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I created a design in Corel Draw 12. It turned out great. However, I can't seem to figure out how to fill it with color. I must be missing something. I can select an area, open the object docker, select uniform fill, pick a color and then click on the area but nothing happens.
I know it must be something simple but I haven't been able to figure out what I'm doing wrong.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Bewildered Barbara
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Last edited by batbb57; August 23rd, 2009 at 10:36 PM.
Reason: Deleted extra wording.
I created a design in Corel Draw 12. It turned out great. However, I can't seem to figure out how to fill it with color. I must be missing something. I can select an area, open the object docker, select uniform fill, pick a color and then click on the area but nothing happens.
I know it must be something simple but I haven't been able to figure out what I'm doing wrong.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Can you post the design? To fill an object the outline must be closed loop. To fill an outline select the the object then right click on the color in the color palette.
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I have attached the file as a pdf. I'm looking forward to getting some insight to what I'm missing.
You'll need to convert your outlines to objects. Right now your image is just lines with a pen stroke added to them. It would be best to drag a copy of the image to the side and work with that.
You can gang select a bunch of the objects, combine then Convert Outlines to Objects. Not sure if C12 welds them all together and rids the original lines. It's been a while.
You'll end up with a B/W image where you'll have to break most if not all apart and recolor accordingly.
It will take forever to weld the small segments and closing the curves is another major task.
David is right. All similar colors like black outline will merge when converted to bitmap. Anything enclosed with black outline will be filled with white unless it was converted with transparent background.
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Group the background with the art and export as a jpeg, tiff whatever.
pulled the pic into my vector app. 2 color mode
saved result as ai eps and opened in ai
ungroup and remove or color fill the white background
color fill individual objects
You really dont have to weld anything if you save it as a pic as it does it anyway.
If you think you have an open area that you want closed just draw it in before you save it as a pic.
I didnt do any of that because the result I got was just fine.
David
I want to thank you for taking the time to work with the design. However, you are giving information to someone who is an extreme novice.
I hope that my ignorance doesn't put you off but I need some additional information.
First I tried converting the design to a bitmap. But the convert to bitmap was not available until I Selected All Objects.
I converted to a bitmap and then traced by outline. I Ungrouped All but can't figure out how to separate the areas and fill.
(If I want a vector design, wouldn't converting to a bitmap ruin the vector or if I do that in Corel Draw is the vector still in place?)
As far as your last post giving your step by step process, I have the following questions:
1)How do you group the background with the art?
2)What do you mean by pulled the pic into your vector app 2 color mode? Is Corel Draw a vector app?
3)You saved as ai eps and opened in ai. I assume that ai is adobe illustrator which I don't have. I only have Corel Draw12 so is there a way to do the same thing in Corel Draw?
It is obvious that this is a simple process for you but to me I literally need step by step instructions.
I have been playing around with it trying to figure out what I need to do but have just not be able to figure it out.
I'm just lost.
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