Recently, I purchased the FEGA DVD that was from Andrew Biggs' seminar on using Corel Draw for manipulating images for editing and transfer.
My question: I followed the steps of scanning an object into my computer (which was a knife), drawing around the bolsters to create a "template" to use for drawing in the details.
I then created some scroll backbones in the bolster in Corel Draw, enlarged the image and printed it. After drawing in the leaves, etc., I scanned the image and "imported" it into Corel Draw.
I then used the "crop" tool to select just the section of the 8.5" X 11" sheet containg my drawing for "tracing" the bitmap object.
The result gave VERY good detail of the image, but it has THOUSANDS of nodes making it VERY difficult to work with (sizing, moving, etc.)
I'm wondering if I did something wrong, or is there another step to reduce the nodes.
Thanks in advance for any help.
My question: I followed the steps of scanning an object into my computer (which was a knife), drawing around the bolsters to create a "template" to use for drawing in the details.
I then created some scroll backbones in the bolster in Corel Draw, enlarged the image and printed it. After drawing in the leaves, etc., I scanned the image and "imported" it into Corel Draw.
I then used the "crop" tool to select just the section of the 8.5" X 11" sheet containg my drawing for "tracing" the bitmap object.
The result gave VERY good detail of the image, but it has THOUSANDS of nodes making it VERY difficult to work with (sizing, moving, etc.)
I'm wondering if I did something wrong, or is there another step to reduce the nodes.
Thanks in advance for any help.