tricky transparency

Hi,

please take a look at the following image:
http://uploads.inkscape-forum.de/2007/05/making-of.jpg
It's a guitar from a german Inkscape user.

It seems not so easy to reproduce the last shape with the black outline and the tricky transparency in Xara Xtreme. How would you do it?

Remi

I cant see dificulty here....

If you mean this shape of course ;)

Well you can use a contoured transparent stroke something like this...

Gerry

;)

Thanks a lot Miro and Gerry! :)

Gerry, your solution with the contour width is surprising and easy to manage.

Miro, your solution is a little bit more complex, but the result becomes still finer.

I will test both ways.

Much obliged,
Remi

Here's my attempt, using a process similar to minimiro's. Not as good as your example pic, though.

There are multiple methods.

Saw this thread and started messing around. I have no idea why I drew what I did... weird!
ron

Yup, it is weird.:D

Wouldn't worry about it though. Happens to all of us sometimes. Besides, some of those weirdies turn out to be useful later.

Thank you for your tips, Bob and Xhris.

I've used the feather/clipview technique for a short study. By changing the feather profile it's possible to do some fine-tuning.

Regards also to Ron and Allison
Remi

The ax looks great Remi. Perhaps shadows for the strings would be a nice touch.

Regards, Ross

PS: That inner glow technique is cool. I think I'll find it easier to remember.

Thanks Ross. It was just a short test on my side, because I was interested to reproduce the black glow.

Honor to whom honor is due: The original drawing comes from Christian Lamminger-Fiedler, a german Inkscape user.

Regards,
Remi

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Originally Posted by remi

Thank you for your tips, Bob and Xhris.

I've used the feather/clipview technique for a short study. By changing the feather profile it's possible to do some fine-tuning.

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The feather technique isn't as flexible as the glow shadow technique. But there are two issues with Xara and glow shadows: since Xtreme when they re-jigged the internal shadow code, making a glow shadow large causes horrendous slow-down, and thus it's not very useable in this case because you can't get the inner dark region very far in. X1 was great for blur shadows - you could make it as large as you wanted and it didn't slow down. Secondly, there is a 40 pix max blur size - which in this case prevents you from having the blur very large.

The glow shadow issue is a bug that they are aware of because I reported it when Xtreme was released. Xara claim that the reason for the 50 pix feather limit (and presumably the 40 pix glow shadow blur limit) is due to performance reasons. I personally don't buy this; if you zoom in, you essentially overcome the limit and cause Xara to process considerably larger effective feather sizes (and in fairness the performance is affected slightly).

I would like to see the glow shadow size slowdown fixed, and the 50 feather pixel limit removed - especially as the limit results in non-recoverable issues. If you have a drawing which uses 50 pix feathering, and then enlarge it, the feathering doesn't increase and so the image becomes all wrong. If you then reduce the object, the feathering doesn't return to it's original value and you permanently lose the look of your object. It's a bit poor really. I'd suggest a new thread if this wants discussing more.