I'm working on a job and I have a curved object in the design that I am trying to add a gradient fill to in CorelDraw.
My problem: The fountain fill only allows me to put the gradient in the object using one of the four types - linear, radial, conical, and square. None of them work the way I want them to.
Is there a way to add a fountain fill and have the "gradient" go with the shape of the object? For instance, take text, fit it to a curved path, and have the gradient be on the same curve that the text is?
Anyone know of a way to make that happen?
Posted by Laura Butler (Member # 1830) on :
Try doing a blend with no line color.
Posted by John Arnott (Member # 215) on :
You have to blend it from one shape to another shape.
Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
Can you do this? Yes. It does depend, however, on what version of Corel you are using. The gradient net tool would do well for this purpose.
Posted by Tom Giampia (Member # 2007) on :
I'd love to see how this is done....
Anyone up for a quick X3 tutorial?
Posted by Checkers (Member # 63) on :
I really haven't played with it that much, but the interactive mesh fill tool in Corel 12 allows you to manipulate a fill. It's button or tool is shared with the interactive fill tool.
Havin' fun,
Checkers
Posted by J & N Signs (Member # 901) on :
Take whatever object you want to apply gradient to and with the contour tool put contour to inside of object 15 steps or whatever you think is necessary. Break contour apart and ungroup. You may want to practice a few times. Use the outermost and the innermost line and move them to the side. Apply a fill to one and another fill to the other then use the interactive fill tool and voila. I will try to post a picture..
Posted by Pete Payne (Member # 344) on :
try the fill tool at the bottom of the tool bar (in corel x3) the interactve fill tool, you can drag and drop other colours onto it and adjust with the slider, you might get a smoother blend if instead of going from red to yellow, you drop orange in between, just as an example
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
Never tried it before, but sounded like fun to figure out.
Step One: Set your text and, using the edit envelope, arch away til you get the shape you want. Step 2: Break the text into curves and then ungroup it. Be careful of the inside shapes of the letters and move them to the front layers as needed. Step 3: Select everything, open your gradient fill too and, using the LINEAR mode, set your fill. Why everything? because as you go to edit the fills later, it'll save time having to reestablish the colors for each letter if you have a fill already in memory for each one. Should look like example #1 when you're done. Step 4: Now you can select each letter individually and adjust the angle of the gradient fill. (Picture #2) I kept an outline on each letter as a reference point and by zooming in and out, eyeballing the fill angle seemed easier. You may have to adjust the sliders on the fill settings a little. When I did this one, the letter "I" wound up different than the rest of the text. (Hence the advantage of filling everything at first. It's close, but a minor adjustment is all that is needed.) Step 5: Select all, remove the outline and group it. (Picture #3)
It sounds a little complicated, but it only took about 5 minutes to do.
Neat!!! I figured something out! This is gonna come in handy later.... Rapid
Posted by Tom Giampia (Member # 2007) on :
Thanks Ray!
Posted by Jon Jantz (Member # 6137) on :
I've actually done this before, but can't remember what I decided was the best way to handle it... tried one way here a minute ago and I'll post a little vid of it.
Probably not the best way, but would do in a pinch.
Click here to watch it...
Posted by Randy W. Robarge (Member # 2022) on :
Sorry I forgot to add, but I use CorelDraw X3.
Thanks for the help. It seems like this "should" be a simple option that I was missing, but I guess not.
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