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The Fill Tool 271

Bitmap fills

Fill Type
Fill Tiling
Not used
Bitmap name
Resolution
Not used

The BITMAP GALLERY is described in THE BITMAP GALLERY (on page 364) in the Photo
Handling chapter, for the FILL GALLERY see below (on page 274).

Bitmap fills are one of the most powerful fill types. It allows any photo or texture to be
used as a fill for any shape and you have direct immediate control over the size, angle,
position and tiling. You can color bitmap fills. You can use any type of bitmap as a fill,
including JPEG photos, and alpha-channel (semi-transparent) bitmaps.

When you import a photo file into Xara Web Designer Premium (eg. a JPG or PNG file) it
appears as a shape with a bitmap fill type. When such an object is selected the status
line shows it as a “photo”, but it is just the same as a shape that has had the photo
applied as a bitmap fill.

To fill a shape with a bitmap or photo fill, do one of the following:
• 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 TOOLINFOBAR, 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).