Video by Egg So many questions...

**coldwetnoz** · 07 March 2016, 12:35 AM

I've just been watching a youtube video by Egg Bramhill and I have some questions. Making my vase, my lines are getting thicker or thinner when I move the nodes. What is causing this? Also if you have 2 halves of the vase, how do you put them together? If I just group them, I can't edit with nodes anymore. I am using the freehand and brush tool? Is this right?

One more question: Just on the off chance that I get this vase together, how do I color in between the lines? (the middle) Seems like I need a magic wand tool for that?

I just made 2 perfect halves but that was as far as I could go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wiYEiRFdzQ

**Egg Bramhill** · 07 March 2016, 01:52 AM

That was a blast from the past CWN, ten years old!

Also if you have 2 halves of the vase, how do you put them together?

Strangely enough a very similar question has just been posted HERE, which may assist you in answering your question.

... my lines are getting thicker or thinner when I move the nodes

I can only guess that instead of having the default 'constant' line, somehow you've applied a different stroke to the line such as a 'Blip'.

One more question: Just on the off chance that I get this vase together, how do I color in between the lines? (the middle) Seems like I need a magic wand tool for that?

No magic wand required, you just need to ensure the line/s are converted to a closed shape. Lines in Xara can't have a fill, only closed shapes can have a fill.

**coldwetnoz** · 07 March 2016, 12:34 PM

I've been working on this. I got the color done, not sure how I did it but I ended up with a black copy as well as the colored one. I just deleted the black one. Right, I did have to get the right line stroke--that helped. Now I wanted to post the vase but I can't export it .png without losing my colors. Any help for this? Thanks for the link, I will be studying it some more. Hopefully, I can create a few things without a tut.
Thanks again,
pslane

**Egg Bramhill** · 07 March 2016, 12:42 PM

I can't export it .png without losing my colors. Any help for this?

Probably exporting as Full Colour + Alpha CWN. Try Full Colour export.

**coldwetnoz** · 07 March 2016, 12:58 PM

Still have a problem exporting/saving transparent. Something seems to be wrong. The image changes colors when I drag it off the white background. Here it is exported jpg. And the xar file if you can find my problem.
Thanks

**Egg Bramhill** · 07 March 2016, 02:01 PM

The reason it changes colour CWN is because you've applied a Circular Stained Glass transparency to the vase. Use a Circular Fill instead if you don't want it transparent.

**Egg Bramhill** · 07 March 2016, 02:25 PM

**coldwetnoz** · 07 March 2016, 11:17 PM

So the 2 halves just automatically lock together when you pull them? That's what I seeing. I'm going to experiment some but here is my vase that I finally got to post png with the correct colors. I had to choose error diffusion in the options to get the colors to blend for exporting. Thank you for your videos. I'm also loving the Australian accent.