CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide part 60. Learn to create outstanding fine art and eye-catching commercial graphics with one powerful tool! CorelDRAW X5: The Official Guide is your comprehensive reference and workbook to get you started designing visually captivating CorelDRAW artwork. Learn, step by step, how to create the illustrations you've imagined, quickly assemble layouts for print and package designs, import and edit photos, master the art of typography and the science of color theory, make 3D scenes from 2D objects, and apply special effects to ordinary pictures. Packed with expert techniques and advice for creating professional-quality art, this. | 554 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide Although CorelDRAW is a 2D vector drawing application the extrude feature adds objects to create an illusion of a third dimension one of depth. Depending on the intricacy of the parent object and how you pose the object and light it extruded objects can open up a whole new world of design opportunities and extend your style of illustration to present your audience with scenes they can step right into This chapter takes you through the rich feature set of the Extrude tool offers some creative possibilities for its use and gets your head around the initial challenges of navigating 3D space in CorelDRAW. NOTE Download and extract all the files from the archive to follow the tutorials in this chapter. How Extrude Works CorelDRAW s extrude effect examines the geometry of an object which can be a single or a compound path two or more combined paths . Then with your input it creates extensions to all path segments which are dynamic objects that are created to suggest that they recede into the distance to a vanishing point. See Chapter 18 on perspective vanishing points. Figure 19-1 is a rendered illustration of the 3D file one of the several files you downloaded. By the end of this chapter you ll know how to un-extrude the compositions how these extrudes are designed and how to create similar work. One thing to remember even the most complex object you extrude probably won t convey a complete artistic idea you need to use other CorelDRAW tools to complete a scene you re happy with. For example the train composition uses several extruded objects the toaster uses a Contour effect to create the shadow beneath the objects and the tabletop was first created by extruding shapes but then all the shadows you see were manually drawn on top of areas that look stark without a supporting shadow object here and there. The Extrude tool can get you 75 percent of the way you want to go with design but you need to be imaginative
