Hello

[dood]

Hi Everyone,

I've been lurking around the XaraX boards and admiring everyone's artwork for almost two months now and registered on the board over a month ago but had not posted until tonight.

I used the trial version of XaraX to do the Gel tutorial and it turned out pretty good considering I didn't know where all the tools were. Hahaha, not knowing where the described tools was rough and was a challenge in itself to find them.

The other night I was watching a couple of the tutorial movies on the 2nd XaraX CD and it showed repeating transparencies so I started fooling around with them. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] I've attached what came of it. Towards the end I thought this would make a cool "Galactic Confederation Insignia" and so that's what I named it.

I've enjoyed viewing everyone's art (& illustrations [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif[/img]) so here's my contribution.

Sincerely,
-Troy

[dood]

Hi Everyone,

I've been lurking around the XaraX boards and admiring everyone's artwork for almost two months now and registered on the board over a month ago but had not posted until tonight.

I used the trial version of XaraX to do the Gel tutorial and it turned out pretty good considering I didn't know where all the tools were. Hahaha, not knowing where the described tools was rough and was a challenge in itself to find them.

The other night I was watching a couple of the tutorial movies on the 2nd XaraX CD and it showed repeating transparencies so I started fooling around with them. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] I've attached what came of it. Towards the end I thought this would make a cool "Galactic Confederation Insignia" and so that's what I named it.

I've enjoyed viewing everyone's art (& illustrations [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif[/img]) so here's my contribution.

Sincerely,
-Troy

[gwpriester]

Glad you decided to step out of the shadow of lukerdom, Troy.

Did you notice in the tutorials that most steps include a small icon that looks a lot like the tool involved with that step? [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif[/img]

I like your Insignia.

Good luck,

Gary

Gary Priester

Moderator Person

Be It Rarely So Humble...

[Ross Macintosh]

Welcome aboard Troy!

Regards, Ross

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[Ross Macintosh]

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[dood]

Gary:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Did you notice in the tutorials that most steps include a small icon that looks a lot like the tool involved with that step?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yes I did! Those are great and your tutorials are great but there were a few things in there that were description only that had me searching for a while. I'll have to look through the tutorial again. For a complete beginner it was rough & frustrating but equally challenging and I got a lot of satisfaction as I saw the image take shape. I've attached it and as you can see I did ok but I did make some mistakes, like the bent lines under the gel. I didn't make the text shadow either. I could not figure out how to select items below the top item either! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] Now I know how to do that. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] I would have probably had an easier time if I started at the earlier tutorials but the gel tutorial is what got me to try XaraX. I had bought Xara3D 3.0 early in 2000 and saw the Corel Xara movie and thought it was pretty cool but the gel is what hooked me. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif[/img]

Thanks for the nice welcome. I've enjoyed looking at your gel, disks, glass, wood, glass corn, etc. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

-Troy

[dood]

Thanks for the welcome Ross. I like your images. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] (I've enjoyed looking at your images too while being a lurker.) [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

I made this image last year using Starbits to generate the galaxy and then PSP to put my photo and the galaxy together. The movie Contact inspired this one...

Take care,
-Troy