The 2014 tree-trimming collective effort!

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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:

Plastic or Chrome-What's the diff'?




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.



File download is below.

My Best,

Gary