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wizer
05-07-2010, 04:39 PM
Hi Guys

I'm trying to design a new sign which incorporates my shop logo. This includes a tree silhouette. I brought it into Designer, it looks ok but I don't think it's going to come out very well. The lines are a bit to thick at the tips of the branches:

http://wizer.co.uk/gallery2/d/9318-2/tree_carve_001.jpg

http://wizer.co.uk/gallery2/d/9322-2/tree_close.jpg

As you can see it all gets a bit crowded here. What can I do to improve this? I have just invested in Centerline, Coreldraw & Allcw's video tutorials. Should I vectorise the tree and bring it in as a font? or something else?

Your help would be appreciated.
AskBud
05-07-2010, 04:42 PM
Hi Guys

I'm trying to design a new sign which incorporates my shop logo. This includes a tree silhouette. I brought it into Designer, it looks ok but I don't think it's going to come out very well. The lines are a bit to thick at the tips of the branches:

http://wizer.co.uk/gallery2/d/9318-2/tree_carve_001.jpg

http://wizer.co.uk/gallery2/d/9322-2/tree_close.jpg

As you can see it all gets a bit crowded here. What can I do to improve this? I have just invested in Centerline, Coreldraw & Allcw's video tutorials. Should I vectorise the tree and bring it in as a font? or something else?

Your help would be appreciated.

If you attach your MPC, it would help us assist you much better.
AskBud
wizer
05-07-2010, 05:48 PM
Oh yes, sorry. Here you go.
Digitalwoodshop
05-07-2010, 06:31 PM
I am very .ptn Challanged... When I did this project I used a paint program to clean the image up slightly.

It's a 1 on a scale of 10.....

:mrgreen: AL
AskBud
05-07-2010, 08:41 PM
Oh yes, sorry. Here you go.

Wizer,
Change you depth to (.100), or less, and see how you like it.
AskBud
wizer
05-08-2010, 10:32 AM
Wizer,
Change you depth to (.100), or less, and see how you like it.
AskBud

Thanks Bud. Lesson learned. It seems I have been 'carving' things way too deep. This is how it looked when put through the machine at .260.

http://wizer.co.uk/gallery2/d/9328-2/DSC_0969.JPG

Not perfect, but then that's the image file to fault. I'm starting to learn CorelDraw, so hopefully I should be able to tweak it a bit soon.:D