Following up on a couple of previous posts about Gold fills for Corel.
I posted what I believe to be about as good a representation as you can get for engine turned gold. In the past I have always "Power Clipped" it into lettering, but because the original picture was taken at an angle the spins are not all the same size.
As a result of Andrew's mentioning that he uses his gold bitmaps by loading them into the bitmap patterns library, I tried an experiment.
First I imported my gold bitmap into a new graphic. I then drew a .25" square box. I enlarged the gold bitmap until one "swirl" only filled the square box. Next I "Power Clipped" the bitmap into the box and edited the Powerclip to center the swirl in the box.
I assigned "no pen outline" to the Powerclip and exported it as a 72 dpi JPG. I also disabled "anti-aliasing" in the export dialogue box.
Finally I "loaded" the new gold JPG into the Patterns/bitmap library.
The result is as seen below. I believe it looks pretty realistic.
[ August 08, 2003, 02:45 PM: Message edited by: Dave Grundy ]
Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
Neeto!
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
Right on Dave! I checked out your other post a week ago & as much as I like the gold looking sheen, the angled look of the changing swirl sizes didn't work for me. This one looks great though. Good to see us "old dogs" still learnin'
Posted by Jeff Ogden (Member # 3184) on :
It'd be nice to be able to compose a swirl pattern, by putting the swirls where you want them, the way you do when you hand turn a job like that. Click -n- swirl. Is that too far out ? Posted by Andrew Duncan (Member # 3149) on :
Looks good do you have a copy of that bitmap.....
Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :
Here ya go Andrew! It is a small bitmap since I saved it at a real size of 1/4" in Corel.
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