Can anybody tell me how I can create a silver or metallic effect in CorelDraw X3?
This is worth a look, check out the entire page of examples.
http://www.unleash.com/jeffh/goldfactory/index.asp
also
http://www.unleash.com/jeffh/makingstuff/index.asp
and
http://www.unleash.com/jeffh/vectormetal/index.asp
JD
Thanks Jeff. I did see your site but unfortunately I don't have a creditcard.
in Draw, basically you fill with a banded fountain fill. But depending on exactly the effect you are looking for, you can do so much more; light effects, bevels, punched metal, brushed metal, rivits, screws, ...
Liquid metal effects and chrome are easier in PPaint - you get the outline to the shape, make a drop shadow and highlight border then blend/blur them and use a wibbly tone curve on them. And you can get really creative with rust, pitting, melting, ting's ...
Depends on what exactly you want to acheive how you would go about it.
~G~
Hi T.,
You could hand a friend with a card 10$ and they buy it for you... :-)
not that I'm objecting to giving Jeff $10 , but I always find it more entertaining and rewarding to DIY
... In saying that, it depends on the output - the plugin is probably worth more than the $10 to teach yourself how to do it manually (...but then again, once you know how it works and you have the plugin, why bother doing manually again?)
It actually beggs the question - if there is a plugin to do something(anything), why should you learn how?
Seriously? you ask a question and someone tries to sell you something as a response? wtf?I was an artist/painter long before I owned a computer.So I tend to approach every project as a painter first, computer artist second.Silver is a colour...not an effect.Metallic refers to a texture type...there are many different types of metals.We are leaning more to colour and colour combinations again, rather than an effect.Chrome is an entirely different animal.Chrome is a mirrored reflection of the surrounding view.Approach it as an artist might, and colour an object with solid colour or gradient colourthat matches the particular metal you want.Google the metal surface or sheet that you are interested in.You can do the same with reflective metals and chromes.Another approach is to save texture images.I have a folder library of collected textures. eg Aluminum Sheets, Wood planks, Glass surfaces.(I try to collect large, hi quality image files...large pixel dimensions, so I can edit out smaller areas)Then, when I want a realistic aluminum look, I will "fill" the object using a "pattern fill".I'll opt for a bitmap fill, and then browse to a particular aluminum texture image.Adjust the fill size of the image to match the object (this avoids tiling) and voila...photographic aluminum fill.Another trick is to import an image (of a fill or texture) into my coreldraw workspace.Then I will apply a "fountain fill" to an object...and create a custom fill sampling gradient colours from the imported image.Play with the angle rotation, edge pad, gradient position, etc,and you can create a more realistic colour fill that matches the metal effect.If you are filling Text with a colour or effect like metal, you can choose to group or combine the text before applying the fills.By combining, your metal effect covers the entire text as an object, and as such the effects may be different across the individual letters.More like how the emblem on a car would look.But you can also apply the fill effect to each letter individually, giving them all the same colour effects. Its less realistic as an object effect, and more attractive as a graphic art lettering effect.
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