Brilliant illustration / graphics arts transforms in new Realdraw Pro 5

[DGehman]

For those who use Realdraw Pro, or have used in the past - Oscar has come up with a really brilliant feature in release 5 that emulates hand-drawn outlines, not-quite-in-the-lines 'watercolor' or 'paint', even some good etching pre-sets.

Mediachance calls it NPR - non-photo realistic, and there are some examples and videos here: http://www.mediachance.com/realdraw/rd5.html

Several pre-sets apply a variety of patterns or brushes depending on color and luminance, and you can control outline/fill waviness ('hand-drawn-ness') and other parameters.

More examples here: http://www.mmbforums.com/ipb/index.php?showtopic=21351

UNfortunately, right now there's no easy or consistent way to move from Xara to RDP and back. WMF results in too many objects (and lousy gradient handling) and SVG comes into RDP upside down & backward, with no color or fill, and with a number of visible bounding boxes.

I've attached a JPEG of a digital photo (in Glacier National Park) that I transformed into a simulated hand-colored etching.