Hi,
I posted awhile ago about an effect done in Designer Pro x(15) advertisement regarding the
effect on a woman's eye. I wanted to get a tutorial on how to achieve it. Here is the video
I was referring too
https://youtu.be/mTOALQX-ego
Thanks Jim
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Hi,
I posted awhile ago about an effect done in Designer Pro x(15) advertisement regarding the
effect on a woman's eye. I wanted to get a tutorial on how to achieve it. Here is the video
I was referring too
https://youtu.be/mTOALQX-ego
Thanks Jim
And there is that navigation wheel again. I wonder if the Xara designers are using something different than what is released to the public?
Ray
Smoke & Mirrors. A complete fantasy.
Two threads asking for a simple how to create this effect and I'm the only one who actually bothered to try and answer the question 5 days later! There was a time on this forum when a question like this would have been answered by four or five different people with four or five different methods in the first couple of hours! What has happened to us?? Me, I now work full time but I still try to answer questions when I can. Ok enough rant Sorry Scotty! To answer your question:
First in the video they don't show the complete work involved to create the effect. I have attached a .xar file that you can pull apart and have a look at. But basically I traced around the eye with a brush, the trees and the photo of the model I got from pixabay. I adjusted contrast brightness and hue on the photo to come close to your example.
The trees were adjusted in the same way as the model image. I sliced the trees apart using the free hand tool to draw lines then selecting the trees and linesand Ctrl + 4 repeatedly to get 3 chunks. The bottoms of the trees were erased to remove a white stone that the trees seemed to be growing out of and also to give a curved edge. I placed the trees around the eye playing around with rotation and scale to get a pleasing composition. Then the trees were placedbehind the line work and given a hard light transparency to blend them into the photo.
the final touch I gave this was to add a cyan coloured ellipse on top and give that an elliptical hard light transparency.
maybe the wheel is a work in progress; a touch screen and/or online designer thing... would not be the first time xara marketing have been 'ahead of themselves'... and maybe it is just a trendy artificeQuote:
Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill
This is rhetorical right? - You must know the answer why some of us don't put ourselvers out anymoreQuote:
Originally Posted by angelize
Good for you in making time to give an answer to the question though
angelize, I force myself to wait until there have been 100 reads of the Thread before throwing my tuppence-worth in as I know most other TGers are more knowledgeable than I am.
I break that rule where I seem to the the resident guru on web design aspects.
On Scotty's ask, I would have said add trees with some transparency...
...to me this is a basic Xara feature that doesn't need a tut.
Perhaps I differ from most but I don't bust a gut trying to copy someone else's nice thing, I play with the tool and challenge it (and myself) and once I know what we can do together, I then make things.
Acorn
Original question reminds me of the Irishman, when asked "How do I get to the town centre?" replies "Well if I was you I wouldn't be starting from here."
That video is a very false advert and in my opinion shouldn't exist. It needs reporting to Trading Standards.
And that was a time when Xara was a far more vector based program with many vector followers and was software far in advance of it's competitors. Unfortunately that's no longer the case Frances :(Quote:
There was a time on this forum when a question like this would have been answered by four or five different people with four or five different methods in the first couple of hours!
Which program are you using now, Egg?Quote:
Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill
I still use Designer Pro x11 and don't fancy playing with lots of better developed alternatives, but if you have a suggestion I'd give it a go!
Hi,Quote:
Originally Posted by RKissane
I'll take a wild guess that Xara is working on the navigation wheel but it's not ready for prime time Why? Because Magix has a similar wheel, actually wheels, just released. See this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAbQymCDC9g
I had the opportunity to try it out, but not on my touch screen Surface Pro 4, unfortunately. Neat!
Note that Drawboard PDF comes with a navigation wheel.
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Plot twist: that video is actually to promote a file compression utility. Nobody knows why or how any of those workflows are demonstrated.Quote:
Originally Posted by browj2
??? video compression utility?Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
No, it's the promo for the new effects in PhotoStory, and they work - I tried them. Here is a link to a video produced by one of the Moderators (not an employee) on the Magix.info forum.
Here is a link to the Magix.com page with the same promo.
Nice Angelize!! Better than my attempt but then I was trying to 'Redo' the slide in and fade effect. But the one you donne FAR superior...
Jim
Morphic Halo...all interfaces wish they were as good...the wheel is a pale imitation...