Brush Problem

**barrym67** · 20 February 2010, 07:25 PM

Hi there everyone, I have attached an image of an ornament that has a solid background, when I save it as a brush you will see that it looks totally different. You can see the difference between the two images of what I mean.
I have not used any transparency effects only a circle with a gradient ciruclar fill.

If there is anyone that can throw some light on this for me I would appreciate it. I successfully exported such items as brushes in the past and had no problem.

Thanks for the help.

Kind regards

Barry

**handrawn** · 20 February 2010, 07:44 PM

Hi Barry

does it have to be vector?

if you make a bitmap copy and create a brush from that it will work - you will need to take out tile fills in the brush fill properties tab

**barrym67** · 20 February 2010, 07:53 PM

Handrawn!! You are a GENIUS!!! I was battling for weeks!! LOL!!

Thank you so much!!! That worked like a CHARM!!!

I bow down to thee, I am so grateful!!

Thanks!!

Baz!!

**handrawn** · 20 February 2010, 08:02 PM

oh no, genius I aint - hyperbole methinks

- but thanks - glad to help

when you use bitmaps for brushes you have to bear resolution in mind - so if you are intending to use the brush at different sizes it may be best to create a brush for each size, rather than draw the line and resize afterwards...

**barrym67** · 20 February 2010, 08:11 PM

ok cool! Thanks for that extra advice. I totally appreciate your help! Have an awesome day/night!!

**handrawn** · 20 February 2010, 08:21 PM

I'll try

**Christine Farrelly** · 21 February 2010, 03:09 AM

This should work as a vector brush which is much better than using a bitmap brush - if you post the XAR file I can probably tell you why it is not working.

Christine

**Christine Farrelly** · 21 February 2010, 05:37 AM

Forget my earlier post - it looks as though you have found a bug/feature in Xtreme. I recreated your line and got exactly the same result.

I first tried duplicating the shapes and converting the line round the larger circles to shapes grouping this with the original circles with no line, same result.

I then tried creating a brush with just those circles grouped together - line set to 0(zero) I still got the same result as if Xara was remembering the line and using it anyway. The only way I could create the line with just the 2 basic circles was by re-drawing them.

Creating 2 lines was the only way I could get this to work as a vector brush.

I will log this with Xara and let you know what happens.

Christine

**Black Panther** · 21 February 2010, 11:45 AM

I don´t know Christine if i´m wrong or right, I don´t have his xar file any more, but i recreat his drawing and made vector brush from the group. It seem to be ok and work too with vector objects as brush. my be i´m wrong and missed some steps of his drawing. Regards BP