Vase

[-=Drifter=-]

A MAGIC vase.....

[TwidderBird]

really cool blend there, Drifter

Seagull, on your yellow vase from 2 seperate shapes #27--that is not from my original light blu vase that you got no dark outline--correct? or if it is from the original I'd like to know

well I'm glad you guys are having a good time and learning, but I'm still stuck. I'm getting better on the gradient fill which was my original frustration.....but I have to ask Egg about this blend tool and your vase2.xar file how did you get that great blend of 50 steps 'cut' and fitting perfectly inside the vase? And am I understanding correctly that you can shape-edit a blend with the shape editor tool?
going very slowly
nance

[TwidderBird]

here's where I've gotton to with a high amount of transparency and a gradient fill. due to amount of transparency had to go back to light color.....

this is not what my goal is for this vase, tho. so will study this blend thing
nance

[parahandy]

It would look very nice with a single red rose in it Nance. What are you going to do with the picture once you get it to your taste

Bob like the light/flame in your picture very illuminating don't you think.

[-=Drifter=-]

NORM!!! (hahahahaha) I'm telling you - write and illustrate a children's book!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TwidderBird]

certainly a nice idea Norm. diddo on Bob-- illustrate children's books!

once I get this vase exactly how I want it I plan then to do a series with it as I did with Apples (non-xara gallery). I'm being very particular with it cuz this vase sits up on the bar-counter right in my view (as well as a bunch of other vases) while I work on the computer.

[-=Drifter=-]

Twidder, play with this one...

[Seagull]

Seagull, on your yellow vase from 2 seperate shapes #27--that is not from my original light blu vase that you got no dark outline--correct? or if it is from the original I'd like to know

well I'm glad you guys are having a good time and learning, but I'm still stuck.
nance

Arrrrgggg. My stupid computer just crashed reading your thread. Crashed again on rebooting. Double Arrrggggg.

First, by accident or not, congratulation Nance, you started a great thread and I am really glad egg jumped in to give his two cents worth which is probably a Canadian dollars worth.

Nooooooooooo, that is not your origianl vase. You spent hours doing it according to you, I would go crazy spending hours like that. I really like playing on the computer but can only handle it in bursts of about an hour or so, so no. God help all those people out there that have to spend 8 hours a day in front of a screen. Mine vase was just a simple circle, a rectangle that were added together so I could work on egg's blending technique. Starting with a blank screen, I had it drawn and blended in roughly 5 minutes, which as I stated, qualifies as a doodle. What your doing has got to be work or a labour of love. Personally, I don't need anymore work at the moment and I have a wife and daughter and a 100 pound chocolate labador that thinks my arms are 6 feet too short and his mission in life is to rectify that problem, so I don't need anymore love in my life either. Could use longer arms though, according to somebody, 6' more apparently.......Frank

P.S. I really like some of the art that is now being posted, including yours Nance. This is a gooooooood thread

[-=Drifter=-]

Egg, that tutorial was GREATTTTTTT!!!!!! It was also really cool hearing your voice.
That tutorial is so full of stuff i do NOT know - stuff that you do automatically and probably don't even realize other people don't know - that i too, like Norm, would like to save that video or whatever it is.

i don't know how to do that........

[TwidderBird]

I've downloaded these tuts becuz I have such a slow dial-up. If this is NOT ok, Egg, just give the word and I will happily( ) delete them when I get thru with getting all that is there in my head. I have had the same thot that all these you've supplied--is there a way to incorporate them into xara tuts?

thanks, Seagull. I'm really glad that this thread is helping others. but you guys are getting it much faster than I am --no fault of Egg's

about the time put in my vase... 1. it is my favortite vase 2. it just happenss to be the object I chose to help me learn more thouroghly how to use Xtrmeme features. turn out to be a very challenging object!