Is there a way to turn off the auto join with the free hand tool/ I am trying to sketch and need to do lots of small free hand dots and marks for depth and it is driving me crazy trying to just do a small dot with my Bamboo pen. It keeps joining and making lines- Argghh- I've gone into options and played around with the freehand tool settings but can't find anywhere to just turn it of completely,
Would appreciate any help
Hi Lisa
You were at the right place.
lisa Young said:Argghh- I've gone into options and played around with the freehand tool settings but can't find anywhere to just turn it of completely,
You need to change the threshhold setting. See the image.
Thanks Anand - I have had a look at that now and can take it to one pixel- I guess what I am wanting is - you know in windows paint- the basic accessory paint pad, in it you just draw and when you put you pen down just for a dot it can do that, in Corel it wants to know where the line ends. what if I just want it to be a dot-rather than a really short line or tiny drawn circle- can the auto-join be completely turned off?
Unfortunately auto Join cannot be put off completely. I am curious to know, do you really need such a small gap (even less than 1 pixel) between the two nodes. I have never faced such a situation. Any way wrok around for this could be : Select the node with shape tool > right click > Break Apart.This will break the joined node into two nodes making the path open.
lisa Young said:what if I just want it to be a dot-rather than a really short line or tiny drawn circle- can the auto-join be completely turned off?
Hi again,
I am sketching straight onto the workpage and am building a book for print for the craft industry with little designs throughout- tiny angels and birdhouses etc. so if I want to add little dots etc for depth and character- sometimes 50 or so dots scattered amogst flowers or around angel wings, it is a real pain to have to stop and break apart each little dot, or to dot on the bamboo and then have to re-dot the same spot to try to keep the elements as confined as possible - as a dot rather than a line.
Just guessing about your job. I am not sure if this suits you.
IMO you can use tiny circles. elipses or handdrawn shapes. These can be closed shapes( I mean shapes with first and the last node joined.) DRAW allows you to scale an object as tiny as 0.001mm x 0.001mm. So you can draw the object > Apply "No outline" > and then fill it any colour of you choice.
You may use Blend tool to have the objects along the path to have the effect without actually having to draw 50 (or whatever number) objects. I am just suggesting you the tool. See if it helps.
lisa Young said:sometimes 50 or so dots scattered amogst flowers or around angel wings, it is a real pain to have to stop and break apart each little dot, or to dot on the bamboo and then have to re-dot the same spot to try to keep the elements as confined as possible - as a dot rather than a line.
Why not just increase the size of the image you're stippling, do the dots, then shrink the whole thing again. (Select the image, type in 200% in the scale box, then once done select the whole thing and type in 50%)
I also think that you are making things harder for yourself than they have to be:
1) create a dot.(tiney filled circle, no outline)
2) Duplicate it a few times, turn 'snap to objects' off and position them in a quite loose random clump and group them
3) Duplicate this a few times and build up a faded radial fill from them.
4) Take all the dots, "ungroup all" then "group" again.
5) Move this off the page. Perhaps create two or three different radius like this
6) When you need to "shade";
If you only have to make it look like this, then try the following: Create an object that will go from an internal edge/corner to an external one and use a fountain fill to go from shadow to light. Convert this to a bitmap. Use the "pointilitst" from the 'art strokes' grouping in the bitmap menu. You can either use the 'shape' tool to re-shape the thing around bits or create another object and 'powerclip' the bitmap inside it.
The other way would to be copy the object being shaded into PPaint, Create a new layer and then use a dotty brush to "shade" by hand. Then take this layer back into draw and trace it into a vector again. (need to be carefull with pallets and things.)
Thankyou for your suggestions.
I am "self-taught" at the most basic level - didn't know what a bezier tool was til 2 years ago, and have no-one using this program to ask questions to! I will have a good play with your ideas today - will try to make a spraylist first- have never done that so should be interesting. I am starting to realise that I am only using about 5% of what Corelx3 can do- I haven't even used the photoshop yet- don't have Paint, Unless it is lurking somewhere and I just haven't found it. Hmmm all this and 4 kids home on school holidays---no problems!
lisa Young said:...- I haven't even used the photoshop yet- don't have Paint, Unless it is lurking somewhere and I just haven't found it.
"Photoshop" is the 'rival' to Corel's PhotoPaint (which came bundled with CorelDraw). Use this for playing with photos & web images. Use Draw for illustration and DTP stuff.
I think that most folk are "self taught" - just picking up tips and advice from other users along the way. I know I am. But if you want to learn, there are usefull resources out there, like the Unleashed books.
Whoops ok I mean the PhotoPaint. lol. As for being self taught I do remember crying a bit in the first month- the manual told me to click on the bezier tool - What the ?? Didn't know what I was doing- very frustrating, but then, a bit like driving a car, you all of a sudden GET it, Have made a spray list today (very proud of self) , Onward and upward!
Thanks