A Suggestion for a "WOW" effect for the New Corel Draw X7
I would like to suggest, a "Wow" effect, that in my opinion, will make Corel Draw stands out and be the Most completed suite and the Most powerful Vector software of all !
It's a name that i gave and i called it "Vector Gaussian Blur"!
As we can see, this effect tool exists already in illustrator, since a long time.
I just can't wait to see something similar in the new version of Corel Draw X7.
I don't like the method that some people usually use to achieve this effect, by converting a vector shape to Bitmap, they open the Photopaint and they apply the bitmap Gaussian blur filter on it.
That's why i would like to change this and create something that will be a vector base! That will only be inside Corel Draw.
In fact there is a tool in Corel Draw, that can do almost the same job as the "Gaussian Blur" does, in a vector style. It is the drop shadow effect ! But my suggestion is to create an effect tool solely for this effect only. Which of course will includes feather and transparency together with this effect.
Actually the trick is when you apply a drop shadow to a vector object, inside Corel Draw and then "Break the Drop Shadow Appart", you instantly have a "Vector Gaussian Blur" object!
Because it is vector, of course you can change its color and change its shape!
I am attaching a visual sample below, that i did, to show you what i mean.
Now, My question is:
- Where should i go to show/suggest this post, in order for the technicians, the people who works and design the New tools for each version of Corel, to include my suggested effect. for the Next Version?
- Can Corel users, make suggestions on New tools for the New versions of Corel? to whom shall i email?
Thank you.
Hi.
Nice idea.
Your message here it will be seen. The only problem is there are thousands of other requested features here too.
Other idea. Become a beta tester when it becomes available. But still there are literally thousands of feature requests to compete with.
My suggestion for past versions was to include a bunch of cool script/macros that would do effects like these and others. CorelDraw 9 and 8 had them and then they were gone. I put this suggestion every version so far but I guess it got buried in the pile too.
I hope yours makes it.
~John
Hi! Thank you for your reply John and i am glad that you liked my idea :-)
I believe your idea is good too!
I've been using these Scripts in the oldest versions and i was a fan of them. I got disappointed when they throw them out. Maybe the reason was because they were using too much memory Ram and made the software heavy. I don't know... But i would love to see those scripts back again too!
I guess you are dealing with the macros.. Are you an expert at Macros? You don't say much about you in your profile ;-)
Those macros you refered above, i think can be used again on the latest versions of Corel. If you know how to create macros, make a blog or website and let us know to download and use them! Actually i don't know much about macros... I only know that some people use them inside Corel :-)
Only once i used a macro before. For Automatic Numbering of the pages in the document, a long time ago in Corel x4. But i don't remember from where i found it.
=> About my idea, It would be something NEW and Innovative for Corel Draw.
As i mentioned on my post, illustrator already has this Gaussian Blur effect. I believe it is a MUST tool. Everybody use Gaussian blur in their designs.
I hope they will see it :-)
~ Evros