaining a three-dimensional object. So the interactive fill option is very useful when editing objects in Corel Photo Paint.
Another editing tool is called "Fill with imported objects". Essentially this option allows you to select objects from another previously cut and stored image to be intelligently added to the image in question later, in this way artists create the illusion of a frame with touches of fantasy.
Finally, we hope this article has helped you. However, we would like to hear from you. Have you been able to use the interactive fill tool to fill an object in Corel Photo Paint by following the steps outlined above? Leave us your answers in the comments.
