General tips and techiques used in various sign/graphic design software. Corel, Flexi etc.
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by Muts » Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:01 am
Short Tutorial
Making true shadows in FlexiSIGN Pro 7.6, well almost.

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by steveo922 » Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:03 pm
Hello,
Thanks again for the tutorial! I haven't used flexi in quite some time and I just revisited it recently but totally forgot how to do something. I got the shadow part working and everything but I cant get rid of the white box that follows.
The first one is with white background, and no problem
The second one is the same thing but with a red background and as you can see the box I made for rasterizing it shows up and I can't get it to go away.
Thanks for any help!!!
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by Muts » Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:17 am
you can try clicking transparent......it will look awful though, what you really have to do is before rasterizing put a box around what you be creating the shadow from same color as the background - Let me know if you any more help.
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by Muts » Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:29 am
something like this, just do not expect stellar results...it's flexi.

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by steveo922 » Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:34 pm
hmmm. Its basically the same step as using like an adobe filter, no? Cause I know when I used to use adobe filter the procedure was almost the same as the shadowing part and that didn't leave the box around it.
http://printingdigital.net/forums/how-a ... isign.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Can you somehow combine what you do with the shadows with something like this ^?
Thanks man!
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by Muts » Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:35 pm
Its basically the same step as using like an adobe filter, no?
yes...
I am certain adobe plugins will work, atleast some do...but flexi's bitmap editing leaves alot
to be desired....and if you have photoshop you're then better off doing it in there and then importing into flexi for printing...

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by steveo922 » Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:00 pm
Actually I do have a lot of the adobe filters, and almost all of them have come out with great success. The reason I like flexi so much is b/c to me its a million times easier than adobe. I just wish I could remember how to get rid of that box if I want a colored background. I almost am certain I've done it in the past, but I haven't used flexi in probably a year and completely forgot.
But thanks tho!
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by Muts » Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:40 pm
GET THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS - COREL

as easy as flexi, as powerful as any adobe application.