Could you post a simple examples of what you would like to accomplish? Your question is not very clear (to me at least )
Risto
Could you post a simple examples of what you would like to accomplish? Your question is not very clear (to me at least )
Risto
yes.. let me do up something real quick and that will help me in my poor attempt to explain !!
ok.. this is just a quick example.. I drew a holly leaf and want to move them around and have some appear to be behind and move them around and eventually have the shape of a wreath.. see how messy it gets? Is there a way to have the overlapping lines cut off?? I want to end up exporting the finished shape as an .AI image so that I can use it in another way... so I want to keep all the basic lines... I can't have it be solid white or once I export as an .AI image it will be solid black.
Does that make sense??
HI TammyKat,
Try filling in all the leaves with any color, or lots of different colours to make it easier to distinguish (and select) them, place them where you want, and when you are happy with the result, select them all and click on the mesh icon on the left of the colour line, and the fills will disappear.
Saludos,
Bob.
** Detailed "Create A Spinning Logo Tutorial" is available in .pdf format for download at this link **
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx.
But in the end won't I still have all the overlapping lines showing? I need them to not show through the other leaves...
Maybe I should show you guys what I want it too look like in the end by adding the color white... and then maybe it will be easier.
Last edited by Egg Bramhill; 22 September 2007 at 03:27 AM. Reason: Deleted unnecessary quote of the post above ~ Egg
ok.. see how this looks... this is how I want my end result to look.. but I can't have a fill color of white or any other color or else when I export as an .AI file and try to use it I will have solid black instead of the outlines that I need.
Does this make any sense yet to anyone?
No it won't be black in Illustrator. Exports from Xara work well in Adobe programs.
I don't use Illustrator, but I know Albacore does, he may be able to clarify what you need to do when you import into Illustrator, but if you put each holly leaf on a separate layer and then name each layer, remove the ouline colour and the fill and then export that to Illustrator, will you be able to do the necessary once it's imported into Illustrator?
Saludos,
Bob.
** Detailed "Create A Spinning Logo Tutorial" is available in .pdf format for download at this link **
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx.
You can make your outlined leaf into a brush. In the movies that come with your programme have a look at "creating a brush, + editing a brush". These movies are found under Help, then down to Movies, the scroll down to Lines & Shapes and then tick the movie you would like to see. Play about with these brushes they may help. Took the ivy shape straight out of the clip art
Last edited by Albacore; 20 September 2007 at 04:05 PM.
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ok.. so what will creating it as a brush help me to accomplish?
This isn't a smart alecy question.. lol I'm serious.. I know it might come across differently...
I totally appreciate the help.
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