snow

[mags]

mum has asked me to make a picture 'winterlike' so it can be used for a xmas card.

have found a tutorial of gary's (excellent as always), a december one, cant recall what year off the top of my head but, in it he shows how to make snow falling,

one down, one to go - want to make it look in the picture that it has already snowed, ie, snow sitting on ledges - i (being the extremely novice person that i am) am thinking of approaching this by using the shape editor tool, drawing shapes of where the snow would be lying, filling with white and feathering. has anyone got any better methods or ideas of making this effect?

[mags]

mum has asked me to make a picture 'winterlike' so it can be used for a xmas card.

have found a tutorial of gary's (excellent as always), a december one, cant recall what year off the top of my head but, in it he shows how to make snow falling,

one down, one to go - want to make it look in the picture that it has already snowed, ie, snow sitting on ledges - i (being the extremely novice person that i am) am thinking of approaching this by using the shape editor tool, drawing shapes of where the snow would be lying, filling with white and feathering. has anyone got any better methods or ideas of making this effect?

[gwpriester]

Why reinvent the wheel? There is a fill in the Fill Gallery called snow. Use it. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif[/img]

Actually snow is white and the shapes are very subtle and soft. Shadows usually are bluish because of the influence of the sky.

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[mags]

and here was me thinking i'd done my research without jumping in with both feet first and posting uncessarily - sorry!

cant believe (well i can actually!) that i never thought of checking out the fills

thanks.

[gnurf]

A small trick I found out when playing with profiles, is the following example:

Draw a rectangle with a dark (marine blue) fill that will work as a background. Make a copy of it (Ctrl+K) and give the copy a white fill. Apply plasma transparency and "shrink" it so you get a "tighter" pattern. Give the transparency the profile you see in the attached image, and voil

-Paul

[Wolfgang]

Seems like I never stop learning ...
Thanks Paul, great tip !!!

Wolfgang

[mags]

i love your 'trick'.

ps: dont seem like i'll never stop learning, i KNOW i'll never stop learning - the knowledge, tips, hints and advice on this forum is absolutely outstanding

[Ross Macintosh]

That is indeed a great tip for using fractal fills. I'd bet there are hundreds of things that could be done using them... Hmmm, perhaps there's a tip challenge in there. How about we post ideas for possible uses of xara's fractal fills, and as Paul has done, give a clear indication of the settings necessary??

Regards, Ross

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