August 15 Xara Xone - Workbook 62 - Egg's YouTube Tutorial

[gwpriester]

The August 15 Xara Xone



Fun. Free.

Comments?

Gary

[ankhor]

The August 15 Xara Xone

Fun. Free.

Comments?

Gary

In an egg shell? Great flash about a great tutorial, Me like very much.

[DGehman]

Eggsellent tutorial, as always from this inimitable source - well done.

The cover of the 'Xone - I can't get Babelfish to make much of the cover copy...

[David O'Neil]

Another tip.

One of the limitations of the plasma fills that is visible on your horseshoe is that the plasma pattern repeats itself, and doesn't come across as natural because of that. A way around this is to copy the shape with the fill, modify the fill (scale it and rotate it a bit), and then apply a flat transparency to the copy.

Here is a quick, imperfect recreation without the noticeable pattern.

[handrawn]

thats a good example of rust you got there David - a good tip

[gwpriester]

Brilliant, David. Great tip.

Gary

[gwpriester]

More shoes.

You can go nuts layering different fractal plasma fills and plasma transparencies.

[David O'Neil]

I'm glad you like it. Your gel button tutorial is what ultimately prompted me to figure it out. I think the same technique should be usable to get pretty effective skin tones--haven't tried it yet, though.

[David O'Neil]

PS - Here's a file to play with if you want. You can undo the clipview and modify the fills, select everything in the clipview layer, and reapply the clipview, so the button is fully editable without having to recreate it to change the fractal stuff.