Custom Splash Screens

[Rik]

Gary.

My comments about your x10 splashscreen were meant as a very big complement.

I enjoy the splashscreen I'm using at the moment. I like what I designed and I look forward to it loading up.
For the moment of time it's there, I let it say whatever it wants to say!

Hopefully what I was trying to say about your effort was that:-
1. I like it very much.
2. I would have to work quite hard to come up with an alternative, if indeed that was the splashscreen for X10.
3. Might only have taken you about an hour to knock-up - looks like a week's worth of work for me.

And lastely, you have to come up with the idea, in the first place.

So, if yours was loading up, I would be thinking, "What on earth can I come up with?!"

[Big Frank]

And lastely, you have to come up with the idea, in the first place

technique can be learned
but imagination
ye gods
thats the holy grail

[Gare]

Time to hit the Rum, I think.

..well almost. Too much thinking going on.

"Too much thinking going on" strongly indicates that it's the perfect time to hit the Rum, Paul.

I'm buying.



(Oh, wait. A Good Moderator can't drink at work...)

My Best,

Gary

[pauland]

LOL, I like that!

[Boy]

I'm not a good Moderator!

Maybe not but you are a good teacher and art critic!

[BONES]

Here's my proper one. It continues my current favourite theme, post-apocalypse, and it was done entirely in Xara (of course), even though it is composed completely of bitmaps from my collection of grunge stock. The text is just trimmed from the original splash screen and blended.

I just love using Xara like Photoshop. The only thing that it's missing is the ability to easily clip the final image to a specific canvas size.

[Big Frank]

Lovely graphic, Bones.

I just love using Xara like Photoshop. The only thing that it's missing is the ability to easily clip the final image to a specific canvas size.

Agreed, although the workaround is probably as quick as a specific function would be.

[BONES]

What workaround? The only thing I can think of is to place an object behind everything else and use it as clipping object, which I don't see as easy at all. I'd be keen for a better solution if you have one?

It would be great if you could make it a parameter for the page - just a check-box with something like "Clip output to page size". Autodesk Combuston does it really well, allowing you to see what's outside the frame by turning off "Clip to composite edges" in the View menu.

[steve.ledger]

It would be great if you could make it a parameter for the page - just a check-box with something like "Clip output to page size".

But you can, and always have been as far as I recall.
In your bitmap export settings>>bitmap size, select Area to save as 'page' And the export will be clipped to the page size.

[Big Frank]

What workaround? The only thing I can think of is to place an object behind everything else and use it as clipping object, which I don't see as easy at all. I'd be keen for a better solution if you have one?

All I do is create a rectangle corresponding to the size of image I want to export and set it to the back. Then, with it still selected, I click export. I use it all the time and, frankly, nothing could be easier.

It would be great if you could make it a parameter for the page - just a check-box with something like "Clip output to page size".

As Steve said, that already exists.