After the fly out menu appears, select the third box, the pink and blue checkerboard pattern.Īs you can see from the screen shot, the pattern fill menu allows you to choose between two color, full color or bitmap.Ī two-color pattern gives you just that – the choice of two spot colors in a high contrast pattern: checkerboard, spots, stripes, stars and other common shapes. Now select the last tool on the menu, the paint bucket. When selected, the box will display resizing squares around the drawing.
Select the box with the pointer tool (the arrow at the top of the toolbox on the left hand side). To make the sample tiles below, draw a box 2 inches square using the fifth tool (the box) on the left hand toolbox. Many Corel Draw patterns make seamless tiles without any manipulation at all. However, if you want to make a custom pattern or export a background out of Corel Draw for use as a screensaver, wallpaper or website background, the first step is making a tile that, when repeated, gives a seamless background.
Regardless of how the box is resized, the pattern will always adjust to fill it seamlessly. For most desktop publishing projects, you draw a box the size of the background you want to make, pick your pattern and fill it. Making a background for your desktop publishing projects in Corel Draw 9 can be one of the simplest things you have ever done.
