June 2014 Video Tutorial - Creating 3D Semi-Transparent Cubes in Xara

[Gare]

By the way, there have been 233 visits to the Giveaway—the cloud PNGs that I sweated over (now don't go feeling guilty or anything...), and no art posted, no comments.

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My Best,

Gary

[stygg2003]

The clouds are top notch Gary and I will get to do a post with the cloud, I'm just finishing the semi-trans. cube, which is an excellent video and tutorial.

Stygg

[stygg2003]

Well I've got some where to display my gallstone now Joking apart I have tried to follow this tut. to the letter, apart from some transparency changes and I must admit I had some difficulties at times trying to follow the various changes Gary made as the cube progressed, but that's probaly me not being as sharp as I use to be Anyway I overcame the problem by taking video snaps of the changes, importing into my document and got, I think, the changes that were shown, at least it was easier than swapping to and thro from vid. to my document. Hope after all that I've done justice to Gary's tut. and work. Much appreciated Gary for a very interesting and well worth knowing technique.

Stygg.

[stygg2003]

Sorry guys but I think this one is a slight improvement over the first trans.cube Ahh! the beauty of ageing, it's a darn nuiscance

Stygg

[Gare]

I apologize for those who had a hard time with the values.

1. I thought I'd left them onscreen for long enough, and

2. I actually wanted you all to experiment, make up your own values for both color and transparency, and learn and retain more from experimenting than by following a "recipe".

Stygg, and everyone—

You don't have to screen capture the values for the transparency or color at all.

Download the zip file; it's got the finished piece in it as a *.xar file,and you can just ungroup the cube and get the values off the Color Editor.

Hint: if you want to make a green cube or other color, change the Hue of the colors on the cube, but not the Saturation or Brightness. Use the HSB color model in the Color Editor.

My Best,

Gary

[stygg2003]

Gary no need to apologize to me about the values, they were on screen long enough but I do use vid.snaps to aid me, just my little quirk Also I do experiment with a finished tut. but first I always follow the "recipe" first so I know what I'm doing and why, it's no use me experimenting if it's not right in the first place, which is quite usual for me

Stygg

[stygg2003]

I've changed the colour and a couple of trans. on this one as well as brightnening up the whole image with two of the clouds Gary posted.

Stygg

[Egg Bramhill]

I enjoyed the video too.Some good shapes on here.

The cubes make for a great brush as well.