Dark Backgrounds

[Tabian]

Hi yall, just downloaded the Dark Background fills from XX.com, they look great but how do I install them?
Please help me before I cry...!

[mwenz]

Tabian--please remove the url. It goes to an explicit web site.

Take care, Mike

[handrawn]

Hi

first extract them to a folder and place this where you want to keep it on your system [in principle this can be anywhere as long as it stays there]

then in xara fill gallery click on disc fills button and navigate to the folder - it wont find anything [no items match..] because there is no index, so click on the add button on the right of the dialog box - confirm that you want to create an index

it should now appear in the fill gallery...

[Tabian]

Thanks for all. Sorry about posting it here

[Gare]

Hi Tabian—

It's okay to post in this Xara Xone area on tg when you're having a problem with a file that is located on the Xara Xone.

You followed handrawn's advice and you're all set now?

Not sure what xx.com is; can I assume you were short-handing xaraxone.com?



My Best,

Gary

[stygg2003]

Really good backgrounds this pack and I've found they are useful to get more practice with the shape tool ! and create some sort of abstract art, I find it very relaxing, a little bit of creative art

Stygg

[Gare]

Hmm...

Okay!

Actually, I created them for a website, and experimented and experimented, and then decided on one, and had several left-overs, so I'm glad sharing them is inspirational, stygg!

-g

[stygg2003]

Hmm...

Okay!

Actually, I created them for a website, and experimented and experimented, and then decided on one, and had several left-overs, so I'm glad sharing them is inspirational, stygg!

-g

They are great backgrounds Gary but they have so many curved shapes on them I could'nt resist not practicing the shape tool on them swapping from L to C as asked to practice in this months tut. I'm also looking forward to the photograpy tut. you implied with adding light and shadow, and if I may be so bold, perhaps some more on perspective, I know we have touched on this but I had in mind more on perspective setting up so to speak. I have attempted a little on this subject so have uploaded in what I had in mind. I know there is Sketch for this sort of thing but wondered if there was more you could do using Xara?

Stygg

[Gare]

Hi stygg—

To do justice to an area of drawing—lighting and shadows for example—is going to require that I keep it focused, tight, straight to the point. Which is why I can't promise anything on perspective.

By the way, your perspective studies are quite nice. What you're working with is called an isometric perspective, sometimes not called perspective at all because it's a view that is unlike anything a lens can capture, an eyeball or a camera lens. It gives equal emphasis to the visible angles of an object. I did this illustration for a CorelDRAW book; on one hand, the isometric view provides accurate object detail, while the object at right is incredibly distorted yet more photorealistic than the isometric view because in life, and object exhibits a vanishing point, the point at which the projected lines of an object's perspective converge way off in a presumed distance.



Perspective could definitely be a subject on its own in future videos. And this is getting way off-topic. Open a thread about November's tute if you like!

My Best,

Gar

[wizard509]

If I recall correctly, isometric drawings are directly measurable on all sides as apposed to perspective drawings which are not.
Bye the way stygg, nice drawings.