Bug / Limitation with intersected photo

[instinctive.de]

Hi,

can anyone imagine how I can successfully export this project?

In the attached file, there's

1. On the left, a photo that has been posterized by using a contone and a hard fill profile,
2. In the middle, a bunch of Janinas,
3. On the right The result of the intersection of the former two.

However, as soon as I zoom further into the view, the intersected result gets completely distorted and unusable - this happens even on export.

Seems to be a bug - has anyone ever seen this happen?

Thanks

[handrawn]

you need to make a bitmap copy of your posterised photo and use that for the intersection

otherwise you run foul of xtreme's clipping [EDIT - by which I mean intersecting with a clipped photo is not a good way to do it IMO]

[instinctive.de]

Right, that worked, thanks a lot!

Still, doesn't seem completely "kosher" to me ;-) Maybe an interesting file for the devs...

[handrawn]

if you select your posterised clipped bitmap and open the bitmap tracer - you will see that as far as the tracer is concerned it is still the original color photo - to trace the posterised version, if you wanted to, you would need to make a bitmap copy first

something similar happens with intersecting a clipped photo I think

this is how it is with xtreme's non destructive editing - I make bitmap copy after bitmap copy after bitmap copy

they could scrap it for me - I keep originals anyway - but there you go, I guess it does have its uses every now and then

[instinctive.de]

Haha Well, let's be fair, it works pretty OK most of the time.

In this case though, it seems to be a renderer bug, as it is dependant on zoom level. It seems like as soon as you zoom in beyond a certain level, the rendered resolution of the bitmap fill suddenly drops considerably. It is still basically 'intact' if you look close.

[handrawn]

yes- true that there is a zoom dependant effect

could be the posterisation is not being interpreted correctly during the intersection of the original photo and the 'text shape'

switching to the fill tool verifies that the original photo is the fill as far as xtreme is concerned - maybe the xtreme renderer cannot cope?

[instinctive.de]

Seems to me the vector shape with all the letters is a bit too heavy and the renderer lowers (some of) its internal resolution beyond a certain zoom level.

DEVS?