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  • Create Transparent Stylized Buttons using CorelDRAW

    By Steve Bain If you’ve found yourself wishing that you knew how to create those cool, glass-like transparent buttons popular in certain interface designs, your wish is granted. I’m talking about those pill-shaped buttons that appear to be made from colored glass or see-though plastic. In...
    Posted to Graphics Feeds - English (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-29-2008
  • Draw 3 Lighting Details using CorelDRAW

    By Steve Bain In these three mini tutorials, we’ll explore three basic types of transparent highlights you can quickly add to graphic scenes to simulate reflected light: The window reflection, the sunlight glare, and the star highlight. To demonstrate I’m using CorelDRAW 11, but these techniques...
    Posted to Graphics Feeds - English (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-28-2008
  • How to Create a Neon Tubing Type Effect

    By Steve Bain The ability to create objects to appear as if they have been fashioned into Neon tube lighting is a popular technique sought after by many illustrators. In this tutorial, you’ll learn to select the most ideal font for achieving the best results and embellish your type with color lighting...
    Posted to Graphics Feeds - English (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-24-2008
  • Get the Midas Touch: Create a Gold Text Effect

    By Steve Bain Creating the effect of rich, golden type is very similar to the effect used to create metallic-looking illustration effects. What’s often the challenge for new illustrators is the color scheme needed, and the steps for achieving it. In this tutorial, you’ll learn in nine steps...
    Posted to Graphics Feeds - English (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-09-2008
  • Create the Look of Shiney Metal

    By Steve Bain If you’ve ever had the opportunity to browse through the product packaging in an automotive store, you’ve seen first hand the primary uses of metallic-style lettering. Before graduated PostScript fills became the norm in digital illustration, metallic illustration effects like...
    Posted to Graphics Feeds - English (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-03-2008
  • Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X4 Announced

    There is a member of the CorelDRAW family that many users know very little about and today that family member has been updated. Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X4 is available for immediate purchase as a download and a boxed version will be available soon. Corel DESIGNER is built on all of the same engines...
    Posted to Graphics Feeds - English (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-16-2008
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