How am I doing?

[Richie]

Hello, I am a newbie to using Xara although I have had experience of using Artworks quite a bit when I used to own an Acorn computer.

I really enjoy seeing your efforts and getting tips from this forum and thought you might like to see my efforts so far.

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[Availor]

Very nice truck retracement... the watch from Gary's tutorials looks nice too.
Do you have any technique of retracing a photo? I am always getting messed up with the shades...

[John Rayner]

Your Drawings are coming along very nicely Richie! Very nice work. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

[gwpriester]

Looks great. Good work.

Gary

[OklaEd]

Nice work Richie! Keep it up http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

[Richie]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Availor:

Do you have any technique of retracing a photo? I am always getting messed up with the shades... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Thanks for the encouragement everyone.
In reply to Availor:
What I do is brighten the image so that I can see into the shadows. If I can't see the detail I just make it a shadow. Also I only use high DPI images as when you zoom in you get more detail. But I am sure you know this already LOL

One thing I do miss which you could do in Artworks is that you could filter the background image so that it appeared monochrome which seemed to help a lot when tracing.

[Soquili]

Hi Richie,

You are doing very well. Welcome to the forum, and thanks for showing your images.

You can 'filter' your background image by having it selected and then clicking on a colour on the colour bar at the bottom of the window. Experiment with left and right clicking to see the variations that can be achieved.

[Soquili]

Hi Richie,

You are doing very well. Welcome to the forum, and thanks for showing you images.

To can 'filter' your background image by having it selected and then clicking on a colour on the colour bar at the bottom of the window. Experiment with left and right clicking to see the variations that can be achieved.