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InDesign Butterfly on Opening page
Posted by sushi sans in
20 Apr 2006 — 2:22pm
20 Apr 2006 — 2:22pm
Okay, I know this is totally, utterly lame of me to ask but I can't figure out how to create an object like the purpley transparent butterfly that InDesign uses (or even the transparent-y orange flower on Illustrator) on it's opening page. I'm quite lazy and have exhausted trying to figure it out on my own. Thanks for any help!
-S
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20 Apr 2006 — 2:34pm
:) complicated.
Metadesign has found an artist who scans objects with x-rays. He gets black and white images of the flower/butterfly/feather, which were colored afterwards.
I guess there are more simple ways to achieve a similar effect.
Can't find the link where I read this though :(
edit: ah, there it is: http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/22837.html
20 Apr 2006 — 6:25pm
Wow, that is perfect. Thank you. I found a few neat sites full of x-rays of flowers and shells to work with. Thanks again. That link is amazing!
-s
20 Apr 2006 — 7:35pm
That is a great link - thanks for passing it on…
peace
21 Apr 2006 — 2:33am
Actually I think the butterfly falls behind the other motivs. It has almost no structure compared to the others.
21 Apr 2006 — 4:54am
If you want to do something like that, in Illustrator CS2 there are some nice tools, gradients, transparency, gradient mesh, feather...
This was drawn in a couple of minutes, it could do with a bit of white in the petals and general fixing, but you'll get the idea.
22 Apr 2006 — 7:42am
Hi mili,
That is exactly what I want to do! Can you be more specific on how you did it? I attempted it in Ilustrator with crappy results. I don't have the recipe right yet and was dragging and dropping colours onto my gradient mesh. It just became a gradient mess! :P If I make a circle do I colour it a radial gradient and then apply the gradient mesh? I need help!
Thanks so much!
22 Apr 2006 — 8:05am
sushi whisker,
After drawing the shape add the gradient mesh. Then you cold start by coloring all the edges with one colour, then add/change colours as needed. You also might need to add occasional mesh point. That quick one was done with 4 x 4 mesh and just three colours from the default pallette. I moved the points around a bit, too.
Transparency of the elements is 70%.
The middle bit has 9 mm feather in the edges and a basic radial gradient. It's also transparent (70%) and on top of everything.
Hope this helps, good luck!
24 Apr 2006 — 6:12am
Thank you! I'm going to try and master this.