Alt-Rainbows

I'm not sure if anyone else will be interested in this. On the chance it may help someone or be of use, here are some glass/gel like circles with an assortment of colour combinations.

I am too lazy to create named colours for them, it's past my bed time :D

Bill...

Aside from being useful, this makes a beautiful image in its own right!

I could picture this as the front of a Christmas card or any number of other uses.

Thanks...
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Will

Pretty nice. Thanks a lot.
I surely can use it sometimes - and it helps me save some time.

Bill,
Mister generous and Mister considerate and Mister helpful. Let's see.... what else can we crown you with? Thanks.
ron

Nice one and useful - many thanks
penny

Thank you all for your very kind words.

Playing around with the circles and the Mould Tool this morning (on my breaks at work ;) , yeah right :D ). Some interesting mould effects IMHO.

Ooops, forgot to mention in the Mini-tut that both circles have to be selected before applying the Elliptical Envelope.

Oh, BTW.

If you select an entire row of circles and apply the Elliptical Envelope you get an interesting combination of shapes.

Pretty cool, Bill. :)

Allison

Thanks Allison.

You're cooking on Gas there Bill. Excellent.

Thanks Egg.

This rainbow doodling really is addictive! Now you've gone and done it Bill! ;)

May I present Carmen Rainbow !

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Originally Posted by Soquili

I'm not sure if anyone else will be interested in this. On the chance it may help someone or be of use, here are some glass/gel like circles with an assortment of colour combinations.

I am too lazy to create named colours for them, it's past my bed time :D

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So, just to be sure, you Xara name for you? Tom

Doug that is funny :)

It can be very addictive.


Tom, I'm not sure what you are asking.

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Originally Posted by Soquili

Doug that is funny :)

It can be very addictive.

Tom, I'm not sure what you are asking.

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Bill, we (group) were talking earlier about making Objects with Variations of a Color, and how, if not careful, Xara would Name All the Objects the New Color. But, there was a 'Work-around' letting Xara 'name' the new color variation itself (it would do something like color2) (I asked as I wanted to make a 'Library' of Different Colored Ojects... And Xara was 'resisting' me ;-^) Tom

Better now?

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Originally Posted by Soquili

Doug that is funny :)

It can be very addictive.

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Indeed, Bill. When I saw all those rainbow colours, I thought of the old Carmen Miranda movies where she wore hats that looked like a bowl of fruit. (No, I'm not that old! :eek:

The other thing I thought of was that the Eliptical Envelope rainbow row would be good to use for dragon scales. Voila! A rainbow dragon!

lol!!! I feel like a big kid! :cool:

Thanks for explaining Tom. I'm sometimes dense and slow on following (can't be I'm getting old, must be short attention span :rolleyes: ).
There is a utility available on the XaraXone that will name the colours for you. I'll have to give it a try to see how it works.


Doug I am old enough to remember Carman Miranda movies :) I was always facinated how she could balance that heavy load of fruit on her head and dance :D

Rainbow dragon scales, OH that does sound like a lot of fun to try.
Xara programs can make all of us feel like kids again :D

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Originally Posted by Soquili

Doug I am old enough to remember Carman Miranda movies :) I was always facinated how she could balance that heavy load of fruit on her head and dance :D

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An acquired skill (talent?) indeed! :-)

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Rainbow dragon scales, OH that does sound like a lot of fun to try.
Xara programs can make all of us feel like kids again :D

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I wish my sketching/drawing skills were better, I'd come up with a dragon or two for your scales. Something like the cartoon dragon from Weta's Jane and the Dragon: http://www.ytv.com/programming/shows/Jane_Dragon/

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Originally Posted by Soquili

Thanks for explaining Tom. I'm sometimes dense and slow on following (can't be I'm getting old, must be short attention span :rolleyes: ).
There is a utility available on the XaraXone that will name the colours for you. I'll have to give it a try to see how it works.


Doug I am old enough to remember Carman Miranda movies :) I was always facinated how she could balance that heavy load of fruit on her head and dance :D

Rainbow dragon scales, OH that does sound like a lot of fun to try.
Xara programs can make all of us feel like kids again :D

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Bill, can you remember the name of the 'Color' Namer/ReNamer Utility?

And, did anyone see Carman Miranda in Post World War II movie, Solders on Train and Carman was getting 'Flying' Lesson from one... (took me back to childhood when you guys start talking about her - I remember some of the few movies & TV appearances where I saw her... Thanks for the Memories)

Old Tom ;-^) :D

Tom the utility was created by Brian Etherington and is named XColour.

You can down load it from Gary's XaraXone Shareware area. http://www.xaraxone.com/html/shareware.html

There is also a link to one of Egg Bramhill's tutorial showing how to use XColour.

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Originally Posted by Soquili

I'm not sure if anyone else will be interested in this. On the chance it may help someone or be of use, here are some glass/gel like circles with an assortment of colour combinations.

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Thanks for that Bill .. as someone else remarked - it will be a most useful time saver.

Glad it can be of use to you Raymond.

It occured during a bit of playing around using the Alt-Rainbow style for a blend. Starting with a blue gel button and blending between it and a clone. The alt rainbow created some nice colour combinations.

That lead to creating another colour gel button and trying the blend from the blue to a mauve with alt rainbow. Then blue to green, then mauve to green and it could go on and on.

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Originally Posted by Soquili

... it could go on and on.

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You have around twenty million colors with which to play ... why stop now? :p