I don't have the bottons gallery.
I saw the video tutorials.
Where do I have to download those demo "Gel Buttons"?
I have the CD from Xara Extreme, and I don't have the bottons.......Jum:rolleyes:
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I don't have the bottons gallery.
I saw the video tutorials.
Where do I have to download those demo "Gel Buttons"?
I have the CD from Xara Extreme, and I don't have the bottons.......Jum:rolleyes:
Hi Alarach,
Are you referring to the Buttons Gallery in Xara3D?
Or to the Templates available in Xara Xtreme?
The Templates are in the folder C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Xtreme\Themes
Soquili:
I have Xara 3D.
Where inside that software?
Any gallery?
Thanks in advance.
What type of button are you wanting? Gel buttons like in the Xara movie?
An example would help determine the type of button you are looking for as the term button can mean many different things?
Some examples of some buttons:
It's inside Xara Extreme.
Inside the Video Tutorial, explain that in the Clipart Gallery you can download the buttons art.
I can't find them, and I download al the arts, and install the cliparts from the CD and I can't find it.
Any idea?
I have Xara 3D, but that's different.
Bill, some time ago I needed an image of a shirt button, so I created one in CorelDraw, but yours looks so much better that I've copied it and replaced my version.
Thanks,
Charlie Button :)
Go to the Scissors on the top bar "clipart" and click on it, when the window opens click on the last dropdown menu where it states clipart and select "Web Themes" and all your buttons are there bar the gel buton.
Hi Alarach,
Now I understand your question. Open the Clip Art Gallery and find the Example Xara X drawings 1 (download) section of the Gallery. The Examples are in alphabetical order and the one you want is Gel buttons.
Charlie, you are most welcome to use the button as you wish. I'm attaching the .xar file.
Bill, thanks much!
Charlie :cool: :)
:) You are welcome.
In the movie and the Clip Art Gel buttons, there are 4 shapes for the button and a couple more for the shadow.
If anyone is interested, here's a button created from 2 shapes and one for the shadow.
Yes, I am interest for some silly reason, and thank you Bill, nicely done.....one problem, a thousand solutions.....frank
thanks bill, very nicely done, i grabbed it and saved it also
I would like to use the gel button in a project I am doing. I like the gel button with the ability to use text in it. I saw the tutorial talked about previously in the clip art gallery. I would like to try one out from scratch sometime but now is not the time as I am under time constraint. Are these gel button contained in Xara X or 3D or neither? Thanks...Quote:
Originally Posted by Soquili
InfoCentral,
You can find them in Xtreme. Xara 3D is a 3D animation program while Xara Xtreme is a Vector Graphics drawing program. To find the buttons in Xtreme, Albacore already provided the directions.
There are also some gel buttons in Xara Webstyle, but they are not exactly the same as the ones shown in this thread. (basically these have a metal base to the gel button)Quote:
Originally Posted by Albacore
I hope that this helps.
Eric
first of all,just like to hi. plz can you tell me how do i get text to look like its imprinted onto the gel button?Quote:
Originally Posted by Soquili
thanks carl.
Hi Carl,
Welcome to the Xara Xtreme conference.
For text in a gel button, I used a font named Valken which has nice round end caps. Copy the fill from the gel button then paste the attributes to the text (Ctl+Shift+A). Apply an inner bevel and change the light angle of the bevel to about 125 degrees. I'm attaching the .xar file so you can take it apart and examine each object.
thank you very much for yur quick help. iam quite new to grfix programs. i did a few free trials on diff programs and found Xara to be the least complicated and such a diverse tool. WOW. keep up the good workQuote:
Originally Posted by Soquili
I tried that and I don't have a "Web Themes" on my clipart. The last section listed is "Transport then Words." Did I forget to do something when I loaded this program? I updated it and it said it found and downloaded additional content. Thanks...Quote:
Originally Posted by Albacore
Yep, I explored my CD and sure enough it doesn't contain any "Web Themes" library. Do you know where I can obtain that missing library? Thanks...
Hi InfoCentral,
The drop down that Albacore mentioned is on the top of the ClipArt window.
Look for this in your clipart gallery.
Eric
Hmm... Bill beat me to it...
Even with the information shown above, the gel button does not exist in the clipart folder.
My suggestion is to create your own clipart and add it to Xara's collection. To do this, follow these steps:
1. Create your gel button (or use the one attached)
2. (With the gel button file open) In the menu click File|Save As and navigate to where your clipart is stored. (C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Xtreme\Themes if you use the default locations) (again, note that this will be viewable in the Web Themes section as noted before, if you want it to appear in the normal clipart section then use the path: C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Xtreme\Clipart)
3. Create a new folder (MyButtons for example)
4. Save your button in the new folder.
5. Open the clipart gallery and click the Disk Clipart button at the top of the gallery.
6. Navigate to the same folder that you saved your gel button in and Click the Add button.
Now you have your very own gel button in your clipart that can be used over and over again. :D
Hope that helps.
Eric
Hi Eric,
The Gel Buttons are in the Example Xara X Drawings 1 (CD) folder in the Clipart, very bottom right of that folder on my machine.
for some strange reason, mine is not at the bottom... there are a few more after it (same folder - Examples 1)
Bill,
Sorry, I wasn't trying to hijack your post. I'm not taking time to read posts throughly and then I didn't find the clipart (because I didn't read the posts and was looking in the wrong place).
Either way, I've added a refresher tutorial on how to add clipart to Xtreme.
Eric
Eric, you were helping as usual. I know it's difficult to find that Gel Buttons click art, took me about 4 tries to find the right part of the gallery :)
Thanks for the refresher, I know I forget how to do that between times I need it.
Thanks guys! When I get home I'll look for the gel buttons. I'll try out Eric's tutorial and import Soquili's gel buttons.
What I am trying to do is to create an interactive resume. I thought I would build the elements within Xara and import them into Acrobat to apply the interactivity. I think I could create it in CorelDraw but I never tried it so Acrobat wins by default.
Where is that located please?Quote:
Originally Posted by bcire68
Peter
Hi Peter,
If you mean "where is the tutorial for adding clipart to Xtreme?".
Then it is in this same thread and is the second post (post #22) on the third page. Or about 6 or seven posts above this one.
Hope that helps.
Eric
I read that but thought that tutorials were stored in another location not in the threads.Quote:
Originally Posted by bcire68
Peter
OK, now I am really confused. I looked through the web themes and didn't see any gel buttons contained in any of the libraries. If I am reading correctly on this forum it has been stated that the only gel buttons contained within Xara X is the ones on the tutorial for creating gel buttons in the clip art library?Quote:
Originally Posted by Soquili
I tried to select one of the buttons and do a copy and paste so I could save it but no luck. Any ideas? Why have they made it so hard if this is one of their big selling points in the video? In the video they show an gel button that has all the layers combined and then they resize it and change colors. It just seems to me that there should be a library with them.:mad:
Soquili's post (#23) did not show anything having to do with the web themes. When you peruse the clipart gallery, without checking the web themes, the gel buttons drawing is at the bottom of the Xara X Drawings 1 (CD) folder.
If you haven't yet received your Xara CD, you may not have this drawing, as the trial version doesn't have all the clip art included.
Quote:
Originally Posted by PETERPREWETT
Peter,
There ARE a lot of tutorials stored in a different location (www.xaraxone.com) which are produced by Gary W. Priester (one of the modarators of this forum). I highly recomend that you read and recreate each one of Gary's Tutorials, because you will learn a lot. (Or at least I have)
Sometimes, people on these forums do post mini-tutorials on the forums themselves. This is what I did. Although it was in answer to a question that wasn't asked.
Actually the information that I posted is probably already covered by Gary in his Tips and Tricks section or somewhere else on the Xara Xone. You should check out the other sections of his site too.
I hope that this clears things up.
Eric
Yes, I have seen that as that is the tutorial I am talking about. The buttons at the bottom don't have their layers flattened so when trying to select one you can only select that layer and not all layers. All I want to do is just use them but they are not in a format to be used. That is the problem. The video is a little misleading in that it makes you think that they are available if you buy this product but they aren't.Quote:
Originally Posted by David O'Neil
Just open that gel button file as a new drawing, and copy-paste the button into the drawing you are working on. You can easily save just the button as a new drawing or clipart.
David
When I selected that file it was pasted into my blank file. The problem is that the whole tutorial is a .xar file and not the individual objects. Hence, the reason I was trying to capture all the layers together so I could paste them into a blank doc and save them. No luck. I would love to see a video tutorial of someone able to accomplish this task - Getting the Gel Buttons out of and back into Xara X.
Here I was so excited about Xara and now that I am working on my first project it is really becomming a major headache. Something so simple as selecting a button and modifying it becomes a 4 page thread. Just rediculous!
To be honest, the attitude in your post pisses me off, but I will overlook it, and try to continue helping you, as if instead of posting what you posted, you posted something along the lines of "How do I select only part of a Xara drawing, and then save only that part to a file, so I can easily import that into my future projects?"Quote:
Originally Posted by InfoCentral
Actually, I am going to skip to the end, and challenge you to figure it out yourself in the future. Here is the result of about 15 seconds of work in Xara (literally), which resulted in exactly that. In fact, I also grouped the button, so you don't have to worry about moving only part of the button when you click and drag it.
Best wishes,
David
[Edit] To be clearer, what gets to me is that even though everyone was trying to help you, and you have seen the power of some of the stuff created with Xara, your first thought at this stage seems to be to blame Xara for a lack of understanding on your part. Rather than thinking "How have all the other skilled people in here done what they have done with Xara", you seemed to say, "Hmm. I can't figure out how to do it. It must be a problem with Xara." If you were to program Xara, how would you have made it possible to do what you want done?
Please do not take my words badly, I was just being honest, and I do not mean any ill-will towards you. Please ask questions in the future that will help you understand this program more quickly on your end, rather than putting it down without any understanding, and then blaming Xara.
As an old, but good TV series said: "Patience, Grasshopper!" [/Edit]
Whatever. The fact is that using a gel button in Xara is now a 4 page thread period. How you choose to react to that is how you choose to react to it. We still after 4 pages are no where nearer to ease of use then we were when the thread was created in post #1. I have a project to do and "patience" is reserved for those who loose the contracts and delay the deadlines for the ones the are able to obtain.
Exactly. I chose to try to help you, and you chose to be ungrateful and ingratiating. Do you think I will try to help you again?Quote:
Originally Posted by InfoCentral
Best of luck with your future projects.
David
Please don't feel bad about trying to help me out because in the final analysis you didn't. So there really isn't anything to feel bad about. In conclusion the gel buttons are not readly available and will require both knowledge of the program and some manipulation to achive abstraction.
But fear not, for when I do have time and figure it out I will produce a video on how to do it and I will be able to articulate it.