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Just my opinion: Corel's Texture Fill feature sucks. The aforementioned distortion is one problem; the fills are square, but scale to the size and aspect ratio of the object in question. The other is that filter is Corel-dependent. It has been several years since I have bothered even using that...

It works when just doing it in Corel and sending out of a desktop consumer printer. Good luck on the professional printing end however.

Evader said he was going to assemble his menu design in CorelDRAW. With that approach, clipping paths will be required to knock out the backgrounds. There's no other way around it. The other methods described are fine -so long as you're keeping the design in Photoshop and not taking the art...

In the case of using Corel to put together the menu, my original suggestion (placing a TIFF image with an embedded clipping path) will be the best approach. Corel doesn't work very well at all using placed bitmap images containing alpha channels. The edges often go raggedy instead of retaining...

If you want well defined edges, then nothing will beat the use of a clipping path to knock out the background. Use the pen tool and manually digitize a path around the area you want to isolate. In the paths palette, select that path and designate it as a clipping path. You'll need to save the...

What kind of paint job are they applying on those trucks? It sure could not be any standard basecoat-clearcoat paint job. It is a fact you absolutely must allow most automotive finishes, especially basecoat-clearcoat, to cure for at least 30 days. I have personally seen what happens when that...

Most of the problems I see in lamination of ink jet prints from solvent based printers is the lamination being applied way too early. If the print isn't allowed to cure for at least 12 to 24 hours its outgassing can break down the laminate. Basically it's the same kind of principal as putting...

Thermal resin printing definitely has its advantages...and disadvantages. Advantages: much longer lasting product. Solid inks retain their color far longer than any method of ink jet printing. A laminated ink jet print receiving any direct sunlight will see its colors fade faster than a thermal...

The reason why What The Font failed is because Font Murder Strikes Again. Some idiot (yes, I do mean idiot) took the typeface Megahertz squeezed the crud out of it. T.26 sells the font. Four faces in the family for $49. http://www.t26.com/fonts/display.php?f_id=115

Photoshop and Illustrator make a very powerful combination. You can copy AICB vector paths into Photoshop's paths palette and use them to make selections and create much more accurate looking artwork. It's also pretty useful if you want to do a quick low res comp of something to get the color...

I think CorelDRAW X3 has a new function that works more like the mask feature in Illustrator.

One alternative is saving the IllustratorCS2 file with PDF compatibility "on." Sometimes Flexi can bring in the artwork successfully using the PDF import filter. Same solution applies for bringing similar files into CorelDRAW. However, you're not really going hurt artwork quality by saving a...

Adobe Photoshop is a must have for anyone calling himself a graphic artist. However, Photoshop is NOT a logo design tool. All logos should have their first, base version made within a vector drawing program (and have a basic one ink/one vinyl color version). You're shooting yourself in the foot...

There may be some instances where someone can get away with distorting type. However, that really depends heavily on the typeface used and how mildly or severely it is distorted. In most cases distortion is indeed font murder. On items like technical height to width factors, throw all that...

There are various "WiFi" b/g print server devices on the market -but are mainly geared to data being sent via LPT or USB. I'm not sure how those same devices can handle RS232 serial type data -which is pretty much what most plotters rely on to this day. I am surprised that the various players...

I'm not sure I understand this comment. Are you saying anyone running a current version of Flexi is likely running a pirated copy? Our shop has three Flexi locks and an EnRoute lock. Pretty expensive. But all legit. I might be willing to look the other way if some home maker is using a cracked...

Lilb93, Are you willing to do your job for free? If so, then you get a pass on using as much pirated software as you like. However, I have not met a single person anywhere that was able to live without a paycheck of some type. Any statement that says we should tolerate software piracy is a...

Depending on the nature of the effect and the end result needed, you'll sometimes have little choice but to draw out some of these kinds of items by hand and vectorize them. Computers are only going to get things like highlight effects, chisels, outlines and drop shadows done using...

I agree with that in general. Make a really high resolution scan from a clean original, do a little clean up work and you'll generally end up with a pretty good traced end result. The problem is most people aren't bringing that kind of artwork to an auto-tracing program or filter. More often...

X3 is here? X-Men 3 doesn't get released 'til May... :tongue: I'll have to see how Corel has improved the Countour function. Their website claims the X3 Contour tool generates up to 80 percent less control points than before. Not sure what that means in a comparison with similar functions in...