Can anybody tell me how I can create a silver or metallic effect in CorelDraw X3?
First off, I didn't "demand others share trade secrets for zero dollars" . I didn't "demand" anything....from anyone...especially not you. I just offered some helpful advice on a forum thats meant to be a helpful place. So, I would appreciate it if you didn't twist my words or or suggest untruths. Trade secrets? lmao They're only "secrets" if you want to keep them that way. What the "h-e-double hockeysticks" does the time frame have to do with anything? ...lol trying not to offend you with those terrible words. If I wanted your paid for advice, I would have searched google. Not come to the CorelDRAW Community site, "the place where users ...get together to share and learn from other users..." You provided the only rude and crude post here ...by offering no assistance or advice, just pointing someone to your website. And then you followed it up with advice to borrow money from a friend? Thats the best you got? And then you criticize me for not liking your "advice"? You said "Participants in this forum are welcome to respond with whatever insight they can offer" My comment about your paid advice was my response to you ...apparently about as helpful as your link to an infomercial. This is the CorelDraw Community site...as they put it: "Welcome to the CorelDRAW Community site, the place where users ...get together to share and learn from other users..." Did ya get that last part? "I remember looking outwards into a conference room filled with students from around the globe. They'd stopped existing projects to scamper onto airplanes to learn my signature and treasured metallic techniques. That room was so full that it was a borderline fire hazard." Wow, you are really full of yourself, aren't you?! LMAO wtf means whatever you think it means, and whatever you choose it to mean (as an acronym). if you choose to inject "crude" words into it, thats your choice, not mine. its an acronym, and an internet staple. http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/WTF Something tells me you aren't keeping up with the times if you plan on conducting business online. The internet can be a scary place...time to put on your big boy pants. LMAO (leave me alone okay?)
Many of us long-time users have learned there is almost always multiple ways to accomplish an effect in CorelDRAW and especially in Photo-Paint. Methods can vary according to the end result the user desires, and multiply that by the number of users adding their own twist.
I first learned a PP metallic effect from this 2009-10 article by Debbie Cook. Her website cedesign.com
http://web.archive.org/web/20000930173226/http://www.cedesign.com/html/metal.html
So I learned Cook's technique later down the road I purchased Jeff's Gold factory, and have learned even more from other articles and post here on this forum. So now I have combined these, added my own twists to come up with a method that works for me.
Patti