I have been experimenting with Paul's technique for creating metalic effects with extrusions and added to it to create this effect. This gold bar was created by first creating rectangle then the text then I created some overlays for the text to provide shading and highlights. I grouped all this and extruded it and used paul's idea of light colours and angles to create a basic gold bar. however the stamped/engraved text still looked flat because it wasn't extruded so the extrusion lights don't effect it so this is where my addition to the technique comes in!
I embossed the extruded bar The embossing feature in Xara is actually a very good one and you have a lot of control over how the light effects the embossing. you can change the colour, direction and angle of the light. you also have controls for depth, shine, reflection, and smoothness. And like all of Xara's live effects you can change the resolution it is applied at on the info bar and it is live so it is very useful! The extra shading and highlights I added were picked up by the embossing filter.
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