I agree it is possible to do it in DrawPlus, and you show it happening. Perhaps I was hasty in rushing to judgement, but I literally spent
hours trying to find a way to do it for an irregular pen-selected tube shape I had, and searched the web for tutorials and forums posts for at least an hour. They all gave huge and overly complex 12-step workarounds. There was no tutorial I could find, either video or text, for simply doing what you do in the video. There were no entries in the abundant software's context-sensitive help for "Fill" or "Flood" or anything like it. It just seemed that the feature wasn't there to fill inside a pen-selected shape, and I searched every single menu and dropdown and toolbar option. I guess I'm used to Photoshop, where this operation can be done in a fraction of a second. In the end I just gave up and uninstalled the DrawPlus demo. Serif really need to make it
much easier to find out how to do this vital and basic operation.
Anyway, that's water under the bridge. Now I'm with CorelDRAW X5 which is a little more expensive but it is far easier to find and operate this particular function and which offers Smart Fill too. I also found it has a
wonderful range of brushes for pressure-sensitive hard-edged comics/cartoon inking work, of the sort that is suitable for the toon edges look in Crazy Talk Animator. DrawPlus was
very lacking in that particular type of brush, and seemed more suited to natural media emulation.
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