Fireworks mx Crystal special effects Word production

In this section we will study the production of the crystal effects word. Before starting the tutorial, first take a look at a crystal style effects of the image shown below.

"Concrete Steps"

1, enter the text "E" in the editing area, the font used here is "Geofgia", the font size is "300", the text color is "#0099CC", and the text format is bold and italic. The details are shown in the following figure.

The object of the edit area is shown in the following illustration.

2. Select text Object, press "Ctrl+shift+d" key combination, clone a text object, select Clone object, select Menu command "text | Convert to Path" (or press "ctrl+shift+p" key combination), press "Ctrl+shift+d" Group key or click the Ungroup button on the toolbar to break the text path object and press the "CTRL+J" key combination to join the path object into a single Path object.

"Note" Press "CTRL+J" to join the path object as a path object is mainly for the operation of multiple text objects after the break up, in this case, there is only one path object, it has no practical significance.

3, select the scattered Text object, select menu command "Modify | change Path | Flex path", in the pop-up "Telescopic path" setting box, make the following figure as shown in the setting.

4. The fill color of the path object formed after the Flex Path command operation is set to white and the edge effect is set to feather, and the feather value is set to "10" size. The graphic effect of the edit area is shown in the following illustration.

5, press "CTRL + a" key combination, and then press "CTRL+G" key combination, two objects grouped into a group object. Next, select the bevel and emboss | Bevel effect command in the effect menu on the Properties panel, and set the settings shown in the following figure in the pop-up setup box.

The graphic effect of the edit area is shown in the following illustration.

6, continue to execute the effect command on the property panel, this step selects the "Eye Candy in the effect menu" 4000| Glass "Effect command, in the pop-up" Glass "setting box, make the specific settings shown in the following figure. Theoretically, you can keep the default value without making any settings.

Note that the "Glass" filter is not present until the full eye Candy 4000 filter is installed, and the FW MX 2004 itself does not have this filter attached.

The graphic effect of the edit area after the "Glass" effect command is shown in the following illustration, and you can see that the text effect of the crystal effect has basically formed.

7, in order to reflect a more solid effect, to the editing area of the composite object to add "projection" effect, the specific projection effect of the settings according to the visual feeling to adjust, this step does not take a screenshot demo. The objects in the edit area after the drop shadow effect are shown in the following illustration.

8, the next operation is to make the effect of crystal text more realistic, if you are satisfied with the text of the special effects already enough, you may also have patience to read it, I believe you will be harvested.

9, select the composition of the editing area, press the "Ctrl+shift+d" key combination, clone an identical combination of objects. Select the Clone object and press the "CTRL+SHIFT+G" key combination to cancel the group status of its groups. The graphic effect of the edit area should now look like the following figure.

10. Select the two objects that appear after the group is canceled, and change its fill color to "#0066FF", so the graphic effect of the edit area is shown in the following figure.

11, select the top level of the Path object on the layer board, select the Effect menu on the Properties panel "Eye Candy 4000 le| Bevel Boss "effect command. In the pop-up "Bevel Boss" box does not need to make any parameter changes, directly click the OK button. The graphic effect of the edit area is shown in the following illustration.

12, at the same time selected at the level of the above two layers of objects, press the "CTRL+G" combination of keys, grouped into group objects. and the layer of soil mixing mode set to "screen", specific settings as shown in the following figure.

13, hehe, a more authentic crystal effect text has appeared in the editing area. As shown in the following figure.

14, in fact, the operation of the 8th step is not only to make the text of the surface crystal more intense, and the text of the three-dimensional more sleek, they also have a greater advantage, because you only need to select the grouped objects at the top, and then in the property panel on the composition of the color of the You can change the final effect of the crystal text. The following figure is the effect that sets the fill color for a grouped object to "#66CC00."

Well, we'll explain the detailed steps of the Crystal Text special effects. This section is mainly applied to the "Glass" filter operation, and its operation of the text object "Convert to Path" Object command, and finally through the flexible application of layer blending mode makes the crystal special effect become more colorful. This section of the tutorial ends here.