Not bad...not bad at all...the chrome look is outstanding and I particularly like your color selections and the darker values in the line below...many people I think would have made that bottom line much brighter...but for my taste I wouldn't have...I would be very satisfied with the way you did it...there are no competing elements for dominance...hence the composition is simple and less busy...works well as a composition for me and you have applied principles that I try to stay aware of when composing a landscapes...a strong central focal point.
[ February 15, 2013, 11:43 AM: Message edited by: Rusty Bradley ]
Posted by Don Hulsey (Member # 128) on :
Cooool!
Posted by David Wright (Member # 111) on :
Nice, but do you mean Corel Draw or Photopaint?
Posted by Craig Sjoquist (Member # 4684) on :
WOW beautiful really like that chrome border seems perfect, more I look at it more I like it.
Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
David, Corel Draw. Everything including the reflections are all in Corel Draw.
Posted by Donna in BC (Member # 130) on :
Wow. I'm still pumping out vector images! I need to rethink that. Posted by Wayne Webb (Member # 1124) on :
Glenn, How did you do it? Will x4 do it?
Posted by Brent Logan (Member # 6587) on :
Glen, is the reflected image in the oval border all vector?
Posted by Barry Jenicek (Member # 2281) on :
Nice Step-by-Step Project
Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
Wayne, Of course.
For me, it started with Corel's tutorial on how to create glass buttons for websites.
Here is the tutorial I used to create the glass effect....
I took the techniques further by using the powerclip tool and the transparency tool's multiply and overlay options. The "chrome" itself is nothing more than a photo I took with my digital camera powerclipped inside an ellipse. Another pair of ellipses are combined to create the ring shape. I used the blend tool and gradient tool to create the light and shadow needed to create the illusion of a rounded shape. I then used the tranparency tool's overlay option and placed the ring over the ellipse with the photo.
The tools and options you'll use mostly are the Blend Tool and the Transparency tool (overlay, multiply, linear), shadow tool, and powerclip.
The whole thing took maybe 30 minutes.
[ February 16, 2013, 02:34 PM: Message edited by: Glenn Taylor ]
Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
Brent, its a photograph I took of my shop's parking lot. The lines you see in the upper left are the powerlines. I used Corel Draw's ability to blur and desaturate bitmaps.
This is just to show when you can do strictly from within Corel Draw without PhotoPaint or Photoshop.
[ February 16, 2013, 02:50 PM: Message edited by: Glenn Taylor ]
Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
The blue background inside the oval is a photograph of the concrete floor in the shop truck bay. I blurred it slightly, powerclipped it inside an ellipse. While in powerclip mode, I created a blue rectangle, used the transparency tool to make it transparent, placed it over the photo of the concrete floor and then clicked "finish" to get back into normal mode. The glare on top is just a white ellipse with a gradient transparency to give the illusion of a glass dome.
[ February 16, 2013, 02:44 PM: Message edited by: Glenn Taylor ]
Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
I forgot to add that I used the "sphere" command to warp the photo used in the chrome warp the image.
Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
This video will probably get you abut 90% of what you need to know. One thing though, you'll see him jumping from Corel Draw to Photopaint from time to time. It is totally unnecessary. Everything he does in Photopaint, you can do directly from inside Corel Draw.
Thanks for sharing all that info. I've been doing a lot of the online tutorials also. They are a great resource. I'm still using X3.
Posted by Wayne Webb (Member # 1124) on :
Cool Thanks Glenn!
Posted by Rusty Bradley (Member # 6938) on :
Now that's using the old noggin.
Posted by Neil D. Butler (Member # 661) on :
Great Glenn, I too am just a Photoshop junkie.. I need to get off that.... thanks, Great Work by the way!
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