Burning building flames etc.

[Artyboots]

Hello experts,

Please can you remind me of the quickest way to make serious flames. I have to make something look like it has caught fire. Can do this in bitmaps editors, but am trying to switch to Xara for everything nowadays. May as well learn this.

Thanks so much.

Ali

[gwpriester]

Su Lawrence did a Guest Tutorial for the Xara Xone in 2002 that should be useful http://www.xaraxone.com/guest/guest16/index.htm

[Artyboots]

Su Lawrence did a Guest Tutorial for the Xara Xone in 2002 that should be useful http://www.xaraxone.com/guest/guest16/index.htm

Gary, you are a star. THanks for this. I will take a look.

Ali

[angelize]

Hi ali, Are you working with photos or creating a vector graphic? There are different methods I would use depending on the project

here is one for creating vector flames :http://www.xaraxone.com/guest/guest90/index.html

[Artyboots]

Hi ali, Are you working with photos or creating a vector graphic? There are different methods I would use depending on the project

here is one for creating vector flames :http://www.xaraxone.com/guest/guest90/index.html

Hi Frances,

Thanks for this. I am afraid I cheated in the end, and used an Alien Skin filter!

This is one for me to practise, during those mythical moments known as free time!

When I get time I will post a request for fire as a fill. That would be really helpful. Couldn't see one in the included fills.

Thanks to all who helped.

Ali

[angelize]

Don't consider using the tools you have on hand as cheating, it got the job done. I uses those Alien Skin plug in too sometimes! (Eye Candy 6)

[csehz]

Angelize thanks this tutorial, it became my todays homework with Xara :-)



Ups but what is that Alien Skin plug, let me try also that, maybe it can decrease the human (me) factor :-)

[csehz]

Ah okay, searching after it this Alien skin is not an inside Xara filter and so rather can be bought, so maybe will go through your tutorial yet again

[Gamerprinter]

OK, a quick fire blaze. This is just drawn shapes with about 17% freehand smoothing - I converted some curved flame edges to points. I started with the large orange flame and applied a 2% feather. Then I created the dark yellow shape within the orange shape slightly matching it's shape with some variation, applying a 6% feather. Then I created the light yellow shape in the center (could have created a few more) with a similar 6% feather. Finally I created the off orange shape slightly larger in places than the original orange shape, and put it behind everything else.

There's all kinds of variations, especially in contrast to whatever the surrounding and background colors are, but I did the below in less than a minute.

[angelize]

That's nice Gamerprinter, thanks for sharing it with us!