**Call For NEW BRUSHES**

[Albacore]

I have written this reply twice and I am not sure if this time I have got it right the third time. My big dislike of any version of Xara its it's brushes, now I call myself a fairly experience user and I still struggle with brushes. I would love brushes that do the same as Illy's brushes do, you pick the style, pick the colour and the job is done. Now what do we get when we try to pick a certain style of brush were are stuck with the colour or we have to jump through hoops to change it, why not go the way of Illy and leave the bitmapped way and make it vector? I know Chris has done a huge amount trying to get us us to a better understanding of brushes but is that enough, he has produced a comprehensive array of brushes and shown us how to use them but I still think this area is one of the weakest in the whole programme and I find it hard to support this thread. I would love to see an expansion in this area and have the programme that will allow most any type and age of computer to allow brushes to be used without slowing or crashing the computer.

I like many user her like to scan in my pencil or ink drawings in with the ability at the end to get the flow and the appeal of my line drawing on paper onto the screen but that is hard at the moment to replicate that affect and that is not including the Wacom users that use your software who must really be frustrated. I know it is not the time for more requests when a new version is out but this is an area where Xara looses out big time to other vector software. If anyone can tell me away to load a brush up, click on a line and weight, colour and the line color will be as specified I will be an extremely happy bunny but till then having the top spec in brushes will be not a waste of time, but limiting the user to the colour that the brush was developed in, or near enough. I am sorry to be a downer on an important topic like this!