"As I remember, Klaus, that tutorial was a looooong time in the making :-)"

Yeah, classics take some time to make - even semi-classics. But it was published in Germany's CT - in 10 color pages and across two issues. It's just that the English web editio contains some dated info, like the "three transparency modes" - which CoreXara had, instead of XX's 8-10 modes.

K
www.klausnordby.com/xara (big how-to article)
www.xaraxone.com/FeaturedArt/kn/ (I was the first-ever featured artist in the Xone)
www.graphics.com (columnist, "The I of The Perceiver")