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  1. #1
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    Default Brushes,eraser and a bouquet.

    Hi,

    I've been trialling Xtreme 4 for a few days and haven't actually got around to doing anything much with it yet. I've been too distracted working my way through the back postings on this forum.

    I think I must have trialled every version since X1 and have never taken the plunge and bought the software. The speed was awesome, right from the early days. I do own other Xara bits and pieces though.

    Thought Xtreme might replace my aged copy of Freehand MX and the horrible, slightly newer, but rarely used, Coral Suite I own. I have Photoshop too, so it's vector capabilities I'm looking for.

    Is there an eraser lurking somewhere in the Xtreme interface that I haven't found yet?

    I gather one cannot load anything other than the default brush collection or save brushes to a collection. Am I correct in this assumption?

    Decent brush support and an eraser are such basic tools in any graphics software be it Raster or Vector. I think I must just not be able to find them yet. Can somebody please show me where they are hiding? Layers seem a little clunky to use too.

    Felt I just had to say what a really great bunch of kind, helpful people hang out here. Bouquets to all of you. Just love the genial one-up-manship that takes place and the incredible patience of some of the expert users have with bumbling beginner's problems.

    Such a nice place to visit.

    Dale

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    Default Re: Brushes,eraser and a bouquet.

    Hi welcome

    no eraser I'm afraid [mores the pity]

    if you use freehand brush you can hold down shift and backtrack undoing what you have just drawn [before you release mouse/pen]

    apart from that, erasing is done by subtracting and intersecting shapes

    loading an xtreme brush is easy - you just open the file with it in and it loads into memory - once used in your workfile and saved you can close the brush xar file

    making brush libraries similar - just save a xar file with brush stroke[s] in to open when required as above

    too many brushes open at once will slow things down

    layers need an overhaul - so do brushes for that matter - much requested here
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    Default Re: Brushes,eraser and a bouquet.

    Nice to have you here Dale.

    Erasers are generally found in bitmap editing programs like Photoshop. Because to a photo editor, everything is a pixel.

    There are always ways to remove portions of a vector object, such as the Combine Shapes functions, but no eraser.

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    Default Re: Brushes,eraser and a bouquet.

    What does the famed Illustrator "eraser" do that you cannot do by simply deleting nodes or shapes? I wish somebody could explain this to me because people coming to Xtreme from Illustrator really seem to be hung up on it. I mean, who needs an eraser...?

    http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/t...ara/eraser.png

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    Default Re: Brushes,eraser and a bouquet.

    LOL, kinetica.

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    Default Re: Brushes,eraser and a bouquet.

    The Freehand Tool can work as an eraser.

    No I'm not referring to using a shift key before releasing the left mouse button.

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    Default Re: Brushes,eraser and a bouquet.

    nice video Bill - this is not what the illustrator eraser does of course [I'm sure you know that]

    the attachment below is a procedure in xtreme

    the illustrator eraser does this procedure in one operation - a single stroke

    you can begin and end eraser strokes anywhere you like, even from outside the object

    if they ever get a free form eraser that would be cool
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    Default Re: Brushes,eraser and a bouquet.

    Try holding down the 'Erase' key on your keyboard while pointing to the parts of the drawing you don't want.

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    If your keyboard has no erase key, you can get one here.

    BTW: You can try this method with any graphics software

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    Default Re: Brushes,eraser and a bouquet.

    ho ho - true enough Steve if you want to simply delete

    'erasing' artistically is not simply deleting though, its a way of shaping the object [think 'sculpting'] - the illustrator eraser does this very well and very quickly - personally I think it should have been called a '2D sculpt' tool
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    Default Re: Brushes,eraser and a bouquet.

    Thanks Steve. I printed out the image and pasted it on the button shown below - can't wait to try it ...
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