15 Maret 2010

Wooden Texture Effect

Wooden Texture Effect with Adobe Fireworks CS3 or below

In Adobe Fireworks you have various pattern fills, including Metal Bars, Leaves, Wood and Light Panel. You can adjust the pattern fill by a set of handles appears on or near the object and you can drag these handles. In this tutorial you are going to learn how to apply pattern to your text.

  • Step 1: Select the Text tool text tool, write any text (as you like) and choose Font Weight as bold.
  • Step 2: Click on the color and select the Fill Option >> Fill category >> Pattern >> choose Wood 2. The pattern option will look as below:
  • Step 3: Using this wood pattern you can easily set a polished wood text. To make the text more realistic, select the text using Pointer Tool Pointer tool and apply Inner Bevel effect. Now on the right side of the properties window, you will find filters, click over the + symbol and choose Inner Bevel from Bevel and Emboss. Click on the tiny blue circle with "i" next to the Inner Bevel filter (Edit and arrange live filters button) and set the following values for the filter: Bevel edge shape – Smooth, Width - 3, Contrast – 100%, Softness – 3, Angle – 135 and Button preset - Raised.
  • Step 4: We recommend you to apply Drop shadow effect. Click on the text using Pointer Tool Pointer tool. Now on the right side of the properties window, you will find filters, click over the + symbol and choose Drop Shadow from Shadow and Glow. Click on the tiny blue circle with "i" next to the Drop Shadow filter (Edit and arrange live filters button) and set the following values for the filter: Opacity – 100%, Softness – 3, Angle – 315, Distance – 4, Color - #000000.
  • Step 5: Draw a rectangle using Rectangle Tool rectangle tool set the Fill Color as #333300. Now place the wooden text on the rectangle. See the illustration below that will show how we have placed the text:
  • Wooden Texture Effect

  • Let us see another example for wood pattern. In this example we have chosen Wood. Follow the above steps to make a wood text. See the image below that will show how the text will appear:
  • Wooden Texture Effect

  • In the above wood pattern the text is not polished. To make the text polishes choose Waves from gradient. Follow the steps given below to make out a polished wood text.
  • Color Palette - Wooden Texture Effect

    #D8BD70#9B762A#996600#C1923D#C59944#E9D784#C09848#E9D784
  • Step 1: Select the Text tool text tool, choose FontTrebuchet MS, Font Size - 50, Color - #BC913A, Font Weight - bold, Anti-aliasing level - Smooth Anti-Alias and write any text.
  • Step 2: Click on the color and select the Fill Option >> Fill category >> Gradient >> choose Waves. The gradient option will look as below:
  • Step 3: While the gradient color is still selected, choose the following options:
    a. Now click the gradient color, and then click on the small color rectangle that is on the left side and set its color to #D8BD70.
    b. After that, click on the small color rectangle that is on the right side and set its color to #E9D784.
    c. Now add another six rectangle by clicking the ‘+’ plus symbol symbol in between the two small color rectangles and set the colors as #9B762A, #996600, #C1923D, #C59944, #E9D784 and #C09848. See the illustration below that will show how to set the colors:
  • Step 4: Now we are going to apply Inner Bevel effect. For this we need to select the text using Pointer Tool Pointer tool. Now on the right side of the properties window, you will find filters, click over the + symbol and choose Inner Bevel from Bevel and Emboss. Click on the tiny blue circle with "i" next to the Inner Bevel filter (Edit and arrange live filters button) and set the following values for the filter: Bevel edge shape – Smooth, Width - 3, Contrast – 100%, Softness – 3, Angle – 135 and Button preset - Raised.
  • Step 5: We recommend you to apply Drop shadow effect. Click on the text using Pointer Tool Pointer tool. Now on the right side of the properties window, you will find filters, click over the + symbol and choose Drop Shadow from Shadow and Glow. Click on the tiny blue circle with "i" next to the Drop Shadow filter (Edit and arrange live filters button) and set the following values for the filter: Opacity – 100%, Softness – 3, Angle – 315, Distance – 4, Color - #000000.
  • Step 6: Draw a rectangle using Rectangle Tool rectangle tool set the Fill color as #663300. Now place the wooden text on the rectangle. See the illustration below that will show how we have placed the text:
  • Wooden Texture Effect

    Congratulations! You have now learnt how to create a couple of wooden texture effect

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