6 Welcome
• Object Default control
Set your intended object’s default line colour/style, fill, and
transparency before even drawing your object! As a more powerful
default control, Synchronize Defaults lets you adopt a currently
selected object’s attributes for future objects; For example, select a red
brush stroke, to subsequently paint in red, then a green brush stroke to
paint in green; all or selected attributes can be affected. Global and
object-specific defaults can be reset independently.
• Resource Management
Swap out your already placed bitmaps or text fragments in Drawing
mode or any Animation mode from the new Media tab; a Keyframe
animation’s movie or audio clip can also be replaced.
Colour and Transparency
• Design Power with Colour Gradient Fills
The Gradient Fill Editor allows you to adjust gradient contour and tint
any portion of the colour spread, locate key colours precisely... and
select from RGB, HSL, CMYK, PANTONE® or Registration colours via
a Colour Selector.
• Advanced Fill Support
Simply apply solid colours from the Studio’s Colour tab or Swatches
tab onto a fill path to add or replace colours for more subtle gradients.
Choose colours from different colour mixing modes in the Colour
tab—HSL Wheel, HSL Square, RGB Sliders, CMYK Sliders or Tinting
all offer different ways to mix colour. Load RGB, CMYK and
coordinated "themed" palettes from within the Swatches tab. Apply
high-end linear, radial, conical, ellipse, three colour, four colour,
square, and plasma fills to any text or shape for exciting, professional
results. Use bitmap fills for textures and backgrounds. Add, view, edit,
or delete colours used in your current drawing from within a saveable
Document Palette. Even import your own bitmaps and use them as
fills on DrawPlus objects! Plus Mesh Fills for impressively varied
gradients using a path-node network. Define new colour sets based on
a base colour—this linkage can transform the drawing's colour scheme
instantly, by simply modifying that base colour!
