Yup: it's that time of the year when Gary tries to render a complex pine tree without bringing my system to its knees, only to ask for group participation decorating the tree. Here's the way it goes:
• Design a Seasonal ornament in Xara or (slightly less recommended) any program you're comfortable with.
• Try to make the final posted bitmap or XAR drawing no larger than 175 pixels wide or square or else I'll have to resize it to accommodate other contributions.
• I will be responsible for hanging the ornaments. Every day that a new one is posted, I'll put it on our tree and post the cumulative results withi 24 hours.
• Please submit a XARA file (convert the text to curves, please) or a TIFF or a PNG WITH TRANSPARENCY.
My first contribution is up. To create the simple gold orb, I went back to January's tutorial this year and did a little viewing and taking notes:
Let's make this the most glorious virtual tree ever, members! Let's have at it with a rousing Ho-ho-ho, ad the eggnog of your preferred alcoholic content.
Great start! Here's a carved reindeer that I made in Xara...
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."
-Mark Twain
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."
-Mark Twain
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."
-Mark Twain
This cat may look a bit familiar, Gare...yes, inspired by your cat, Smudge! I thought maybe you could use it for a bit of decoration near the tree on the background if you'd like. Resize any way you prefer, the ribbon is a separate group so it breaks apart, you can add other bows or decorations to it.
Yes, it's fine to have my .xar files shared too in this group project.
Last edited by Crow Haven; 12 December 2014 at 08:17 PM.
Reason: updating
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."
-Mark Twain
Hi Scotty and Thanks for the contribution. Unfortunately, I can't add it to our card because it isn't a PNG with transparency or a XAR file. Can you provide one? I don't have the time to manually separate the white background from your foreground.
The 2014 tree-trimming collective effort!
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Great start! Here's a carved reindeer that I made in Xara...
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