Coloring with lights

Instead of coloring surfaces with the material color you can also do this with lights. Just set the material color to white and expirement with the light colors. If you use all lights the colors will mix. This can create some pleasing effects. See the OrangeLight preset for an example.

Creating a perfect sphere

You can create a sphere with the following steps:

  1. Select the ellipse tool ().
  2. Create a circle by holding down Shift. Remember the size of the circle in pixels.
  3. Launch Path Styler using Filter > Shinycore > Path Styler.
  4. Delete the outer bevel by setting the size to 0.
  5. Set the size of the inner bevel to half the size you rembered in step 2.
  6. Set the contour to the round shape and check Flip Horizontal. You now have a perfect sphere.

Double Path Styler

The outer bevel can have more shapes if you run Path Styler twice on the same path. ( Note: this tip is only useful if you have registered Path Styler ).

  1. Create a path. Text looks very good, see Using Text with Path Styler.
  2. Launch Path Styler using Filter > Shinycore > Path Styler.
  3. Load the Default.sps preset.
  4. Increase the outer bevel size to 20 and press OK.
  5. Launch Path Styler again and decrease the outer bevel size to 6.
  6. Set the Join Type to mitered and check Flip Horizontal. You now have a new bevel shape.

You can of course also change the material settings and add maps or load another preset. You can even run Path Styler more than twice to create some weird outer bevel shapes.

Creating a simple ruler

You don't have to create a full path to make Path Styler work. When you create a simple horizontal line with the pen tool (not the line tool) and set the outer bevel, you can create a variety of rulers.