Really good ones :)
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Really good ones :)
Csehz didn't mean to ignore your question about Grid Master and the Fish but I think we would have gone off topic and I would have been in trouble :D I only posted my image because Gary had shown a mesh image which was interesting. As soon as I can I will post in Clip-art xar.file for fish and image of what I use Grid Master for, although it as many uses.
Stygg
Stygg no probs at all, I already thanks for the hint :) Now even I found the old thread of it on TG
It's a greyscale goldfish, stygg!
Hey, if anyone is up to it and still has the 32x version (that has most of the plug-ins for Live Effects), you could create variations on the basic wisps of smoke files by using Liquid Colour, and especially Concentric Waves under the deformation menu...
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-g
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If you don't have a title for #46 yet, handrawn, may I suggest
A Wisp of Smoke viewed in a Reflecting Pond After a Kid threw a Stone in the Pond
Descriptive I promise but terse it's not.
;)
My Best,
Gary
:D always interesting to discover what other people see in these things
'bellows-powered nutcracker [circlipspring-loaded]' is what I see.. but I failed the Rorschach test, I mis-read the sign on the door and went into the wrong exam room...:eek:
@ Gare: I'm sorry I didn't reply to your post 37 earlier when I first saw it. Thank you for your kind words.
Stygg I love that fish in post 40. So you saw that in the smoke huh. Interesting.
The only smoked fish I ever tried was salmon.
After that, I went back to pipe smoking.
-g
it's a very effective fish Stygg I like it too
Yummm Smoked Salmon now you've made me hungry Gary! :) Here is an abstract piece I did using some wisps. I put this together and recoloured the wisps in Designer Pro, but the light flares I did in filter forge.
Although there are a lot of free "lens flare" brushes for Photoshop out there, I thought I'd offer an additional option, because Xara can't understand Photoshop's Brush file format, and buying Photoshop only to create lens flares is a little like buying an in-ground heated swimming pool to skip rocks across.
50 high rez PNGs of lens flares, just glancing at them I'd say more than 50% are immediately useful for a project, and because they're PNGs with transparency, you can just drag them into Xara and use them immediately.
And I'm not taking anything away from Filter Forge: it's a great program and at least half the free textures I post I used FF.
By the way: If you go fetch these, please aDD A Thank you to Shahadat Rahman's post on MediaMilitia! And 50 high res PNGs come out to 189MB, so even with our fiberoptic connection, it took me about three minutes to download the zip archive, which is about 10x longer than it takes to download a purchased copy of Xara.
Just sayin': it's going to be a wait, but worth it, I feel. Just look at thew thumbnails on the link page.
-g
That's interesting Frances, those look more like veils of fabric now than they do smoke, and I like it.
Thank you for that Gare. I'm pretty sure I had downloaded them some time ago.
Those are very nice lens flares on media militia. I know we are getting off topic here but there is a way to convert photoshop brushes to png files that can be used in Xara programs. At Texturemate.com you can get a free copy of AbrMate a small utility that can open and preview PS brushes and it can export png files with alpha transparency
I think that's one of those artifacts (#46) from Warehouse 13 handrawn,I like it :D
Stygg
now there's a good thought...
I was thinking 'Heath Robinson' ... :D
tried making a lichen stain, such as you see on't rocks in't pennines but I think it needs more work
[wisp melted, cloned and recoloured]
Hi handrawn—
It's a very handsome texture and yes, we are going a little off-topic on this thread. Not that I mind all that much, but it makes it s harder to scan through for questions, but as I said earlier "diversity" is key to the pursuit of good Art, and I'm glad you shared the image.
If you can create a larger version of this, say 512 x 512, I'll see if I can't make it a seamless tiling texture. I know I could use it immediately to represent what our lawn looks like after we've been hit with 47,000 cubic yards of snow this Winter.
No shortage of water here!
My Best,
Gary
sorry if I have dragged the thread...
the one I posted seems to have disappeared into the ether... :'( [gone up in smoke? :rolleyes:]
but I still have this one...
[better I think]
I couldn't say I was able to keep 100% of the spirit of your original work, handrawn, but this PNG attached does indeed repeat seamlessly.
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My Best,
Gary
s'ok - it's good
[the thing that is is never the thing described - to paraphrase Gurdjieff]
I'm having some of that.
Just found Chaoscope downloaded it.
I have a suggestion for you, Scaleback: the fastest way to get to a point where you want to render and export smokey-type equations, begin with the Polynomial C preset that comes with the download. Then take a whack at modifying the Lorenze-84 preset. The values change dramatically if you adjust something even to a 1/1,000 of a value, so the sliders aren't a heck of a lot of help. Type integers in the value fields and show use the results when you're designed a chaotic masterpiece.
-g
plankton...
{lorenz-84]
That's pretty cool stuff, Steve. =D>
from which we get with some work in xara something vaguely art-deco
lady with parasol [but sadly no bicycle]
chaoscope is a great program Rik :) - especially if art is aproched from the point of view of discovery rather than imitation....
I'm very pleased that some of the content this month has generated so many views! Especially for a "Giveaway Of The Month" thread.
Because this is the Xara Xone thread and not an off-topic or other software thing, I feel obliged to bind Chaoscope just a little to Xara for a moment here:
• Experiment with the controls for any given equation, be it Polynomial, Lorenze, whatever. You'll see that if you choose to Render the equation as a gas, or a liquid, or a solid, you'll get different options on the View Palette. Also, I use the Gas Render option a lot and this produces a gradient at the bottom, making the transition in the image go from a background to foreground color. If you render a white on black picture and want to use it in Xara, you need to assign the picture Bleach Transparency mode to drop out the black background, and the converse it true when you have a black piece of art against white. There are also some presets you can access by right-clicking over the gradient strip.
It's important that you let the render finish to get the most refined image, but once the statusa line at the bottom of the UI tells you the render is completed, you can adjust the gamma and contrast on the View menu before exporting and you'll see that you get very different results. And save your "seed file" because the Opern Sorce people who made this program saw no sense in flashing you an attention box about saving!
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I did a little Contone adjustment to the imported file here, and have attached the file if anyone would like to see the steps I've listed above in action.
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My Best,
Gary
:)
the voice over my shoulder with the coffee says I meant art nouveau not deco, and of course as usual, she is right...
There's another program—it produces fractal patterns that look like flames, so it's not a String Theory or Chaos generated program, but Apophysis, free and open source, might be used for stellar backgrounds for your Xara artwork.
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Download Apophsis for free
Yeah, this is O/T but my excuse it that I haven't maintained a Shareware section on Xara Xone.
My Best,
Gary
I forgot until I had breakfast this afternoon! Here's another occasion when the pictures might come in useful:
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My Best,
Gare
My attempt at Design for coffee cup. :D
Stygg
Stygg you still must be very diligant if this attempt is the 88.png :D
But seriously I like the smoke mould even more than on the top, also the cup has the plastic material feeling like in real
I like the form of the text, the centering, the choice of sizes, and the colours, but you need to get away from sans serif typefaces, stygg, and I'm not singling out you. I feel as though when it comes to using text in a design, people use the first font on the drop-down list: Ariel.
The "tone" of the printed message comes form the font used. Coffe is warm and inviting, this text you used is cold and authoritative.
This example isn't perfect, but it does demonstrate "tone" when conveying a message. I used Kabel in different weights for the main message because although it's a san serif gothic(ish) font, it's designed so it has a little "fun" in it as you'll see in the attached XAR file. I introduced a softer store font, and I encourage everyone to experiment with typefaces. I can't believe anyone has fewer than 20 typefaces ready to use in Xara! I converted all my text to curves but if you're insterested in the specific fonts I used:
NEW=Frankfurter Heavy (URW)
AT=Brothers Pi (P22 I think)
Lisa’s (Fresnel Script (ITC I think)
Aromatic and all the others=Kabel
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I like your intelligent and ambitious approach to the graphics on the cup, stygg. I do believe that I need to get back to the page layout seminars perhaps in a month or two, and focus on Typography.
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My Best,
Gary
April Fool's Day was yesterday, so serious up! :)