June 2015 Xara Xone Special Giveaway -- Fresh Textures

**Barbara B** · 28 June 2015, 12:27 AM

Gary Bouton’s Fresh Textures - June 2015 Special Giveaway

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What in the name of Gosh Darn It All is a Giveaway popping up between Xara Xone episodes? Well, call it a 4^th of July gift to our American friends, call it Gary got bored with his laptop in the hospital, call it Fred…just call it a wonderful collection of unusual but exciting anyways seamless tiling textures. Dig in before they go cold. Get them now!

Show us how you use repeating patterns in your work in this thread.

**Gare** · 28 June 2015, 01:10 AM

I guess I'll go first!

I traced off an extruded QuickShape and then used the brushed aluminum bitmap. Then I used the Photo Tool's Levels feature to modulate the tone of each side, just like the untextured extrude.

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**Penny O'Rorke** · 28 June 2015, 12:01 PM

Lovely, thanks Gary

**iamtheblues** · 28 June 2015, 08:00 PM

Thanks from me, too.
Mebbe we could have a tutorial on how you come up with these great textures?
Bob.

**Rik** · 28 June 2015, 08:04 PM

I recognise that, Bob.
It's one of the planets around Betelgeuse.
How on earth did you manage to get such a great representation?!

Brilliant drawing, and a great use of one of the textures.

**angelize** · 29 June 2015, 05:28 AM

Very nice textures Gary thanks! I've got them all loaded into my fills gallery

**iamtheblues** · 29 June 2015, 09:51 AM

Thank you, Rik.
I used a pre-decimal version of Paintshop Pro to spherize the texture and in XDP I applied a dark orange contone.
Then I used both the FX Bump Map filters, (why are there two of them?) with the settings dialled up to 11 or so.
Then Flaming Pear's Glitterato Filter for the cool space background.
Bob.