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• Drag any bitmap from the BITMAP GALLERY or from your Windows File Explorer
over any shape, hold "Shift" and drop, or
• Drag any fill from the
FILL GALLERY onto the shape (there is no need to hold
"Shift" to drop in this case)
• Select 'Bitmap' from the left side drop down menu of the
FILL TOOL INFOBAR, and
then select the required bitmap from the dropdown menu of bitmap names (this
only shows bitmaps that are or have been previously loaded).
You can fill an object with single or multiple tiles (repetitions of the bitmap image).
Single tile (photo)
Repeating tile Repeat inverted-the tiles fit together
perfectly.
The fill has three handles. Use it for Resizing and re-positioning bitmap fills (on page
218). An alternative way to set the size of the b
itmap is to type in a resolution into the
InfoBar field. You first have to un-select the fill handle by clicking anywhere on the
image away from a fill handle, then just type a new dpi resolution.
Replacing Bitmap Fills
If a shape already contains a bitmap, or is a photo, then you can just drag and drop a
new bitmap from any source, such as Windows Explorer, and it will replace the
existing bitmap. The new image is ‘best fitted’ into the shape so that it just fits in. By
default, doing this will also replace all other instances of that photo on the current
page, if they are in the same soft group.
Holding down
SHIFT while replacing a photo in this way causes the position, scale and
rotation of the bitmap fill to be preserved.
Bitmap coloring
You can color any bitmap or photo fill by just clicking on a color on the COLOR LINE
(make sure no fill handles are selected, by just clicking on the image). This will create
a Contone (technically a Duotone) which uses colors between black and the selected
color. Alternatively right click on the object and choose
CONTONE > SET LIGHT COLOR
or
CONTONE > MAKE BLACK AND WHITE. You can also right click the color line and
select either the '
SET CONTONE LIGHT COLOR' or 'SET CONTONE DARK COLOR'.
So, for example, to make a picture black and white, just requires you to click on the
White color patch on the color line.