Max I don't know how I missed it before, but, I think your recent piano keyboard drop cap s great. Thanks for persisting.
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Max I don't know how I missed it before, but, I think your recent piano keyboard drop cap s great. Thanks for persisting.
Hi Larry, I've tried to follow your advices
this is the result
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Much better Max. It does resemble a grand piano and the keys are much more visible now and I like it, how about you. I really really liked your post 43, did you decide against that one.
The font is Gothic Leaf, which in its basic form is just a black rectangle with the L shape and decoration cut away from it.
So I regarded this as a stencil, and placed a few brush strokes using Xara's Petal Brush and converted the lines to shapes.
This allowed me to add an outline to the former brush. I experimented with various coloured rectangles and contones until
I found something I was happy with, it puts me in mind of a stained glass effect. Unfortunately I wasn't taking notes as I
was making this, so it's unlikely that I could replicate it. :confused:
Bob.
A variation of the above using a different contone and a bitmap texture from Filter Forge.
Bob.
Very attractive Bob. I have never tried the petal brush, but I'll have to look into it. Thanks. Isn't it amazing how we all have different ways of making a Drop Cap? Like the scribble it's simply amazing.
And, we all learn from these, and, that's why I consider the challenges such an important forum. I think this one is going into my collection of Drop Caps.
Glad to see I am not the only one using Filter Forge on these things. While I like this one, my personal taste says that the orange and the green are just too close in value.
EDIT AGAIN: I love the darker green used on this one.
Thanks for your comments, Larry. I agree about post #55, which I why I posted the variation.
This new one is a mixture of vector (inner contour for the shiny gold effect and the frame), and raster for the outer glow, grunge, black background and the bevel.
The font is a great slab serif - Black Oak.
I was wondering if this design might be a bit over-the-top.:eek:
Bob.