The 2012 Xara Xone Tree-Trimming Collaboration

**gwpriester** · 30 November 2012, 04:28 PM

This was from the Xara Xone December 2001 tutorial.

**Gare** · 30 November 2012, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by gwpriester

This was from the Xara Xone December 2001 tutorial.

Then we will celebrate its 11th anniversary by hanging it up this year. Thanks, Gary!

-g

**wizard509** · 30 November 2012, 04:31 PM

I was thinking that underneath the tree is looking sparse also Gare. Needs gifts, and maybe a train to go around under the tree and gifts.

**Gare** · 30 November 2012, 04:52 PM

Hi Larry—

Tomorrow I will post a version of the base of the tree that will show some perspective lines for gifts, toys, and the doll Mike W. asked for. Mike, that tall, really?

Here's an update!

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—Gary

**Gare** · 30 November 2012, 05:08 PM

What we are missing around here is some Christmas music!

I'm attaching an original arrangement of "Oh Come All Ye Faithful"; it's not a high energy tune, but unfortunately I can't post stuff that's not in Public Domain. I used a Digital Audio Workspace—a software application that lets a composer create midi tracks that can then be recorded via plug-ins that produce hi-fi sampled sounds of trumpets, drums and so on.

This song (I'll post more as we get closer to the Big Day) is part of a collection I arranged and recorded.

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So I'm pretty sure you won't hear this version at the mall.

My Best,

Gary

**angelize** · 30 November 2012, 05:54 PM

Ok now you've gone and got me singing Christmas songs!

Of course my rusty vocals didn't do your beautiful composition justice!

lovely images from Larry and Gary P. Here is another contribution from me, some strands of tinsel, each strand is a shape created with the shapebuilder and filled with a foil texture. The .xar file contains two sheets of gold and silver foil that are locked FF effects. You can access the bitmap that the program creates to display the locked texture in the dropdown on the infobar, for either the fill or the transparency tools.

In the image below I used the eraser tool with a soft setting to blend the tinsel into the tree branches.

**wizard509** · 30 November 2012, 08:37 PM

I love tinsel, we used to call it icicles but that was before it changed to silvered mylar or something that would not stay on the tree, now it's just a distant memory. I also love bubble lights, would Bob's animated bubble light work with this or is that getting too complicated.

**Gare** · 30 November 2012, 08:39 PM

I would have a very hard time putting an animation within the body of the image, and have it work and look effective, Larry. But a still image would be fine.

It's do-able, it;s just very time-consuming!

-g

**wizard509** · 30 November 2012, 11:08 PM

OK Gare, That's what I thought. I hope Bob(or was it Bill, I'm confused) submits his bubble light as a still.

**Gare** · 01 December 2012, 12:24 PM

@Larry—

I can pull a still out of the animated GIF Bill Taylor (Bob Taylor is "IAmTheBlues" and not a Moderator! And I mix them up, too!) and update the tree with the tinsel today or tomorrow.

I've given this away before, so this is not new: the Xara document has several Christmas-theme strokes, bitmap based and high resolution so they're good for printing. 5MB download, no apologies! Think of it as Christmas Past, okay?