The Xara Trompe L'Oeil Room Page 3
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Click the red magnet icon on the Infobar to enable Snap To Objects.

Using the Zoom Tool (the magnifying glass), drag a rectangle around  the square to zoom in close to your drawing.

Use the Pen Tool to connect all four corners as shown on the left.

Click the Pen Tool in the upper left to start, click the top left corner of the small cross to end the first line segment, and continue clicking from point to point until you click on the same point that you started. The cursor icon changes from a squiggly line to a + to indicate you are about to create a closed path. Only closed paths can be filled. We want this to be a closed path.

Create the rest of the sides  and apply the fills as shown.

To fill a shape, select the shape and click a color on the screen palette with the Left mouse button for fill colors, or the Right mouse button for outline colors.

To set a Fill or Outline color to none, click the left (fill), or right mouse button (outline) on the small crosshatched square to the left of the screen palette.

NOTE: If your are unsure of a color or a color's name, let the cursor rest over the color for a few moments and a tool tip will appear with the name of the color or the color's RGB components.

Import the fill Initiative.png into Xara, (File > Import) or click here to download the fill image.

Select the 300 pixel square.

Open the Bitmap Gallery, select the fill image, and press Fill to apply the fill to the square.

If you have the Xa-Fills 3 set installed on your hard drive, you can fill the square from the Fill Gallery.

NOTE: Once the fill is applied and the filled shape is still selected, you can select the Fill Tool (the pouring paint can button) to enable a set of sizing/rotation handles. The fill can be repositioned by dragging the center of the two arrows, and the fill can be resized and rotated by dragging the end of the fill path arrows.