Been awhile since I posted here! I just posted a a good step-by-step at www.signs101.com and thought people here might benefit from it. (Or, hey, I thought it was a good step-by-step, anyway).
Instead of reposting it, I'll just put a link in here:
Cheers, --William Bass
Posted by Bruce Williams (Member # 691) on :
That's pretty swift. I'll do it from now on.
I use Transparency all the time to vectrize images and logos from bitmaps.Import the BM into Draw, stretch it out nice and big, and lock it. Then make transparent all the geometric objects that will go into the new vector-file. Some effects, like Contour, won't work on a transparency. So, opaque it until that's done, then bo gack to Transparancy so I can sort-of see what I'm doing.
Posted by Suelynn Sedor (Member # 442) on :
Very cool tip William!
Thanks, Suelynn
Posted by Denis E. Renaud (Member # 4610) on :
Pretty good tip, Thanks
P.S. maybe get that dent in the door fixed
Posted by William Bass (Member # 4929) on :
Hey Denis,
I probably can't afford anything like that right now, but I was considering putting somewhere on the van:
Paint & Body Work by Ivan
As hurricane Ivan is the fellow who put the dents and dings in it.
Posted by Randy Campbell (Member # 2675) on :
William or? what would be the purpose for that proceedure?Still learning the computer. Posted by William Bass (Member # 4929) on :
Hi Randy,
Well, mainly it will give you more realistic and better-looking printouts to present to customers.
Now if you don't present printouts to customers...it probably is very unneccessary, I guess.
Posted by William Bass (Member # 4929) on :
And I'm sorry, I have discovered that the transparency operation should be set to "MULTIPLY" not "SUBTRACT"...it's even BETTER!
SUBTRACT helps lighter colors very nicely, but I noticed that it made dark colors TOO dark.
MULTIPLY is JUST RIGHT and makes light and dark colors look very realistic.
Posted by Joe Rees (Member # 211) on :
I use transparency a lot in CorelDraw. Now that I'm having more and more work printed instead of cutting in vinyl there's no extra time involved in rendering special effects. One of my favorite tricks is to copy and paste (duplicate) an item directly onto itself and give the new layer a different fill with a transparency so you can see some of the other color or texture show through.
Touch and drag on the item while the trans tool is selected to make it a gradient. Have one color or texture 'morph' into another. Add a hint of texture to any panel (slate, stucco, woodgrain etc) using transparent bitmap fills.
Bitmap fill not quite the right color - no problem, turn yellow pine into mahogany by duping the object and changing it's fill to a transparent maroon. You never need to have a boring solid panel of any color again by using multiple layers with differently angled and colored gradient transparent fills.
And that's just with the 'Normal' setting. I must experiment now with the 'Multiply' setting. Thanks for the tip Wm.
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