I quite like some of Xara's earlier ones. I also like a bit of bling, so here's a sort of Best of Xara created in fond memory of Eye Candy Chrome. It's "versionless".
Probably a bit messy and OTT, but it works for me. Hopefully it's OK to use the previous logos in this way.
Pretty good, Jimi.
You didn't want to share your .bmp file?
Featured Artist on Xara Xone . May 2011
. A Shield . My First Tutorial
. Bottle Cap . My Second Tutorial on Xara Xone
I was unable to attach it before, so I saved it as a JPG instead. Let me try again...
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My current Xara software: Designer Pro 365 12.6
Good Morning Sunshine.ca | Good Morning Sunshine Online(a weekly humorous publication created with XDP and exported as a web document) | Angelize Online resource shop | My Video Tutorials | My DropBox |
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My bad, Frances.
Gary meant to say, "Even though you can't do exactly what you want with Xara's splash screen, don't let this reality dampen your imagination. Software companies do all sorts of weird and wonderful things with splash screens, including making them 32-bit which results in a splash screen that can have areas missing."
You can't do this with Xara...or can you? I'll try to make a 32-bit image and save it as a bmp and see if my machine blows up or not, okay? BMPs CAN have transparency. It's just that VERY few programs know how to write a BMP w/ and alpha.
-g
I can save you some time Gary I already tried Xara's BMP export and Alpha is not supported for BMP. But if we could find a program that can I suppose it might be possible to export from Xara as a png and use another program to export it as a bmp with transparency
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My current Xara software: Designer Pro 365 12.6
Good Morning Sunshine.ca | Good Morning Sunshine Online(a weekly humorous publication created with XDP and exported as a web document) | Angelize Online resource shop | My Video Tutorials | My DropBox |
Autocorrect: It can be your worst enema.
I can export transparent BMP files from PhotoLine. They work correctly in photo editing software, but not in many other types of applications, Xara included. Xara refuses to open one, AI opens it but without honoring the alpha channel.
I think that either Xara would need to allow the alpha channel support in BMP files, use a PNG or whatever, in order for the splash to support transparency.
Mike
Edit to add...the attached screen shot is from Word. The XDP8 splash has a rectangular hole, there is a blue rectangle behind the imported BMP with an alpha channel. Word? Go figure.
Last edited by mwenz; 12 July 2013 at 11:00 PM. Reason: Add screen shot
So I assume that your Transparent BMP from photoline would not load as a Xara splashscreen?
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My current Xara software: Designer Pro 365 12.6
Good Morning Sunshine.ca | Good Morning Sunshine Online(a weekly humorous publication created with XDP and exported as a web document) | Angelize Online resource shop | My Video Tutorials | My DropBox |
Autocorrect: It can be your worst enema.
No. And as mentioned, it also cannot even open it.
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