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While thinking about Nicole's desire for a demo of Xara's features to her classmates at school, and bearing in mind that she did not want to merely use the Ellipse Tool, and being stubborn and obstinate, I came up with this mini-tutorial/demo. Obviously you can modify this ten ways to Sunday.
Gary
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While thinking about Nicole's desire for a demo of Xara's features to her classmates at school, and bearing in mind that she did not want to merely use the Ellipse Tool, and being stubborn and obstinate, I came up with this mini-tutorial/demo. Obviously you can modify this ten ways to Sunday.
Gary
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This is the reason I keep coming back to this forum time after time.
Its fun and dedicated to those who want to learn new things, no matter the age or talent.
Keep up the great work, lest we forget which things are really important. By the way I think some worms on a CD here on my desk, might have had their humble beginnings from a mini-tutorial like this one.
Keep up the good work.
Phil
I'd add that your last step could be followed with right-clicking on the 'no colour' box on the colour bar. That would make the curving line invisible.
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Good job, Gary. Not only for school projects but for all of us. Reminders and simplified. Thanks, Neil
i got all the way through untill the last clump of steps. what do you mean by duplicate clone change to editable shapes etc,
can i get a little more detail? [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
thank you for the great idea tho, i had to try it out right away
Nicole
I don't believe you can blend a blended object (the circles blended around the circle). So select that blend and Arrange > Convert to Editable Shapes. Then you can make a blend of the two blends.
Gary
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err ... edit ... convert ... blend ... WHAT ????
Wolfgang
Ya lost me on this one.
Nice effect, though.
Dale
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I can only say....wooooow [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Wolfgang
You inspired me to try again. I still cannot create a blend of a blended shape without converting it to editable shapes, however.
Gary
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at the bottom of the page
sorry i cant directly link it, my site is way too big and i dont want to transfer it somewhere else and i dont want to pay for service so i have to be careful of my data transfer lvls and posting it directly gives it way to much traffic [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
Dito on the "this is why I keep coming back" [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
and so close to the end of the month! Looking forward to the next installment of XaraXone [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] -
This must be what it was like waiting for the next episode of Flash Gordon in the movie house (hope I did not bring back any memories Gary [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] )
Turan
Fun Nicole.
I sent you a tip for uploading only one image from your page.
Gary
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Great Mini-Tut Gary. I became curious about the possibility of blending a blend. It can be done, but may not be useful. A blend between two blends extends the ending point of one to the ending point of another.
Great image Wolfgang.
Nicole, weird is nice sometimes isn't it [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
Soquili
You could try individually grouping the blends before blending between them. (i.e. click on one blend - group it, and then click on the other and group that) I was experimenting with different blends a while ago.
I've just had another look at what I had done and so far I've found this gives you the same effect as blending between two blends that have been converted to shapes.
BTW great mini-tutorial and effect Gary, and cool rendering there Wolfgang.
Regards
Su
[This message was edited by Su Lawrence on May 31, 2002 at 12:44.]
Gary excellent post.... But I to am having trouble with the blend a blend option. Even after selecting the blend and converting it to an editable shape XARA does not give me the option to blend along a curve. It is driving me crazy........
Am I missing something?
Rgds
Paul
Did you create the blend first of the two converted blends? And then try to attach the blend to the path? Or can you not get the two converted blends to blend at all?
Gary
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Thanks for replying so quickly.
Everything is fine up to stage eight of your mini tutorial (the point of applying the converted blend along the freehand path)
After selecting the duplicated blend and converting it to an editable shape the Blend menu does not give me any options at all, they are all grayed out. I have selected both freehand path and the blended circles in different orders thinking it might be that, but still nothing. It is most frustrating.
I have attached a jpeg image of my screen in case it helps
Rgds
Paul
Paul,you may have figured it out already but thought I would send this anyway.
Mike
Sometimes you just cant see the wood for the trees.
Paul
I was hammering out next month's tutorial yesterday and did not check back all day.
Gary
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Paul: I have been in that same forest looking for trees more times than I can remember.
Gary: I thought you had gotten very busy doing something else because you are always so quick to lend a helping hand on this forum.Thanks for the mini tut.
Mike