Medal/coin?

Matt Stow has a pretty cool medal in the top left corner of his site. Maybe he'd be willing to help ya?

http://mattstow.com/

On the ring note question, try using the Donut Autoshape or you need use Compound Path operations such as Punch and Union. (note, this doesnt work on bitmaps)

yeap, alan's ryt, punch , union or any of the modify commands could do the trick. Do you have a picture of the coin your trying to duplicate ? Sometimes using some nifty styles could help you achieve the coin look.

Maybe this might help ya:

http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2006/04/05/rapid-fire-2-golden-seal/

It is a good tutorial and can lead to...

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1NlmZcfoHK0FhzQtpkEwPeeoVr9



Alan Musselman wrote:
> Maybe this might help ya:
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> http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2006/04/05/rapid-fire-2-golden-seal/

Would be interested in the rest of the steps . . .

Thanks, Tony

Here is one way and it makes use of Styles panel

Overview

1 - follow the brownbatterystudio tutorial or download the PNG file.

2 - select object at the foot of the layer stack and remove all
instances of drop shadow in that object

3 - on the object at foot of the layer stack apply a style (Text effect
medium 005 is pretty interesting and Chrome Misc 007 is very interesting)

4 - 0n same object apply a solid shadow filter (adjusting depth to suit)

5 - apply drop shadow

6 - do a CTRL+ALT+F to resize and juggle stuff on the canvas

Use similar techniques on text.

It may help to use layer blend modes or to double up some of the text to
enhance or enrich the effect.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1kKMfsVf3UnJ7JsOGKxE2qbkUEBOz0

is an example of the above.

Some of the styles include drop shadow and in the above constructs it
seems a good idea to remove it to retain a brilliance in the image.











Anthony Bollinger wrote:
> Would be interested in the rest of the steps . . .
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> Thanks, Tony
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Thanks, I'll check those out.

Reducing stroke width on the lowermost object seems to do a bit as well.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=10fEfmxtl0EQaUf6eJL9uGHl3V7H1




Anthony Bollinger wrote:
> Thanks, I'll check those out.
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Multiply blend mode seems to impart a pleasant glassy effect.

Have a look at

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan.plc/web-content/I/1/Samples/NG27/Button/NG27extra.html



deebs wrote:
> Reducing stroke width on the lowermost object seems to do a bit as well.
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> http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=10fEfmxtl0EQaUf6eJL9uGHl3V7H1
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> Anthony Bollinger wrote:
>> Thanks, I'll check those out.
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That is interesting deebs. thanks for sharing!

I have to thank the OP for posting the question.

It lead to a great tutorial that can be tweaked from MX to CS3 at to

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1pj0cDIezlLI4NXJOmeIqgcaRrQyP0

and

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1A3GTgMS7u9ORVjCow1Hf4JJqvKps1

Are there any good tutorials on animation in Fireworks?



Alan Musselman wrote:
> That is interesting deebs. thanks for sharing!