CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide part 63. 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. | 584 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide Minimum facet size set to 1 inch facets are apparent. Wireframe view FIGURE 19-11 This extrude s minimum facet size is too high the extrude edges as they change color to reflect the lighting are very obvious. Minimum extrude facet size set to inch facets are nearly invisible. Wireframe view FIGURE 19-12 Extrude facet smoothness is proportional to the number of facets needed to create the smooth impression. CHAPTER 19 Extruding Objects 585 Four examples of strange and inspired use of the Interactive extrude tool FIGURE 19-13 to curves and the effects are live in this document so you can use the Copy Extrude From command to sample and apply any of these effects to objects you ve drawn. In Figure 19-13 you can see the file and an explanation of what was done and why will give you some ideas of your own based on the principles behind the novel use of the effect. The artistic text spelling out DRAMATIC is not a straight extrude but instead it was created by extruding the first character and then rotating it. Then the extrude effect was copied to every other character via the Copy Extrude From button on the property bar list. Finally the Rotation pop-up was used in Numerical Value mode to rotate the characters progressively by about 10 difference to create an arc of text instead of a somewhat flat and planar treatment of this flashy headline. The suntan lotion bottle takes advantage of the fact that an extrude doesn t have to face forward the side of the rounded rectangle is exposed to view to represent the bottle a circle was extruded to make the cap and similarly you see the extrude group edge more than you do the control object circle. When you extrude something you re dealing with a 3D object and it s up to you the artist to decide which side of the 3D shape is the most visually interesting. The label on the bottle was created by using the perspective effect covered in Chapter 18. 19 586 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide The .
