Although there are several ways to construct glass pill-shaped buttons, this method is perhaps the quickest and uses the fewest shapes: The steps involve rounding the corners of a rectangle filled with a specific linear fountain fill and applying resized white copies of the rectangle with transparency to simulate the reflection. The same basic effect can be used to simulate the cool 3D appearance of glass pill-shaped buttons.

Just keep in mind that you need to pay close attention to both the custom fountain fill and the transparency marker positions for the effect to appear realistic. The same steps can be used to turn virtually any simple shape into glass.

The more pronounced the darkened edges are, the flatter the shape appears to be. Note that the custom colors I specified provide the illusion that the edges of the shape let less light through than the middle portion, giving the shape the impression of flatness. With just two objects, youвЂ™ve created a realistic-looking glass object. Drag the black marker to the center of the yellow circle, drag the white marker slightly below the circleвЂ™s top edge, and drag the midpoint marker upward, three quarters of the way between the two. Position the white, black, and midpoint nodes of the transparency slider precisely, as shown below.With the circle still selected, choose the Interactive Transparency Tool and drag from the top to the bottom of the shape. For the reflection effect, create a second circle thatвЂ™s roughly 1.5 inches in diameter, fill it with white, and position it to be centered and slightly below the top of the first circle.Your custom fill is now complete ( see below). To finish the color effect, set the Edge Pad option on the Property Bar to 5 percent, and remove any outline properties applied to the circle by right-clicking the None color well in the onscreen color palette.Double-click to add two more color markers at 25 percent and 80 percent, and set these to C0, M5, Y100, K20 and C0, M0, Y100, K0, respectively ( as shown below). Set the far right ( 100 percent position) color marker to C0, M0, Y100, K0. Set the CMYK values to C40, M50, Y100, K20. Click the far left ( 0 percent position) color marker ( itвЂ™s black when selected), and click the Others button to access more color options. To specify your fountain colors, click the Custom radio button. For precise adjustment of the fountain fill colors and color positions in this example, I recommend using the Fountain Fill dialog ( press F11).Choose the Interactive Fill tool ( shortcut key G), and use the property bar options to set the Fill Type to Radial ( see below). With the circle still selected, click the Yellow well ( C0, M0, Y100, K0) to set the circleвЂ™s fill color. If the color palette isnвЂ™t in view, you can display it by choosing Window > Color Palettes > Default CMYK palette. For a color mode, use the default CMYK palette.Holding the Ctrl key constrains the ellipse shape to a circle. Using the Ellipse Tool draw a circle that is roughly 2 inches in diameter.To demonstrate how color and lighting influence the effect, letвЂ™s start with the simple creation of a colored glass object: Using CorelDRAW to simulate glass effects involves carefully applying your vector objects with color and transparency effects. The more focused the reflection, the smoother the surface will be. Soft overhead lighting bounces off the shiny surface of the glass, creating a reflection of the light source. In any solid transparent object, the color is darker at the outer edges than in the middle. Glass effects are influenced by such key factors as lighting direction, light intensity, reflection, focus, and color. Although this tutorialВ showcases the CorelDRAW 12 interface, virtually any recent version of CorelDRAW can be used to follow the steps and use these illustration techniques. At first glance, the effect looks like something created with expensive 3D modeling software, but the truth is, you can come very close to illustrating the same effect by using just two or three carefully adjusted vector shapes.

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