This is topic Corel Tutorial - Object Sprayer ... or ... how to build a rope/wire/chain in forum Letterhead/Pinstriper Talk at The Letterville BullBoard.
Seems to be a lot of interest in rope lately. Easy to do with corel. This might seem long as I’m explaining in detail, but it’s really simple and quick to do.
Rope is a perfect exercise to learn to use Corel’s object sprayer. Object sprayer has been around and basically unchanged since Corel 9 at least. It’s extremely useful anytime an object is repeated along a path. It can also use both bitmap and vector elements, if you’re cutting use only vector elements as you create your object to be sprayed.
First create a rope segment, in this case I’ve added some detail, you can limit it to two colors if you're cutting or make it as simple as you want. Notice I’ve left a fairly wide bleed area, remember the elements will rotate as they follow the path. The bleed with a slight overlap will hide any gaps due to rotation. The segment must also be a group of simple objects so if you’ve used any effects like shadow or bevel you must break the compound elements apart before grouping. While you’re playing with your segment, this is a good time to see what the ideal duplicate distance will be. Just remember you are creating only one segment.
Select the grouped object, then goto Effects>Artistic Media. From the artistic media box or docker click on the ‘save’ icon, you’ll be prompted to determine whether to create a ‘brushes’ or an ‘object sprayer’ stroke, choose ‘object sprayer’ and choose an appropriate name. The file will automatically be saved in the Custom media strokes directory. Congratulations you’ve created a new object on your Spraylist.
To use the Object Sprayer select the artistic media tool,
Then choose sprayer
Then choose the spray object you’ve created (it may appear distorted in the drop down window)
Set the duplicate distance here
Select Rotation and check ‘path based’ rotation option
Once these settings are made they will be saved with the properties of the spray object, you won’t have to touch them the next time you want to use the spray object.
[ March 26, 2006, 04:49 PM: Message edited by: Mike O'Neill ]
Posted by Mike O'Neill (Member # 470) on :
Now the fun part, you can freehand draw with the Artistic media tool
Or you can create an object, select it, then select the artistic media tool, choose your spray object and …. Voila!
And the best part is that the stroke will always be there ready to apply to any object..
The strokes are on a path , if you edit the path the strokes will follow.
As I said you can use this for anything that is repeated on a path, here's a couple of examples, and how to do them.
[ March 26, 2006, 04:40 PM: Message edited by: Mike O'Neill ]
Posted by Bob Stephens (Member # 858) on :
Wow Mike. Nice step by step. I never thought to use the image sprayer for a rope design. Great job!
Ok so I went and tried it. Thanks again!
[ March 26, 2006, 11:28 AM: Message edited by: Bob Stephens ]
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
nice job Mike... Steve will have to file this one in the step-by-step vault for sure!
Posted by Suelynn Sedor (Member # 442) on :
Wow, thats a keeper Mike. Thanks so much!
Suelynn
Posted by Jeff Umsted (Member # 4592) on :
Mike, thank you!! That is a keeper for sure.
Jeff
Posted by Steve Racz (Member # 4376) on :
Thanks Mike!
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
really nice mike
Posted by Harris Kohen (Member # 2139) on :
wow thats kewl, now i just gotta try it.
Posted by Bob Stephens (Member # 858) on :
Harris its so frigg'n easy you'll wonder why you didn't think of it sooner! Mike's instructions were clear, concise and easy...
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
Very helpful. Thank you!
Posted by Dennis Raap (Member # 3632) on :
Thanks Mike!
Posted by Deri Russell (Member # 119) on :
A few years ago I was trying to make a series of "pipes" illustration for a drag car called Pipe Dreams. My husbands car actually. And as I was meticulously (sp?) bending the pipes and getting them to go in and out of ea other with the appropriate highlight, I sat banging my head on my desk. It wasn't until about 6 months ago I was on the Corel Chat line and someone posted a web site where they had made a number of these object sprayers. I'll see if I can find it. I mean we might as well use premade right? Hey! There's an idea, why don't we make a page or something that everyone who makes one could post it and we could trade? Like object sprayer clipart!
Posted by Todd Gill (Member # 2569) on :
Mike! that's awesome dude! Nice job.
Just curious, Bob - -
I notice that there is the one "piece" of rope that didn't space in correctly....
I always divide the number of vector shapes (rope segments in this case)desired by 360 to get perfectly even spacing around the perimeter of a perfect circle.
I usually have to do a few trial-and-error attempts to figure out how many vector shapes divided into 360 will result in the rope segments "coming back around and meeting the first shape perfectly."
Of course - this is with vector shapes - not the brush method Mike shows here.
Mike - is this a problem at all with the brush method when used on a perfect circle path? Yours seems perfectly done.
Edit - Can this be done in Illustrator too?
[ March 28, 2006, 11:08 AM: Message edited by: Todd Gill ]
Posted by Mike O'Neill (Member # 470) on :
Todd when using spray objects you can do one of two things to get the segments to line up perfectly.
You can slightly tweak the duplicate distance, while corel only shows 2 decimal accuracy in the duplicate distance window you can play with 1/1000ths if you want to. Or you can slightly resize the path until they line up, break it apart and resize to desired final size.
In mathematical terms; If the length of the perimeter of the path is an exact multiple of the duplicate distance the first and last segments will align perfectly.
[ March 28, 2006, 12:27 PM: Message edited by: Mike O'Neill ]
Posted by Deri Russell (Member # 119) on :
I looked while I was having break and I didn't save the address in my favourites of course. But on the bright side the person who had done the objects did not do anything too spectacular anyway, so we're not missing much.
Posted by Doug Phillips (Member # 5708) on :
Thanks-O-Bunch Mike! Something new for me to play with in Corel! Posted by Bob Stephens (Member # 858) on :
Todd I was aware of it after the fact but didnt bother to go back and adjust my distance in image sprayer. I left it on purpose just to see who would be the one to notice it?
Posted by Brian Keence (Member # 1867) on :
Mike this is SUPER! Thank you. I will just do the two color option, but out of curiosity how did you add the detail to your 1st piece of rope. The part with the beveled edges?
Thanks.
B.
Posted by Elaine Beauchemin (Member # 136) on :
Thanks a bunch Mike! Pretty kewl stuff Posted by Mike O'Neill (Member # 470) on :
I started with a piece of rope, reduced it to b/w, traced it. All I was really looking for was a shape. I then took the segment piece I wanted, tweaked it a bit, added color and beveled it, then drew the black bleed around it. I knew the bevel tool would add highlights and shadows.
All in all it didn't take more than 3 minutes. Corel X3 puts all the tools at your fingertips.
[ March 29, 2006, 06:58 AM: Message edited by: Mike O'Neill ]
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of course. But on the bright side the person who had done the objects did not do anything too spectacular anyway, so we're not missing much.
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