Part of ellipses

**salaam** · 04 September 2006, 04:01 PM

I was looking at Valery's amazing hand held MP3 player or whatever.
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...t=22693&page=2
I just wanted to know how this part was made. It's an ellipse but it's top is cut off. When I tried to emulate it, it ended up as other than an ellipse.
Also how do you make one side not feathered? I tried grouping it but this didn't work either.
Hopefully, once you give me the answer for this, I will easily be able to emulate the whole of his artwork.

Anas

**Soquili** · 04 September 2006, 04:12 PM

Hi Anas,

If you look at the transparency for that ellipse you will see that Valery used linear and the 100% transparency is where the unfeathered line appears.

**gwpriester** · 04 September 2006, 06:44 PM

Another way to do this is to use a shape, such as a rectangle, to trim off the end of the ellipse. Then rotate the ellipse and add feathering with the feathering slider at the top right area of the Infobar.

Gary

**abligh** · 05 September 2006, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by salaam

Also how do you make one side not feathered? I tried grouping it but this didn't work either.

What I do is group it, clone it, feather the bottom one, then make the top one have a fading transparency (in the appropriate areas) so those bits are unfeathered. You may need some playing around to get this right.

Alex

**Xhris** · 05 September 2006, 10:00 AM

Originally Posted by salaam

I was looking at Valery's amazing hand held MP3 player or whatever.
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...t=22693&page=2
I just wanted to know how this part was made. It's an ellipse but it's top is cut off. When I tried to emulate it, it ended up as other than an ellipse.
Also how do you make one side not feathered? I tried grouping it but this didn't work either.
Hopefully, once you give me the answer for this, I will easily be able to emulate the whole of his artwork.

Anas

Video:

**salaam** · 05 September 2006, 10:29 AM

Thanks Soquili and Gary,
So simple.

Originally Posted by abligh

What I do is group it, clone it, feather the bottom one, then make the top one have a fading transparency (in the appropriate areas) so those bits are unfeathered. You may need some playing around to get this right.

Alex, I don't know how you get a similar effect with this method, it didn't work for me, what did I do wrong? Unless I make the top ellipse white.
Thanks Xhris. I couldn't hear anything using Windows Media Player. I went to Youtube and the volume was OK there.

Anas

**Xhris** · 05 September 2006, 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by salaam

Thanks Soquili and Gary,
So simple.

Alex, I don't know how you get a similar effect with this method, it didn't work for me, what did I do wrong? Unless I make the top ellipse white.
Thanks Xhris. I couldn't hear anything using Windows Media Player. I went to Youtube and the volume was OK there.

Anas

youtube? sound? i recorded it without sound and only posted it on talkgraphics. I might make a dedicated YouTube Xara account at some point to ease the Talkgraphics bandwidth issues.

**gwpriester** · 05 September 2006, 12:36 PM

Anas

Actually now that I look at the example you posted I would create a bitmap copy, true color + alpha, of the feathered ellipse, then use the rectangle to cut off the top.

Gary

**abligh** · 05 September 2006, 01:07 PM

Originally Posted by salaam

Thanks Soquili and Gary,
Alex, I don't know how you get a similar effect with this method, it didn't work for me, what did I do wrong? Unless I make the top ellipse white.

Like the attached.

Alex

**salaam** · 05 September 2006, 01:31 PM

I understand now Alex. You didn't mention chopping the top off first. I wanted the shape to keep the 'ellipse' like Valery's and Soquili's. Neat trick anyway.

Sorry Chris, I couldn't make anything out from your video, so I assumed I must have been missing some sound. Your video lasts for 27 seconds, the first 18 seconds shows only a blank page and an arrow, then a close-up, then the 2 main shapes, and that's it 3 frames?

Anas