Canvas Tips & Techniques These tips and tutorials are offered up to all the Canvas users worldwide, to help get the most out of your Canvas application. They range from basic beginner to advanced techniques. If you need the Adobe Acrobat free reader, you can get it by clicking this logo: Wizaerd's Realm is glad to host any Canvas related tutorials, and if you have one you'd like to have posted here, just email it to me at wizaerd@wizaerd.com. Please include your tutorial as either: a PDF File an HTML File (with associated images) a Canvas File Designing With Canvas (pdf) by Lionel Valentin A good starting point to coming to grips with Canvas. Lionel demonstrates creating business cards in Canvas. Whole Object Fill (pdf) by Dave Rumfelt Dave shows a unique way to create fills for your illustrations. Creating Seamless Tiles (pdf) by Dave Rumfelt Dave demonstrates how to create a seamless tile out of another image Glass Sphere (pdf) by LaMarzART Creating realistic glass baubles is no easy task, but this tutorial will straighten it all out for you. Weaving (pdf) by Tom Coates Creative techniques for creating overlapping elements in your Canvas Illustrations. Creative Coloring (html) by Tom Coates This tutorial will describe some methods of using Canvas for generating paint objects with unusual colorizations. Shading Vector Objects (html) by Tom Coates One thing Tom Coates has demonstrated over and over again, is he knows how to create realistic looking objects. In this article he shares some of his texturing tips with the rest of us Canvas users. Multigons (pdf) by Tom Coates What exactly is the Mutigon tool, and what can you use it for?? Inset Shadows (html) by Wizaerd Thanx to a TCE member cor suggesting a great topic for a tutorial. Creating inset shadows. And if you read it within the next 60 seconds, I'll include two techniques for the price of one... Line Blends (html) by Wizaerd Using the Blend effect (Effects->Blend) with lines can give you some interesting effects. And you're not limited to using straight lines, although this tip only shows straight lines. This tip is strictly to help spark some of your imagination. Masking Objects (html) by Wizaerd A recent visitor to the Wizaerd's Forum was unsure how to create transparency masks in Canvas. So I wrote up a quick masking tutorial. It's not going to cover all your masking needs, and I'll probably do some other masking technique articles, but this is a good starting point. Metal Type (html) by Wizaerd No graphics tutorial site is complete without the tutorial on how to create shiny metal text. Here's a Canvas version. QuickTip For Pearls (html) by Wizaerd After looking through a Xara forum, I came across a great technique for making a pearl. So I converted the steps into Canvas specific steps, and here is the result... Rounded HTML Rectangles (html) by Wizaerd Use Canvas to create rounded HTML tabls for your webpages... Seamless Blends (html) by Wizaerd Learn to use the Blend tool and create seamless optical illusions Sketched Text (html) by Wizaerd How to create a pseudo-sketched type effect. Space Scene (html) by Wizaerd I'm sure that this is probably 'old hat' for Canvas users who've migrated from other imaging applications or have experience with other imaging applications, but I figured I'd write it up anyways just in case new users would like to know.