Xara Denim

**angelize** · 21 July 2015, 05:33 AM

This piece was inspired by Bob (iamtheblues) who posted a denim pocket down in the general graphics Gallery. Bob was using illy and a plugin and I decided to challenge myself and see what I could do using only Xara.

**pauland** · 21 July 2015, 07:30 AM

Stitching working beautifully. Studs, OK. Denim texture not quite there for me.

Nice job though, Frances.

Paul, the Denim appraiser.. ;-)

**Psaumure** · 21 July 2015, 07:56 AM

Excellent job Francis. I too like the stitching. But I also like the denim and rivets. I think the whole thing turned out well. What did you uses for the pattern of the denim? Did you set the stitching up with a brush?

**Albacore** · 21 July 2015, 09:43 AM

Hi Frances. A few years ago Gnurf did a denim texture as a result of one that I did in Illy. I tried it as well in Xara and couldn't get it to look the same it didn't have that woven look. Here's how Gnurf did it and he included a mini tut: http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...ighlight=denim
Sorry didn't mean to high-jack your thread thought it might help others.

**Rik** · 21 July 2015, 02:28 PM

The denim doesn't work for me.
But, the stitching is just great.

**angelize** · 21 July 2015, 07:39 PM

Thanks for comments everyone. The little mini tut from Gnurf will be helpful, I used a similar technique with layers of fractal fills and transparencies. I was going for a stonewashed look. The stitching and the gathered fabric around the stitches are two separate brushes. The stitching came about as a happy accident as I was experimenting with the stitching and I forgot to turn the brush definition object horizontally before creating the brush and it gets some shifts in rotation which give it an interesting look.

**Ron Duke** · 22 July 2015, 12:13 AM

Nice work, Frances. I personally think the studs look perfect. I like the stitching too.

**gray** · 22 July 2015, 03:45 AM

Nicely done, Fraces. I too like the stitching and studs.

**angelize** · 22 July 2015, 06:13 AM

After going through the tut from gnurf that Albacore linked to I've refined my denim texture and added a lighter denim fill to the lettering. The pocket studs are actually bitmaps ( they are from the hardware scrapbooking set in the designs gallery. I just adjusted the hue and saturation to make them look more brass like. The second image shows my brushes the gathered fabric brush was given a bleach transparency after being applied to the line.