Corel Question

[George M. Perzel]

Hi Guys;
Thanks for all the info and advice. The barbed wire example is exactly what I am trying to do-unfortunately I can't seem to get past the step where he turns the envelope tool off and then on again. Does the object have to be a bitmap (tried that) or can it also be a vector segment? I can't get it to bend in the curve as his example does. Will keep fooling around with it-probably one of those simple things ...............
Best Regards,
George
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[Joe Hillmann]

I can't give you any advice on how he got the barbed wire to fallow the circle, I have never tried it I just remembered when watching the video that I thought it may be useful some day.

[George M. Perzel]

Hi Bruce;
I have been fooling around with your method but am missing something. I place the art on the diameter of the circlr-the center of the art is on the center of the circle-not sure after that.............
Thanks
Best Regards,
George
Laserarts

[Cara Huber]

Check out the blend tool, that might help to achieve what you're after. It takes a bit of experimentation and you may have to use various tools/dockers (like rotate and skew) in conjunction with blend but it's worth a shot.

[Mike Null]

George

I referred to the brush tool when the name is artistic media. I did see a couple of tutorials that might lead you into something.

[Bruce Clumpner]

Hi Bruce;
I have been fooling around with your method but am missing something. I place the art on the diameter of the circle-the center of the art is on the center of the circle-not sure after that.............
Thanks

Sorry George, was off-line most of today...

Here's the final bit (I think I told you wrong). I meant to say that you need to rotate the object not just move. So get the rotation handles back, and drag those handles to rotate the object to the correct position and then right click to drop a duplicate in that spot. Once the dupe is in place you can still rotate it to get a better fit or if it's correct the first time, then just repeat the action using Control-R to get more objects dropped around the circle..

Hope this explanation is a bit better...

[Scott Shepherd]

It's very easy to do. Mike's got it right. Make your own artistic brush stroke.

[Mike Null]

Steve

Thanks for posting that link. For those who are unfamiliar with Jeff Harrison, he's a Corel guru and has a mailing list to which I subscribe. Everyday he sends out some kind of tip.

[George M. Perzel]

Thanks all for your help-still can't figure out the envelope method but the Artistic media function works great-thanks for the link, Scott
Best Regards,
George
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