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The Xara Xone
October Xara X Tutorial
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Guest Tutorial #8
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Xara Fills and Brushes
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The Xara Xone
October Xara X Tutorial
The Featured Artist Gallery
TIPs of the Week
Guest Tutorial #8
The Shareware Page
Xara Fills and Brushes
Gary Priester
Moderator Person
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Be it ever so humble...</A>
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The "stars and stripes" have never looked better!
Alan Burns' microscope is one of my all time favorites. The looks of disbelife on peoples faces - when you zoom in on the glass plates is priceless...
Risto
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I've always envied Risto's technique and the chance to go thru it step by step was excellent. I don't have Risto's feel for colours, but just to show his effort in creating the tutorial is appreciated heres my effort
one more time.
Not a lot of comments this month?
Gary
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Gary
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I still have a bit of jet lag so my evenings have been spent in my chair where I have fallen asleep, so here are my comments:
The tutorial: timely and appropriate, as always I learn new things and reacquaint myself with all the stuff I have forgotten
The guest tutorial: fascinating, I haven't had time to spend with it yet but will do so shortly
Guest Artist: Alan Burns humbles ones pretensions
Brushes, tips, etc: always welcome and a source for ideas
I look forward to all the stuff posted all month long in the Xara Xone. All new and inexperienced users will find everything they need to learn and get up to speed using Xara, and all users should find much inspiration for their own creative purposes.
Regards, Joel
Hi Gar--
One of the 3D members reproduced your flag. Awesome. Seems like a lot of the 3D users use XARA for profiles, materials, clean-up work and so on.
You know what occured to me on your tutorial? Why is it that we have version X of XARA now, and no freeform envelope where we can add nodes, a la that "other" program I refuse to mention? Seriously, wouldn't it have been simpler if we could add envelope nodes to freeform distortions?
On my Wish List to Kate....
BTW, here's my Sept. 11th statement. I used Typestry II.
Best Regards,
Gary David Bouton
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and the updated GaryWorld Gallery is pretty okay, too.
[This message was edited by Gary David Bouton on October 05, 2001 at 13:27.]
Gary,
I appricate both the tutoral and the feelings about Sept 11. Work cannot express....
I have a question or mambe a suggestion for a tutoral. The use of the mold tool to creat acurate perspectives. As in the artist of the month's fantastic illustrations of watches and the microscope. I can see how it can be done by eye (was that a pun?) but I cannot figure out how to use vanising points to lay out acurately.
Thanks for all of your tutorals. They have shown me many usfull techniques.
John D
Would you be kind enough to explain the steps you went through to create the graphic of Alan Burns watch drawing above.
These are some of the effects I want to use in my work and as I am new to Xara, it would help me greatly. I am particularly interested in combining pictures and this one has an interesting fade-away on the right and the triangle part is darker.
Thanks in advance. :O) J
While I am at it composing wih lists....
The technique for producing gears. I figured out how to produce indusies on dials, but gears are tougher. And I agree a technical discussion of Alan's drawings would be great.
Gary, you asked
John D
Sheesh
When did all these comments slip in? I must have been sleeping or something.
Good to see Mr. 3D hisself slip in here. And yep, OG the ability to add control points (as we call them in Xara :-) to envelopes would be cool.
I would love to get Alan Burns involved in a technical discussion or maybe even a guest tutorial, but he is a pretty hard dude to get a hold of. I had to try for several months to get a reply re: being the featured artist. Finally after quite a few e-mail messages, I had to get Kate to call Alan on the phone. He has had some personal family problems and I suspect is very wrapped up in these at the moment.
wyccaad -- I answered your question in the topic you started. Sorry for missing it here.
Gary
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