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Has anyone actually looked at the April Tutorial?
With one or two exceptions, I have not received any feedback from the tutorial. Normally I get a bunch of messages the first week the tutorial is posted.
Makes me feel like I'm working in a vacuum [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif[/img]
Gary
Gary Priester
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Be It Ever So Humble...
Has anyone actually looked at the April Tutorial?
With one or two exceptions, I have not received any feedback from the tutorial. Normally I get a bunch of messages the first week the tutorial is posted.
Makes me feel like I'm working in a vacuum [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif[/img]
Gary
Gary Priester
Moderator Person
Be It Ever So Humble...
I've just read the tutorial - the effects you produce are quite stunning. I'm still a XaraX novice - but I think it is the simplicity and elegance of the way Xara works, that sets it above the rest of the pack.
I could not attempt to produce something like Gel using other products, but Xara makes it so easy ... ( well, I'm going to give it a try!)
Hi Gary,
The tutorial is GREAT!!! I worked through it on Saturday evening, after reading your April in the Xone post. The elliptical transparency on the bottom of the gel button was something not mentioned in the Gel threads. It works very well.
Thanks for all the great tutorials.
Soquili [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Gary, I've looked at the tutorial but haven't had a chance yet to work through it, hence no feedback from me. Thanks for all your hard work.
joroho
My PC is down since friday - had to wait today to look at it - as usual GREAT WORK !!!
I seriously have to convice my school board to drop C**** D*** and switch to Xara X...
Thanks Gary for providing the tutorials, from you or from others, they are a great help...
Dan Fournier
Ottawa-Canada
Gary,
I worked through your April tutorial on Sunday evening - very clear steps and lots of subtle and very effective details. I love it.
Now I'm still struggling with gel text; so far I have got a fairly convincing letter a, but its going to take some time to work up a whole alphabet... [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Brian
If you don't visit this Forum daily, and work at least continuously with Xara, it is difficult to follow the different threads.
I will try out the tutorial as it is important, but, as I have very little time nowadays, it'll mean that I won't be able to follow the Forum. This is really incredible. Never seen a forum like this.
And, by the way: Gary, you are not working in a vacuum. Like my grandmother always said: when everyone is silent whilst eating, the cook is happy because they like the meal. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif[/img]
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> And, by the way: Gary, you are not working in a vacuum. Like my grandmother always said: when everyone is silent whilst eating, the cook is happy because they like the meal. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Yes, but the cook can watch them eat. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]
Gary
Gary Priester
Moderator Person
Be It Ever So Humble...
Of course! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
I've been following your site ever since it was hosted on corelnet.net, and had tutorials for CorelDRAW!
Anyway, I saw your tutorial on the first, and got a bit of an idea after playing around with the new gel buttons. It does involve a bit of geek humour, so not everyone will get it...
I've posted it at my website. http://lothaekor.d2g.com/Images/allyourmatrix.jpg
Unfortunately, the image is being hosted on my own machine, so it may not be accessable at all times in the day.
<lurk mode on...at least till I get some more time>
Lothaekor
Workin' on it but from a different angle. Will post when done. You have not been forgotten [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]
I reboot Windows for a living
Gary,
I am still fighting the gel buttons. You would have tears in your eyes if you see my results so far [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Not an easy task to make a programmer create neat pictures. I enjoy this forum though and hope that one day I will be able to create my own company logo [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
juergen
I've had a go- at least at my own version of the gel button. Excellent tutorial- inspiring, with just the right amount of info to whet the appetite.
I followed the tutorial part of the way, but then went off and did my own thing. The embossed text didn't light my fire, so I used some more solid text, and used a mould so it seemed to conform to the surface of the gel. I also didn't like the idea of using a bitmap for the text shadow- bitmaps in Xara (when not absolutely necessary) always make me feel as though I'm cheating! So I used the same text, with a different mould, made it transparent and feathered the edge a bit. Seemed to work okay, was probably easier than Gary's bitmap, and didn't feel like cheating. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]
Being new to Xara X (though I've been using CorelXara 1.5 in a fairly limited way for a number of years), I read through the other tutorials that interested me too (i.e. not the 'webby' ones, with all the animations and stuff), did a few bits of stuff which were unclear, and which inspired me to have a go, and have learnt a lot- I also remembered a lot of stuff which was in CorelXara, but which I'd forgotten.
Cheers,
Phi
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. W.H. Auden, 1907-73
Was this a Flash tutorial?
If so then I won't have looked at it as I really can't afford to buy Flash.
I am an avid read of the Xealot, however, and have put the tip about using the fonts gallery to clean up the fonts on my computer to great effect - keep up the great work,
Tony
PS if it isn't about flash then I'll certainly be visiting in soon
...I added a 'window' reflection to the end of my gel button too- inspired by the ones on Frank's water droplets, but all my own work, just to show myself that I could (and done before I downloaded the .xar Frank so kindly posted- so it really was my own work). Looked quite cool I thought.
Phil
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. W.H. Auden, 1907-73
Gary,
I have been out of town. Plan on doing the TUT tonight.
Gary, the tutorial is great, although I agreed with your earlier comments that we really ought to be thinking about new inventive design rather than imitating that already done.
Why did you not use linked colours ?? This must be my favorite Xara feature !!
Attached are some balls I drew for a corporate presentation, the linked colours let me pick whtever colours the client wanted.