15 January in the Xara Xone - Guest Tutorial - FREE!

[gwpriester]

The January 15 Xara Xone

Guest Tutorial 83

Paul Söderholm is a treasure. And so is his Treasure Map Guest Tutorial. Recommended for users with some knowledge of Xtreme.

Your comments, kudos, and other nuggets are always appreciated. Honest.

Gary

[jvila]

wow, I didn't know I can use ctrl click to select and apply fills, transparencies, contours, etc to one of the objects of the group.
I've to read the manual more in detail.
Grate tutorial.
Thank you very much

[jvila]

wow, ctrl + click also works with clipviewed object, how a lot of work I could save if I'd know it !!!!!!!
lets take a drink !!!!!!!!!

[angelize]

Great tutorial, it was a lot of fun. Here is my result.

[Albacore]

Can Paul or someone not as stupid as me tell me why he drew the island, then made bitmap copy and then did an auto trace of the copy? The only thing that I can think of is to get rid of the smoothness of the drawing.

[gnurf]

Albacore, you are quite correct: I did the trace to achieve a more hand drawn look. If you are happy with a smooth look, then just skip the tracing parts. I traced the paper for the same reason.

I was in a bit of a hurry to finish the tutorial and the reason for bitmap tracing got lost somewhere on the way:
I have noticed that you cannot achieve a smooth trace of black&white/grayscale bitmaps with Xara's tracer like in Adobe Illustrator or Corel Trace, so I have decided to take advantage of the crappy feature when I like to get scratchy hand drawn images. I often mix scanned images with digitally made line art, and turn the digitally made stuff into fake hand drawn object with the tracing technique.