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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.
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 ]
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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 ]
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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 ]
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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.
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