CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide part 87. 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. | 824 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide 2. With the Object Pick tool click the duplicate Santa in the document window to make sure you can see the object control handles. Then click-drag the top center handle so Santa mirrors his original horizontally with disproportionate scaling exactly as you perform in CorelDRAW going way past the object s original bottom point and releasing the mouse button when Santa s original top point lies a little below his right skate blade. Original bottom edg Drag middle handle to scale disproportionately. 3. If necessary with the Object Pick tool move the duplicate down so both of Santa s ankles are in about the same location in the composition. 4. Choose the Object Transparency tool from the effects tool group on the toolbox. CHAPTER 26 PHOTO-PAINT Effects and Advanced Editing 825 5. Beginning at Santa s ankle region click-drag down to about the duplicate s head area. By default you ve created a Linear style transparency with opaque regions traveling to transparent regions from top to bottom almost exactly the way you d see a real reflection when viewed in perspective. Linear îf 0 -Ệ- ïti p Rin UNA rpt J4-B RGB Ợ5RX. Ob Mt. Object Transparency tool Drag down. Black Opaque White transparent 26 6. Choose Effects Blur Motion Blur. This type of PHOTO-PAINT blur filter comes in handy in a variety of design situations because it can emphasize the direction of a blur which can often lend a more photorealistic quality to blurry areas than Gaussian blur does. Set the Direction to about 34 degrees adding much more horizontal blurring than vertical in this example. Then set the Distance to about 35 pixels Distance is relative to the overall size of your images when doing editing outside of this tutorial. 826 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide Click the Sample Nearest Edge Pixel option so transparent areas outside of this object take the Motion Blur effect using the nontransparent object pixels toward its edge. Finally click Preview and if the document
