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5 Tutorial Five: Creating withMesh Tool in CorelDRAW

8 Tutorial Six: Kerning inCorelDRAW

13 Review from our CDU Library

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16 Tutorial Seven: Power Clippingin CorelDRAW

17 Tutorial Eight: Christmas CardIdeas

18 Correct Files for Printing

22 CDR Keyboard Shortcuts

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Back Again! Did you miss me? Hope you all hade a nice break. OMG- Its 2010 andFebruary already. Does time really go faster when one gets older? I wish Einsteinwas still about so I could ask him, as it certainly seems to.

Call To Arms. This year is going to be a critical one in many ways for Corel Down Under. As our membershipnumbers drop and our bank balance declines we are finding ourselves in a very defensive position in which weneed to monitor our outlays very carefully. The CDU committee is considering a number of measures that willreduce our costs and keep us afloat for the time being but the critical issue is membership. We need to increase ourmembership base and we need to do this NOW. If we don’t, it is unlikely the group will be around in another 3-4years time. If you like this group and the service and camaraderie it provides, then please help by bringing alongfriends, colleagues, family, business mates - anyone you think may benefit from CDU services. Remind them thatwithout CDU they will not have anyone nearby to turn to in their hour of need. This is now our hour of need andwe need the Corel community to support us so we in turn can support them.

Product Updates. Corel will be releasing several new and updated products in 2010. In February Corel releasednew versions of Paint Shop Pro and Video Studio (both versions dubbed X3). I have read and heard many goodthings about these updates, so pop onto the Corel web site and download a trial to see for yourself. We will bedoing a partial review of PSP X3 at our February meeting and I expect that a review of the new Video Studio willhappening in the coming months. Also, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 has been undergoing beta testing sinceSpring 2009 (Southern Hemisphere) and should be due for release sometime in the first quarter of 2010. As amember of the CDGS Advisory Council and a beta tester of this new suite, I can tell you that it will have manynew and exciting features that will make it a very worthwhile upgrade. We will review it at a meeting soon after itis released.

Meeting Speakers. We really need to broaden the topics and speakers at our meetings. In 2009 I personallypresented at many meetings and we also had the benefit of many of the hard-working CDU committee peoplegiving presentations. However committee members also undertake a great deal of other group-critical tasks andtheir time is not unlimited, nor do they receive any additional benefit for all their hard work. If you are anordinary member, please consider that our group is a self-help, not-for-profit entity that relies on everyone withinthe group to actively participate. I believe that we all have important experiences and methodologies we can sharewith other members of the group, so please don’t be shy - come and offer your time for a presentation at ourmeetings - we won’t bite you! Promise!

Lastly, we will be moving. Soon! Melbourne PC UG will be moving out of their current premises before June2010. They have purchased a new building in Warragul Road further south than their current location. At presentwe can’t visit their new building as they are still renovating it. So we can’t yet make any decision on whether wewill be moving with them to their new venue or to another venue. The CDU committee is investigatingalternative meeting venues at Nunawading and Ringwood, both of which appear promising at this stage and shouldalso suit the majority of our members, as many live close to this area. We will keep you informed as soon as weknow more and will look for your feedback before any decision is made.

Cheers All. Happy New 2010 and Year of the Tiger.

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The Promise

Corel have announced several improvements and new

feature in version X3 of my favourite graphics program:

Workflow

Enhanced speed and performance

Enhanced Photo Organizer

RAW Lab, image quality and control

Easy batch processing

Enhanced Express Lab

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Smart carver

Object extractor

Vibrancy

Text editing on image

HD video slideshows

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Sharing

Share directly on Flickr®, Facebook® and•

YouTube™

Project creator•

Fig 1: The Organiser


Figure 2: The Express lab.

The Experience

1) Enhanced speed and performance

Maybe PSP X3 is faster if you have the right hardware.The stated requirements are 1 GB RAM with 2 GBrecommended, and a 2.5 GHz CPU. My PC has 1 GBRAM and a single core 3.75 GHz processor runningWindows XP. On my hardware, the program is reallyquite slow at performing many tasks, even switchingbetween the photo organiser and the editor.

2) Enhanced Photo Organiser

In versions X to X2, the Photo Organiser is a palettethat can be docked at the bottom of the PSP window. Ihave enjoyed working with it there and find the changesmade in X3 rather disappointing. Busted is the word Iwould use, not enhanced . But, that is a commentregarding my preferences and the way I mostly use PSP.Some might find the new features more valuable than Ido. When a photograph is selected in the organiser all ofthe technical details appear in a panel on the right as

3) RAW

I do not have any RAW files and have never worked

shown in Figure 1:

with them, so will not comment on this feature. Coreltell us that you can make RAW adjustments during theloading process and work with even more RAW cameraformats — faster than ever before .

4) Easy Batch Processing

The batch processing feature allows you to makeadjustments to one photo, then easily apply the samechanges to other photos in the organiser. This could beuseful, for instance, when you have a number ofphotographs taken under similar conditions with acolour cast that you want to remove.

5) Express Lab

With my hardware setup, Express Lab was painfullyslow in loading and in closing down. Even opening theFile Open dialogue equivalent (a button labelled GetPhotos as in Figure 2) took a long time. The SmartPhoto Fix suggested settings produced a good result forthe photo on which I tried it. Apart from the speedproblem, this is a useful tool for adjusting photographs.

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6) Smart Carver

The Smart Carver is a new tool forremoving objects from a photo. Itis somewhat cleverer than theObject Remover tool of theprevious several versions of PSP(and still available in X3). Theresult of removing an unwantedobect from the foreground of aphoto is seen in Figure 3.

7) Object Extractor

The Object Extractor seemsmisnamed in that it is used toremove the background fromaround an object: the inverseoperation to Smart Carver. Itworks in a similar way and, on firstsight, seems to offer little advantageover tools already available in PSP.

8) Vibrancy

The vibrancy tool appears to offer nothingmore than is available by adjusting thesaturation. I must be missing something. SurelyCorel would not simply duplicate an existingtool and give it another name?

9) The Text Tool

This could be the tool that PSP users have beenawaiting. The clunky text tool in previousversions of PSP has been a common source ofcomplaint by users, With the new tool. Editingis done directly on the image and text can bereformatted easily. Fonts can be changed in situ.See Figure 4.

10) Other Features

Other advertised features such as HD videoslide shows, file sharing for popular socialnetworking sites and the project creator are tobe found in a separate program that ships withPSP X3: PaintShop Photo Pro™ ProjectCreator. These are utilities that some may finduseful. See Figure 5 for a splash screen listingthe various utilities. Figure 5.

Figure 4: Glass text.

Figure 3: Monks painting – glass vanished

Page 5 – PaintShop Pro Photo X3 A First Look


Conclusions

For me, any improvements in the latest version of PSPare overshadowed by the lack lustre performance on myPC. I have no plans to upgrade my hardware oroperating system in the foreseeable future. It is possiblethat all will be well when PSP X3 is run on a quadprocessor driving 4 GB of RAM under Windows 7 Pro.The creators tell us that it has more multi-threadingsupport which should take advantage of the nowcommon dual core and quad core processors becomingcommon on new computers..

Traditional PSP users are complaining about thisversion because it offers them little that is not availablein previous versions and they have found this versionpainfully slow. Complaints about the text editor arise, Isuspect, from an unwillingness to learn a new way ofworking.

For many, Corel have not produced anything otherthan cosmetic improvements over JASC’s PSP 9 since

they bought the product. I find the improved interfacesof version X and X2 much preferable to that of version9. I will continue to work mainly with PSP X2. Anyonewith an older system might be well advised to useVersion 9 with its much more conservative demand onresources. The results will be just as good.

For those with the hardware to handle it, this newversion of PaintShop Pro Photo will be just the bee’sknees.

Figure 5: The Project Creator


Put New Zing IntoYour Photos with

Nik Plug-insKelvin Rowley

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Many best-practice business strategies have been

originated by criminal enterprises. The softwareindustry has very successfully adopted a marketingstrategy pioneered by drug-dealers – namely, providingfree samples until the customer has become addicted,and then charging them.

When I recently upgraded to PaintShop Pro PHOTOX2 Ultimate, I was given some free samples of thelatest version of Nik’s Color Effex filters. I had usedearlier versions of some, and liked the new versions. –and so I took up the invitation to download a free trialversion of the full suite of software. As soon as I got ataste of the hard stuff, I was hooked.

The moment of truth came when I ran Nik softwareover a photo pre-dawn scene (Fig.1). I thought thepicture was good, but there were problems – fine noisewhich I could not remove; and a bluish cast I founddifficult to correct. I could not get the subtle blend ofpinks, violet and blues in the sky as I rememberedthem. After several hours working with layers andmasks I was still unhappy – but when I tried Niksoftware on this photo, I had the outcome I wanted inless than 10 minutes. I was completely hooked.

Nik Software is a suite of programs designed to meetthe image-enhancement needs of photographers. Theattention-getter is Color Effex 3.0, an awesome library

of special effects. But thefull suite includes otherprograms which do greatjobs on vital tasks ofimage enhancement suchas digital noisereduction, adjustmentsto tone and colour,sharpening, andconversion to black andwhite.

Each Nik program canbe purchased separately,or you can buy themtogether as a suite.Color Effex 3.0 comesin three versions – theStandard Edition is the

Figure 1. St Kilda Pier at Daybreak.


most trimmed down, there is a middle-range Select

Edition, and then there is Complete Edition. They alloperate as plug-ins rather than stand-alone programs.They are designed primarily for Photoshop, but run inPaint Shop Pro PHOTO , and work with layers inPSPIMAGE files with no problems.

Nik plug-ins have a common style of interface. Slidercontrols enable continuous fine adjustments to outcomes,which can be easily evaluated with before-and-after views.The area to which it is applied can be selected bychoosing a colour range (using an eye-dropper) or byapplying control-points.

Control-point technology was one of the main reasonsthe software was so effective in cleaning up my pre-dawnscene. You place a control point on the image and set thediameter of a circle around it. This is not a selection but adata-input circle. The U-Point Technology algorithms usedata from this circle to identify the area or object towhich it thinks you want to apply changes, and decidehow to blend these with the rest of the image. Dependingon what it finds, the area it selects may be more or lessthan your data-input circle. This technology usually doesnot anticipate your needs exactly, and requires somefine-tuning, but this is easy to do.

Dfine 2.0 is Nik’s noise removal tool. It analyses thenoise in the image, and maps both luminance and chromacomponents for red, blue and green channels. It calculatesautomatic settings to give the best noise-free image. Atleast 90% of the time, I find the result completelysatisfactory. However Dfine 2.0 gives you great

flexibility in cleaning up the noise yourself. It isespecially effective at removing fine-grained noisefrom images without destroying significant detail. It isless effective in dealing with big-grained noise, whichcan occur in photos taken under poor lightingconditions.

Vivezais Nik’s program for adjusting brightness,contrast and colour. Tools for this can be found inevery photo editing program. I find that globaladjustments to brightness, contrast and colour are bestdone through PSPP. ButVivezais great forcomplicated local adjustments. I used it on a sceneshowing autumn trees beside a lake (Fig.2). Theautumn colours came out a bit flat. Nik’scontrol-point technology made it easy to make acomplicated selection, picking up the reflections inthe lake as well as the trees. When I increased thebrightness and saturation, it did not apply thisuniformly to the trees and the reflections but did itwith many subtle variations.

Color Effex 3.0 is Nik’s collection of special effectsfilters. The Complete Edition provides 52 filters withover 250 effects. The filters are grouped into four sets:Portrait, Landscape, Stylizing, and Traditional. Eacheffect has several parameters, which can be fine-tunedwith slide controls. Many have libraries of pre-sets,and you can save your own. Control-pointtechnology enables these to be applied selectively to apicture. They can be applied to layers and further

Figure 2. Autumn in the Royal Botanical Gardens.

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combined using masks and layer blending. The

possibilities within such a system are limitless.

This gives you the digital equivalent of the bagful ofoptical filters that film photographers used to carryaround. There is not a star filter, but there is aregraduated filters and a polarizing filter (good forincreasing colour saturation in skies). The Sunshinefilter,which can give a “golden hour” late-afternoon glow to apicture taken under very different lighting conditions.TheGraduated Fog can make a miserable winter’s day inMelbourne look even bleaker (Figure 3).

They include a nice set of filters for enhancing portraits,especially useful for glamour style photography – Soft

Focus,Dynamic SkinSoftener, andGlamour Glow

. Another set provides artisticeffects, or emulate film anddarkroom effects. A particularfavourite of mine here forcreating a gauzy, glamourouseffect is the Monday Morningfilter. I especially like this withblue tones (Fig 4).

Colour Effex 3.0 includes aB/W Conversion filter. But ifyou are serious aboutblack-and-white photography,you will want Nik’s SilverEffexplug-in. Once again,continuous adjustment of

parameters combined with control-point technologymakes it possible to create a vast a range ofblack-and-white styles from one colour photograph.There is a large library of pre-sets, emulating manymonochrome photographic styles and film effects. Iam fond of the Antique Effects filters (Fig 5).

Nik’s Sharpener Pro 3.0 provides two tools. One is aRAW Pre-sharpener , designed to be used on RAWimages straight from the camera. I don’t shoot RAW,and don’t use this. However I use the other tool,Output Sharpener , constantly. This optimizessharpening for different output devices – computer

Fig 3. Winter on the Yarra River.

Fig. 4 Blue Monday.

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screens, or continuous tone(the process used in photo

shops), half-tone or inkjet printers. Most of the time,Nik’s automatic settings do a satisfactory job. But whenit does need adjustment, slide controls make it easy tofine-tune the degree of edge sharpening, detail and focus.

Nik software provides a very powerful set of plug-intools, but it is not a substitute for the host program.There are many tools in Paint Shop Pro PHOTOwhich remain indispensable (especially Curves andHue/Saturation/Lightness). And there are occasionswhere PSPP’s tools do a better job than Nik software.For photos with heavy noise, Edge PreservingSmoothing and High Pass Sharpening are sometimesmore effective than Nik’s tools.Where there aredifferent ways of doing a task, it often pays to check thealternatives.

I have now reorganized my whole photo-editingworkflow around the use of

Nik plug-ins within PSPP. This now usually runs asfollows:

Preliminary edit inPSPP. This involves thingssuch as straightening, perspective correction,cropping, and resizing.

Noise removal using Nik’s

Global adjustments to brightness, contrast, hue and

Dfine 2.0.

saturation inPSPP, creating new layers ifnecessary.

Local adjustments to colour and tone using Nik’sViveza.

Special effects using Nik’s Color Effex 3.0 orSilver Effex.

Sharpen using Nik’s Sharpener Pro 3.0 .

You can download the plug-ins fromwww.niksoftware.com in the US or buy it from theAustralian distributors, XClusive Software for aroundAUD800. Nik provides user guides, and you can alsobuy Joshua D. Bradley’s Offi cial Nik Software ImageEnhancement Guide (Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2008).

Junkies reorganize their lives around their drug and findit almost impossible to give it up. I would now find itvery hard to give up my Nik tools. And, like manyjunkies, I’ve become a pusher - I eagerly recommendthe stuff to others. But this is not because Nik isplugged into insidious brain chemistry, like the opiates.It is because this provide a great product for puttingnew zing into your photographs.

Fig.5. A meditative moment



Good afternoon,

After almost seven years at Corel, I have decided it’s time for me to move on. My last day will be Friday Dec4. I will be enjoying an extended break over the holiday season and then diving head-first into setting up myown photography business. Thanks to everyone for your support and friendship over the past years and Ihope we cross paths sometime again in the future.

For all Press related items moving forward, please contact Joy in our Taiwan office:

Joy Tsai - Senior Public Relations [email protected]

For any other Corel related matters, please contact either Gavin or Kym:

Gavin Watson - Sales [email protected]

Kym de Warren - Channel [email protected]

I will most likely be continuing to assist Corel with product release events and Press briefings etc into thenew year, so hopfully I will see many of you in the early part of 2010.

To stay in touch, my new contact details are listed below:

[email protected]

www.richardwindeyer.com.au

Mob: 0408 982 924

Best Regards,

Richard




Slow Epson PrintProblem Solved.

by David Mutch

I recently purchased a new Epson Stylus Photo TX700W because my old Canon i865 had died (seeaccompanying box ‘A Tale of Two Printers’). I purchased this printer because it had several distinctfeatures I needed: it prints CD/DVDs and has a specific retractable built-in platter for this (my old i865had a removable tray), its networkable (both wired and wireless) and also because I could fit aContinuous Inking System to it (made by Rihac, more on this in a later article) which saves me literallythousands of dollars on ink cartridges.

I have installed the network printer on all our homecomputer systems but mainly use it from my Acernotebook, which has Windows Vista installed. All wentswimmingly for a few months until I started to noticethat my printing seemed to take longer and longer eachtime. Eventually I was waiting for 3 to 5 minutes for afew simple lines of text to be printed. It started drivingme crazy.

Being a bit of a conspiracy theorist, I immediatelyblamed Windows Vista, since everyone else seemed tobe blaming it for just about everything going wrong inthe world: when their sink got blocked, when theelectricity went out, when the dog got sick.... So, sinceVista seems to continuously update itself withoutpermission and without apparent evidence any time ofday or night, I was sure it must have been because ofsomething Windows Vista had done without myknowledge. I really could not think of anything else. Isearched the update logs, looked for changed settings inthe OS, changed the printer spool and file transfersettings, and many other things, all without success.

My next suspect was CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5which I had been beta testing. Betas are notorious fordoing bad things to systems until they are rid of most oftheir bugs (the purpose of beta testing!). I completelyexpunged my system of it and all its files. Still myprinting took forever! It seemed to take even longer,but maybe that was just growing frustration. It was stillbloody slow.

Ok, what to do? I know - search the Net! A-Googling Ishall go. I started with the inclusion of the word ‘Vista’in my search string, along with things like ‘slow EpsonPrinting’, ‘...frustrated..’, ‘ slow printing driving mecrazy’... I found lots of lots of articles and forum postsabout all sorts of other printers and other Vista issuesbut still nothing that would fix my printing problem.Finally, after about a full half day of searching I cameacross a posting about the Epson AUDIT file on a sitecalled Windows Vista Forums (http://www.vistax64.com/vista-print-fax-scan/143116-solution-extremely-slow-printing-vista.html ).

The post tells about certain Epson printers creating anaudit file called EPAUDF01.AUD in the folderC:\ProgramData\Epson\Printer. The post went on toexplain that this file is accessed and modified every timethe Epson printer prints anything and over time growsand grows. The solution, it said, was to delete this file. Ichecked the file on my computer and it was over 14 MBin size! Not being one to delete files willy-nilly on theinstructions of unknown bloggers, I renamed the file(by adding another extension to it) so I could retrieve itif all went belly up. Then I opened my WordPerfectapplication, typed a few lines and hit print.

Nothing happened!. Nothing happened for ages! Itseemed like I had found just another dead-end to myprint problem. I made some coffee. Suddenly theprinter started to churn out the page, but it had takenages. As I still had Windows Explorer opened at thefolder in question I noticed that a new


EPAUDF01.AUD file had been created, and itwas only 2KB in size. Ok - that’s interesting Ithought. I’ll try printing just one more time. Iclicked the print icon in WP and instantly theprinter dialog opened, processed the job and theprinter was feeding paper to the heads!Marvellous! Was this really fixed? I tried printingfrom other apps such as Photo-Paint and Drawand again the printing was instant! My problemwas solved! Yahoo! (Or should we now say

“Googleoo!” ?)

So what had happened? I believe that it took theEspon management software some time to figureout that there was no longer a EPAUDF01.AUDfile and it needed to recreate it. That’s what theinitial delay was. But once this file was recreated itsolved the VERY slow printing problemcompletely. Should Windows Vista be completelyexonerated? Maybe ... Nah I still like the blameMicrosoft for all my computer ills, Ha Ha.

The C:\ProgramData\Epson\Printer folder ispresent in both Windows Vista and in Windows7, but you may have to turn on the View HiddenFiles and Folders option under Folder Options tosee it, as it is normally hidden. Under WindowsXP this file is located in C:\Documents andSettings\All Users\ApplicationData\EPSON\PRINTER .

I hope that my experience of this issue and themethod of resolution helps others with similar

A Tale of Two Printers.

Are you a Conspiracy Theorist? Do Big Brothers

Epson ultra slow printing problems.

control aspects of our daily lives? Did Apollo 11astronauts really walk on the moon? Is Climate Changea Communist Conspiracy as Christopher Moncktonwould have us believe? Well, try this one on for size.About 4 or 5 years ago Lance and I bought the samekind of printer (Cannon i865). From memory I thinkwe purchased the printers a few months apart and fromdifferent stores. It is possible they came out of the samefactory in the same batch but unlikely, in my opinion.After many years of solid, trouble-free printing (bar theoccasional maintenance such as lint/paper chipremoval, platen/roller cleaning and endless cartridgerefilling, my printer suddenly died. It just stoppedworking. The head would perform its usualinitialization acrobatics but nothing would print. After

rd4-5 years of happy printing using 3 party inks I wassatisfied I’d got my money’s worth and went out andbought a new printer. I told Lance and he asked me forthe old printer so he could use the head and cartridgesas spares if he needed them. OK. But within one week,Lance was on the phone again - ‘My printer’s died!” Itwas a different problem I believe - his print head wouldnot move at all. So both printers died within one weekof each other, after many years of quite different usage,maintenance regimes, paper and ink use. Weird! DidCanon send out a signal via the Net to shut them down?Probably not, but it still makes one wonder doesn’t it.If it is a coincidence then it’s an amazing one.




Corel Painter OfficialMagazine Issue 35

In this issue, I found about three quarters of the magazine wasaimed at fans of fantasy art. When I looked through thesearticles, I did wonder if the young require help with their art!

Anyway, towards the back of the magazine you find an art classquestion and answer page which include questions about howdo I paint peach fuzz?, can I create art with lettering in Painter?,how do I express action in a photo painter so that it do not lookdull and lifeless and how does Painter’s kaleidoscope plug-inwork?

The reviews this month include Corel Digital Studio 2010,photo books with TinyPrints and MyCanvas, the Pentax X70,which has a monster zoom, and three books.

The readers’ gallery is by thirty one year old Jeremy Murphywho is an illustrator and graphic designer based inMassachusetts, but once again, fascinated with Japanese culture,anime and videogames. He is an amazing artist in his field withhis unique blend of East and West.

The CD includes over 45 minutes of video tuition, 75 stock

Reviews from our CDU

photos and textures plus tutorial source files and Painter II trial.

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Some time ago I requested DACS committeemember and skilled woodworker Richard Cromptonto design a name plaque for the timber cottage thatJulie and I had purchased in Upwey.

With my ancestry traced back to the Danish Vikings,we decided to have something with both acontemporary Danish meaning but in the style of theancient Scandinavian runes.

The runic alphabet was completely different totoday’s script. All runes consisted of straight lineswhich could be easily carved in stone or wood with achisel or knife. To create something in that style butusing contemporary Danish spelling necessitated thedesign of a new font.

Corel Draw was used and after several emailexchanges a design that looked right was finalised.Richard then used a router to cut the lettering into abeautiful piece of timber which had been sawn so asto leave the original bark on the top and bottomedges. Picking out the lettering with black paint andgiving a coat of clear weatherproof paint finished ajob that created something truly unique and a talkingpoint for our visitors.

So what does hyggelig (pronounced somethingbetween hew-ger-lee andhoo-ger-lee ) mean? Well it’ssort of impossible to translate but a Dane wouldunderstand. Hygge is a state of mind. Cosy andcomfortable, with a complete absence ofunpleasantness and hyggelig is a lifestyle momentthat provides hygge. It is impossible to have hyggeligalone, it must be shared with friends. Consequently,a pretty good name for a home.

the making

Lance Fishman

of

a HouseSign

Back in 2008 the committee went out to the oldUpwey council buildings to have a dinner at thenow restaurant, and had a look at an art display.This lead to a comment by Lance Fishman,knowing that I do some work in wood. “Couldyou make a house sign like the ones we seehere?”To which I said yes, with no real idea as tohow this would be done.

Lance produced a Corel Paint file, which I thenbrought into CorelDraw, to enable me to producethe lines for machining with a Router Master, ( arouter on a frame to enable x, y & Z movements)Ihad collected a few pieces of Cyprus pine from aneighbour’s tree that would make the perfect woodfor the sign.

The CDR file shows the final, that was printed outto A3. Glued to the wood and machined out,cleaned up, lacquered, and a set of mounting platesinserted in the back.

Richard Crompton
