Revisiting Jigsaw Puzzles!

[stygg2003]

Look forward to your new technique Gary, it sounds really interesting.

@ss-kalm love your jigsaw and the picture you put it on, cost a few £'s a puzzle that size

Stygg

[Gare]

That is totally amazing, Keith.

Seriously!

-g

[Gare]

This might not be the best way to shade a jigsaw puzzle piece, but it's definitely a different way, and the technique can be used on different objects.





Tutorial is attached.

My Best,

Gary

How to shade a puzzle piece.xar

[stygg2003]

Thanks for the shade a puzzle piece file Gary, will have a go at that.

@Keith- thanks again for your puzzle file as now I have the picture you used, XP&GD11 does not come with such images as it did a while go. Tried your jigsaw method on a reduced image of the pic.

Stygg

[Gare]

Hey, stygg-

That looks like a number of puzzle pieces I could solve within my lifetime!

Again, the tutorial shows a way, but not necessarily "the" way, or even "your way", to shade the pieces. It's just a graphical observation, and my contribution to the thread after starting it.

My Best,

Gary

P.S. You might be interested in the photo I tool that's embedded in the tutorial document. The worst I can say about it, is that it's free.

[ss-kalm]

Thanks stygg and Gary. praise from either of you is more than welcome.

@stygg - if you still have earlier versions on your computer, the old clipart can still be used ... You can find it at C:\Program Files (x86)\Xara\Xara_Designer_Pro_6\Clipart or some similar path, depending on your Xara version and OS.

You get better results at the edges, if you delete the last line on either side, and adjust the puzzle location/size to suit.

[Gare]

Thanks stygg and Gary. praise from either of you is more than welcome.

@stygg - if you still have earlier versions on your computer, the old clipart can still be used ... You can find it at C:\Program Files (x86)\Xara\Xara_Designer_Pro_6\Clipart or some similar path, depending on your Xara version and OS.

Hi Keith,

That said, can we not agree that clipart and clip photos are more or less a commodity?

All you do is set up good A/VWare and then do a search on clip photos + free.

Yes, it would be nice to find art pre-installed in Xara, however I think it's more than enough drawing program as is, and the extras can be found jst about anywhere.

But then again, that's me. :)

My Best,

Gary

[ss-kalm]

Oh agreed, absolutely, and some clipart ages very quickly. However, I was more pointing out that stygg may still have that particular landscape photo clipart piece on his computer. It's the one I seem to use in all my testing of filters etc.

[stygg2003]

I'm not sure if I got this right Gary but even so it looks good if only because of the free hat

Stygg

[Gare]

I'm not sure if I got this right Gary but even so it looks good if only because of the free hat

Stygg

I have news for you, stygg...that hat cost me $5.00 U.S. more than it did you!

I think your work here is absolutely lovely, and better than I did as an example.

Most importantly, are YOU happy with it and what you've discovered?

Do you see future artistic possibilities for this "edge lighting + Feathering" technique?

And to recap from more than a year ago, a sharp highlight would indicate (check one only):

[ ] None of the above.

[ ] You did it wrong.

[ ] A plastic surface.

[ ] A woolen surface, with a hint of polyester.

[ ]All of the below.

If you chose #2, you're way ahead of the game!

If you chose #1, you are mwenz.


My Best,

Gary