painting a rope?

wrote in message news:23871@coreldraw.com...
> how can I paint a rope that goes throug a ring?
>
> My rope is always behind the ring....
>
> Can you please help me?

since you're working in a 2D space, we can only give the illusion of rope
going through a ring, if you know what I mean.

If I were to do this, I would want my ring and rope to be two separate
objects first. Then I'd give each one a clip mask based upon their current
transparency levels.

If my rope is on top of the ring, I'd first go to the clipmask of the rope
and using Black, paint on that portion of the rope that is on top of the
left side of the ring. This should give the illusion of the rope coming from
underneath the ring from the left and exiting on top of the ring on the
right.

You could also just duplicate the rope object or ring object and layer them
in such a way that you would erase one part of the rope that is on top of
the ring on one side and still have the other rope object below the ring. I
prefer the clip mask because if I erase more than I want, I can always
unerase it later by painting in the clipmask with White. If I use the eraser
tool, unless I do an Undo soon enough, I would never be able to "unerase" my
mistake.


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