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So I know how to use the Region painter tool and the photo enhance tool to change the colors on an object. The problem I'm having is that does not give me the specific color that I want. I want to use a hex color but the aforementioned method won't give me specifics. Is there any way to do this?
Can you apply a Color or Color Burn transparency?
These are two transparency types found in the Transparency Blend Mode drop down list.
Iggy I assume you are referring to something like #3A9F3A. when you enter that code do not use the # sign. only the numbers and see if that helps.
Alright gang this is what's going on. So I've created this poster/avatar for my next mix that I will be uploading. I was trying to get the colors in my logo to match the color of in the font. Because of the way Xara works, I can't choose the hex number to match these colors when using the color enhancing tool, the colors seem off to me. Attached are the finished product and the original logo.Attachment 123096Attachment 123097
sure are off
looks to me like you want a hex value of 9e5200 or if that's too dark ae5f09 say - colour picking from a low res continuous tone image is hit and miss - experiment with the colour editor / colour picker [I don't use the xara tools you mention]
Use the color picker (the eyedropper) to sample the deep red on your logo.
I'm missing a piece of the jigsaw. If you created the logo, you have the .xar file for said logo and you obviously have the picture of the young lady.
1. Open the logo .xar
2. Import picture
3. Select the area you want to change the colour of
4. Use the colour picker to change the selected area
5. Repeat as required
I obviously didn't have the .xar of the logo so I quickly redrew the areas to show you.
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Bingo Chris M *sigh*, I didn't create the logo. A friend of mine did it and she did it in photo shop. She sent me PSD files. This is the reason why I can't use the eyedropper as someone else suggested. I've tried that won't work.
so you need to draw the logo? - or at least draw round the parts you want to change and recolour those shapes, group with logo image and make bitmap copy?
[BTW: looks like I got the colours the wrong way round last time , sorry about that]
I redrew the lot using the shape tool (F4). Resize, reshape, recolour to your hearts content.
You should probably recreate the whole logo yourself in Xara, then you can wade in at a moments notice in God mode.
And I carnt spel Samurai.
ah teach a man to fish... :p
True, but in my defence he'll probably look at it and say "that's rubbish, I'll do it myself". It also looks like he's in a hurry to upload his main passion, music. You're right though; he should definitely redo the whole thing himself just for the learning of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
the irony is, I would fiddle with it myself because I never got into the CAD based construction based on nodes, that is 'vector drawing' - I'm a freehand artist, 'expression' rather than 'precision'; xara is not good at freehand in this way - if we had 24 inch cintiq, 32GB memory, multicore proccessors and 64bit OS 16 years ago, I doubt I would even have tried :D
Thanks a lot Chris. I've already used what sent. I was insanely helpful in getting a scheme that worked on the flyer. I didn't use the orange instead went with the blue. How did you retrace this? F4 you say?
I used the 'Shape Tool' which has the keyboard shortcut F4. The official Xara video tutorial can be found here: http://www.xara.com/uk/web-designer/...1/2648.568794/
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There is also another option that I have used in the Past, seeing that the logo is all white with black and red graphics, you could use paint.net.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iggy
open the png file of the image in Paint.net and use the magic lasso tool to select and copy or cut black then red parts in to a new layer.
Or try having your friend export the .ai version from PS and see if the helps, I have been able to open .ai files with Xara.
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Iggy Logo
if its a complicated redraw you could use inkscape's bucket fill which works on bitmaps, or if you have illustrator, it's live trace and live paint
Another way to achieve the result is to paint select the area you wish to change color, use the select color to enhance tool in the enhance photo menu and then change the saturation and hue till you reach the desired color.
I've attached a file to better explain what I mean.
Hope it could be useful.
Marco.
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Going back to what others have said about recreating the logo as a .xar vector, there is a fairly quick and easy way to do it with the magic lasso tool. You just click around each shape to select the area of the photo and copy and paste to cut out the selection as a vector shape. Then just change the fill of the new shape from bitmap to vector and at the end you will have an accurate vector version of your logo that you can recolour and resize to your hearts content :)
Check out this video to learn the basics of using the lasso tool for this purpose. Here is a link to the finished version of the orchid illustration that I started in the video https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...tic-Lasso-tool and that thread also contains a link to the original thread that I created the video for.