Brush Problem

Hi there everyone, I have attached an image of an ornament that has a solid background, when I save it as a brush you will see that it looks totally different. You can see the difference between the two images of what I mean.
I have not used any transparency effects only a circle with a gradient ciruclar fill.

If there is anyone that can throw some light on this for me I would appreciate it. I successfully exported such items as brushes in the past and had no problem.

Thanks for the help.

Kind regards

Barry

Hi Barry

does it have to be vector?

if you make a bitmap copy and create a brush from that it will work - you will need to take out tile fills in the brush fill properties tab

Handrawn!! You are a GENIUS!!! I was battling for weeks!! LOL!!

Thank you so much!!! That worked like a CHARM!!!

I bow down to thee, I am so grateful!!

Thanks!!

Baz!!

:D
oh no, genius I aint - hyperbole methinks :p - but thanks - glad to help :D

when you use bitmaps for brushes you have to bear resolution in mind - so if you are intending to use the brush at different sizes it may be best to create a brush for each size, rather than draw the line and resize afterwards...

ok cool! Thanks for that extra advice. I totally appreciate your help! Have an awesome day/night!!

I'll try ;)

This should work as a vector brush which is much better than using a bitmap brush - if you post the XAR file I can probably tell you why it is not working.

Christine

Forget my earlier post - it looks as though you have found a bug/feature in Xtreme. I recreated your line and got exactly the same result.

I first tried duplicating the shapes and converting the line round the larger circles to shapes grouping this with the original circles with no line, same result.

I then tried creating a brush with just those circles grouped together - line set to 0(zero) I still got the same result as if Xara was remembering the line and using it anyway. The only way I could create the line with just the 2 basic circles was by re-drawing them.

Creating 2 lines was the only way I could get this to work as a vector brush.

I will log this with Xara and let you know what happens.

Christine

I don´t know Christine if i´m wrong or right, I don´t have his xar file any more, but i recreat his drawing and made vector brush from the group. It seem to be ok and work too with vector objects as brush. my be i´m wrong and missed some steps of his drawing. Regards BP

Hi thanks guys, here is the Xara file. Greatly appreciated. I have never had this problem before.
Warm regards
Barry

Hi BP

Like Christine I could not get it to go in vector - I thought it might be something to do with having a custom brush inside another custom brush...

If you can get it to work - great

I think this can be that you have one brush created applyed to circles and groupe them and you want to create brush from this groupe, try my xar file i redrawed your objects as only shapes and circles, grouped them and create the brush of this groupe. Maybe that could help you. regards BP

I was playing around with the .xar file Barry posted. I noticed that a brush was part of the ornament shapes.

I recreated the shapes using a blend rather than a brush.

Next I converted to Editable Shapes and ungrouped the original blend on a curve for the two larger ellipses. Selected all and group.

I created a brush but to my surprise it does not look like the original shapes. :-O

One attachment shows the original shapes I used for the brush. Another attachment shows the Brush at about 300 pix to show the brush shapes. The .xar file with the brush is also attached.

Yes Bill, that is what I wanted to say, and in my first post i said too I recreated Barry Drawing without his xar file, and i did the same like you bland of circles, converted to shapes, and made the brush of them. I think this methode is better. Sorry handrawn and Chritine you are right. Barry´s Xar file gives me the same result like yours too. but i made the brush with only shapes and blends like Bill.
Regards BP

You guys have been absolutely awesome!! Thanks BP!! I am using your brush now! :-) And thank you to everyone else that has helped too! Bless you all!! I will create them as BP suggests now. Many many many thanks!!
Kind regards
Barry

You are welcome Barry, Glad I could helped you. Regards BP

Nice one :)

I have managed to create this as a pure Vector but only by using duplicate circles, you need to create the circles with no line and then add the line only to the top one.

I will post the file in the brushes forum


Here's a link to the brush file

http://talkgraphics.com/showthread.p...061#post351061

Christine