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[CorelDraw] - Searching for a certain tutorial I saw!
I have been searching for hours here looking for a tutorial I recently saw (but not sure where). It was a tutorial about font and bookends- and there was a football in it. The font was around the football. I hope someone knows what I am talking about- it was a great tut! Thank You!
Leslie
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I checked the video on advanced artist- that wasn't the one I was looking for- the one I saw took the word Football (I think) and refered to the procedure as bookends where the F and the L stayed large and the letters inbetween arched- there are probably more ways than one to do this, but I thought it was a really good tutorial. Hmmmmm....just can't figure out where I saw it! Thanks for your help!
Leslie
I have been trying to figure out how to do a specific warp on my text in CS3. I'm not sure of the technical term for it. Could be concave, convex, arched, double curved??? You see it a lot on sport team shirts.
The left and right of the word are like the "bookends" mentioned, but as you look toward the center, it gets progressively smaller.
I know how to fit the bottom of the text to a curve, but I can't figure out how shape the top of the text.
Can't find the answer in CS3 Help, Advanced Artist, or Forum search because obviously I don't know the right search term.
I'll attempt an example:
FOOTBALL
Well. That would be right on the top, but what about the bottom doing the same thing?
The above tutorial should help you achieve that effect in Illustrator (since you said CS3). Here's me using the same method to create something similar to what you wanted.
For Corel you simply use the Interactive Envelope tool. Sometimes you may need to add nodes, but for that type of effect it's not really necessary. Here's a quick screenshot showing the tool that you need to use, I've circled the nodes with a red circle as well.
Here's what I learned from a tutorial (different from the tutorial mentioned above):
Create the text, break it apart. Select the first and last letter of the word at the same time (click one letter, hold the shift and click the second letter). Hit the "plus" key - this will put duplicate letters over the originals. Hit the arrow down button enough times to move the new letters directly below the originals. Select the whole word, go to the envelope tool, select the curved option. After the curve is formed, delete the original first and last letters, and move the unedited ones up the same amount of times as you went down...that is what I have learned a bookend to be. The first and last letters aren't enveloped - but I've seen it done many ways.
Searching for a certain tutorial I saw! 
