A gold plaque - using Gary's tutorial?

**tonyGTO** · 23 July 2009, 02:25 PM

I am trying to create a professional looking gold plaque for a charity and did the steps from Gary's tutorial at: http://www.xaraxone.com/webxealot/wo...workbook_2.htm

Another option for this would be a classy looking marble plaque.

I think it came out ok, but I also think I could do better, it could look smoother and more professional I believe.

I have attached the .xar file, and the .gif of what I came up with, if anyone has any ideas, I would surely appreciate it.

BTW, Thanks for the many GREAT tutorials from Gary Priester, I could say that going through and doing Gary's tutorials is what has allowed me to create some decent work (i'm not a graphic artist).

**iamtheblues** · 23 July 2009, 02:54 PM

Select your photo with the relief effect applied and with the Live Effect Tool selected, go to the dpi settings to the right of the edit button up on the info bar. Yours is set to Automatic. Change this to 300 dpi. This should improve things.
Saludos,
Bob.

**iamtheblues** · 23 July 2009, 03:13 PM

When I pulled your file to pieces, there were 2 things I noticed.
The original graphic was very small. I resized it considerably and made a new bitmap copy of that.
Also, the tree and the rest of the graphic had a grey fill and background. I changed the fill to none, and used the Mehdi Eraser Classic in Live Effects to remove the grey around the tree.
You'd get a better effect if you had a clipart or vector version of a similar tree.
Saludos,
Bob.