Mastering Creating the Perspective and Extrusion Effects in CorelDRAW provides you with in-depth instructions on how to create these effects.
You will learn about one-point perspective as well as two-point perspective effects. You can add a perspective effect to an object by shortening one or two sides of an object. This gives the object the appearance of receding in one or two directions. It teaches you how to copy a perspective effect from one object and apply to another. The tutorial explains how to use the attributes eyedropper to copy the perspective attribute and apply the same to another object.
A perspective effect can be applied to a single object as well as objects that are grouped together. You can also add a perspective effect to linked objects, such as contours, blends and extrusions. But you cannot add a perspective effect to paragraph text, bitmaps or symbols. You will also learn about editing a perspective effect, or remove it if needed.
Creating the extrude effect is discussed in detail. An extrusion is created by applying a three-dimensional perspective. Basically, you will create an illusion of depth by projecting lines from an object. You can create an extrusion effect on artistic text as well as objects. It talks in great detail about the extrusion presets available to you. The tutorial explains in-depth the use of the rotation control handles, extrusion depth setting, and color manipulations. You will also learn about controlling lighting sources and their angles to illuminate your object properly.
Vanishing Point properties are discussed at great length. How you can set the vanishing point locked to the object, or the page. It also demonstrates how to share the vanishing point between numerous objects. The advantages of sharing a vanishing point are elaborated through various examples.