The Pelican Brief (or How to create a Motion Blur)

[Big Frank]

Those of you who check the Xtreme Plugins forum from time to time may have been following the recent "realistic motion blur" thread using Xara Xtreme. This is something that might appear to be difficult when, using Photoshop or other raster apps, this would appear to be so easy.

Here is my take on it, the Pelican Brief (apologies in advance for the rather large image):

[sallybode]

Excellent explanation.

[David O'Neil]

That is a very powerful technique, Big Frank. Thanks for sharing it!

David

[suunto]

great tutorial Frank in fact its the first time i've followed one and got it exactly as shown first time

[sculptex]

nice effect. when I went to try it out, my blend tool doesn't seem to be working? not used the blend tool for ages!

didn't even get to live effect bit! not even tried that feature since getting xtreme!

on 2.0f btw. any ideas?

http://www.sculptex.co.uk/uploads/blendnotworking.png
http://www.sculptex.co.uk/uploads/blendnotworking.xar

[AndFarr]

Sculptex,
You need to set the line width to "None"
and increase the number of steps.

-Andy

[sculptex]

cheers andy, but the problem is that the 'tween stages of the bland do not have the transparency on them. I left only a few interpolates and the lines on to show the problem more clearly

[Egg Bramhill]

Sculptex,

Open your file.
Remove the blend.
Select each of the two shapes and Ungroup.
ReApply the transparencies to each shape.
Now reblend.
I think this time you'll get the desired effect.

[sculptex]

thanks egg. I am humbled.

pity i dont seem to have the blur installed to get the full effect.

[Egg Bramhill]

Sculptex,

The Blur Effect is the opposite to the Sharpen Effect and comes as standard. If you click on the Enhance plugin it opens the same window as the Auto-Enhance. If you adjust the slider on the bottom right, this either sharpens or blurs your image.