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Does the dropshadow tool get the effect your after?

Ripcord said:

You can get some cool effects using a combination of vector and raster images. I did this by giving my "M" a substantial outline, converting it to a bitmap, blurring the bitmap, and then pasting the original on top.

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I like that gives the correct appearance but when I go to separate in corel for printing it wants to print as CMYK because of the bitmap, so it solves one problem but creats another . when I put the vector letter over the blured image it won't seperate out correctly ,but if its not over the top it will . I'm confused why. Would I need separation software to do it this way?

GHEENEE1 said:

Does the dropshadow tool get the effect your after?

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Yes and no , it works ok but I am more after what ripcord showed, but I can't seperate that out because it wants to due it as CMYK , and I can figure out why.

jimcr said:

Would I need separation software to do it this way?

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No, you can separate this yourself...but in my example there's no separation necessary because it's all one color. Are you using a different color for the solid? Post a jpeg of what you're doing and I can tell you how to separate it. (This is for film output, right?)