I've found many photoshop tutorials , but I don't own photoshop. I'm looking to do this in vectorized images in Corel....help!
thanks.
Posted by Michael Clanton (Member # 2419) on :
I have fumbled around with a couple of attempts-- the one that worked for me was sorta "oldschool": Design a gradient fade (black to white), print to a postcript printer, changing the lpi (lines per inch) to about 5 (default is about 80 on my printer) this prints the image with the halftone dot pattern similar to the above. Scan the printout and run it thru CorelTRACE or other tracing software-- you have a vector image of the dot pattern effect. You can experiment with different sizes of dots or other postscript options like varying lines, different angles, etc.
Posted by Nevman (Member # 332) on :
Interactive blend tool.
Start with your small circle, then the biggest one and spread them apart appropriately(1) - then blend(2).
Once that's done, duplicate(3) and rotate until you get what you want.
[ July 06, 2007, 11:57 AM: Message edited by: Nevman ]
Posted by Nevman (Member # 332) on :
Oh Yeah...you may want to weld them also...
Posted by Dawud Shaheed (Member # 5719) on :
it seems like that would take a while if i had a certain design that I wanted to put that effect to like for instance a skull head, then I want that effect behind it. I'm thinking it would take a while to get all the angles right with that method. Is there any other easier way to do it?
Posted by John Duckett (Member # 4505) on :
There was a free program from Xara, I think, called "raster". The program doesn't install, but instead opens from an .exe file. I have the file, but I don't remember what the website it that I got it from.
Anyway, you can either paste something in from your clipboard or open a bitmap image, and the program will create the image in vector halftones. It has various settings you can play with. It's worked pretty good for what I needed it for at the time, and I always kept the program in my arsenal.
As I said, the little program is called "raster", and I think the company that made it was xara or something.
Let me know if you would like the program, I can email it to you (it was freeware).
Posted by Dawud Shaheed (Member # 5719) on :
Nevman, actually, that worked well. I tried what you said, and I think it won't be as difficult as I thought.
thanks, man.
Posted by Nevman (Member # 332) on :
Sure dude...
I knew it would take a little tweeking but I figured it would work.
Glad to help...
Posted by Dawud Shaheed (Member # 5719) on :
it'll work for some stuff, but still when I want the pattern to follow a certain shape, it's going to be difficult, I'll keep playing with it.
Posted by Graham Parsons (Member # 1129) on :
Dawud,
You can do this in Corel PhotoPaint - which you should have if you've got CorelDraw. I guess if you need it as a vector, you could then trace it.
As an example, create a graduated gray-scale fade in Photopaint, then go to Effects -> Color Transform -> Halftone. You can play around with the settings for dot size, angle, etc.
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