An unstable effect

I just cannot hold a camera still resulting in the image.

Rich

Was this done in Xara, Rich?

Gary,

I did take the picture with camera. It is photo of a Christmas cactus flower. Hand held. I cut the image from the background in Xara. Then made pivot arm brush, and applied it to a straight line with a profile.

Rich

Hi Rich,

Would it be possible for you to do a small tutorial on how you did this......words don't always work for me, I sometimes need to see pictures and steps to get it.

Thanks either way,

Great drawing.

Ed,

I was trying to photograph the flowering plant. The image just turned out that way because I suffered nurve damage due to a blood condition. I very seldom draw because of other effects. I thought this was interesting and drew around the image with the Shape edit tool. At least I can still do something. Then used combine shape and intersect to get the foreground image. Made a bitmap copy of a redced size for the brush. Brushes rotate at the center of the graphic. I changed the center of rotation by adding a transparent line and groouping the two. The freehand tool lets you define the graphic as a brush. I drew a straight line and selected a line profile from the line gallery. Then edited the brush with the available paramaters.

Rich

The brush

Rich

You're the master of this, Rich.

Awesome Rich,

Thank you very much,

Similar thing with a blend. Drawn in Xara and colored in E3.

Rich

That produces a nice effect, Rich.