Lets play to get Effects

**jvila** · 09 November 2009, 11:34 AM

Yes John, you already have the swing

Go for more !!!!!

**jvila** · 10 November 2009, 10:55 AM

One more

**zaphodeist** · 10 November 2009, 12:14 PM

Wow! Extremely effective chrome Javier

**iamtheblues** · 11 November 2009, 11:30 AM

¡Brillante! true to life chrome. There is a book by Douglas Adams "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy" in which the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything is revealed and that answer is 42. Your post #42 is the answer to the meaning of chrome! The Holy Grail has been found in Montevideo!
Very well done, Javier. ¿Any chance of showing us how you did this one?
Saludos,
Bob.

**jvila** · 11 November 2009, 12:13 PM

Hello Friends,
Thank you very much Neodeist for playing with me in this thread.
Bob, What can I say more than GRACIAS, como siempre tus comentarios son de lo mas amables.
About show you how this was achieved I'm uploading the xar file, the way of get the effect is the same mentioned in this thread, you can see that 2 ways exists, one using Blend tool and another using Contour, in the last examples I used those technics with bitmaps, some of those bitmaps were created by me just using the fill tool of xara and convert it to bitmap, in this case you'll see I used a picture as a bitmap.
Anyway if you have any doubt, I'm here to help.
The idea of this thread is to play together and show our achievement using those technics or another, without using pluggins or live effects.
As I mentioned this is the result of trying to get chrome in an easy way.
Best regards and thank you very much from Montevideo.

**jvila** · 11 November 2009, 12:18 PM

Fellows,
One detail I forgot, select the fill tool, click over the image and move the center, size, etc of the fill tool arrows to see how you can change the effect.
That's all folks.

**Big Frank** · 25 January 2012, 02:01 PM

Javier, that's magnificently drawn chrome!

**wizard509** · 25 January 2012, 02:47 PM

Blends and transparencies?

**jvila** · 25 January 2012, 03:21 PM

Originally Posted by wizard509

Blends and transparencies?

Larry,
I didn't understand the question?

**wizard509** · 25 January 2012, 03:35 PM

Javier I was trying to figure out on my own how you did that. At the time I didn't notice all the other pages and the solution to the problem. So I guess my question is null and void.