FADE with Dots/circles in Flexi

[F & W]

Looking to create a fade with dots instead of the gradient. Pictures attached/ need 36" wide x 3.5" on starts full black to smaller dots to make it look white. Any help appreciated. Working in Flexi

 

[equippaint]

Search how to halftone, not sure about Flexi but there's a bunch of online tutorials

 

[F & W]

Search how to halftone, not sure about Flexi but there's a bunch of online tutorials

I've done that, everything wants me to create it as a bitmap, and I need it to be vector. That's why I'm asking here.

 

[rydods]

Try Vectorstock or shutterstock. Do a search for haftone gradient or something similar. I'm sure you can find something useful to use that's vector.

 

[unclebun]

You can do it in Corel Draw. It has a tool for it.

 

[F & W]

You can do it in Corel Draw. It has a tool for it.

Can you walk me through how to do it in Corel? What tool? Will it allow me to keep it a vector or do I have to create a bitmap?

 

[unclebun]

It's called the Pointillizer tool. This tutorial explains it, amongst a bunch of other effects. https://learn.corel.com/tutorials/coreldraw-advanced-transparency-effects/

 

[bannertime]

It's called the Pointillizer tool. This tutorial explains it, amongst a bunch of other effects. https://learn.corel.com/tutorials/coreldraw-advanced-transparency-effects/

That tool looks pretty cool. I'll admit that Corel has some pretty cool tools. However, I'm far to slow in it to try and use it in a production environment though. The interface and handling felt like I was using Photoshop 6. In Illustrator this tool is the color Halftone and it makes it a bitmap that can be "editied," but is not vector unless you rasterize it and trace it. Which does not always produce pretty circles.

Flexi does not have a way to do this. You can get somewhat close with a few applications of the "Stripe" tool, but it doesn't do the job.

 

[asd]

its easy in illustrator, create a box with a gradient color, go to effects>pixelate>color halftone and adjust settings to your liking

 

[unclebun]

The tool is simple in Corel Draw. The video may have confused you because its subject was ways to use transparency, and pointillizer was only incidental. To make your dot gradient, you just create an object, fill it with a fountain fill that goes from color to transparent. Then use the pointillizer tool. You can choose the shape of the dots, their angle, their size, and their density. You choose size modulation by luminosity if you want all the dots to be the same color. Then apply. It creates a dot gradient of vector dots, which you can then move around, color, size, stretch or alter as you wish.

 

[mfatty500]

Could you not make it with blend tool in corel draw?

 

[Evan Gillette]

Have you tried using the blend tool in flexi? Also if you have a flexi subscription, log into SAi design elements and look for one in the vector library.

 

[Evan Gillette]

Actually pretty easy in flexi, need to play around a little to get perfect but here is what I did, example attached.
1. Draw small object
2. Draw large object
3. Effects, Blend, enter steps, check mark
4. Adjust spacing if desired using arrange, spacing (or "J" shortcut), I skipped this step
5. Step and repeat to make as many rows as desired

Hope this helps. Is this for a CASE IH implement?