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I like how you animated the steam, John!

Well done; keep trying stuff you've never tried before!

My Best,

Gary

I'm attaching an illustration of a lens flare. You need to be careful how you use it, because it's several objects in different blend modes, to simulate all the elements in a camera lens.


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If anyone knows how to simulate a lens flare using only Xara's features, please jump in here.

I'll post my own solution in a day or two here.

totally O/T as usual,

Gary

Frances mentioned in post #52 that she used Filter Forge for the starry highlight. The Filter Forge people are friends and members of the tg community, and you can download some of their free...

Nope, it is indeed an attention-getter, Stygg!

And to think this began as a tips & Tricks on wisps of steam! :)

I'm not disappointed in the least, because you are learning, you are teaching...

Those are good typefaces, Stygg!

Think of some crummy logos for businesses, and then go through your fonts and see if you can't out-do the originals.

Your matches to the fonts I used are very...

I like it, stygg, and I wasn't singling you out, or at least did not intend to concerning the (over) use of the fonts at the top of one's font list!

Because Windows 7 and 8 (and Vista) come in 64x...

I like the form of the text, the centering, the choice of sizes, and the colours, but you need to get away from sans serif typefaces, stygg, and I'm not singling out you. I feel as though when it...

I forgot until I had breakfast this afternoon! Here's another occasion when the pictures might come in useful:

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My Best,

Gare

There's another program—it produces fractal patterns that look like flames, so it's not a String Theory or Chaos generated program, but Apophysis, free and open source, might be used for stellar...

I'd venture to say you'd light the end that offers the least resistance.

I finally quit pipe smoking yesterday: I'd smoked drain pipes, bagpipes, but then when I tried a steam pipe, that made it...

I'm very pleased that some of the content this month has generated so many views! Especially for a "Giveaway Of The Month" thread.

Because this is the Xara Xone thread and not an off-topic or...

I have a suggestion for you, Scaleback: the fastest way to get to a point where you want to render and export smokey-type equations, begin with the Polynomial C preset that comes with the download....

I couldn't say I was able to keep 100% of the spirit of your original work, handrawn, but this PNG attached does indeed repeat seamlessly.

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My Best,

Gary

Hi handrawn—

It's a very handsome texture and yes, we are going a little off-topic on this thread. Not that I mind all that much, but it makes it s harder to scan through for questions, but as I...

Although there are a lot of free "lens flare" brushes for Photoshop out there, I thought I'd offer an additional option, because Xara can't understand Photoshop's Brush file format, and buying...

The only smoked fish I ever tried was salmon.

After that, I went back to pipe smoking.


-g

If you don't have a title for #46 yet, handrawn, may I suggest

A Wisp of Smoke viewed in a Reflecting Pond After a Kid threw a Stone in the Pond

Descriptive I promise but terse it's not.

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It's a greyscale goldfish, stygg!

Hey, if anyone is up to it and still has the 32x version (that has most of the plug-ins for Live Effects), you could create variations on the basic wisps of smoke...

Hah!

Love it!

:-O

That's terrific, Larry. I owned that incense burner until it got lost in my transit back up North from Manhattan in 1991. It meant a lot to me, the ornate claw feet and the slightly flying saucer...

Keeping me happy is beyond the capability and time constrains of most people, but I'm glad you made the effort, Steve. ;)

Me, I use Vector Magic when I need a critically accurate trace. My...

The same can be done with Contoning in Xara, one might argue that it's even faster than using Photoshop's Gradient Map, which is essentially the same thing in Xara.

1. Select the bitmap.

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Care to share, Maya, how you tinted the smoke?

Did you use the Contone feature?

-g

Your match stick looks a lot more photorealistic than mine, Rik. I didn't do the burnt paper/wood, nor did I char the match head.

Is that the candle you used to light my birthday cake last year?
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