X7 Coreldraw smooth tool - Tiger trace

[SeanP]

Just another quick look at the Smooth tool in X7

Very helpfull at cleaning up traced files or hand tracing for that matter.

See video link here - http://youtu.be/05u07O-VfAI

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[AnotherDano]

Thanks Sean.

Dano

[beefy]

Cheers Sean,

looks like a very efficient and useful tool. I wonder if the reduce nodes tool in X5 can achieve the same thing but with a lot more work.

You got me thinking about X7 now

Keith.

[SeanP]

Cheers Sean,

I wonder if the reduce nodes tool in X5 can achieve the same thing but with a lot more work.


Keith.

Reduce nodes does work similar, but smooth will take off sharp corners and straighten dodgy lines/curves better I think, very little about it online.

[beefy]

Reduce nodes does work similar, but smooth will take off sharp corners and straighten dodgy lines/curves better I think, very little about it online.

I really like the bit about taking off sharp corners. I've done that manually quite a few times. What are you doing to me Sean, now I really want X7.

Thanks for the info.

Keith

[WyoGreen]

Sean,
I enjoyed your video on the smooth tool, which I use a lot. One thing that I noticed you do was to change the size of the selection circle on the fly by moving the + center to the edge and dragging the selection circle to a different size. I haven't figured out how you did that, and can't find anything online about that. So, how did you do that?

[SeanP]

Good stuff, thanks.
It's surprising there is very little about using the smooth tool, have a look on here, you can use the same shortcuts for some of the other tools in that group as well.

http://community.coreldraw.com/share/b/ ... ol-options

[WyoGreen]

Thanks Sean,

I figured it had something to do with the shift, alt or ctrl keys, just couldn't get the right combo together. That tip makes using the smooth tool a lot easier. Works pretty good with the Eraser tool also.

Steve

[srp]

It might behave like Photo paint. Hold down the shift key and with the mouse left click hold and move the mouse north and south.