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Thank you very much. As you so rightly say, it's driving me crazy. I'll go take a look at your website, and I appreciate the assistance.
H

P.S. What an awesome site you have. Incredible pictures.

Gary, Greatly appreciate your comments. I just seem to have hit a brick wall on these blasted clouds. Nothing I've done so far seems realistic, in every rendition so far you'd expect Daffy Duck to...

Attached are two old Xara paintings I did in 07/08. They've now on canvas and hanging (rather large) on various walls. I'm back painting again and attach a photoshop scene that I'm re-doing in Xara...

Gray,
Once again, Stunning.
Do you use a graphic pad? If so I'd appreciate a comment on the ease of use of one with Xara, and if you have one, a recommendation.

Regards
HJ

Grey,
Stunning work. Do you have a site I can visit?
HJ

Thanks, I'll check it out.
HJ

Whilst going through various old archived discs I found a .xar file. Amongst the images (most too horrible to post) was this one. It was one of those 'test' drawings, never finished, that I do to see...

Looks like it should be a picture from the Hubble scope.

Thanks for the comments.
The intent was to draw a bird flying between two waves. I used to walk my dog down on the beach and the birds fly about two feet off the surface down the 'alley' between...

By cropped, do you mean that there are areas that don't flow? If so, I admit the upper right breaking wave is a bit of a cheat. I'll redo it. Any other thoughts?
HJ

Here is my latest picture. I found that Portraits are very easy in Xara, but I wondered how easy it was going to be to do a landscape or seascape. The answer for me was "It's very dificult, and can...

Many thanks Sledger,
RTMS, I should have known the answer.
Thanks
HJ

Am I going bonkers or did the previous versions of Xara allow me to draw the two directional arrows of the fractal cloud fill closer together? My current version seems unable to close the angle and...

Pauland,
I find the same thing. Usually I get close to finnishing and when I check through the layers I see that the picture is 'over done'. The Picture of Genevieve, "The English Rose" did have at...

Risto,
I greatly appreciate your post. Thank you.
Hugh

Very simple, and several have asked before, though not in quite such a rude manner.
An oil painting on canvas has been done of this vector drawing. The original painting is large, too large for...

Thanks for the nice comments. Did you see 'Out of the Chute' which I think is better?
Thanks
Hugh

1.The tail light of an Edsel, viewed from the wrong angle
2.The rear end of International Rescue 1 (or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5)
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Never easier. I think this was a standard 'Alien Skin' applied in Xara and exported as a JPG. Compressed at about 51% to try and get as decent a load time as possible. The text again was via XARA, an...

Many thanks for the feed back from all. I'll try to change some code and see if I can get a universal solution. Whatever I may say it would appear that with 80% of the world happy to use IE, I'm...

Me too. I'm not sure if Xara has coded either degraded XML/HTML or IE isn't as advanced in the use of XMl/HTML.
Do you have any ideas as to what I can do to resolve this, other than rewriting in...

When Xara 4 arrived I made a test site using it. Everything looked, and worked fine until I viewed it in IE. The Home page is a single piece of colored letter with a .png with transparancy and then...

Thanks for the comments. I only did one further (actually it was the first) Rodeo painting, but I agree, there is something very alive about them. 'Sweetheart' ended up with her eyes shut, but the...

Thanks for the comments.
Regards
Hugh

I've attached as big as I can easy produce, including a 'close up' of the central characters.
You can see a bigger (but compressed) picture at either www.calcomart.com or www.managemoves.com. The...