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

[Gare]

Hey Beanpole—

An awful lot of your Wish List for textures can be accomplished by varying the options with fractals and also using fractal fills in combination with transparency, and layering partially opaque fractal filled shapes.

I don't know how tx200man accomplished the splash illustration, but when I need something that's this complex, I use an image. I rendered these corona-style splashes out of my modeling program. Feel free to experiment—that's why I'm posting 'em!



My Best,

Gary