Glossy-Shine effect?

[YUMMYGRL]

How do I apply the glossy,shiny effect onto an image. Like on the car images featured in the gallery.
Kinda like a wet look.

[raynerj1]

usually, this is either just a fade from one color to another, or in the case of more complex drawings, is is usually an elliptical transparency or multiple transparency layered to give that "wet" look.

Here is a very crude example... The red square would be the car body color. The tranparency, the highlight.

Remember, shadows are just as important as highlights to get the feeling of depth.

When I first tried this type of art, I made the mistake of using shades that where too different. A subtle difference in shade is much more realistic.

[steve.ledger]

I thought we answered this in your other thread?

My advice it to use the freely available tutorials, examples and tips that you have already been pointed to.
I also recommend using the Forum Search facility to find plenty of help with any questions regarding techniques that you might have and which are sure to have been covered already over the years.

If you have some specific problems please feel free to ask, but generalising 'How does he do this" and "How do I apply the glossy, shiny effect' is fairly generic.

[alexbozhenov]

To start with tutorials from the Xara Xone would be the best )

[YUMMYGRL]

We did but I had posted this up before I saw your reply

[Improv]

We did but I had posted this up before I saw your reply

So you've gone through 11 years + of tutorials, workbooks, guest tutorials,etc on XaraXone since the suggestion was made? Wow!

[Soquili]

There are many different techniques to create Glossy and/or Shiney.

It depends on what you want to achieve at the time you create the objects within your drawing.

[Soquili]

A few more examples.

[Seagull]

Hey Bill & John

Personally, I would like to thank both of you for your posting on this thread. This is the kind of helpful and friendly info that seems to me was posted when I first joined the forum. This last year I seem to see more and more short and sarcastic replys which, as a neutral reader, seem to insult and embarass many new members which a good way discourage them from writing again.

Don't get me wrong people, I am not referring to anything in this particular thread as wrong or insulting but am rather saying that I think Bills reply was the most helpful and more in the tradition of the old days. I can't telll you how many xara files I have downloaded in the past to tear apart while trying to see how it was created. The only thing that wears thin sometimes is how many times something is requested without the person doing a search, but that is what being new is about and where the old hands can help the most, redirecting the newby in the right direction....after all, many times they are not refering to freebees, just asking for help..............frank

Hey Bill, slow down. You've posted twice again while I was writing this letter

[Soquili]

Ok Frank I'll slow down now.

One more example before I go. Need some sleep before going to work again in a few hours.