September 2014 Video Tutorial -- Xara Photo Compositions Part 2

[wizard509]

Whatever was the problem I fixed it and viewed the video.

[stygg2003]

Whatever was the problem I fixed it and viewed the video.

Larry you really are a wizard, you did'nt know what the problem was but you fixed it! now that is magic

Stygg

[Gare]

Yes Gare I noticed your avatar, and thought of putting glasses on mine just for a joke. I cannot see the video however all I get is a black rectangle, I'll have to see what I did to cause that.

It depends on your browser, Larry. Or you don't have the bandwidth at the moment because of internet traffic in your neck of the woods.
I uploaded it as an MP4 to YouTube, but sometimes it creates a FLV (Flash) copy that doesn't embed properly here at tg. It works for my...not that it's a great piece of work!... but here's the direct link the YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5StYVw2hho4

Copy and past into the address line of your browser,

-g

[Gare]

It depends on your browser, Larry. Or you don't have the bandwidth at the moment because of internet traffic in your neck of the woods.
I uploaded it as an MP4 to YouTube, but sometimes it creates a FLV (Flash) copy that doesn't embed properly here at tg. It works for my...not that it's a great piece of work!... but here's the direct link the YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5StYVw2hho4

Copy and past into the address line of your browser,

-g

*Ignore all of the above. I failed to read page four here before posting. Be kind and reuse the pixels I wasted.

[csehz]

Just still with the example of Theionen's car, trying to reproduce similiar color in Xara I find it rather hard to mix that out only with a Hue slider and Strength



So okay that the Hue can be changed in general but could be some method maybe how to enter a concrete Hue like a number and doing that precisely?

[Gare]

@ csehz—

Love your Extrude Burger. I never thought of that possibility when I was presented with Dimensions and the Revolve function. Mind you, the output of Dimensions is all vector, but what you did with a dynamic bitmap version of vector shapes is quite....um, tasty!

I'd offer a different approach to changing the hue of the SmartCar or any other object that has a predominant Hue...you might still have to mask off or apply a Slice object to areas you want kept original, but if you use the FX filter under New Color Filer>Hue, you can do this is a fraction of the time you can do the transformation using selective masking and where we've already been in this thread.



But if anyone wants a little more info on the Photo Tools>Set Photo Hue, let's see here: the HSB cvolor model is based on Hue, Saturation, and Brightness, right? What's missing from the Set Photo Hue feature is Brightness, and you can make the change of color much more pronounced if you first set the Hue, and the Strength (Saturation), and then use the Photo Tools' Brightness, and especially the Contrast sliders to dial in the values that set the new color to exactly what you want.

My Best,

Gary

[csehz]

Gare thanks for the Hue tip as live effect, by that hopefully reached somewhat closer to the color and to the original atmosphere with Xara ellipses/transparencies



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[stygg2003]

Hi csehz, you might also find besides the tips Gary has given, that using the photo saturation and temperature sliders gives some good results. In jpg.2 I used just the photo hue tool, then exported it, then using the same openened image, I applied the sat. and temp. sliders and altered the brightness to get a silver finish in jpg.1 I've got one all black, it looks pretty cool, miniture BMW

Stygg

[csehz]

Thanks Stygg, so like a good amateur approach in the graphic cooking added a little bit from each slider yet

[stygg2003]

Thanks Stygg, so like a good amateur approach in the graphic cooking added a little bit from each slider yet

Ha ha! love that reply csehz, just like me try it and see what you get Here's that black car or as Robin would have said "Holy smarty-oly Batman"

Stygg