April 2014 Tips and Tricks - Playing With Fire (In a Fun, Harmless way) with Xara

Playing With Fire (In a Fun, Harmless way) with Xara

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This Month Bob Taylor (online IAmTheBlues) kindles a flame in your hearts and on the page to create flaming text, virtually bursting out of text you’ll download and edit, and perhaps even this fiery text will light up other words on your page in Xara. C’mon along and leave your Imagination Extinguisher at the door. Read it now. Show us how Fiery you can make you favorite font.

Really well thought out Bob an easy flame to do thank you I will put that away to use again. Thanks Bob.

I didn't do anything special.
Just followed the tutorial to get the effect.

Nice one, Bob. =D>
It's a very good idea.

Thanks Bob for the tutorial it is very good, at my first try did not convert the blend to editable shapes, well that made the computer quite much slower :)

This example is just a play with those waves behind

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@Rik—

You not only learned the fire technique, but your layout is quite handsome.

You should do the next page layout video. I'll mail you my camera.

-g

Thanks for the kind comment, Gary.
But, I don't expect that I can match the talents of the master.

I don't know about that, I think you have plenty of talent Rik.

And I'm unaware of any "Master" who is on tg, Rik!

All I see , and that includes looking on the forum, the galleries and in my own bathroom mirror, and all I see are ambitious people with a thirst to learn.

-g

Bob's 'blend' method got me thinking.

Just draw 4 lines of appropriate colours, blend them together, and a bit of feathering.
You can get a pretty good looking flame.

Then you could always put that on top of a candle!

Terriific, =D>=D> better be careful putting the flame image below the image of the candle though cause the way it is now you might just catch the candle image on fire. ;))

how do you open this

Hi darylllyn and welcome to the Xara Xone thread of TalkGraphics!

Erm, "how do you open this", I'm sorry to say, is fairly vague. I see by your profile that you do not use any Xara software, so if you're trying to open Xara-specific content, you're climbing up the wrong tree. :)

If "this" refers to something else, can you elaborate? For example, "How do I open a can or sardines?" is an easy one because the sentence uses a noun, and the key to the sardine problem is a key.

Explain a little more, please?

Thanks,

Gary

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Terriific, =D>=D> better be careful putting the flame image below the image of the candle though cause the way it is now you might just catch the candle image on fire. ;))

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Thanks for your kind comments, Larry.

Joking aside. I tried and I tried to make the Candle be after the flame image.
No matter what I tried, the candle always ended up being first.
So, if you know how, I would love to know.

I think it's to do with the image size.

what I do is insert them all using the 'Insert Inline' option - even then it is often necessary to cut and paste the bb code into the right place/order in the text - but it usually works

Maybe you got your answer Rik. Handrawn to the rescue.

EDIT: If his answer doesn't work then we have no choice but to get you know who after him.

excellent candle Rik, but I would expect nothing less :)

thanks for the tutorial Bob :-bd

just in case Larry releases the beast maybe I had better make myself scarce.... :eek:

No don't do that handrawn, you are too helpful. I'ii try to be good, promise.

Hi all

I would like to create a flickering fire effect for a log burner site - Csehz, I was wondering if you would mind explaining how you created the 'wave' effect you produced please?

Hi,

As I recall this attached was the final .xar file so you can analyse in details, basically after creating Bob's fire color pattern, entered the text and substracted it from two a black and white rectangle to creating a 'text hole', and behind of that the fire wave is moving

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Sure could be also named that wave pattern and make it fluid, playing with the display times to have some irregular rhythm, however in this case I just left the frames jumping without that