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flexisign effect
I was over to a car wrap guys place and he had a graphic I sent him opened in flexisign. We were putting a border around some letters and numbers. Once we had that he then dragged the lower right corner of the border down and to the left a bit to look like an elongated shadow but I don't believe it distorted the rest of the border on the other sides. Is this an effect I can recreate in Corel Draw?
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Permalink Reply by Steven Jackson - Admin on -
is this what you were looking for?
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Permalink Reply by CYW on -
I didn't look at Steve's video but I'm sure it's the same
Duplicate your contour
Send it to the back and nudge it down & over a few clicks
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Permalink Reply by John on -
I will have to compare this way to the video and see if there is a difference. I think the way in the video gives you straight lines to the end as opposed to some contour areas.
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Permalink Reply by CYW on
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Well sure they'll be a difference
You didn't say what kind of drop shadow you wanted
If you want perspective (depth) then use the Extrude option
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Permalink Reply by John on
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Thought that would work but I didn't follow the video all the way through before posting. After breaking apart when trying to weld it goes all over the place.
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Permalink Reply by CYW on
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John a picture is worth 1,000 words
There's all kinds of ways to make a drop shadow effect in Corel
If you show us what you want, it will be a lot easier for us to give you specific
directions
Lady Di
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Permalink Reply by John on
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That's weird Di. I went back and welded and I did not get the nodes going all over the place as I originally did. I do however have an excessive amount of nodes around the perimeter now. See the two pics. The top one shows what I have achieved which is what I am looking for. The bottom one is wireframe and shows the excessive amount of nodes. Corel is already at zero when trying to reduce the number of nodes. Anyone know if this will cause the cutter to cut jagged lines?
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Permalink Reply by CYW on
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A few things to try:
[1] Instead of marquee selecting all the nodes, you can try to select smaller sections
This trick used to work very well for older versions, not so much any more
[2] You can also gently use the slider under the reduce nodes icon
Gently....because if you slide it too much, your lines will get distorted
[3] Another thing to try, is to marquee select all the nodes and change their attritbute to curved nodes.
Then try the reduce node button again, you'll probably get a nice additional reduction in node count
Di
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Permalink Reply by John on
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I ended up taking the contour, making a copy and moving it down and to the right some followed by welding the two contours together. Then I went over the areas where you could really tell there were two copies together and removed some of the nodes. Here is the final product on the vehicle.
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