CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide part 66. 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. | 614 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide Frequency 48 - - Frequency 21 Local Using the Local distortion option has the effect of varying the Amplitude value of your distortion effect around the center origin. At the center of the distortion effect Amplitude is at its maximum value. Amplitude then tapers to 0 as the distortion emanates from the center origin of the effect. The results of applying the Local distortion option while the Frequency is varied are shown here TIP To clear a distortion effect click Clear Distortion Effect in the property bar or choose Effects Clear Distortion. If you ve applied successive distortions each distortion is cleared individually in order from the last distortion applied to the first so you can step out of the effect incrementally. CHAPTER 20 Envelope and Distortion Effects 615 To bring all this Zipper talk down to a practical level the following illustration shows two creative commercial uses. At left the Zipper distortion is used as a coupon border. The only finessing needed was to apply a dashed Outline pen style. At right the diagram of a sewing pattern is gussied up a little by making the cut marks look as though real pinking shears were used. Twister Distortion Twister distorts the outline paths and nodes of objects by rotating the outer areas around the center which is largely undistorted either clockwise or counterclockwise to achieve an effect much like a child s pinwheel toy. Twister options on the property bar include rotation direction rotation amount and degree of additional rotation. 20 616 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide Original ellipse 35 cloclwise Two complete clockwise rotations 240 FIGURE 20-12 Using simple objects and the Twister mode of the distort effect you can create wild organic shapes. Controlling a Twister distortion is simple rotation can be clockwise or counterclockwise but increasing the rotation really dramatizes the effect of this mode. Whole rotations can be set to a maximum of 9 additional rotations .
