April 2013 Video Tutorial: Making a Diffuse Shadow

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Because April's Big News—the release of Web Designer 9—is the top story at the Xara Xone, I've made a shorter video tutorial this month, covering a real simple but elegant thing: the creation of a diffuse shadow using Live Effects in Xara Designer.

Watch it here

The reason I wrote this is because I'm seeing a lot of soft shadows like those Photoshop used to produce with the Gaussian Blur filter, and very crisp shadows, but not ones whose edges are rough, suggesting overcast lighting and/or a rough surface.

Let's talk about it here, and by the way, I created a tutorial and a Giveaway this month of seamless textures for web pages as a complement to Gary P.'s piece on WD9.

My Best,

Gary