Vector & Photo

[RUSS-USSR]

Hello guys. I really surprised that working in Xara 5 or 6, most of yours using only vector tools, as if you are drawing in Xara 2,5 ))))
I decided to kick my brain and has found some new (hope ) drawing way. It`s not a masterpiece but just an example.
This is what I suggest.
1- Original photo
2- Layer of light colors
3- Layer of dark colors
4- The last one + transparent (use original photo)
5- Result picture
6- Lines

[Big Frank]

I have to say you've completely lost me here

[RUSS-USSR]

I think Xara file is better )))

[xtom]

I get a filter error followed by png error when I try to open it.

[RUSS-USSR]

I get a filter error followed by png error when I try to open it.

The file was done in Xara 6.

[xtom]

That's weird it's loading fine now, I'm usng XDP6, it must have been something strange with another document I had open or maybe it didn't download properly.

[RUSS-USSR]

This is a one more example of using photo as a transparent source.

[wizard509]

I really like what you have done here Valery, I just hope I can figure out what you did.

[Rik]

Valery.

What you've done is brilliant and original and deserving of some real applause.


But, like some others, I don't know where you started and with what and how you got to the end result!

[handrawn]

Hi Valery

seems to me you are using bitmap transparency to enhance the texture of your flat colored drawing [book example] - two versions of the drawing: one light and one dark placed immediately above, and bitmap transparency [using the reference photograph] applied to the dark version

this is a neat trick - bitmap transparency is under-rated sometimes

and your second one is very nice indeed