Here's mine.
Gary included a bit on chrome in one of his tutes will show the wheel I made from the tute in the next post.
Rupert
Here's mine.
Gary included a bit on chrome in one of his tutes will show the wheel I made from the tute in the next post.
Rupert
Here is the result of the tute Gary did. Of course it but resembles a little of the quality work Gary does!!!
I don't know whether this is helpful. The info can be applied to txt.
Rupert
..and another one
Yes, there are different ways to add reflections. But you can't apply the effect to the object that already has a reflection, especially color one. The source image for this effect has to be a greyscale lightmap. The result is also a light map but a tweaked one that looks like chrome.
You can combine the resulting light map with the reflection image. The most correct way is to apply flat Luminosity transparency to the chromed object and put it on top of the reflection image. This may requre locking the LE though. Another way is to put the reflection image on top of the chrome object and give it the stained glass transparency. There may be other ways too, you just have to use the chromed image as a light map for your reflection image somehow.
Last edited by covoxer; 11 April 2009 at 06:37 AM.
John.
John, since a shadow is probably the easiest live effect to reproduce manually, let's assume for the purposes of this thread that shadows are a vector effect
Last edited by Big Frank; 16 April 2009 at 12:24 PM.
If someone tried to make me dig my own grave I would say No.
They're going to kill me anyway and I'd love to die the way I lived:
Avoiding Manual Labour.
Feathering is a bitmap effect too, but yes we can assume it is 'vector'. It seems you want to keep this to basic Xara tools and that makes sense - otherwise there is less of a challenge.
In making posts it would be helpful if the basic techniques were noted so we aren't comparing apples & oranges.
Who told you that the feather is a vector effect?
Seriously though, if you do not want to use Levels, I'm not the one to force you to. But as an old Photoshop user you surely know that this tool is one of the essential raster tools. It was present in Photoshop long before the shadow filters appeared.
The fact that it is implemented as a LE does not change it functionality. Would it be more "vector" if it had a separate tool interface in Xtreme like shadow, feather or bevel does? I don't think so. Shadow, Feather, Bevel just to mention a few used in this thread are all bitmap effects. They all produce raster result. Convert Beveled object to shapes and zoom - you'll see the raster of the beveled border. Same is true for all others. Whether they are listed as LE effects or not is only interface and implementation decision. It does not influence their functionality.
So, I do understand why one may be reluctant using some exotic "Acme MegaEffects ChromePro3000+", but I can't see any reasons ignoring such basic tools as Levels. Afterall, moving this road we may end up using a tool set narrower than Xara Studio 1.0 had.
John.
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