drawing with automatically closing shapes

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drawing this way freehand, with a tablet, can produce some interesting artistic effects tending towards the abstract maybe - I've been experimenting for Gary's cartoon show
you can use a mouse too

in order to do it [ Designer Pro 6]:

open new document
activate mask mode
in the page&layer gallery make the normal layer active
make the mask layer visible
draw [on the active normal layer]

by default the mask is 50% transparent - I changed this [using xareg] to 99% transparent, so that effectively it was not visible at all whilst drawing

you can draw on more than one normal layer - but each time you add one, the mask layer will be set non-visible, so you will need to change this back

And I'd be interested in knowing whether this works for others, as its always possible I've done something in the registry....

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mouse - but still freehand, with no post manipulation of shapes..

[masque]

steve
forming shapes that automatically close and fill while you are drawing is usually seen as a problem but these little acidents can sometime prove very interesting, as you've shown.
Derek

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Hi Derek



its a bit like using a brush with a rather complicated make up

especially with transparency made current

apologies to Bob and his cat