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Corel PhotoPaint 9 Tutorial - Artistic Tools Tutorial
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Corel Photo-Paint 9
Artistic Tools
by Jed Clampett
July 1, 2000
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We'll look at a couple of the
Artistic tools and maybe it will get your own creative juices
flowing. First we will make a simple party invitation or announcement.
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Open a new image any size you'd
like at 72 pixels if it's for the web.
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Let's
fill the background with a gradient. Click on the fill tool and
look at the properties bar. You'll see the gradient icon and the
edit button. Click on the edit button. |
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This
is the dialog box you'll get. Under the type choose the type you
want. In the color blend area, click the down arrow From and choose
the color, To, click the down arrow and choose your second color.
If you want the light color to be in a different place then put
your cursor on the gradient square and just move it around. Click
OK. |
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Type
in your text, throw on a drop shadow (see the clip mask tutorial
if you need further instruction on drop shadows) |
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Open
the Artistic tools, Window|Dockers|Artistic tools and select the
pool balls and place where ever you'd like. |
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Here is a logo I whipped together in no time for a kids site. |
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I
used the brown rope from the Artistic Media and drew the capital
letters. Using different layers (objects) I placed the elements
together.
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Here
is a quickie title I made to utilize the Gears in the Artistic
Media. You can adjust the size of the images sprayed on, use in
a continuous line or click one at a time which I did here.
I
used a gradient for the text, added a drop shadow and lowered
the pixels to 4 and the blur to 4.
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I
was playing with the planet circles and connected them using the
Clip Mask technique (see Clip Mask tutorial for full details). |
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I
hope these examples help
inspire you to use these fun tools!
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