"Glow" with text

[gwpriester]

Joel

Here are three ways to do it, the first example below uses the Glow Shadow (funny how obvious that was, eh) applied to the orange text. Then violet was dragged and dropped onto the glow shadow to make it violet.

In the second example, I created a duplicate of the orange text, made it violet, converted it to a TrueColor bitmap, copied and pasted in into SL-Blur (Free in the Shareware page) added a 15 blur, with Add Border checked, then copied and pasted it back into Xara and dropped it under the orange text.

The third example uses the Contour you're not having any luck with. Copy the orange text to the clipboard. Change the color of the text to medium violet, then apply your Contour to outside. Drag while onto the contour to make it fade to white. Paste the orange text on top (Shift Ctrl V)

This what you wanted to do?

Gary

Gary Priester

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[This message was edited by Gary W. Priester on April 28, 2001 at 11:04 AM.]