Tool Settings; Filling A Path With The Even-Odd Fill Option - Ulead PHOTOIMPACT 11 User Manual

Tool Settings

Commonly used path attributes can be accessed on the Attribute Toolbar as well
as from the Tool Settings panel. To show or hide this panel, click Show or hide
Tool Settings on the Attribute Toolbar.
• 3D Determines the Depth of a 3D path shape, and the Width of its border.
Adjust Lighting properties are also available in this group.
• Options The options determine how paths are drawn, for instance, whether
shapes are generated from the center or from the corner, whether shapes
have equal length sides or constant radius, whether to enable or disable anti-
aliasing, and more. Available options depend on the selected drawing tool.
• Rounded rectangle Adjusts the roundness of rectangular shapes.
• Freehand drawing Gives options for adjusting accuracy and closing points
smoothly.

Filling a path with the Even-Odd Fill option

Whenever you render a path object, the object is always filled with the color
specified in the Color square on the Attribute Toolbar. When Even-Odd Fill is
selected in the Options group of the Tool Settings panel, the fill only occupies
alternate areas created by overlapping path(s). This option is ideal when you have
an irregularly-shaped object which folds over onto itself or a complex object
containing multiple shapes inside, and you want to keep overlapping areas free of
paint. For instance, you can easily create a pattern with alternating fills. The
unfilled areas will show the base image.
This alternate filling effect can only be applied to path objects drawn in Continue
Draw Mode using the Path Drawing Tool.
Multiple paths drawn in
Continue Draw Mode
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