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The Fill Tool 267

for you to work on photos and fills inside groups. If you want to change the fill attribute of
a group (which is not very likely), you need to select the group using the SELECTOR TOOL
first.

Fill Tool InfoBar

Fill type
Fill tiling
Fill effect
Bitmap name
Profile
Fill handle/resolution
Handle color/Grain

FILL TYPE selects the type of fill. Selecting from this menu:

• with a selected object, applies the fill to the object;
• without a selected object, sets the current fill type which will then be used for newly
drawn objects.

FILL TILING is used when applying bitmap and fractal fills. The options are described later
in bitmap fills. Fill tiling changes the repetition of the fill effect. The options are:
• Simple-the fill is used only once, regardless of the size of the object.
• Repeating/repeating tile-repeats the effect so that it fills the entire object.
• Repeating tile inverted-only available on fractal and bitmap fills. This is similar to
repeating tile, but every other tile is inverted.

Fill tiling options are not available for
conical. All other fill types can be made
to repeat. This can produce some
useful effects.

A repeating elliptical fill inside an ellipse shape
FILL EFFECT is used for all fill types, except 3 and 4-color fills. It controls how the fill colors
fade from the start color to the end color:

• FADE: Fades between the two colors in a linear fashion