What are you doing with Xara at the moment?

[hseiken]

I stumbled into an interesting looking texture that's fairly simple to pull off and likely someone else's already been using this forever so I apologize if this is all kinds of 'duh', but...

If you take a gradient, then put another gradient as stretched plasma with a cloud transparency over top and you use the same 2 colors for all of it, it looks SUPER COOL! Like clouds or if white is one of the colors, it comes off looking like watercolor stains, etc.

Very neat, especially since you can drag either the fill or the transparency to get lovely randomness of the effect and for extra mood, you can adjust the background gradient's actual curvature.

I accidentally ran into it while trying to figure out what to do for a background on this future soldier dork I'm working on...As well, I'm building this image with intent on sort of maybe going into my process. I've been experimenting a lot with all of my goals being toward getting that 90s trapper keeper/computer game box vibe, which used a lot of airbrushing, perfect for vector and xara, i say...

so...

[Egg Bramhill]

Still messing about creating vector images from photographs atm. This is an old treadwheel crane on Harwich green. It used to be sighted on the old navy yard and was powered by two men walking in a hamster-like wheel inside the housing, no brake either:

[gray]

I like the effect it produces, Egg.

[gwpriester]

Musical Gramophone I added a grayscale overlay and applied Hard Light transparency to add detail that is otherwise not possible with a hidden image stereogram.

[Egg Bramhill]

Always interesting to follow your construction Gary.

[Boy]

Edison would be thrilled!