Spring is in the Air!
I came back from the eTech conference at San Jose and the weather at Palo Alto has definitely gotten really nice! I want to send out some Spring-themed handmade cards, but my craft room is stuffed with boxes and stuff that need to be cleaned out. I need to do some major Spring Cleaning!.
I am feeling much better about StockWiki's progress. Saw Adobe people and went over their Apollo Alpha release. I have gotten much better with CorelDraw X3 too. I knew that I would, but it took about a month to come up to speed instead of the 3 days I had planned :-(. I have my CorelDraw workspace setup now for optimum performance. I had to repeatedly go back and practice using the various line & shape drawing tools until I got their differences sorted out in my mind. I created a template blank page with my customized workspace, so that I can open this to start a new project. I use guidelines every 1 inch with snap to guidelines turned on. I also use grids every 1/10th of an inch but without snap to grid. F2/F4 are very helpful keyborad shortcut to zoom.
Doodles using Corel Draw X3:
"Smart duplicate" is shown with rectagles turning and moving with each duplication. "k" letters use graphic text. The bar below "k" uses bevelling to make it look 3 dimensional. Texture is used to fill freehand drawn black lines. Blue-green background used graduated shading.
