Happy New Year - Happy New Xara Xone Tutorial - Still FREE!

15th year, but who's counting? ;))

The January 2011 Xara Xtreme Pro 6 Tutorial

The Newly Redecorated Xara Xone

Comments, questions, corrections and New Year's greetings always always cheerfully accepted.

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

15th year

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cogratulations Gary

many many thanks, and a happy new year !

Thanks Gary,
Like the look of the Tut and will give it a try ASAP.
Also like the new look for the website. One small issue I ahd was finding the zipped dowload option. Found it in the end by hovering over all the links. Not sure if it's jjust me but I could ahve done with some kind of pointer to it.
Keep up the good work, it is much appreciated.
A very Happy New Year to all,
Peter

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

15th year, but who's counting? ;))

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Of course, I've not been around all these years but may I congratulate you on the years and years of FREE help and advice that you've given to so many.

Happy New Year and a healthy and prosperous one.

Very well done Gary,
The new look of XaraXone is great and nice, and the Tutorial is very excellent and great, tried to follow your instructions in the Tut. Just added Named colours to the design. And here is the Result.
Thanks very much for all the Hard Work and for this Great Tutorial.
Happy New Year.
Best Regards BP

I guess this would be a good place for Alt tags, eh?

Looks like another great tutorial...and a nicely freshed up redesign. Happy New Year and thanks for all the help in the past. We also had a lot of snow this week...a big blizzard in the North East after Christmas.

Joel

Thanks again Gary - great tut!
Remember no daylight savings in Flag.

Thanks, Gary, and a happy and prosperous New Year to you!

Charlie

I've done mine in the 'Colour of the Year'

You may also think that this is not a world clock if you look at the names on the dial?!
Well, the people of the county of Cornwall in England, think that Cornwall is the whole world!;))

Thanks very much indeed Gary. I enjoyed this one.

Thanks for the tutorial, I think I finally found out how to use the default perspective with text and a rectangular backdrop, which is eventually deleted, to give the proper perspective to the text. I also learned much more by working through the tutorial and seeing how basic shapes can be built into some pretty amazing objects.
I included my attempt at constructing the clock.

Hi Womag.

Very nice image.

One observation: The reflection is not quite right. It seems that you've rotated the reflection image instead of skewing it.

Page 8 of the tutorial right at the bottom says, "Click twice on the bitmap to enable rotate/skew mode. Drag the left middle skew arrow upwards until the bitmap image lines up under the original."

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Originally Posted by Rik

You may also think that this is not a world clock if you look at the names on the dial?!
Well, the people of the county of Cornwall in England, think that Cornwall is the whole world!;))

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Good one Rik.

The original was actually a world clock torch:

http://news-gadget.com/world-time-al...rch-picture-01

Gary’s was more American and yours more English. For me it would need an Oz flavour. ;) But seriously, I’d love to ask the original designer what he was thinking putting a torch in this clock. “While I’m in the attic putting cheese in mouse traps, I will need to know what time it is in Madrid.”

Huh? ;))

It actually has three LED lights that are very bright. What I don't like about this clock is that it is very easy to accidentally set the alarm which then goes off in the middle of the night and takes forever to determine where the beeping is coming from.

Womag - Rik' observation aside you did a splendid job and I am sure you learned a lot in the process.

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

What I don't like about this clock is that it is very easy to accidentally set the alarm which then goes off in the middle of the night and takes forever to determine where the beeping is coming from.

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This could explain the need for the torch part of it - to find the alarm button in the dark. :D

a travelling alarm clock that has a torch built in seems like a good idea to me

maybe I just visit darn uncivilised parts of the world [eg Lancashire :D] where you never know if the light switch is going to work in the middle of the night...

Heh heh – well if the room’s lights won’t work you may need the torch and two mirrors when the alarm goes off in the middle of the night. Reflect the beam to locate alarm button. ;)

I’ve seen these for between $10 and $30 online, but for those saving their pennies, there’s always Google.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...=&oq=&gs_rfai=