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The advantage is that in Putty mode, you can delete envelope nodes; the disadvantage is that all the segments that join the nodes are curves, and you want straight envelope segments for

6. By default, the envelope is in Putty mode, which presents both an advantage and a disadvantage The advantage is that in Putty mode, you can delete envelope nodes; the disadvantage is that all the segments that join the nodes are curves, and you want straight envelope segments for this text No problem: with the cursor, marquee-select the 3 and the 9 o’clock nodes Then either click to remove them by clicking the Delete Nodes button on the property bar, or press – (minus) on the keyboard keypad

7. Marquee-select all the remaining nodes, and then click the Convert To Line icon on the property bar Then click inside the envelope to deselect the nodes See Figure 5-7

8. Click the top center envelope node, and then holdCTRL(to constrain movement to the first direction in which you drag) and drag upwards to make a peak in the center

of the text

9. Click the bottom center envelope node, holdCTRL, and then drag down until the bottom of the text overlaps the gears just a little, as shown in Figure 5-8

You can also nudge envelope nodes by selecting one or more of them, and then pressing the keyboard arrow keys This technique can provide precise editing of the envelope shape.

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FIGURE 5-7 Make an envelope with custom properties from the default envelope

Select and then remove middle side Envelope nodes.

Convert To Lines

Applying the Conical Fountain Fill

Fountain fills, when used appropriately, can give a feeling of motion to static objects, and

occasionally can soften the look of large objects without stealing from their visual importance

The DYSON GEARS is a tad overpowering as is, so a Conical fountain fill type will serve

two purposes: to play down its massive presence just a little, and to make the text look a

little metallic Also, the headline should go behind the gears design; it will still be legible,

and the slight overlap helps visually integrate the two groups of shapes

Follow these steps to finish the headline work

Applying a Custom Fountain Fill

1. Select the enveloped text with the Pick tool, and then pressSHIFT+PAGE DOWNto

send it to the back of the illustration Vector objects have a page order; the

last-created object is drawn on the top of the stack

2. Choose the Interactive Fill tool from the toolbox

3. Choose Conical from the Fill Type drop-down list on the property bar The text

changes color and the color wells for the Conical fill type appear above the text

4. Drag the white color handle to 6 o’clock relative to the text to set the To position for

the fill, and then with the color handle selected, click the 10% black color well on

the Color Palette Cool, eh? See Figure 5-9

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FIGURE 5-8 Create a dynamic headline for the T-shirt design by suggesting that the

perspective of the text is coming at the audience from the center

Adding and Aligning Text

Congratulations! The hard work is behind you now—and it wasn’t really all that hard now, was it? Next stop is adding the URL for Dyson Gears, performing a little alignment work, and then on to setting up the design for printing

Adding a Visually Compatible Subhead

1. VAG Rounded is a beautiful, fairly serious typeface, and an ideal complement to the no-nonsense design of this logo It’s on the CorelDRAW Fonts installation CD, and its filename is tt0756m_.ttf Install it now if you want to use it in the following steps

2. With the Text tool, click an insertion point to the left and below the gears Type

www.dysongears.com.

3. Choose the Pick tool, and then with the text selected, choose VAG Rounded BT

from the Font list, insert your cursor into the Point Size field, and then type 36 Half

an inch is a good size for the design when printed to a T-shirt

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FIGURE 5-9 Add some flair to the text while also reducing its visual importance with a

fountain fill

4. Marquee-select the envelope headline text and the gears PressCTRL+Gto group

these two groups of objects

5. PressCTRL+Ato select all

6. Choose Arrange | Align and Distribute | Align and Distribute to make it easiest to

see and execute the controls for aligning objects

7. Click the Center check box, as shown in Figure 5-10, and then click Apply You can

close the Align And Distribute box now If you needed to do some heavy-duty,

multiple aligning work in a design, you’d keep this box open and convenient for

future use

Align, Group, Scale, Flip, and Print

You’re already familiar with most of the techniques covered in the upcoming tutorial that

shows how to do one or two minor things to the finished logo to make it printworthy Yes,

you’re coming in to home base and concluding the X5 Test Drive, but let’s make this

assignment a top-to-bottom, complete excursion Follow these steps to brush up the logo

design a little, and to set it up for output to an inkjet printer

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FIGURE 5-10 Use Align And Distribute to perfectly center multiple design elements

Getting Your Logo Design into the Real World

1. Select all (CTRL+A) and then pressCTRL+Gto group all the selected shapes

2. Let’s get your money’s worth out of the print by making the logo that 7 inches maximum that was agreed upon at the beginning of the chapter (okay, you might not

have actually agreed, but play along here) With the group selected, type 7 in the

horizontal width field on the property bar, make sure the Lock Ratio (little lock) icon

is depressed, and then pressENTER Then pressPto center the design relative to the page

3. T-shirt transfers need to be printed as the reverse of the imprint; that is, the text needs to be mirrored so that when the inkjet page is ironed onto the shirt, it reverses back again to legibility Click the Mirror Horizontally button on the property bar, which is easy enough to undo later if your logo is needed for a promotion other than T-shirts See the illustration next

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4. Put a piece of regular paper in the inkjet printer, and print a copy of the design.

PressCTRL+P, choose the correct printer, and then click Print This is a “proof of concept” print; T-shirt transfers cost about a dollar each, while plain paper costs significantly less, cheaper still if you print on the backside of a page that has already been printed with something expendable If everything seems to be satisfactory with the test print, do it for real with the T-shirt transfer paper

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With the exception of that all-night pizzeria around the corner, all good things must

come to an end You’ve passed the test drive You’re home safe and didn’t dent a fender, and

the best part is, you get to pocket the keys You’re going to need them when you take this

high-performance Model X5 out on your own and take the bends and curves in the chapters

to come!

The Test Drive Cross-Reference

You haven’t really broken in all the features and tools covered in this chapter, so here are the

signposts to learn more about the editing and transforming you performed in this chapter:

● Aligning and Distributing Objects: Chapter 9

● Extruding Objects: Chapter 19

● Guidelines and Rulers: Chapter 7

● The Envelope Tool: Chapter 20

● Working with Text: Chapters 12 and 13

● Filling Objects: Chapter 15

See Chapter 3 for the basics on the Color Palette, and for saving and opening documents

But you probably already know that stuff

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