Hi There, 'artsmith' here from Dunedin near the foot of New Zealand's South Island at 45 deg. south.
I create transparent overlays to feature in films I have created. The usual format is white lines of various thicknesses against a transparent background. What I wish to achieve is those lines only, plus such other detail as I elect to use against a transparent background which allows digital stills and live movie material to continue in the meantime under the 'overlays' and remain visible at all times. Previously I have used Ulead's 'Photo-Impact 11', but that is pixel and not vector-based, and material had to be created on enormous rasters to keep pixellation at bay.
Since I intend to use 'Xara' for as many graphics functions as I can, I would like to be able to produce this effect, without leaving 'Xara', and running the risk of creating the pixellation I am trying so hard to avoid. This surely must be possible and I would welcome any 'pointers'. I might add, that I have used 'Xara' in several of its versions and am not exactly a 'Bunny' with it, as I am partway through animating frame-by-frame the breakup of Gondwanaland, (The Great Southern Continent), beginning at 250m years ago. That is a side interest which has developed from an interest in Palaeo-Geography. It is also relevant to my present five-year documentary project, because all of our country's bird-life has migrated to NZ from there; 'Zealandia' the world's eighth continent, of which New Zealand, as well as New Caledonia are almost the only visible parts, having been 'drowned' between 63m years ago and 43m years ago.
Previously I have traced, in multiple layers over material downloaded from 'Google Earth', very successfully as it happens. Irrespective of the format I do my graphics in, usually 3840 x 2160
or 'twice full-size' it will finally be used at the High Definition screen-size of 1920 x 1080, if that is any help.
If you have any suggestions, I would be grateful to hear of them.
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