| CorelDRAW 9 Crystal Text Tutorial
Crystal. Wow! As with most things I've done in CorelDRAW
9 this Crystal look is extremely easy to achieve. In less than 1/2 hour
you can apply this effect to any text you want. Due to the nature of this
effect I added a background so it would show up better.
Draw a rectangle large enough to hold your text and fill
it with a color that will contrast the effect.
Using the text tool, type the text you want. Wide fonts work best with
this effect.
With the text still selected click on the Interactive Fill
Tool. Your image should now be similar to the one below.
Here comes the tricky part. I used a medium gray and white
to create my linear fill. From the color palette on the right of the CorelDRAW
9 interface drag white to the linear fill line and drop it. Again, from
the color palette drag a medium gray to the linear fill line just to the
right of the white you dropped earlier and drop it. Continue dragging
and dropping alternately the white and the gray until you fill up the
line as shown below.
This next step has nothing to do with the text but I thought
it made for a more interesting background. Select the rectangle and using
the Contour Tool, drag from the top right corner towards the center of
the rectangle. You should now have something similar to the image below.
Deselect the rectangle and select the text. Again select
the Contour Tool and drag it from the left side to the right until the
Contour line stops expanding (somewhere in the middle) as shown in the
image below.
With the text still selected add a drop shadow. Use any
color you like. I chose a maroon color. Your image should be similar to
the image below.
Export the image. After exporting the image I opened it
in another image editing package and using the Star filter from Plugin
Galaxy I added the highlights to end up with the image below.
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