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David,

It is done! I showed the final product to the marketing director and he really liked it.

I spent most of the weekend trying some of the new techniques and tips you gave, plus doing alot...

David,

Luck must be on my side. The marketing director had to leave early today and told me we would discuss the project sometime next week. So, that gives me the weekend to try and perfect this....

Ahhh, so you cheated and did a reverse color matching tecnique! Unfortunately, I don't have the luxury of doing that. I must use my company's custom colors

R-82.4
G-7.5
B-27.8

Unless you...

Ok, David, I tried to recreate your "Lavender Lincoln" but couldn't do it.

I downloaded the file you included. I imported a new Lincoln image. Went to bump map. Inverted it right away, then...

David,

I actually tried what you suggested with the "light" option and matching it to the background color but I ran into brick walls on that. The custom color editor that is available on the 3D...

David, I ended up coming across the same procedure before I read your post. I am having alot of problems getting the color to match my background color. Plus, I can't see to get rid of the square...

My printer toner is done...two days before a major print, go figure. So, I have to punt.

I called Staples (only gig in town to do printing) and they said they don't know how to print .xar files. I...

Okay, check out this file. This is where I am at this point. I've had to make some compromises because the true vacuum-packed/shrink-wrap effect wasn't happening.

I need help trying to equalize...

AndFarr - your suggestions are yielding some results but still not quite right. I will keep trying and tweaking.

ZEB - I didn't find any file folder in the Xara directory called "Artistic Filter"...

Remi,

Conceptually, I great idea - HOWEVER, I don't have an extra $300 lying around to go out and buy a vacuum pump to recreate the desired effect in an analog fashion. Plus, I'm not sure you can...

Alright, I though I would post this for those 'experts' out there that know how to get things done. I've tried to produce this effect for 2 hours and have not even got close.

The look:
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Egg,

Thanks for showing me this. 20 minutes to do all of it?!?!?! You have NO idea how envious I am that you can do it that fast. I have been working on this for DAYS!!! You hand drew the...

Handrawn & Xhris,

Once again, thank you!!

I followed your directions (Handrawn, excellent detail on how to do it all step by step) and it turned out great!

You guys rock! You should think...

Xhris or Handrawn,

If you could help, I would appreciate it. I have read and followed both of your instructions. I am still running into some problems. I have included the file. The top logo is...

Handrawn & Xhris,

THANK YOU!!

Thank you for posting some simple and to the point instructions on how to do this popular task. Your instructions should be made a sticky.

Ron,

You said that you were able to do the lettering on the curve in about 10 minutes. I have watched Egg's video on text on a curve - super frustrating, he's all over the place with his...

I have to agree with Rookie on the difficulty issues, and I am an educator of 15 years. I watched the video by EggBram and arrghhhhh...it was so hard to follow. Although I can appreciate his efforts,...

Can someone give me some step-by-step instructions on how to make text "follow" a curve - not text ON a curve.

I need to write a phrase that follows the curve of a shape but not touch it. It has...

Ron,

Okay...I tried your tutorial instructions. When I do Ctrl-4, it repositions the lines and increase the pie angle. Afterwards, break shapes is greyed-out and unavailable.

Any suggestions?
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Thanks to everybody who posted helpful links and info. I will try them all once I get home from this business trip - the reason I am working on graphics I have been asking about lately. I'm sure I...

I found this great tutorial on how to create these cool pie charts:

http://www.bartelme.at/journal/archive/creating_graphs/

...unfortunately, it was for Illustrator, and I don't own that...

Luciano,

I just tried your suggestion my appending .pdf to the Sheetz file I download. I attempted to open and import the file in Xara and got an error message; but when I did Ron's suggestion it...

Steveward, thanks on that keen suggestion about the Brand site. That helped alot.

Ron, as always, thanks for telling me how to open that puppy in Xara.

UserFriendly, thanks for the 1979 font. I...

Do you know of any tutorials that tell how to cut in half a drawn triangle in order to apply two different colors to it? I'm currently working on the rays.

Also, any tutorials how to make text...

Wow!!

Ron,

First, you must understand...I was not expecting you or anyone to do this for me. You just seem to know the ins and outs of this program and I am impressed how far you have gotten in...