CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide part 86. 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. | 814 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide Brush Mask tool b Every area you stroke over can be selected. FIGURE 26-5 3. Click the Nib Shape drop-down list and then click the 100-pixel-diameter hard nib. Then increase the size of the nib by typing 133 in the Nib Size box or you can use the elevator buttons to the right of the box to enlarge the nib size. 4. Stroke around the image so the skater is entirely selected. If you ve gone a little too far click the Subtractive mode button on the property bar and stroke over the areas of excess in your selection. Figure 26-5 shows you what your screen should look like. 5. Right-click inside the selection border and then choose Object Copy Selection. Note that the toolbox has automatically chosen the Object Pick tool for you now. Also the marquee lines have disappeared and selection box handles now are at the edges of the new object. 6. With the Object Pick tool cursor drag the object from the Skating document window into the image window. CHAPTER 26 PHOTO-PAINT Effects and Advanced Editing 815 26 7. Close the Skating document without saving it. 8. Save the file as Rink FINAL in PHOTO-PAINT s native CPT file format. Keep the image open in PHOTO-PAINT. Use the Object Pick tool to increase the window s size and then use the mouse scroll wheel to zoom out so you can see all of the fellow in the composition. NOTE If you are uncertain about the exact areas you ve selected with the Brush Mask tool you can preview the area by using the Mask Mask Overlay view of your work. By default the red tint is covering areas that are not selected by your Brush Mask work. Working in the Cutout Lab PHOTO-PAINT s Cutout Lab is sort of an advanced Mask tool it provides you with a complete workspace for tracing around the edge of an area you want to integrate with other document objects. However unlike the other mask tools the Cutout Lab automatically refines edges that are fuzzy such as the soft edges of our Santa s .
