Cut Contour outline

Hi

im only new at this n got a pic off the net and want to cut contour just the out line but i want do it can some 1 help me please

  • RICK4227 said:
    I'm only new at this n got a pic off the net and want to cut contour just the outline. but i want do it can some 1 help me please

    This depends the artwork itself. can you upload a small version of the pic so we have an ide? Or better yet, the link to the original pic you found?

    • I have a logo i made & it does the same thing with one off the net & it wont work untill i quick trace it then the colour of the logo  goes all funny. i have tried saving it as vector, bitmap but still the same prob, when i convert to bitmap the chome color seperates to individual colors & if i quick trace the cut contour line goes evrywhere & i can not delete the lines i dont want to cut... im using corel draw X4... I have a Roland sp 540v...

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      • you can print the image and cut only the edge. You only need the outline of the logo, and of course a print&cut plotter such as a Roland

        • I suppose you could hand draw the image in Draw and work with the colors to arrive a reasonable facsimile. Jeff Harrison has a very good commercial tutorial on hand "tracing" on his MacroMonster site.

           

          http://macromonster.com/index.php?mod=descr&id_desc=5&keyword=learn+to+draw

          and to comes with a suprize macro.

           

           

          I attached a really quick version on one R.  I do mean quick. A lot more time needed to be spent on the linds and to get the colors correct.

          R1a.cdr
          • Jack Ross said:
            I attached a really quick version on one R.  I do mean quick. A lot more time needed to be spent on the linds and to get the colors correct.

            Nice job J. I added to it by finishing G and flipping other R over. Then I added CutContour line and made a slight bleed on bottom piece using same color as fill for bottom. Also,  usually i weld shapes like the background piece into one, without unneeded sub paths, like I did here.

            The funny thing about 100% cutcontour spot color from Draw 12-14 is that they often show as CMYK in the status bar, though they show in seps as a spot color. Hopefully Corel gets that right for next version, I find it confusing.

            So, if this guy exports as eps from Draw, brings in Versaworks, hopefully he sees red marching ants. :-)

            It's a bit of an odd logo since the border isn't equidistant from the main shape...

            R1b.cdr
            • Perhaps this occurance of a color showing as CMYK in the status bar yet being separated as aspot color is not isolated to using a cutcontour color. I was doing some slight changes to a dsign for screen printing that I had already seen in Print Preview separated to four spot colors. One object in the design, when selected, shows up as CMYK in the status bar but still separates as a spot color. - Scotty

              • scottyjr said:
                One object in the design, when selected, shows up as CMYK in the status bar but still separates as a spot color.

                Hi S,

                That hue might also be a custom spot color instead of one picked from a fixed palette.