Hi there,
Hopefully you can help me here. i am trying to do an effect on a drawing that I think really should be simple (and COREL easily capable), but I just can't quite get. It is doing my head in.Im a bit of a Luddite, so simple explanations needed please!.
Ive used COREL for work for years, but only for relatively simple things. Essentially we digitise and add effects to field drawings/plans of sites or building elevations identified during our surveys.
At the moment I am working up a plan of a large cairn of stones. This cairn has numerous features within it that I have drawn on different layers, but on the whole comprises hundreds of stones, carefully recreated at 1:20 scale. As the dull drawings we do go, it looks pretty awesome.
What I am trying to do, is put a transparent effect across the whole cairn where I can show areas that have been disturbed in a deep transparent red (so the drawings/stones are visible beneath), but with this fading to clear where the cairn has been undisturbed. The pink areas of the gradient between the red and the clear will be where we think there has been disturbance, but cant say with certainty. Essentially, the more red an area, the more disturbed it is, the clearer or whiter, the less disturbed.
I have one closed outline around the entire drawing where I want this effect to take place. Obviously I can make it all transparent red to varying degrees. Fountain transparency seems to have vaguely the right idea, but I cant get the deeper, less transparent area in the centre of the cairn where I know it is disturbed, running to clear around the edges.
If you are still following me.... (well done, I am not sure Im following me)
What I want to know, is if I have one large closed object, is there a way to make it transparent, but fading from a centre point towards the edges? If so, can you add other areas to the same object where transparency is less?
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks George.
I cant seem to get the file small enough to post here, regardless of what i delete in it.
This link has the file stored in WeTransfer. I appreciate not everybody will want to follow a random download link though so happy to be advised how else to see it.
A work in progress. In the layer 'test' you can see what I am trying to do although id need to move that below the stones layer. I guess that would work with a lot of perseverance, but there must be an easier way.
I need the area from layer '[028] robber trench' to be the deep transparent red, with this getting gradually less transparent towards the layer 'outer kerb'. This wont be an even level of transparency though. The stones beyond the outer kerb are those thrown from the top of the cairn during the disturbance (hence they are under the layer 'tumble'), so you can see there has been a lot more disturbance along the top (north side). As a result the north side will almost all be a pinky red, while the south side (bottom) is relatively undisturbed and will be mostly clear.
To further complicate things... the layers marked 'areas of disturbance' or areas of possible disturbance' will need the same thing going on. These areas need to be red, but with a sort of gradual fading around the edges.
As a wee bit of background, the drawing is a 1:20 stone by stone reproduction (here shown at 1:60 if memory serves) of a prehistoric burial cairn. I need to show the areas that are most likely to preserve undisturbed remains.
Good luck anybody willing to try.
You need to apply the effects to individual objects. Where there are multiple objects create a path around them and apply the effect.