The Contour colors dropdown provides options for how the colors proceed from the object color to the contour fill at the outer edge.Ī high number of steps creates a nice gradient effect, and the Object and color acceleration icon allows you to control the level of acceleration from start to finish. This is what happens when we increase the number of contour steps and reduce the offset. There are options for rounding corners and setting fill color. Dragging the black square increases the offset, and the outlines are trimmed at the overlaps. With the Contour tool, you can click and drag inward to offset each character inward or click and drag outward. For example, when the Contour tool is activated, this is what you will see in the Status Bar. You can also check the Status Bar to see the Selected Tool information. ContourĬhoose Contour from the toolbox. All the effects tools have a few presets, as well as options that appear in the Property Bar when the tool is activated. The examples in this tutorial will start with this artistic text selected.
With all these tools, I can either start with the object selected, or I can select the object within the tool. We’ll start with 2D effects that can be found in the Effects flyout on the Toolbox toolbar. First, we’ll use the tools in the Interactive Effects toolbox, then we’ll use some of the tools in the Shape toolbox.Ĭlick on any of the images below to view full-size. © 2001, David Mutch & Visionary Voyager Corp.In this tutorial, we’ll look at some of the fun effects you can apply to text in CorelDRAW. These handy TIPS pages may help explain some related matters such as different Fill commands and their use, Lock Transparency and Paint on Mask procedures. Also, thanks to all the great folks on the Corel Newsgroups who are a never ending source of inspiration, information and fun. I thank Mario for these ideas and for his brilliant site. Some of these ideas were originally shown on a web site created by Mario Catalano, but unfortunately that site no longer exists.
Here are some examples of what you will create using the methods described in this tutorial: Using either lock transparency or masks (see Part 1A next). However, even using this simple blur method, we CAN achieve a hard edged result Emboss with our soft emboss effect applied Even if we apply a slight blur to the native emboss, we cannot achieve the same result with some soft and some hard edges. We sometimes need a much softer effect as shown here. In some cases similar effects exist under the effects menu in Photo-Paint but these are limited in scope and cannot natively provide the same depth of variation and control as those described here.įor instance, the Emboss Effect (under the 3D Effects submenu item in versions 9 and 10) only creates very harsh embosses. These tutorials are aimed at the beginner to intermediate level Photo-Paint user, but if you are more experienced you should be able to follow through the steps quite quickly simply by applying the title of each step and skipping past the more detailed explanations below the step titles. If you miss them while going through the tuts the links are list separately at the end of this introduction. Thanks.Īlong with the tutorials themselves you will also find some handy TIPS pages here that may help explain some related matters such as different Fill commands and their use, Lock Transparency and Paint on Mask procedures. Please let me know if you find any problems and I will endeavour to fix them as soon as possible.
At the time of writing, I am now using version 10 all the time now and as I wanted to make these tuts available fairly quickly, I haven't spent a great deal of time referring back to version 8 (sorry) and so there may be some minor changes for version 8 users that I have missed. These effects can be applied using any version of Corel Photo-Paint from version 8 upwards, and possibly even earlier versions with some modification. This tutorial introduces some quite simple but effective effects you can use not only with text but with other objects as well. Most people love to apply fancy effects to text. Copyright © 2001, David Mutch & Visionary Voyager Corp.
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