September 2013 Tips and Tricks: Drawing a 3D Invitation Card

[Gare]

Without a doubt, the Perspective mode of the Mould tool is fast and accurate.

I wanted to mention imported bitmaps, though, Rik. If you need to perspective them (if that's a true verb!), the Mould tool will introduce harsh, jaggy, aliased re-mapped pixels. In contrast, the Extrude tool appears to be tilting an extruded photo with visibly less aliasing.

-g

[stygg2003]

Here's my effort from the drawing a 3D Invitation Card Rik. Really good micro tut. Rik. Thanks for that, anymore in the pipeline ?

Stygg

oops sorry Rik, uploaded the wrong file, here's the finished one

[Rik]

That's excellent, stygg.

I was just about to post that you may want to look at the tutorial and look at Figures 20 and 21.
But, I see that you've added the shadow effect that the card would cast onto the envelope.

I'm also pleased that you've left both of your images.
Because, it shows how much better things look.

One other thing you might want to do, is to look at the tutorial at Figures 34, 35 and 36. This give the card some 'body'
At the moment, your card looks 1 micron in thickness - unless you were going for that look?!

[stygg2003]

What I'd forgot to do Rik was change the line colour at the top of the card, so now I've got the thickness back

Stygg

[Rik]

That's excellent, Stygg.

All we need now is the address of the hotel.

[A Wrigley]

Excellent work from everyone who has taken part in Rik's tutorial really very good but I've just got one criticism, the cards look a little bit too big to fit in the envelopes but all in all a Brilliant job. Cheers Rik

[Rik]

Excellent work from everyone who has taken part in Rik's tutorial really very good but I've just got one criticism, the cards look a little bit too big to fit in the envelopes but all in all a Brilliant job. Cheers Rik

It would be great, if we could see yours!
So, come on. Do it!

[stygg2003]

Hi Rik,
thought I'd make a couple pf alterations to the image as shown in #34 so I gave the gold rectangle rounded corners at one edge to match the card also added an extra shape to the bottom right corner piece to match also. I think it looks a little better than the first image And it will fit in the envelope by the time I've squashed it about

Stygg

[Rik]

That fits the card much better, Stygg.

The one thing I noticed, is that the spacing at the edges is not the same all the way round.

Mind you, I've been told off before, for noticing stuff like that.
So, just consider it as something I noticed and not something you have to correct.

But, your choice of putting rounded corners was definitely a very good one.

[stygg2003]

Cheers for that Rik, I'm always getting told off for not noticing things like that so I will correct it, keep on noticing Rik as it's the little things that make a difference

Stygg