February 2013 Guest Tips and Tricks - Making Surreal Backgrounds with Xara Fractals

[Gare]

Hi tx200man—

When you say that the splash is just an overlay, do you mean that you used a photo?

I went originally with the assumption that you illustrated it.

I'd feel much better as an artist knowing that you did what I did!



TIA,

Gary

[TXAlba]

Gary, yes the splash is just a photo imported in, then the colour changed to match. Could have drawn it but that wasn't the object of the game.
Tried to attach the file but dont see how to add a file, just an image?

[TXAlba]

got it, nothing fancy

[Gare]

Argh!

I tried to remove your file link from its inline position but failed, tx200man.

I'm being told there's an invalid handle with the file.

When you want to post an attachment,it's best to uncheck the "Insert Inline" option.

My Best,

Gary

[Gare]

Okay, got it and looked at it.

Very clever, very nice work, tx200man!

-g

[BeanPole]

Thanks Gare and tx200man!

Now I have lots to play with over the next few days!

Thanks a bunch!

[TXAlba]

Thanks Gary, appreciate that...........have fun Beanpole

[stygg2003]

Okay, got it and looked at it.

Very clever, very nice work, tx200man!

-g

When I try to open the file Gary I get the attached message and DP7 stops working? Any idea what the problem is?

Stygg

[Gare]

At first I thought the problem was that the link is in-line.

But it's the file name. The two periods, in internet language, are causing a "redirect". Xara can't "see" that it's a Xara file due to the way the net is handing off the file and its current name. So the solution here is to download the file, and then open it from your hard drive. When you click the link, do not choose to Open the file...you'll just keep getting that error message. Once you've downloaded it, you can either rename it or just open Xara and do a File>Open. From the desktop, the non-standard name is valid.

The file should be named "Xara tut,xar" but I don't have Admin privileges to fix it.




Stygg, I'll repost what I downloaded if you still can't download the file, and then open it.

Hey, we all can learn from this.

My Best,

Gary

[stygg2003]

Tried re-naming and File open Gary but still can't open it, although re-naming it stopped the error message and DP7 from crashing ?

Stygg