CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide part 73. 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. | 684 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide Add The Add itive mode applies transparency in a similar fashion to Normal mode except it whitens and brightens the result seriously In English there s a subtle but distinct different between plus and added to similarly Additive mode moves the combined result of the target and source object colors in a positive direction in brightness value. The artistic result is good for adding subtle shading to composition areas this is something painters through the centuries could not do without the added step of applying pure white because inks and pigments use the real-world subtractive color model. Subtract This mode ignores the brightness value in the source object and is similar to mixing physical pigments. If you use Subtractive transparency mode on green and red objects and overlap then with a target blue object the result color will be black. Difference Remember color opposites on the color wheel This is what Difference mode performs it moves the result color to the difference on the color wheel between the source and target colors. For example a red Difference transparency object over a yellow target object produces green areas. You ll see the difference effect most clearly if you put such an object over an empty area of the drawing page. A red difference object will cast cyan as the result on the page. This is a useful blending mode for creating dramatic lighting effects for example you can shine a Difference mode drawing of a shaft of theater spotlight on an object and get truly wonderful and bizarre lighting effects. Multiply Multiply always produces a darker result color from merging the source and target objects. Its effect is similar to wood stain or repeated strokes of a felt marker on paper. Several objects in Multiply mode when overlapped can produce black and this is perhaps the best mode for artists to re-create real-world shadows cast on objects. Divide The Divide mode produces only a lighter result color if neither the
