Layers (rust thread going on a tangent here)

[Ross Macintosh]

Yes Wayne that could work and yes it would be similar to the 'powerpoint' idea. One advantage of doing multi-page layouts that way could be that your grid and guidelines would stay standardized throughout. If you didn't overburden Xara with thousands of objects it would probably work fine. Toggling between layers would be like flipping pages in a book - and each layer could be a two page spread.

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[Truroneil]

Wayne, Thanks for starting this thread, and for the comments by others. I'm trying to learn about layers and this thread helps. I sometimes scan/import some b&w pen drawings into Xara where I colour them. Using layers for different segments of the drawing - leaves, trunk/limbs, grass, etc., I use the freehand tool, trace over sections of my original and add the colours and transparencies I want. Seems to be working well.
Neil

[bcdeb]

I've read it all, and I still believe layers could be a useful tool that I'd like to explore.
I suppose it doesn't really matter which App I learn to use layers in - whether photoshop or XaraX - it will work the same in both. So I'll check out the tutorials section in Talkgraphics and see if there are any tutorials on layers.

[gwpriester]

Deb -- Have you looked at THIS PAGE. It is not a tutorial, as such, but I think it does a fair to passing job of explaining the Layers Gallery and how it works. How you use layers, as the posts in this thread attest, is up to you.

Wayne, and all -- Great ideas about Layers. I found CorelDRAW's object manager tries to do too much. While the icons of objects is nice (I belive FreeHand or Illustrator did this first) the rest of the Object Manager is too busy for me. I get easily confused not being a logical and organized person.

The most layers I have worked with at one time is 9, and they all had feathers. They were chickens :-)

Gary

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[Delta Moon]

Gary...
I was just working on a masthead that I wanted to do flyout rollover text on. After many attempts at trying to make it work, I found this eggcellent TuT from, who else?............

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~eg...tutorial/1.htm

I found just working through it showed me the power of using layers. I could change colors, text, even images by the layer gallery, not having to depend on the button tool. Also, I can move my red guidelines to the top by simply moving the guideline layer from the background to the top layer.

Well, I still have an awful lot of work to do on this page but, if you'd like to see it, you can go to:

www.deltamoon.addr.com

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