light effects with brushes

[Egg Bramhill]

The problem with brushes is if they're saved in the brush folder they can rapidly increase the load time of Xara as all the brushes are loaded whether you use them or not. So not having them saved is a godsend. What I do is to create a folder named 'Xara Brushes' and save each brush that I like into this as a xar. Then when I want to load a brush I open Xara Brushes, select the xar file with the brush I require, open it, copy and paste it into a new xar document ready for use.

[handrawn]

But when I close down Xara and open it up again, the brushes that I created are gone. How do I make them stay? And how do I "delete" the ones I don't want?

brushes that you create only exist in the/a xara file in which they are used - to delete them just make sure they are not used in the document when you save and exit

brushes that are loaded when xara starts with a blank document, are in a special folder [as xar files] that the program accesses when it starts - you can put your saved brush files there, but see eggs post above

added complication - if you use an art brush, for example, that is in a custom folder, you will find it migrates to 'document brushes' when opening a file that uses it - xara cannot load a brush to memory twice

[jvila]

Beautiful !!!!