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Author: Edna Munn
Software: PhotoImpact
Title: Wavy Ribbon
Skill Level: Beginner
Description: Make a
Wavy Ribbon from a rectangle in one movement after adding pair nodes using the
Grid in PhotoImpact, then save it to your My Shapes Group in your "Easy Palette"
Library to use for Scrapbooking.
Supplies Needed:
PhotoImpact (any
version)
Parts needed: 1
Rectangle Shape.
Open a new image 900 X 250
Go to File/Preferences/General/Guidelines and
Grid and change your H spacing and V spacing to 40.
Change
the colour for the lines to #1600DE this will allow you to
see your rectangle lines better in "Path Edit" mode.
Click on your path drawing tool, select the
Rectangle shape and draw it out to
130 X 40
Information:
When you click on the lines to "Convert
line Segment to Curve" on the longer (842 X 40) Rectangle the
handles disappear and there is no way you can access the nodes at
the end of the handles, so to get round that problem we will make a
smaller (130 X40) Rectangle.
Line your rectangle shape up with the lines of
the Grid.
Click on your "Path Drawing"
Tool and then the "Path Edit object" icon.
Touch the top line of the
rectangle and then hold down the Ctrl key and touch the bottom line,
they will turn red.
While both
lines of the rectangle red, click on the "Covert line Segment to
Curve" icon.
Click on the
end node and the handles will be visible, pull on the node at the end of the
handle until it lines up with the Grid.
After aligning
the 4 handles so that they sit in a straight line with the Grid, click on the
"Path Edit" icon to come out of Edit mode.
Click on
Transform Icon then unlock the size boxes and type 842 Width and 40 Height in the
size box.
Object/Align/Centre Both
Click on your
"Path Drawing" tool again, then on the "Path Edit" icon.
Click on the "Add point" icon.
With your "add point" icon
activated we are now going to add a node at the top and bottom of
each intersection.
At this point you may want to
zoom in a bit more so that it is easier to see what you are doing.
Once you have all your nodes
top and bottom, click on the "Pick Point" icon.
Go to View/Guidelines and
Grid/Grid and switch the Grid off.
Touch your Rectangle shape so
that the nodes are all visible now very gently click on the top node
at the end of the rectangle.
Hold down
Ctrl button and click on the
bottom node at the end of the rectangle.
Both of your nodes are now
selected and they will look like a red square with a smaller white
square on top.
Still holding down the
Ctrl button click on every 2nd
set on nodes top and bottom.
When you have selected all the
nodes, release the Ctrl button.
Now hover over one of the
selected nodes.
When you see the white
triangle with a double headed arrow on a black square.
click on the node and pull either up or down...................you will see all the selected
nodes move in unison, like magic really!!
Click out of "Path Edit" Mode.
If you would like to have
fewer waves in the Ribbon,
go to File/Preferences/General/Guidelines and
Grid and change your
Grid spacing to "Horizontal 75" and the "Vertical
40"
Note: Pull the nodes up
or down a little for wavy ribbon or a bit more for Wavy Rick Rack!
If you
would prefer a smaller ribbon Width wise just make a smaller
Rectangle.
Wavy Ribbon
Wavy Rick Rack
Click on the Libraries tab in your "Easy Palette"
and drag your new shape to your My Shapes group, it will now be
available to you through your " Path Drawing" tool Custom Shapes
drop down list.
Please feel free to print
this tutorial
out for your own personal use, but do not copy it in any way to
post
on-line, pass out, or re-write and claim as your own!
Any resemblance to any other
tutorial like this is purely coincidental.
This tutorial was written
on the 24th August 2011 and is
therefore the property of Edna Munn.
Website and web set Design
by and
© Edna Munn
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