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fading dot design
Hi everyone,
got a bit of a rush job on – the customer wants a dot image stuck to a window to hide a stain, and the dots need to cover up most of the glass at the bottom and gradualy open up near the top, fading away.
it seemed pretty straight forward when I sold him the idea, but now we’re trying to make up a vectored artwork of dots that fade out it’s proving to be harder to make the design than we thought
the design is pretty flexable and so far we’ve tried starting off with 20mm dots and decreasing the size down to 6mm while opening up the gaps
this works to a point but when the design is done it looks a bit too linier and doesn’t seem to flow enough
were trying to cover an area of 1800mm x 1200mm if any one has an ideas please, as we need to cut this job on Monday !
thanks
Neil
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Hi Neil
what about stripes starting thick and getting thinner
or
triangles starting wide at the bottom (even overlapping to make solid) and getting thinner at the top. you could even start getting more creative and add waved or patterns to it.
just thoughts off the top of my head 😕
cheers
Warren
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Good ideas Warren, but it’s a modern office and the customers likes the idea of the fading out circles
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We’ve done a fair amount of these. I can’t describe the process we use as I’m terrible at explaining things but the basic idea is to stagger a line of dots in between what you already have.
For example, you start off with a 10mm dot and repeat it across over 2000mm where it gradually diminishes down to say 2mm so you have a single line of dots gradually getting smaller. Now repeat this line next to itself with say…no gap. Shuffle the entire new line across so the it’s a little infront of the other and simply repeat the 2 lines. I know I’m terrible at explaining this!
I hope this attachment makes sense! 🙂
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Its a dot dither, I needed one before and the guys here helped me out.
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here is a tutorial on creating this sort of thing.
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just read post properly…here you go…Cheers
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This may not be suitable for this job but is a good way to get dots printed with a non postscript device
In Corel draw a rectangle the size required and fountain fill.
Select the ‘Device independent postscript file’ printer option.
In the post script tab change your screen frequency to a low number
Download Ghostscript if not already on system and install
From Ghostscript open ps file and printAlan D
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Just want to thank all you guys that put yourself out to help us, especially taking the time to make up the dot grid at the right size – cheers
Also, just want to say that all the peeps who use this forum and contribute in a positive way, make it a great resource to us humble sign makers, and it’s good to know that there’s still some decent folks around in these troubled times.
Hope I’ll be able to return the favour one day 🙂
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Try using the blend tool in Corel. Large circle at bottom, smallest at the top. Highlight both, click on blend tool and choose how many steps you want it to create. Enter, and you get a line of ever decreasing circles. Duplicate across the page to the width you want. Or stagger them as Peter as done.
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Hi Earl,
Took you advice and re-drew it in Corel and it looks perfect!
Never ceases to amaze me how many features there are in Corel, just
wish I had them time to play around and learn them all.thanks again for everyone’s help
Neil
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ot, do a search for ‘vector half tone pattern’ on google. There are lots of free vector sites out there now.
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