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It works very well, even a two minute job passes muster.
Bob.

Thanks for the tute, Frances, easy to understand and simple to put into effect. It's realistic and works very well.
Thanks for the free texture, too.
Bob.

May I be the first to congratulate you for a great tutorial. Despite the complexity, I found it easy to follow and understand. Your explanations are clear and the speed of delivery is spot on....

A marvellous composition from the bat frame to the skin tones, to the window textures and hair details, this is top notch.
Bob.

Here is a nice little free program, Stipplegen2. It creates an .svg file from .jpg, .gif and .png images.
It's quick to learn how to use, and I recommend going to the Wiki to find out how to get...

I think you will all enjoy seeing this.
Bob.

Elsewhere, in the Fonts and Typography Forum, I posted an example of some hand lettering I made using the Shape Tool.
Here's a less laborious way of creating the effect, which is still vector, but...

To escape the wet and cold weather on the Altiplano de Granada, we took a mini break in the equally cold and wet Axarquia region. We took a day trip to a favourite haunt of ours to enjoy a curry and...

Thanks, Peter. Simple but effective.
Bob.

Firstly, don't rotate the letters, leave them as they are. With a letter selected, use the Mould Tool (Default Perspective Envelope on the info bar) to manipulate it to the shape you need.
I have...

When working with text, quite often I modify fonts by various means: mould tool, combining shapes, etc., and as a result the External Resources panel will no long display any font information. As...

Attached is a .xar file and a .png of a method for creating highlights to add to your lettering.
I used Milk Script (warning: captcha solving required to download) to achieve this, it's a nice retro...

It can be annoying (even startling) when you have many tabs open in your browser to suddenly hear unexpected music.
Here's a link to how you can stop this happening in Firefox, Chrome, Safari and...

Wow! More than just interesting.
Bob.

I sleep the sleep of the just...in my defense, I don't force anyone to make the things. ;)
Bob.

Two Bits (I thought everyone knew that!)
Bob.

Here is a drawing of a barber pole made with XDP 8. I downloaded a photo for reference, and made a bitmap trace using Illustrator's Live Trace tool set for 16 colours. The chrome parts of the tracing...

Texters' version of "mediator"?
Bob.

As Gary has said, you have a couple of clipped groups. If you set the view quality slider and reduce to the lowest (wireframe) setting, you will see that you have two rectangles, one around the...

Wow! I really like this. The style puts me in mind of the work of Peter Firmin he of "Noggin The Nog" fame.
Bob.

Wish I new how to commit things to top-level memory, Steve. Guess I must have forgotten. ;)
In no particular order here are some films I could watch many times (no low-level memory either).
Cinema...

Since emigrating from the UK to Spain in 2001, I have rarely seen a newspaper. I only ever used to buy one (The Times) to get my daily fix of the cryptic crossword, which used to be handily...

Depending on what you want to do, either type your text in a vector program and then select your oval and the text and use the fit the text to a curve option, or type your text and (if you are using...

Re-open your saved file and from the View Menu, select Preview from the drop down menu that opens (at the top).
Bob.

To me "New" is new and that hardly describes a product that has been on the shelf about a year, although as it is unused, it is still new. "Current" is more honest, but I suppose "Latest" might still...