Issue with blend tool in Corel

[mghatiya]

Hi,

I was trying to create a rotation effect using blend tool in corel. But it is not working as expected.
What's happening is shown in the image here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7682801@N08/843172653/

Please let me know how can I get the rotating effect. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks
Mukesh

[mghatiya]

Somebody please help :(
Please let me know if anybody requires more clarification.

[Logo-Mechanix]

I don't know why you would use the blend tool for the effect that you posted the link to. I would just copy and paste for that, maybe more clarification is needed I know ther are people on here more knowledgable than me in Corel *Ahem* Broacher where are you!

[CkretAjint]

Looks rotated to me. How is it NOT working? ???

[amadeupword]

you could try this..

Take the object you want to blend and duplicate it (ctrl+d)
and make the new one considerably smaller. Then drag the
blend tool from the larger to the smaller image and change the
steps to around 6 (located at top of screen, marked by a little
staircase) should look like this... (below)

Then duplicate everything and Horz. mirror

[Craig B]

Are you saying you want something like this?

http://i9.tinypic.com/627suag.gif

I don't know Corel at all, but in Illustrator there's a "Transform Each" feature that you can set how to transform at item (move, rotate, scale, etc.) then copy it to step and repeat it.

Is there a similar function in Corel Draw?

[mghatiya]

Thanks guys, for replying.
Firstly let me tell you that I am kind of newbie in graphics world. So I ask stupid questions for my stupid experiments, so please correct me wherever you think I could be wrong.

@Logo-Mechanics,
I wanted to create an effect where I can show that the wheel is moving and wanted to give some motion-blur kind of effect to it, to show its moving fast. I can do it with copy-paste (and that's what I have done as of now), but I thought it would be better to do with blend where I can experiment with differnt colours and number of steps, accelration etc.
What I have done right now can be seen at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7682801@N08/854342222

This I did using copy-paste and then applying transparency tool to each object.

@CkretAjint,
The end object is rotated with respect to the first one. And that is because I myself put first and last object. But the objects in between them are not rotating. I was expecting the blend tool to create intermediary objects which will be rotated at differnt angles, but instead, the intermediary objects are shrinking and expanding in size.

In nutshell, I don't want the blend to happen on size, but on rotation. How to do that?

Please let me know if there is any better way of achieving the desired result. I just tried whatever I could think of from my learning.

Thanks again.
Mukesh

[CkretAjint]

I don't think you understand what the 'blend' tool does, It just blends to shapes together with a gradient like color/pattern...

No blend:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1298/854578528_a5f83b2358.jpg

Blend shapes with outline:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1308/854578406_02bd452621.jpg

Blend complete:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1312/854578398_9606908073.jpg


** This is in Illustrator, but I beleive it is the same concept.

[Two-Toe Tom]

are you thinking of a radial motion blur? you can do one of those in a raster-based program like photoshop. for a vector program, maybe try having several slightly rotated shapes with the further ones getting lighter and lighter, might give you the effect you want.

[Kool]

It's been years since I used CD but as I remember the blend tool in it takes shape A and shape B and creates how ever many intermediate shapes between the two.

Edit: Here's an example. Don't know why it cut off the top of the first rectangle.

[Broacher]

That Flickr link didn't work for me, but I think from your description I know what you're after. Start with a big circle and a small circle, right? And you want the small circle to move along the inside of the big one? Am I close?

With object snap on, dbl clk the small circle and drag the rotation point (the centre '+' sign) so that it snaps to a side node. You need to do this to rotate the small circle on the inside of the larger circle, otherwise it's center will just roll along the edge when you make the group. Okay, drag numpad + the little circle to get a copy made. With both small circles selected, and the group palette up fully expanded, click on the attach to path button (lower right)/new path and click on the big circle. The blend group will move inside the big circle. Then just play around with the other options, yada yada... whatever.

[Botchup]

You need to use the rest of the link in the URL Broacher. (ie. copy and paste the line)

Hopefully the OP got the advice he wanted? I've read it a few times, and still not sure of the effect he was trying to achieve. Methinks it's time for another coffee!

[mghatiya]

Hi Botchup,

Craig got what I was looking for (Refer to image in his post). Not that I couldn't do that by manual copy-paste, but I was trying how to do it using blend tool of corel, for the reasons I mentioned earlier.

When I tried blend tool I got what I showed in that image.

Thanks all for looking into it.

Mukesh

[mghatiya]

Hi All,

I have another issue. Since this is also related to blend, I am not starting a new thread. Please let me know if I need to do so.

This time I need to use blend tool to have copies of an object on a curve. This object is a group of differently colored curves.

When I apply blend tool, the intermediary objects are changing its colors. I don't want them to change colors. I just want them to come on a curve.
Please refer to image on following link to see what's happening.
http://s93.photobucket.com/albums/l59/mghatiya/?action=view&current=blend-doubt.jpg

I thought blend tool would be ideal for this. Please let me know if something else is more suitable.

Thanks,
Mukesh