I've been trialling Xtreme 4 for a few days and haven't actually got around to doing anything much with it yet. I've been too distracted working my way through the back postings on this forum.
I think I must have trialled every version since X1 and have never taken the plunge and bought the software. The speed was awesome, right from the early days. I do own other Xara bits and pieces though.
Thought Xtreme might replace my aged copy of Freehand MX and the horrible, slightly newer, but rarely used, Coral Suite I own. I have Photoshop too, so it's vector capabilities I'm looking for.
Is there an eraser lurking somewhere in the Xtreme interface that I haven't found yet?
I gather one cannot load anything other than the default brush collection or save brushes to a collection. Am I correct in this assumption?
Decent brush support and an eraser are such basic tools in any graphics software be it Raster or Vector. I think I must just not be able to find them yet. Can somebody please show me where they are hiding? Layers seem a little clunky to use too.
Felt I just had to say what a really great bunch of kind, helpful people hang out here. Bouquets to all of you. Just love the genial one-up-manship that takes place and the incredible patience of some of the expert users have with bumbling beginner's problems.
Such a nice place to visit.
Dale
03 June 2009, 04:04 PM
handrawn
Re: Brushes,eraser and a bouquet.
Hi welcome
no eraser I'm afraid [mores the pity]
if you use freehand brush you can hold down shift and backtrack undoing what you have just drawn [before you release mouse/pen]
apart from that, erasing is done by subtracting and intersecting shapes
loading an xtreme brush is easy - you just open the file with it in and it loads into memory - once used in your workfile and saved you can close the brush xar file
making brush libraries similar - just save a xar file with brush stroke[s] in to open when required as above
too many brushes open at once will slow things down
layers need an overhaul - so do brushes for that matter - much requested here :)
03 June 2009, 06:25 PM
gwpriester
Re: Brushes,eraser and a bouquet.
Nice to have you here Dale. :)
Erasers are generally found in bitmap editing programs like Photoshop. Because to a photo editor, everything is a pixel.
There are always ways to remove portions of a vector object, such as the Combine Shapes functions, but no eraser.
03 June 2009, 11:30 PM
kinetica
Re: Brushes,eraser and a bouquet.
What does the famed Illustrator "eraser" do that you cannot do by simply deleting nodes or shapes? I wish somebody could explain this to me because people coming to Xtreme from Illustrator really seem to be hung up on it. I mean, who needs an eraser...? :rolleyes:
BTW: You can try this method with any graphics software ;)
04 June 2009, 08:17 AM
handrawn
Re: Brushes,eraser and a bouquet.
ho ho :D - true enough Steve if you want to simply delete
'erasing' artistically is not simply deleting though, its a way of shaping the object [think 'sculpting'] - the illustrator eraser does this very well and very quickly - personally I think it should have been called a '2D sculpt' tool
04 June 2009, 08:30 AM
zaphodeist
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Re: Brushes,eraser and a bouquet.
Thanks Steve. I printed out the image and pasted it on the button shown below - can't wait to try it ... :D