Farewell But Not Goodbye

[ZEBtoonz]

Hey, Gary, glad I caught this announcement, I would have been sad to have missed it. I haven't been as active here on the forum as I was in the past due to my recent shift in attention to animation, but I still visit every other day or two. I am thankful to know you and for the help you have been to me in my freelance career with the various featured artist shows you have put up, your great tutorials which I have followed step by step, your help here on the forum. You're a true friend and mentor and I owe you a lot. Have a good break from the grind and may you be able to follow your dreams at your leisure and produce more stereograms and images that both inspire and instruct us. You're a great guy and good friend!

[gwpriester]

Thank you everyone for your generous praise. I should have retired long ago.

[jimhanus]

Gary,
I echo the comments of everyone else. Thanks for your sincere help. Some users comments come off as a little condescending, but yours were always very supportive and professional. I'll miss them.

Jim

[tonylondon]

I owe you a debt too, Gary, for getting me started, and providing encouragement when I most needed it. How you have managed to maintain your interest (or conceal your lack of it at times) and provide consistently good tutorials for so long, I really don't know. Anyway, have a good Christmas!

[Karateed]

Hi Gary,

Your tutorials have given me tools I never expected to have. I'm not a professional in using Xara software at all but you have given me the confidence to try some things and the results aren't bad, a good starting point for sure. I even dared put up my results of your tutorials every once in a while and I would not have except for the fact the tutorials you wrote were exquisetly done. Thank you for helping give me another area in my life where an artform can produce beauty in this life. You're sacrifice of time for so many has been nothing short of amazing and thanks are not nearly enough to express what you have given this community and on a personal note, myself.

I believe you have chosen a most noteworthy successor for the Xone. Gare is in his own rite nothing short of phenomenal when it comes to this program so a job very well done on all fronts. I look forward to the challenges that Gare will put forth for us and know already what a great help he has been to this community and will become even more so.

Thanks Gary for all the wonderful everythings that you've done for this community and thanks Gare for everything you're about to do for this community.

We are all receiving true education in it's finest forms from these masters.....

[jclements]

I salute you Gary.

I am not sure there are many of us who can truly appreciate the effort expended to produce the XaraXarone; coming up with new ideas each month, then executing them .... well, it is hard to comprehend.

My gratitude for all that you have contributed and the inspiration we have taken from it.

Warm regards, John

[TimS]

I can't add anything new to what has already been said, just Thanks Gary!!