Warping text with Xara!

[angelize]

Xara programs have some great tools for warping almost anything! Warping text can result in some interesting and eyecatching headings. The example below was done with the mold tool and is vector however if you don't mind throwing a few pixels into the mix I'm sure there are more ways to warp and bend text into an intersting heading! Anyone care to join me in some text bending fun?

[mikeymopar]

would you expect anything else from me

[DD]

The new XDP11 artbrushes are magic.

Paint with text.

[iamtheblues]

Xara'a Mould Tool is pretty cool, and so is the Extrude.
The unmutilated text is shown at top left. (LHF Wade Grotesque) The first thing I did bfore using the Moulds (Default & Banner) was to elongate parts of the R and H with the Shape Tool.
Then I applied a 3 step contour.
Bob.

[mwenz]

Xara products that have the mould, contour and extrude are about the best of class in vector drawing applications. I always point that out in the Cd and Serif forums when people have issues with these things...

Mike

[angelize]

I love all these examples One of the things I like about the mold tool is that your text stays as text you can easily right click and open the mould and re edit your text.

However the mould tool is not the only text warping method in your Xara toolbox, if you have a version 11 program with the Shape painter

This was done entirely with the shape painter set to warp, and then a contour added. The one caveat with this method is that you have to convert to shapes before you can use the shape painter on your text.

[iamtheblues]

Well, you learn something every day. Thanks for the tip about right clicking on the mold to edit text - magic!
Bob.

[ernie-f]

Hi Angelize,

not the mould-tool but text wrapping! A quick and dirty job for saturday.



for a bigger view:
http://www.ld-host.de/uploads/images...38b33d44ae.png

[ss-kalm]

For Monday ....