Blur Shadow

[iamtheblues]

Well if you count smart shapes, there has been a bunch of these features added, and they all are vector based.

Let's face it, adding new features is like the old mother-in-law joke. Mother-in-law gives daughter's husband two shirts for his birthday. In an effort to please his mother-in-law, he wears one of the shirts the next time they are all together. The mother-in-law looks at him, raises her eyebrows and asks, You didn't like the other shirt?

Well, I wasn't exactly overwhelmed by the smart shapes.
A roughen tool would have been nice, and a vector haftone tool would be handy, too.
But these things have been asked for in Dear Xara in the past but have never materialised.

[Chris M]

I was happy to find out a fill could be added to a glow (not blur) shadow, then had the rug pulled from under my feet when the control line is invisible. Nothing's perfect.

[handrawn]

if it helps if you seperate the glow from the shape by clicking convert to editable shapes the control line will be visable again in the fill tool [when you reselect the shape that was the glow]

[gwpriester]

Odd. If you convert to editable shapes and ungroup, you have a bitmap with transparency.

Group the bitmap and apply a Linear gradient Flat transparency and tell me what you get.

[Egg Bramhill]

I get an error message & a crash Gary

But attempting again, I can't replicate it.

[gwpriester]

Me too.

[handrawn]

not sure what this issue is gary - if I convert to editable shapes I get the 'glow' as a shape...

edit - but I am still using ver 15.1

[Egg Bramhill]

What happens if you convert the glow shape to a group & apply a linear transparency HD?

[handrawn]

right - I see...

but any shape that has a bitmap transparency applied wiil not group to accept another transparency... at least that is my experience

that said it should not crash the program...

[Egg Bramhill]

If you have an earlier version of Xara can you try this HD?