A Question from Joypauline: brocade or silk-like effect

Does anyone out there have any ideas about creating a brocade or silk-like texture within XaraXtreme???? I have produced some in Photoshop but I DO prefer my Xara environment.
Thanks in anticipation!

Eggs'ample?

For Brocade I would create a bunch of repetitive shapes, group them , apply an internal rounded bevel,then fill with a bitmap of your choice.
In this example I've also applied a grain texture effect in the hope of making it appear more like an old woven fabric piece.
(The original bitmap is a photo of an acrylic painting I did last year.)
-Andrew

I think silk would just be a multistep linear fill. Just using shades of the same color...

In the attached example just redefine the color named base, and the entire cloth should change. Depending on the intensity of the light and the depth of the folds of the cloth you might want to pick more contrasting shades. :)

A grayscale texture overlay.

Rich

Egg - at what scale will it be seen? It probably makes a big difference in technique --- from a satin look like Rich was attempting to more woven like Andrew's example.

Regards, Ross

You have misread this thread. It is not Egg's question but Pauline's a new member to the conference who is asking how to create a silk brocade effect.

Egg just moved the question to this new thread.

Pauline, welcome to the Xtreme Conference.

Perhaps if you could post the image you created in Photoshop we could try to recreate it here?

Gary

Check out Gary's own tutorial:
http://www.xaraxone.com/webxealot/wo...8/features.htm

And to see how another master's work looks, check out Valery's pic here:
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=24878

Gary - I did notice the "Joypauline" thing but thought she must be one of Egg's girlfriends or something like that. Since he posted it, it looked like he was doing the asking. I guessed he'd be advising her of any answers received...

:)

I've really got to use darker ink... :rolleyes:

I found a pattern and offset it to match in a linear way. Cut it to a rectangle and saved to JPG. Converted to grayscale and adjusted the tone range.

Drew an object and filled with a color tile and used the grayscale image for BMT. Made another rectangle with a different color in back.

Rich

That is a good looking Brocade Rich...:)

Rich, that is absolutely beautiful (I type in a manly fashion).

The grayscale image. I have been thinking of ways to get something to look this way.

Rich