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Thanks Bob - the freehand stroke shapes of xara are definitely one of its great strengths.

Good drawing Derek - especially as drawing from newspaper photos not ideal :)

I had a play with...

I like that - think I'll adopt it for a while [sorry egg :D - variety is the spice of life and all that.. the donkey lives on elsewhere.. ]
for the record [if/when I get fed up and change again]:

2.5 minutes with the tablet and blip stroke

[not seen the film - this is not intended to mimic it]

EDIT: - see avatar and next post

back to poster edges :D

raster
vector - xara
vector - inkscape

[again xar file 1.03 MB and inkscape pdf output over 2MB - xar file contains all three and pdf just the third - xara is good at...

one step intocartooning - but as you say raster - xara cat pic not best subject on reflection?

Hey - I've seen that program before somewhere - on one of these forums I think - but a search on intocartoon didn't show anything else - how things go round in circles :D
Thanks for reminding me...

Yep

the sort of thing a xara photographic scan is for [and other 'artistic effects' of the playful kind] - but 'easier' in raster

:)

lazy not going to get you far with that technique - I'll stick with the gillot pen, cos I'm lazy too :D

and finally a shot of the all vector result - xar file is 1MB [ there are a lot of shapes in a xara 10 pass photographic trace] so not posted unless anyone is interested

I enjoyed anyway :) -...

one stage further - this you can do in xara with the right filters [little ink pot and xero]

poster edges in photoshop may be the quickest 'one-touch' method for one sort of cartoon effect