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    Default Vector & Photo

    Hello guys. I really surprised that working in Xara 5 or 6, most of yours using only vector tools, as if you are drawing in Xara 2,5 ))))
    I decided to kick my brain and has found some new (hope ) drawing way. It`s not a masterpiece but just an example.
    This is what I suggest.
    1- Original photo
    2- Layer of light colors
    3- Layer of dark colors
    4- The last one + transparent (use original photo)
    5- Result picture
    6- Lines
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    Default Re: Vector & Photo

    I have to say you've completely lost me here
    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.

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    I think Xara file is better )))
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    Default Re: Vector & Photo

    I get a filter error followed by png error when I try to open it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xtom View Post
    I get a filter error followed by png error when I try to open it.
    The file was done in Xara 6.

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    That's weird it's loading fine now, I'm usng XDP6, it must have been something strange with another document I had open or maybe it didn't download properly.

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    This is a one more example of using photo as a transparent source.
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    I really like what you have done here Valery, I just hope I can figure out what you did.
    Larry a.k.a wizard509

    Never give up. You will never fail, but you may find a lot of ways that don't work.

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    Valery.

    What you've done is brilliant and original and deserving of some real applause.


    But, like some others, I don't know where you started and with what and how you got to the end result!

    Featured Artist on Xara Xone . May 2011
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    Hi Valery

    seems to me you are using bitmap transparency to enhance the texture of your flat colored drawing [book example] - two versions of the drawing: one light and one dark placed immediately above, and bitmap transparency [using the reference photograph] applied to the dark version

    this is a neat trick - bitmap transparency is under-rated sometimes

    and your second one is very nice indeed
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