![]() ![]() Layout final picks: Once I had decided on which frames I wanted, I created several layouts, then picked a tentative layout to go with. I also chose several frames that I liked, then copied and pasted a photo of each into Illustrator and arranged them until I could find a good mix of frames that I liked. Select prints and arrange: I selected the prints that I thought would look good together, then tried different layouts and arrangements until I had my final picks.Ĭhoose sizes and frames: I went back onto Minted and decided on the sizes I wanted to go with, then scaled the mockup prints to 25% of actual size so it would give me a true idea of how they looked in relation to each other. Layout all prints: I opened the pdf file page-by-page and was able to move each print around as a separate thumbnail. I created my mockup using Adobe Illustrator (editing software). ![]() If you will be shopping around at various places for your pieces, visualize your gallery wall as you go, but stay within your theme. You can also look around your house for some wall objects and framed art that you would like to include as well. I chose black, white, and a print that pulled in colors that matched my accent wall. For example, select a variety of art that are a mix of typographic, graphic, abstract, and drawing styles. Combining a variety of prints will create an interesting gallery. This will inspire you and help you organize art prints within a certain theme. Also try to select a mix of prints. Ask yourself what feeling you want your gallery wall to elicit. For my gallery wall, I wanted to feel a certain way when I looked at it - to feel as if I was traveling within the prints. Favorite as many as you can, because you will need a lot of options when you finally narrow it down. Try to visualize a theme. In ancient Corel Draw there's only one corner at a time curve editing tools.Favorites: I logged onto Minted's Art Marketplace and favorited the art pieces that I liked. Unfortunately I haven't current Corel Draw so I'm not aware how one makes stones smoother if they are polylines with sharp corners (=drawn by clicking only). Tracing settings affect radically to the result. You can trace the BW image in Corel Draw if you made it in photo editor. ![]() It can be better to fill the areas as sharp and then select the emptiness around the stones with the magic wand, refine the edge and press DEL. But there's also point-to-point clicking selection mode and selection smoothing tools. It makes plausible stones without smoothing. If your photo editor is Paint Shop Pro, you have less tools, but it's freehand selection lasso seems to be excellent when one draws around the stones and the result need not to be pixel perfect. If you do not want so sharp stones, it's at least in Photoshop possible to refine the selection and there make it a little smoother: With solid background it can seem quite plausible: In a photo editor you can actually have the stones in one layer and paint to the cumulated selection into a new layer with the paint bucket after selecting around say ten stones. No need to be exact, but obey coarsely the stone edges because you will get plausible result. It's clicking with the pen tool in Corel Draw or with point-to-point polygonal selection tool in a photo editor. If the stones must be separate, you must draw them. I think the same function could be called "trim" in some older versions of CorelDraw.Īnd here's the final result with a black border around it. Again, most vector software has a simplify function. You could also use Inkscape, and I would assume CorelDraw would be similar, and then auto trace the image.įor smoothing the shapes, you could simplify the paths. Then import the raster image into your vector software. It doesn't have to be very accurate, so don't stress! ![]() Obviously this is a manual process (like painting), and it will take a little while. Open the image in a raster image editor such as Photoshop or GIMP etc, then using the burn tool with a soft edged/fuzzy brush, darken the shadows of the outlines, and similarly using the dodge tool, brighten the inside of the stones, to create better contrast. So if you have some spare time on your hands, read on. This method is similar to Lucian's in that it uses auto tracing, but the preparation is different, and it will take longer. ![]()
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