Rainbow Logo - How hard can it be?

[megaman]

Trying to re-draw the attached rainbow so that its background is fully transparent in xara designer pro x but struggling. I have tried creating a series of circles then cropping the image down but I get line that go across the whole of the bottom of the logo from left to right instead of stopping like i would expect at each side. I have tried manually making a series of arcs but am finding it near impossible to get them lined up correctly. Am I doing something wrong? If so how would you go about creating a simple logo such as this in xara designer?

Then once created I need to create the background as transparent including the white section between the arcs. Daft as it sounds ive rattled a website off in no time in xara leaving the logo until last, now struggling with what i assumed would be a simple task lol.

Any help greatly appreciated.
thanks
Martin

[steve.ledger]

Try the blend tool on two arcs made from a halved circle.
Create a no-fill circle with a heavy line weight then slice it in two. Break the points to remove the flat then clone the remaining open semi-circle and reduce the clone making sure the scale line widths is off.
Then use the blend tool to create the steps, un group the blend then colour each arc accordingly.

When done, enable scale line widths if you want to resize the rainbow as a whole

[gwpriester]

Or... Make both arc shapes the same color, create your blend, and select Alt Rainbow from the Blend Color Effect drop down menu,

[steve.ledger]

I had trouble getting Roy G Biv with that method, but yeh, tried again with R as the outer and V as the inner, then used the Alt-Rainbow blend. Better

[Big Frank]

put your image to a background layer and lock it
draw unfilled circles corresponding to your image's circles' width & colour
constrain each circle using shift and have the bounds creation button selected
continue until you're happy your drawing matches your imported image
you now have a bunch of unfilled circles
convert all circles to shapes using convert line to shape
you now have a bunch of shapes with no outline
group them and draw a line through the middle
ho hum done
it's easier to see with the xar file

[gwpriester]

As usual, I failed to read the request.

[steve.ledger]

Well, in fairness to us the title does specify a 'Rainbow'.. Green an yellow arcs do not a rainbow make..

[Big Frank]

since the first line of the request was "Trying to re-draw the attached rainbow" i just looked at the attached rainbow
i suppose it might make things easier for you if tg users are given 512 chars for the title
but in fairness to the op his post describes in detail exactly what he wants to achieve

[megaman]

Everyone,

Many thanks for your quick feedback to my request. I have learnt a few new techniques which is always useful

since the first line of the request was "Trying to re-draw the attached rainbow" i just looked at the attached rainbow
i suppose it might make things easier for you if tg users are given 512 chars for the title
but in fairness to the op his post describes in detail exactly what he wants to achieve

Apologies if my original request was unclear, the shape of the logo is a rainbow but as you can see from the attached, the colouring is bespoke to the clients requirements.

Still happy to see how you create a typical rainbow using the full spectrum of colours so that good. In fact your method would have been the quickest by far had they needed a proper rainbow effect.

Having tried all the methods above I found Big Franks idea of locking the original image as a background layer great. Something so simple which i hadnt thought of before.

Thanks once again for your help everyone, appreciate it.

Thanks

Martin