Now let’s take a look at more complicated example of building the mesh. To do this, select all the nodes with the Mesh Fill Tool and fill them with the necessary color in any of the above mentioned methods. If, however, the artwork is done in RGB, then the only (known to me) way to bring the mesh to the desired color model is to apply the fill of one RGB color to all cells at once. An attempt to assign to individual elements of such mesh color in the RGB mode, causes in automatic substitution of the nearest equivalent in CMYK, as it can be easily seen after taking a sample of the color with an eyedropper and looking at the Color docker. During the editing process make sure that lines do not overlap and there are no sharp kinks.Ī curious fact: all gradient meshes at the time of creation have CMYK color mode assigned to it, even if the original object had a fill in RGB color mode before it. It is not necessary to create additional nodes where the setting of lines curvature using the controls of already existing nodes will do. The general rule is, the simpler grid is, the better. If there are a lot of color transitions, it is much easier to outline the general shape of the mesh first and then assign the colors to its key nodes, and then paint the other nodes and cells in the process of adding them.
If the amount of cells in it is relatively small, you can first build the mesh completely and then proceed to its coloring. The procedure depends on the complexity of the mesh. Color assignment to the selected items is done in a common to all the other objects method. Color samples can be taken either with the help of an eyedropper (in the Sample Color mode) from the original image (if there is one) or from the preset custom palettes, or getting it by mixing the components in the Color docker. The colors can be applied to single nodes as well as to the entire cells. While familiarizing with the methods of applying color on the gradient meshes, I did not discover any peculiarities. As a result, the center of rotation of the object is also fixed at one position. In this case, select the object, turn off the Relative Center option, then set the angle of rotation and click the Apply button. To do this, either double-click to select an object and move the center of rotation to a new position (which is then stored for subsequent turns), or use the Transformation docker (Alt + F8). To avoid this, set the center of the transformation before turning the object. This leads to the fact that with the subsequent rotation to the starting position the object will not return to its original place. In this case, we can only rotate the original object in a way to bring the features of the program to our needs as best one can.īy the way, if you rotate the asymmetric objects with the pointer, the center of rotation of the object will be shifted along with the center of the coordinates of the object.
The fact is that the mesh lines with automatic calculations on one hand follow the configurations of the adjacent path segments more or less, but on the other hand then always tend to reach out for the horizontal and the vertical. It will be clearly inconvenient to work with an obtained design. Maybe even for some beginners (and not only beginners) it will come in handy.Īs an example, I took one of my artworks (at the time of creation it was only the third one of its kind, created using this technique) Basically, pretty soon I familiarized myself with the topic and has now decided to share some of my observations. But if you follow certain rules, the result can exceed the most ambitious expectations. At first, frankly speaking, the Mesh Fill Tool seemed quite moody and inconvenient. Of course, I also could not ignore this topic. It is not surprising that sooner or later the hands of anyone who tries to work seriously with CorelDRAW, start to drag themselves to the Mesh Fill Tool button. All this makes the objects of this group extremely useful and sometimes almost impossible to replace in creating complex realistic illustrations.
Besides that, it can contain a variety of different colors, and gradients between them will have the most arbitrary shapes, any of the Blending modes can be applied to them. Mesh Fill Tool is the most powerful and multi-purpose tool for modeling of complex color transitions.
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