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Thanks for all 44 replies to my original question. Yeesh. Um. I think I'm going to stick with an older version and never upgrade again. It's a shame as I both use Xara for pro game dev work, and I...

Hi folks,
I've just upgraded to ProX and am finding that I am no longer able to do something that I did all the time in previous versions.
One of my common tricks is to take a scene I've created,...

Open Xara Designer 7 for Windows - demo version.

1) Create a solid block of colour at an integer coordinate (say 0,0).
2) Make it an integer width and height (say 128 x 128)
3) Export
4) Choose...

Done. Link at bottom of page.

All art was made with Xtreme, and the website with Web Designer. I'll sort out links/affiliate stuff tomorrow!

Hi folks,

I started my own small company in May developing iPhone games.

I'm posting here to say that I use Xara for everything. Every last graphic. Every particle effect. The web-site. All of...

Hopefully the site should be nice and fast now.

Any comments and pointers gratefully received.

Thank you so much! That worked (almost) perfectly. You have to be careful with shadowed graphics because (of course) they are saved out with the shadowed segments showing the patterned area. A small...

There are two things that drive me nuts about Xara Web designer.

1) If you have an image on the page several times (e.g. a graphical bullet-point marker) it creates multiple graphics, even when...

Pfft... nono - this was entirely for research purposes. I was using another designer's art as inspiration, namely Catalina Estrada.

I'll check out the clipart gallery patterns. Thanks for the tip.

Thanks for the info. I thought clipviews might be the way forward.
I've also only just worked out that you can use a gradient fill on a group (which allows me those 'cross gradient' effects where...

In the attached file, I used several fill patterns as a transparency in saturation or mix mode, with a various filled backgrounds.

Is it possible to do the same with a vector-based fill?

I'm sure someone must have asked for this previously, but I don't see it anywhere here (even searching for it).

In several other vector tools you can define brushes which stretch the entire length...

First of all, I've found virtually nothing I want to do that I can't do in Xara. Well done on creating a super-friendly, flexible tool.

Although the bitmap fills are great, I'd find the ability to...

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First attempt at a cutesy card for my wife.

Those mangoes are pretty amazing. I'll keep the techniques mentioned in mind. I've used feathering quite a lot so far - it's incredibly useful.

Thanks for the help everyone.

Marvellous - never occurred to me to use a bitmap as a transparency. Works a treat. Many thanks again.

Good Lord, those were quick answers! Many thanks. Somehow I missed the smooth tool - the fact that you can re-introduce the complexity at will is just fantastic.

(Vertex/vertices is just another...

So do it *before* you convert. Fair enough. FYI: the problem I was finding was as shown in the file in the attachment. There are a lot of pointless vertices here, and Inkscape allows you to click a...

Hi folks. Happy new year!

I'm trying to create an image in the style of the one at the following link:

Klaus Haapaneimi

In order to do so, I really want to do the following:

1) Change...

Ooh! Perfect. Thanks!

Hi folks,

I've created relatively basic vector art for years, and am now attempting to learn to draw properly, having put it off for too long.

One of the exercises I've set myself is to draw a...

Aha! I upgraded from the demo, and obviously never re-set that. Duh!

Thanks!

As the title of the thread shows, I'm trying to draw a large number of tapered lines in a scene. I was assuming that - like the line style - I could set the end styles to a tapered shape after which...

Just tried the last one of those (Vinyl). Very robust. Very funky. :-)