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When applying a fountain fill in Corel, you get to choose from linear, radial, conical and square. Well, applying the square fill to a rectangle,like a four by eight, gives you only a fade on two sides because obviously it is not a square. Is there a way to do this? I need to have a fade all around my rectangle for presentation purposes. Hopefully this makes sense. I work in Corel 10.
Only way I can see is to start off with a square to the same height as your rectangle, fill with the 'square' fountain fill, tnen go to Bitmaps -> Convert to Bitmap. After conversion, you can adjust the shape of the square to the rectangle you require.
[ July 23, 2007, 12:01 PM: Message edited by: Graham Parsons ]
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I think the way to do what you want is to use the interactive contour tool. Make your rectangle 4x8 then with the interactive contour use like 75 steps inside of your rectangle with the first rectangle being your darker color and the contour blending to white you can set the distance between contour to something like .004 this should do what you want.
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I'm gonna watch this one cuz I tried the blend and the contour..neither one worked well for me.
Someone is gonna come up with the perfect answer!!
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Lotti, Your fade is to the inside, I hope? Steve has the answer. I used different values, same basic results. I used a full 48" X 96" rectangle, inside contour with 0.02 offset and 240 steps -- same colors. It can also be done using the drop shadow effect. Trim one rectangle from inside another leaving a rectangle with a rectangular hole in it, align the shadow directly over the object then separate the drop shadow from the object. Drag the rectangle out a bit to cover the outside shadow. Sort of like a window looking out into a shadow fading away.
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Here are my results. Possibly the contour and shadow tools can been used in a better way, but I think I'll opt for C,)using the blend tool. Only thing is, I would have liked to blend three colours, but seems to work only with two?
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If you do it the way I said you can then break the blend apart and then ungroup and then do another interative contour using the next colour.
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Lotti, to do two colors, you need to do a 2 stage blend. Use your contour tool to make two inside rectangles instead of just one... blend the outside two, and then the inside two. You don't even have to separate the first set before you do the second.
Like some others have mentioned, you can achieve the exact same effect by using the contour function in 2 steps as well. Inside contour to your first color, doing something like 100 steps at .002 (whatever gives you the right amount of shading.) Then 'Separate' select the inside rectangle, and do the same function again to your next color.
Edited to add: I believe the problem you were having with the 'Contour' method in your tests above is that the outside rectangle has an outline on it. Make sure neither of the rectangles have an outline, and it should eliminate the 'Fade to Black' syndrome.
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And yet another way is by using the Interactive Mesh Fill tool. Although it may take some getting used to, it gives you a lot of flexibility in achieving pretty much any complex gradient you could ever dream up.
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Mike does version 10 have the Interactive mesh tool?
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Mike does version 10 have the Interactive mesh tool?
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I've used Draw since ver 2 but almost exclusively for vector work that only had to be cut in vinyl.
Don Coplen, in the past, has sent me many examples of the great vector renderings he has done. And I have tried to play around at doing that type of work, but always hit a brick wall with the colour blends.
I had never checked out the mesh fill tool in the past.
I just started playing with it tonight and it is a cool feature!
I can see me spending quite a bit of time "playing" with it in the future, when I don't have to spend my time earning a living with CorelDraw.
Thanks for mentioning it Mike.
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