Lighntin'

[smorg]

Here's a tutorial I found for electricity. Anyone interested in converting it to Xara with samples?

http://www.innercite.com/~mjones/tut...lectricity.htm

[smorg]

Here's a tutorial I found for electricity. Anyone interested in converting it to Xara with samples?

http://www.innercite.com/~mjones/tut...lectricity.htm

[gwpriester]

SMORG

Check out the October 96 Tutorial

I'll see what I can come up with this morning for this particular effect. I bet a custom brush would do the trick nicely.

Gary

Gary Priester

Moderator Person

Be It Even So Humble...

[gwpriester]

Here is a quick attempt using 3 Brushes.

I'll post a follow up a little later explaining how it was done. (If I can remember :-)

Gary

Gary Priester

Moderator Person

Be It Even So Humble...

[smorg]

NOT! However, it was the year I got my first computer, that's how "young" I am in tech years. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif[/img]

Clicked the link...are you a Georgia O'Keefe fan, by any chance?

Your post is perfect!

The guy who did the tut' did it in Photoshop; if you erase everything from "tutorials" on in the link, you should be able to get his gallery and see some of the other fantastic things he's done...I'm a goner 'cause all I could think about was "I bet the Xarans can do this and better."

[gwpriester]

Smorg (as in Smog? You do live in my old home town? :-) and everybody else.

Here is a mini-tutorial for using brushes to create a lightning effect.

Lightning has a diffused glow, a mid tone, and then the brilliant lightning itself.

I created three brush shapes, a wide brush (1), for the diffused portion, a medium size brush (2) for the intermediate color, and a small brush (3) for the lightning itself.

The three shapes are laid one atop the other.

I added as many random characteristics to each of the three brushes as possible to randomize the spacing, offset, and size.

Each brush is very jagged to begin with. Then the lines I created were very jagged and random as well, as lightning is very random and jagged.

Set the FreeHand smoothing to 10 or less to maintain a high amount of control points to the line.

Gary

Gary Priester

Moderator Person

Be It Even So Humble...

[smorg]

...I hate to burst your "bubbles" (hehehe), but it's actually "smorgasgeorge." Nothin' to do with smog.

A co-worker hit me with that handle when I bemoaned and bewailed once too often the lack of real Swedish smörgåsbords in LA (having spent five years in Minneapolis, the land of the REAL blondes!) and I liked it enough to keep it when I finally went online.