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High-quality work with contours becomes possible. The outline itself is a line that defines the shape of an object. One of the most useful, convenient and functional Corel tools, which we will talk about in more detail.
How to make an outline of an image in CorelDraw. Setting color, pitch and other options
To create, you need an object that is already open in the editor. Then go to the “Effects” tab, here we need to select “Outline”.
This menu can also be opened using the combination “Ctrl + F9”.
By choosing one of the proposed options, you can determine the location in relation to the object.
Here you can define the step and offset by entering the required values in the appropriate fields. Go to the “Color” section by clicking on the middle icon at the top of the settings window.
Here you can set options for shade and stroke, indicating suitable colors in the drop-down lists. Here the sequence for changing the fill shade can be set; it can be selected by clicking on the icons we need.
To set the transition acceleration option, go to the “Acceleration” menu section. To go to it, click the corresponding button at the top of the settings window.
After all the relevant parameters have been set, all that remains is to use the “Apply” button.
After this the creation is complete. It should also be noted that all parameters can be changed using the commands on the attributes panel.
How to remove a path in CorelDraw
The steps here are quite simple. It will be enough to simply make the corresponding outline colorless, or set the inner fill color for it. We have already looked at how you can edit color. To do this, simply select the required contour, and at the bottom right there is a button that opens its properties. Here you can set the appropriate parameters for decolorization.
How to outline a picture in Corel
In addition to the main Pen tool, stroke tool sets provide users with additional features for work. Particularly noteworthy are the Toolbar, Attributes Panel, and other tools.
As experienced illustrators note, in this regard, the most powerful tracing tool is precisely working with dialog box Outline Pen. Although in many cases the Outline panel is sufficient.
We looked at the basic capabilities of creating, deleting and outlining. Otherwise, Corel offers a number of additional parameters for editing - all that remains is to decide on your priorities and find free time for creative experiments and manifestation of your author's vision of ideal design.
Just recently we celebrated the anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. On the eve of the holiday, I went to one store and then to another. The windows were decorated with festive posters. I don’t know why, but I began to pay attention to these same posters in the windows of various stores. What I saw and what I thought about the designers who created these posters is not difficult to guess from the topic of today's conversation.
Let's imagine that we are designers and we need to make a holiday poster. We will concentrate our attention only on processing the edges of individual objects (more precisely, an object) that we use in our work. Because not all of us can have latest versions Photoshop, which includes new special, improved modules for better processing of the edges of selected (removed from the background) objects, so we will look at methods without using these modules.
So, we create a new canvas in Photoshop and fill it with a gradient to match the St. Andrew’s ribbon:
We place the object we have selected (Order of the Second World War) on the background and see this very background pile:
In order not to spoil the main layer object (the order with the ribbon), you can make a copy and work with it. In the layers palette, grab the order layer and pull it down, placing it in the square of the bottom menu “New Layer”:
Now we have a copy layer. Now make the original layer invisible by clicking the “Eye” icon and go to the copy layer, selecting it with one click:
To be sure that when processing the edges we will not spoil the order layer, we will work with a layer mask. In the bottom menu of the layers palette, click on the layer mask icon. A mask icon has been added to the copy layer icon:
When starting to work with a layer mask, we should pay attention to ensuring that the layer mask icon is selected. Otherwise, we will delete the layer itself if the layer icon is selected:
Working with a layer mask, we work with painting brushes. Brushes have a concept called “Hardness”. At 100% brush hardness, the edges of the order will be clear. If we begin to reduce the hardness of the brush, then the edges of the order, of course already without lint, will be softer, slightly blurred. The less rigidity, i.e. The softer the brush, the more blurred the edge (contour) becomes. If we make a mistake, we can go back by pressing the key combination Ctrl+Alt+Z.
Let's go to the Tools panel and set the Foreground/Background and select the brush. A black square on top of a white one - erase the layer, and a white square on top of a black one - restore the layer. In other words, we move with a brush, erase and move with a brush, restore. We change the planning with semicircular arrows:
Let's select a hard brush and zoom in on our image. Increasing the scale will make our work easier (reduce eye strain) and will allow us to do everything efficiently. Adjust the brush size to your liking:
Let's start removing the white fluff from any place on the contour that is convenient for us. To make the brush work, click the left mouse button and, holding it, move the brush along the contour, removing the bristles. For convenience, we can place the brush in the desired place, click, then press and hold the Shift key, move the brush to another problem area and click again. The lint in the area between the clicks will disappear:
This method is good on straight sections of the contour, but if we take small “steps”, we can easily process not very sharp bends and not very sharp corners, both outside and inside:
We can’t say that we did it perfectly the first time, but compared to what we had, it was very good. We must also take into account the increase, which distorts the object itself - the order. At high magnification, the raster itself becomes the most noticeable. The scale is now 300%. Let's look at the processed areas in normal mode, that is, at 100%:
Looks much better. Since we are talking about high-quality processing, let's press the Ctrl key and, while holding it, click on the layer icon in the layers palette. Our order will become distinguished. By highlighting we can determine how well the edge is processed:
There are a lot of rough edges. Sometimes, one movement to remove extra pixels, even when working with a hard brush, may not be enough. Therefore, it won’t hurt to walk once again. Yes, and the hand may tremble. Of course, this kind of processing will become much easier if we use Graphics tablet. The difference between a mouse and an electronic pen is significant.
In order for the edges and curves to be smooth and the remaining whiteness to disappear, we can go over again, but with a soft brush, slightly increasing its size and reducing its hardness to 15-12%. But we do all this at our own discretion.
Let's now call on some selection tool to help us. Well, for example, this one:
With this tool we can reach deep into the corners and remove the background lint there. First, we draw straight lines on the problem areas of the order outline and close the lines. Thus, a discharge is formed, inside of which the lint appears. We start working with a click. Then we move the mouse in the desired direction, leaving behind a line. To change direction we stop, click and continue again. Well, let's try:
So good. We go higher to the tooth of the star and up to its extreme corner:
We can close our line and double-click, or we may not close it. At the stopping point, double-click and the selection will form by itself:
Now press Delete and see what happens to the pile:
For better visibility of our work, remove the selection by pressing the Ctrl+D key combination:
As we can see, there is no white fluff. Let's zoom out and see what this area looks like in reality:
If, when working with the selection tools, we want soft, slightly blurred edges, then we can set the feathering to 1-2 pixels without unchecking the “Smoothing” checkbox:
You can work with other lasso. The principle of operation is the same. It is in our power to choose the instrument that is more convenient and pleasant, and, in our opinion, more effective. And, in general, the cleaner we remove the object we need from the background, the correspondingly less hassle in removing lint.
Well, now, let’s try the tool for creating an outline and a “Feather” shape. In one mode we can draw (mark) a contour with this tool, in another mode we can draw a figure. The red arrow indicates the shape mode, and the blue arrow indicates the outline mode. Now we need the outline mode (highlighted in blue). Changing modes is done with one click on the desired mode icon:
Well, let's try to remove lint from some part of the order:
We connect the starting and ending points and see the resulting contour:
Let's click right click to call up the action window, in which we select the “Create selected area” item:
A clarifying window about shading will appear. We won't set a value, we'll leave it at zero. Let the edge be more clear:
Click “Ok” and we have a selected area:
Now all that remains is to press Delete and see what happens:
Remove the selection by pressing Ctrl+D:
Very good. I just want to use the Pen tool to select the entire outline of the order, leaving the lint behind the line, and then with one click of a button get rid of it completely. The outline is outlined and a selection is made:
Now we reach for the main menu and select the “Selection” item, and in the functional window that opens, the “Inversion” option.
We now have a selection of the entire canvas:
Now all that remains is to press Delete and see what we got. Let's do this:
The visible white background lint has disappeared. Let's remove the selection and look at the result of our painstaking work:
In general, everything worked out very well for us. There are moments, the arrows point to them, but we can work on them with the tools we talked about.
With a tool like a pen, we can “remove an object” from the background layer. In general, we have just looked at how to do this. The presence of some “non-ideality” is only a matter of time and “a full hand.”
Very often, after removing the background, an object is left with a border several pixels thick in the color of the old background. This fringing becomes especially noticeable when the object is moved into another document window with a background image, or a new non-blank layer is created below the object's layer. Of course, you can remove the border manually using a regular eraser, but this is a very labor-intensive and painstaking job. Let's list several ways to quick removal borders.
Removing a border using group commands Edge processing
If you expand the menu Layer(Layer) | Edge processing(Matting), you will see four teams.
❒ Color cleaning(Color Decontaminate), this command appeared in Photoshop CS5, is applicable to a layer with a mask resulting from background removal using the tool Refine edge(Refine Edge).
Before using the command Color cleaning you need to select the layer with the mask
Result of the command Color cleaning. Parameter value Effect set to 100%
Rice. 1.11. Example of using the command Color cleaning
You need to select the layer and do this command, and then in the dialog box that appears, set the value of the effect to be applied. In the example in Fig. 1.11 the effect size is set to 100%.
❒ Remove border(Defringe) is used to remove a border of any color; in the dialog box, after selecting the command, you should enter the thickness of the border to be deleted; as a rule, a value equal to one and specified by default is sufficient in most cases.
❒ Remove black halo(Remove Black Mate) is used to remove the black border.
❒ Remove white halo(Remove White Mate) is used to remove the white border.
1.2.1. Removing a border by resizing the selection
If no team from the group Edge processing(Matting) didn't work, you can try the following trick:
❒ select an area outside the object using the tool Magic wand
(Magic Wand), if necessary, use the key to add areas
❒ execute the command Selection(Select) | Modification(Modify) | Expand
(Expand) and in the dialog box that appears, set the expansion value;
❒ shade the area by 1-3 pixels, open the window by pressing a key combination
❒ clear the selection area by pressing the key
❒ deselect using a key combination
NOTES
If, as a result of performing the above steps, the border is not completely removed, it means that you have specified an insufficient amount of selection expansion.
Source: Skrylina S.N. Secrets of creating montage and collage in Photoshop CS5 with examples. - St. Petersburg: BHV Petersburg, 2011. - 288 p.: ill. + DVD