- Start CorelDRAW
- Draw a perfect circle by holding down the Ctrl key as you drag. Refer to the
rulers and make the circle 3 inches in diameter.
- Hold the Shift key and drag
one of the corners handles to the center of the circle, right-click before
releasing the mouse button to make a smaller circle
- Now you have 2 circles, marquee select them both and Combine them
(select both and press Ctrl + L) or select Arrange | Combine.
- Press Ctrl + F9 to get Contour Effect Docker.
- Set the following options: Offset = 0.01 - To Center - Outline Color = yellow
Fill Color = black (You should end up with a neon effect).
- With object still selected, copy the object to the Clipboard Ctrl + C
- Done with CorelDRAW (Note: you can achieve the same effects in Photo-Paint,
but I wanted to show you how the 2 applications are integrated together)
- Start Photo-Paint 10, set the paper size to Width of 8 inches, Height of 6 inches
and set the resolution to 92 dpi, white Background
- Choose Edit | Paste | Paste as New Object, Choose Window | Dockers | Objects.
The Object Docker will display the new object above the background (the Circle)
- With the new object selected, Duplicate the circle 2 times by pressing Ctrl + D
(2 more objects are added in Object Docker). The circles will be directly
on top of each other. Separate the circles by dragging them away from each
other until they look like Figure 6.
- Select the circle on the left and choose Image | Adjust | Hue/Saturation/Lightness
(change the hue to blue).
- Select the circle on the right and change its color to red.
Editors Note: At this point my image turned solid gray, even with SP1 installed.
I had another user try it and they got the same result. Folks, it is big fat bug.
To work around it, save the file, close it and reopen. Now you'll find the background
is black and has some garbage in it. Yet another nasty bug that is repeatable. Select
the background in the Objects Docker and then choose Edit | Fill and fill
the background with white.
- Select the yellow circle press Ctrl-M (to create a mask from object)
- Choose Mask | Save | Save As Channel, name it as yellow. The choose
Mask | Remove to remove the mask.
- Now select the blue circle object.
- Select Object | Clip Mask | Create | To Show All
- In the Object Docker you will see a small box is added next to the
objects (blue circle) and a small + sign in between, note that the small box
color is red it means the Clip Mask is active
- Choose Mask | Load | yellow (The mask we created in Step 14)
Note: Step 19 is not necessary, but it is there to make cutting around the
Yellow circle easier.
- Press F5 to select the Paint Tool and set the following parameters - Brush
Type = Custom Art Brush - PaintMode = Normal - Transparency = 0 - Brush Color
must be Black (Black will erase, White will repaint)
- Start painting on the blue circle to reveal the yellow circle. Magic, notice
the small box in the Object Docker updates to reflect the change.
- Now we are going to repeat Step 22 for the red circle
- Now select the red circle
- Mask | Load - then select (which we created in Step 14)
- Go to Object | Clip Mask | Create | To Show All to create another clip mask
on the red circle object.
- Press F5 to select the Paint Tool and set the following parameters - Brush
Type = Custom Art Brush - PaintMode = Normal - Transparency = 0 - Brush Color
must be Black (Black will erase, White will repaint)
Editor's Note: We also found that switching the Paint to white would not
restore the transparency of the Clip Mask as it is supposed to do. This is yet
another bug that survived SP1.
- Start painting on the red circle to reveal the yellow circle. Magic again,
Notice the small box in the Object Docker
- Now you should something that look like this.
- Now you can achieve even more following the same procedures described in
this tutorial, I hope this helps many Photo-Paint users to take advantage of
this cool feature.
- Thanks.
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