Xara Speed

[pauland]

hey remi,
i think i understand now but if a photo is used for the car and horses how do they become vector graphics? so they can be scaled up
please spell it out as up until a few weeks ago i didn't fully understand what a vector graphic was
i'm learning loads on this site though and pictures like the ones in this thread are an inspiration (SP)

Xtreme handles bitmaps (photos) as a shape or as a fill for a vector shape. If the photo has enough resolution there's no need to scale it up - more likely it will be scaled down.

Paul

[suunto]

Xtreme handles bitmaps (photos) as a shape or as a fill for a vector shape. If the photo has enough resolution there's no need to scale it up - more likely it will be scaled down.

Paul

thanks paul, what are the options if the photo doen'st have enough resolution?

[pauland]

thanks paul, what are the options if the photo doen'st have enough resolution?

LOL - get a photo with higher resolution!

You can stretch a bitmap, but the more you do it, the more pixellated it will become.

Why not experiment for yourself - import a bitmap to Xtreme and just play. That's the best way to learn.

Paul

[behzad]

Hi, love your work.
Just wanted to know if you do the masking of your images in xara as well or you do them in photoshop?

Thanks

Oh are you Romanian, I used to live in Arad for 2.5 years.
Love Romania.

[accessD]

Like your works too.

My 2 cents about original question.

See following thread
http://talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=25762

Phil gives there Registry key which turns off compression of .XAR file.
Maybe it will speed up the thing a little, but expreiments are required.
Resulting file will be larger, but balance of speed and size depends of .XAR file.

If you will test it, please let us know about results.

[RAMWolff44]

I'm quite impressed. My goodness! Such good works there. Thanks for sharing and the tutorials are appreciated!

[Tallis]

Since the floor and dishes are taken care of, can I vollunteer for raking leaves, cleaning the pool, or taking out the garbage?

Wow. Marketing. These pieces should be front-and-center in Xara's marketing literature right now, and with Magix's budget ( hopefully ), the dominance of the usual suspects can begin its gradual decline...

And thanks for the pseudo-tutorial.

I too was wondering if there was a reply to Behzad's question-

"Just wanted to know if you do the masking of your images in xara as well or you do them in photoshop?"