Operation Manual

162 Fill, Lines, Colours, and Transparency
The editing of gradient fills is a complex operation and is covered in greater
detail in the DrawPlus Help.
Working with bitmap and plasma fills
A bitmap fill uses a named bitmap—often a
material, pattern, or background image.
DrawPlus supplies an impressive selection of
preset bitmap fills on the Swatch tab, and
you can import your own.
A plasma fill, sometimes called a fractal fill,
is a bitmapped pattern with dark and light
regions, useful for simulating cloud or
shadow effects. Again, the Swatch tab hosts a
selection of these fills.
Once you've applied either type of fill to an object using the Swatch tab (see Setting
fill properties on p. 147), you can adjust the fill's tint with the Shade/Tint slider in
the Colour tab (use Colour mode drop-down menu), and use the Fill Tool to edit
the object's fill path, defining the placement of the fill across the object.
Editing the fill path
If an object using a bitmap fill is selected, you'll
see the fill path displayed as two lines joined at a
centre handle. Nodes, shown as small filled
circles, mark the fill's centre and edges.
To reposition the fill’s centre, drag the centre handle. To create a skewed or
tilted fill region, drag one or both edge nodes sideways.