Dear Corel Users
Can you suggest a good way to draw a comet - not using a bitmap glow, but in pure vector on a dark background?
I attach a Photo to show more exactly how it look like ...
Regards,
Erik
Just curious, does the comet need to be vector? I have always had better success with Bitmaps in PhotoPaint, example included.
As for the Halo effect, here is another suggestion which is done After Ronny's description of the transparent nodes in the Mesh Fill.
WOW, what a beautiful comet made in PhotoPaint! How did you create it?
Actually I like to know how to do it in vector as well as in bitmap. Mostly I Work in vector, though. Great idea by Ronny too. I did not know about the possibilities with the Mesh Fill Tool, but will test it. Maybe that technique can be used for more arbitrary shapes too?
Thanks for all the input. I appreciate it!
Best regards,
Erik Vestergaard said: WOW, what a beautiful comet made in PhotoPaint! How did you create it? Actually I like to know how to do it in vector as well as in bitmap. Mostly I Work in vector, though. Great idea by Ronny too. I did not know about the possibilities with the Mesh Fill Tool, but will test it. Maybe that technique can be used for more arbitrary shapes too? Thanks for all the input. I appreciate it! Best regards, Erik
Personally I look at it like this sometime we tend to go a bit too Hollywood like if you look at a comet you dont see any color
Actually there often is color! It has to do with many optical phenomena. As a Mathematician and Physicist I know that although the light from the Sun is White, the Sky looks blue, because of scattering of light on molecules in the atmosphere. The "blue part" of the light is scattered more effectively than the "red part". Another example is sunsets looking yellow-reddish, because when the light travels a long way through the atmosphere from a low altitude, a big part of the blue light is removed from the White light, yielding what we see. Stars are redshifted and if you look up images of The Halley Comet via Google, you will find quite a few of them having colors (bluish, even purple edges). Not all of these are artwork, but real Photos. They may have been saturated a bit in Photoshop, but still there certainly are colors in the Sky!
Pretty nice Picture anyway. I have troubles making it Work with the Mesh Fill Tool, but I probably need practice.
White is in any case purely an optical illusion. Pale pink, pale blue, pale green and pale yellow will all look white if surrounded by only black or stronger tints of the same colour so that the brain has no other colour reference.
The brain always sees what it thinks it should see, but that is not necessarily what is actually there.
Thank you for the explanation Erik
Looking at a visible comet from us on Earth would you still see colors.
Good exercise for all of us in Corel and a good coversation as well,I added some color to my next comet.
Erik Vestergaard said: Actually there often is color! Erik Hello Erik; I see you got a lot of good answers for your question, and OF COURSE there's color with Comet, at least in the US of A, there's Green, Yeloow, Gold and White. lol George
Actually there often is color!
Hello Erik; I see you got a lot of good answers for your question, and OF COURSE there's color with Comet, at least in the US of A, there's Green, Yeloow, Gold and White. lol
George