Fireworks MX 2004 Color Fill Tool

4. Color Filling Tool

Eyedropper tool: Used to choose a color from an image to specify a new stroke or fill color. You can select the color of a single pixel, the average color value within the 3x3 pixel area, or the average color value within the 5x5 pixel region.

Paint Bucket Tool: The fill properties of the drawing tools that apply to bitmap and vector objects, such as rectangles, rounded rectangles, ellipses, and polygons, when drawing. The current fill appears in the Color mixer Panel in the Properties dialog box, the Tools bar panel, and the combo panel. You can use any of these panels to change the fill color of the paint bucket tool. As shown in Figure 2-18.

Figure 2-18

As you can see in the Paint Bucket Properties dialog box, the Fill category for the tool is filled with solid fills, web jitter, gradient fills, and pattern fills in four kinds. The various filling methods have many colors and styles to choose from.

Figure 2-19

The following two charts are filled with the grain 3 in linear fill and pattern fill mode in gradient fill mode. Where I am in "linear fill" is from the top left corner of the image to hold the mouse, then drag to the lower right corner of the image, while the "Wood grain 3" Fill is from the center point of the image hold the mouse, and then drag to the upper right corner of the image.

Figure 2-20 Figure 2-21

And this use of the mouse to drag the fill is also the "gradient tool" filling characteristics. Also, the Properties dialog box for the gradient tool is the same as in the Paint Bucket property box, except that the gradient tool's fill mode has only a gradient fill.