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Anyone know how to do a feathered effect on a background?  I've attached a photo of the effect I'm after.  It's the brownish area above the Woody.  I've tried using the transparency tool and the fountain fill tool, but I haven't gotten the results I'm after.

 

Thanks,

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Permalink Reply by Dennis Dunning on September 26, 2010 at 7:51am
The brownish area looks like the effect that can be produced with a drop shadow. I will treat the brownish area as an oval for the purpose of this discussion; in reality you could make it any shape you want. Create the oval with the elipse tool and select uniform fill. Next, select the Drop Shadow tool and create a drop shadow above and to the right of your oval. Now you have an oval, which you no longer need, and the drop shadow, which you want to keep. So, click on Arrange and Break Drop Shadow Group Apart. You can then select the oval and delete it, leaving you with the drop shadow. You can change the intensity of the drop shadow with the slider tool (at least you can in CorelDRAW X5).
Permalink Reply by Kevin Hirata on September 27, 2010 at 10:39am
Hi Dennis,

Thanks for the tip. I was able to get the effect I was after following your instructions, the only problem I'm having though is getting the shadow to print. When I do a test print using my deskjet printer, nothing prints out.

Another problem I'm having is if I want the drop shadow to appear in front of a black box. The shadow does not show up. What I mean by this is after breaking the drop shadow group apart, I select the oval and delete it. I'm not left with only the shadow. I then select the rectangle tool and draw a box around the shadow. I fill the box with a color, say red. I then move the red box to the back of the page. I only see the red box, no drop shadow. Any idea on what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,
Permalink Reply by Dennis Dunning on September 27, 2010 at 11:19am
I will offer two observations. If you place the drop shadow over a black box, the black box will look like it is in front not behind the shadow, if the shadow was created with a black fill. You can change the shadow color to something else, like green, as I did in the attached. In the attached, I created the box and then dragged the oval over it. Is it possible that your box layer is on top of your shadow? I couldn't tell from the screen shot you sent because layer 1 was not expanded.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Hirata on September 27, 2010 at 11:43am
Hmmm, for some reason I'm not getting those results. The attached pdf shows the black box at the back of the page. As you can see, the word "Corel" is on top of the box, but the DS is not. Even when I try to move the DS to the top of the page nothing happens. It's like its locked in as a backgound.
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Permalink Reply by Dennis Dunning on September 27, 2010 at 11:53am
I replicated what you posted and the drop shadow is not visible on black. In your iniital post, it appeared that you wanted to use the drop shadow behind a woody, which should still work. If you need to do something over black, I'm at a loss.
Permalink Reply by Kevin Hirata on September 27, 2010 at 12:09pm
Dennis.

Yeah, the Woody design was just to show the feathering effect I was after.

Thanks for your help.
Permalink Reply by CYW on September 26, 2010 at 7:12pm
Kevin, I wonder if adding a Gaussian blur to your oval would work.
I don't have the exact art, but you can get the idea.

[IMG]http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr20/cwy61/GBVC.jpg[/IMG]
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Hirata on September 27, 2010 at 10:47am
Thanks CYW,

I apologize as I don't know Photo Paint all that well. After I apply the Gaussian blur, I'm left with something that looks like the attached. How do I get rid of the box?
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Hirata on September 27, 2010 at 10:52am
Let's try this again.
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Permalink Reply by CYW on September 26, 2010 at 7:16pm

Permalink Reply by CYW on September 26, 2010 at 7:17pm
Sorry guys, I'm experimenting with how this particular forum adds images.
Permalink Reply by Ken Wagner on September 27, 2010 at 9:23am
I'd probably do this in Photoshop. It is a raster based program and handles shadows and gradients much better than Illustrator. I can't speak for Corel since we do not use this program.

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