Creating a mural of tiles out of a big picture
This tutorial will show you how to take a big photo and cut it up into a number of smaller "tiles" so that you can laser it on a tile or sublimate it on a tile
This tutorial will show you how to take a big photo and cut it up into a number of smaller "tiles" so that you can laser it on a tile or sublimate it on a tile
There are two types of text in CorelDraw. The first and the one that is used a lot is Artistic Text. The second type which we discuss later is Paragraph text.
Now let me ask you – how many people come into your shop and say “I need you to reproduce my logo and to make it easy here is some good quality black and white artwork”. Not often. What do we get?
The list goes on. So what can we do? Typically what I see is that dealers scan the bad image into the computer, vectorize the artwork and then sometimes spend hours “cleaning” up the logo. This may be a suitable way of doing artwork for some but not me. I would rather spend my time doing something else. So let me offer you an alternative that will give you a good clean vector image and hopefully do it in a lot less time. … Continue Reading
Problem: When I bring in my scanned file I get a white box around the image. This is a problem when I place the image on a coloured box. How do I get rid of the box?
First of all we need to scan our item. Now there is two ways that we can do this. The first way will be do the operation in Corel.
Open up Corel and import the scanned item into Corel. For this lesson we use a logo I received from a customer that was having the same problem. See figure 1. … Continue Reading
This is a preprint of a 2002 article I did.
One of the most common uses for doing sublimation is to produce metal plates. Whether they are round, rectangle, black or full colour the technique for doing these is the same. Lets say for this example that we are producing a number of round 2-inch plates. We want to do a multiple in Corel so that we can produce a number of the plates at once. … Continue Reading
| Using Corel PhotoPaints Clone Tool Part 1 By Mike Clarke May 26, 2003, 23:26 |
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Problem: When working with photographs occasionally you are presented with a photograph that is contaminated with finger prints, has ripped edges or creases. Sublimating this image is not a good idea as the final image is only going to look as bad as the original.
Solution: The best way to fix up these imperfections is with the clone tool that is provided in Corel PhotoPaint. … Continue Reading
| Creating a Transparent Image in CorelDraw By Mike Clarke Jun 8, 2003, 19:53 |
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Let us look at how we create this effect. Figure 1 shows us a completed image that has a Transparent image in it. Figure 1 is a picture of a sublimated clip board.
Figure 1
The first thing that we need to do is grab our photograph. Figure 2 shows the photo that we will be working with. … Continue Reading
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