Texture fills

[Giovanni]

Hi everybody! I am learning with a trial version of Corel Graphics Suite 12 and see a strange thing: when choosing a texture fill the box displays 7 choices that I don't understand well.

Samples
Samples 5
Samples 6
Samples 7
Samples 8
Samples 9
Styles

Could someone explain the meaning of these options and tell me why are some numbers missing?
Thanks a lot!

[Peter Clifton]

Giovanni

I used to know the reason behind the strange numbering system, but can't remember now.

Anyway these are 'procedural' textures, calculated on the fly from a series of parameters. After selecting an entry, in the next box along you can list the default textures for each library, when expanded there is a button called other, clicking on this accesses all the parameters that control the texture.

This can be quite powerful, though some experimentation is required.

HTH

Peter

[Giovanni]

Peter,
thanks for your answer, at least now I know that the trial software don't lacks interesting features / options as I supposed.
I think texture fills are very powerful and will experiment a bit, although they might increase a lot the size of documents.

[sallybode]

These textures aren't that big, they have been around a long time even when computers didn't have that much RAM.

It is not like a bitmap program. A terrific number of blends, shadows, gradients and transparencies, now you have bogged things down, once satisfied with intermidiate steps to completion, I have saved in another file and merged to a bitmap to continue at times. That way I can revert if necessary.