Creating Clouds with Xara Xtreme

**gwpriester** · 29 May 2010, 02:01 PM

Steve - Your clouds seem the closest to what you are trying to achieve.

Clouds are really difficult because they are very soft and yet have hard outlines.

**Albacore** · 29 May 2010, 04:54 PM

Steve if you can wait until tomorrow I have in another life form made up two brushes which may do the job for you. What that means about 6 - 7 years ago I was doing local views in vector format and printing the in A3+ and selling them locally but all the files are on another hard disc and I have to time just now. This is the main sailing weekend in Scotland of the year and we are doing well.

In the drawing one brush lays down the heavy clouds with the other putting in the wispy bits. I have used others cos as you may know Scotland weather changes every 10 minutes so one set of brushes would not do every sky so I have a few more which I may upload if this is what your wanting.

**gwpriester** · 29 May 2010, 06:32 PM

Very convincing Peter.

**jvila** · 30 May 2010, 12:18 AM

here it is one attempt.
Best regards

**steve.ledger** · 30 May 2010, 12:36 AM

Pretty good Javier, very soft and fluffy

@Peter - almost missed yours until I clicked the thumbnail I thought it was a photo ! Well done.
Yes, please I'd like to see your brushes too.

**jvila** · 30 May 2010, 12:48 AM

Another one

using a brush

**ontos** · 30 May 2010, 02:11 AM

All those clouds look great, I can't waite to do a country scene with some of those cotton balls

**salaam** · 30 May 2010, 08:16 PM

Many of you are ignoring the phenomenon of light and shadows.
Sorry for criticising and not posting examples.

**steve.ledger** · 30 May 2010, 08:27 PM

Originally Posted by salaam

Many of you are ignoring the phenomenon of light and shadows.

That pre supposes that we know about L&S in relation to clouds the same way as you do Anas.
I don't think anyone is ignoring anything, it just hasn't occurred to us in the same way it occurs to you

So yes, show us what you mean please.

**Rhanna** · 30 May 2010, 09:53 PM

Steve,
The thread prooves the point. Clouds are not easy. You can get close. Peter did a good job and I think France's brushes are very good. I have worked on brushes for clouds and just haven't come up with anything which does the job.
Like I said in the other thread on clouds, I can get the sky right but the fluffy whites are the difficult ones.
I have done a lot of cloud development over the years but just can't nail it. Sky are OK.
Rupert