I am sure I have seen a tutorial on this in the past but cannot find it now.
I want to take a number, in this case 7, in a common sans serif font say Arial and and produce an outline.
Then I want to put some vertical and horizontal lines across it, breaking the outline into segments.
Then I want each segment to have a different photo behind it.
I'd like to be able to select and move each photo individually so as to produce the most pleasing effect.
I am sure I have seen this done earlier and I don't want to reinvent the wheel.
If someone can point to a tutorial or the like I will be very grateful.
cheers, Erik
04 October 2017, 09:30 PM
Acorn
Re: Filling a letter or letter with imagesl
Collect your images into the Bitmap gallery.
Select a segment and apply Fill Tool > Bitmap and pick an image.
Adjust the controls for size, position and rotation.
Acorn
05 October 2017, 03:59 PM
Egg Bramhill
Re: Filling a letter or letter with imagesl
NOTE: Once you save & close your Xara file, unused bitmaps are removed from the file.
05 October 2017, 04:17 PM
Egg Bramhill
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Here's the xar file should you wish to mess with it Erik. I've given the outlines a stained glass border look.
05 October 2017, 05:06 PM
Egg Bramhill
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Re: Filling a letter or letter with imagesl
Been messing about for fun with that object and here's the result.
05 October 2017, 06:37 PM
Boy
Re: Filling a letter or letter with imagesl
Nice one, Egg!
05 October 2017, 06:42 PM
RKissane
Re: Filling a letter or letter with imagesl
Egg,
I really like what you came up with. That really looks good.
Ray
Ray
06 October 2017, 03:20 PM
Acorn
Re: Filling a letter or letter with imagesl
Egg, I can see people actually building something real from your design,
Acorn
06 October 2017, 07:33 PM
Egg Bramhill
Re: Filling a letter or letter with imagesl
Thanks for the kind comments peeps.
07 October 2017, 07:07 AM
EJ
Re: Filling a letter or letter with imagesl
Thanks folks, particularly Egg. I am sure I can get this going now. At the moment though I have now moved about three hours away from home and only have access to a rather clunky laptop. Looking forward to getting back in a fortnight. The last version with a 3D effect is great and I can see me putting a fair bit of time into that. It is a bit more elaborate than I need but great fun.
I'll post when I get back.