Patterns abound in both nature and architecture, and therefore it’s important that you know how to create— and occasionally recreate — patterns as replacement areas for images, for background on Web pages, and even for Fine Art. Digital media has redefined the term “pattern” to include natural textures, exotic surfaces, basically any object that has a fill can look more handsome and lifelike with a little mottling and detail work; in essence, a pattern. Read on to learn the procedures in Photoshop for creating patterns that are both realistic and fanciful, with obvious repeats of geometry and carefully disguised repeating tiles. I’ll show you how to create, save, and apply custom textures, that can help you realize the patterns of your dreams. |
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Cartoons are an American icon; no artistic medium of expression has captured the past two centuries of life in the United States with as much poignance, elegant simplicity, or charm as the hand-rendered cartoon. The cartoon is perhaps one of the most difficult styles of drawing because an economy of line is required to express an idea; when a cartoon becomes too elaborate in its definition, it ceases to be a cartoon.
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CorelDRAW X4: The Official Guide
Creating Your Own Font
At some point in your work as a designer, you’ll have the need for a special font—something you can’t locate online, something that perfectly complements a drawing—perhaps a typeface that contains a logo that you want to distribute to employees for letterhead stationery.
You can design the characters of your dream font right in CorelDRAW and export your work as a typeface that you and others can use. In this chapter you’ll learn how to set up a page layout specifically Buy The Book Now! for creating fonts, design a simple but interesting typeface, discover some of the secrets to professional font-making, and construct a typeface template you can reuse later. Because a digital typeface’s characters actually are simple drawings, this chapter also makes it easy to make a logo font for business. |
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Understanding digital color can be more complicated than your favorite box of colors! First, there's no sharpener in the back of your monitor...read on to gain the wisdom to grasp and leverage the power of digital color.