Painting

Corel PHOTO-PAINT lets you create images or modify existing ones using a variety of shape and paint tools.

In this section, you’ll learn about

•drawing shapes and lines

•applying brush strokes

•spraying images

•repeating brush strokes

•using a pressure-sensitive pen

Drawing shapes and lines

You can add shapes, such as squares, rectangles, circles, ellipses, and polygons, to images. By default, shapes are added to an image as new objects. Shapes can be outlined, filled, or rendered as separate, editable objects. For more information about objects, see “Creating objects” on page 447.

You can also add lines to images. When you add lines, you can specify the width and transparency, as well as the way line segments join together. The current foreground color determines the color of a line.

To draw a rectangle or an ellipse

1Open the Shape flyout , and click one of the following tools:

•Rectangle tool

•Ellipse tool

2On the property bar, choose one of the following options in the Fill list box:

•Uniform fill

•Fountain fill

•Bitmap fill

•Texture fill

If you want to edit the fill, click the Edit button on the property bar.

3 Drag in the image window until the rectangle or ellipse is the size you want.

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To draw a polygon

1Open the Shape flyout , and click the Polygon tool .

2On the property bar, choose one of the following options in the Fill list box:

•Uniform fill

•Fountain fill

•Bitmap fill

•Texture fill

If you want to edit the fill, click the Edit button on the property bar.

3Click where you want to set the anchor points of the polygon, and double-click to set the last anchor point.

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