Tutorials Index

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Using Contours instead of converting lines to shapes (from lucx): Creating graduated fill and keeping the lines editable.


Cut Out Shapes (from tonylondon): Creating a 3D look with shadows using two clones of the same vector, and the contour tool.

Bitmap Warping (from ivan louette): Creating amazing artistic effects by using bitmaps and custom brushes, and applying them to shapes.

Blending contoured shapes on a curve (from Ross Macintosh): Method of blending shapes and preserving interactivy in color and contours.

Extrude (from preid): Blending between and two shapes, or groups there of, to create extruded 3D effect.

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Blending Contoured Shapes on a curve 2 (from Egg Bramhill): Creating a shape without a start or end point, using the blend tool.

Spirals (from ivan louette): Instead of using SPX-E you can also manually create custom spirals.

Blend on a Curve with an offset (from ivan louette): Another partly hidden feature in Xara X.

Creating Tiles (from Egg Bramhill): A cool method of showing how to produce tiles with a brush tool.

Chrome and Golden Text Technique 1 (from jens g.r. benthien): Easily produce a clean chrome or gold effect on any typeface.

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Contours (from Ross Macintosh): Applying a multi-stepped blend to a shape and interactively modify the color.

Collage Technique (from ivan louette): Collage technique using bitmaps and vector shapes with brush lines, to preserve interactivity.

Spirograph (from Ross Macintosh): Creating spirograph, and other effects, using custom brushes and applying them to various shapes.

Filling Unclosed Shapes (from ivan louette): Preserving the fill (with interactivity) for unclosed shapes after joining and breaking shapes.

Carved Stone (from gwpriester): Two tutorials showing you to how the created that 'carved in stone' effect.

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Tracing Techniques (from Risto Klint): Using the bitmap tracer and turning the vectors in to non-overlapping shapes.

Golden Text Technique 2 (from gwpriester): Creating a shiny gold text effect using the blend tool and a clipview.

Transparent Bitmap Overlay (from Egg Bramhill): Color your B & W bitmap images using colored overlays and transparencies.

Exporting from Xara X to Xara 3D (from Egg Bramhill): Exporting vectors from Xara X to Xara 3D in order to apply different extrusions.

Creating Arrows (from tonylondon): Creating double-ended, and two-way errors for simple and complex paths.

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Bubbles (from gwpriester): Create your own bubbles using multipoint circular fills and transparencies.

Multi-color outline fill (from joroho): Creating a multicolored editable outline using the contour tool.

Filling Incomplete Forms (from Big Frank): Converting un-joined lines in to a vector shape that can be filled and manipulated.

Wrapping a Sphere (from Erik Heyninck): Creating and wrapping a bitmap image to a sphere using the mould tool and basic vector tools.

Shading (Rendering) a Bent Tube (from Clements): Create light reflecting off a tubular elbow using the blend tool and a clipview.

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Drawing Spheres (from gwpriester): How to draw a sphere with a highlight, a core shadow, and a reflected surface using fills.

Color and Eyedropper Tip (from gwpriester): Two tutorials showing how to create a color scheme with the blend tool and the fill tool.

Creating Clouds (from Steve Newport): Creating clouds using the freehand tool, fractal fill and feathering.

Using the Color Picker to Change Line Color (from myles): Definining local line color, or local line color in the color editor.

Making Fire (from Steve Newport): Two tutorials showing how to create realistic fire, and an exhaust flame.