Re: cutting out a logo from white background
well strange - now it does!! :o
must have had a rogue setting somewhere - that's a relief
this one useful way to apply transparency to vectors - so there is no need to turn noses up at bitmaps here ;)
PS - think my confusion was to do with the way xtreme 5 now handles duplicates - more changes to the workflow :eek::D
One thing for sure its no longer as straight froward - I'm going to have to revisit this afresh
Re: cutting out a logo from white background
I have to clip a LOT of images, I look after a catalogue of over 2000 images, I routinely move image's from Photoshop to Xara. IMHO If you want to clip an image quickly and cleanly it has to be the "Quick selection tool" in phs. It has saved me hours over the last couple of years, if I could use Xara to do it I would, but it's not really a job for Xara.
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Re: cutting out a logo from white background
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SmartEd
...but it's not really a job for Xara.
I'd have to agree in this case. Not even the Vector Magic result passes muster. If the fonts are known, then I'd use Xtreme and do a hand trace.
As Sledger has said, it's routine stuff and a novice could get a result with a bit of practise with the Shape Editor Tool.
Saludos,
Bob.
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you know - I'm beginning to think I must have opened an xtreme 2 generated xar in xtreme 5 by mistake earlier on - I cannot get it to work again in xtreme 5 - darn
well I've no more time for it now - the attached does work in xtreme 2 at least..... and you can apply it to vectors
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Re: cutting out a logo from white background
This is the method I use, I've no doubt it could be improved upon. :)
Drwyd
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Hi Drwyd
thanks
as that works in xreme 5 :), why doesn't the other way... hum I shouldn't but I'm going to have to sort this out for myself here and now...
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wow - never noticed the bitmap transparency thing!
But not sure if I'm doing something wrong.
I creaded a bitmap of a beveled orange star on a white background. Then cheated slightly by creating the black and while mask in bitmap form (from the vector).
But when I apply the black and white bitmap to the orange bitmap I only masks the white in stained glass transparancy mode - but in do this I get a slight tranparency to the whole image, as can be seen in the attached i.e. the yellow box is below the orange star with the B&W bitmap mask applied.
Am I missing something?
Turan
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Sorry, in the time it took me to try it out - I'd missed Drwyd's excellent example - the trick is creating the bitmap in 2 colour depth (I have not looked yet, but it was probably mention above).
Turan
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you can take it up to 256 colors and it works :)
yes - thanks again Drwyd
it works in xtreme 2 with true colour + alpha mask [ie default bitmap copy setting] - reckon that is where I went wrong before :o
Re: cutting out a logo from white background
Glad I could help :)
Under some conditions a small fringe is left. To solve this the bitmap can be reduced in size by a couple of pixels before applying it as a tranparency.
Drwyd.