Stop & Post March 2009

[HayTay]

I dragged an old (circa 1995) Corel PHOTO-PAINT 5 UNLEASHED book by David Huss off of my shelf and found a tutorial I wanted to recreate using Xara Xtreme. It was relatively easy and gave me a chance to try out the Imagelys Picture Styles v5 Seamless Texture creator as detailed in the Seamless tile program (free) - this is amazing! thread started by iamtheblues.

I used IPSv5 to generate the seamless coffee bean tile for the repeating background. The coffee cup image is one I modified from the 'Objects' collection in the Xara Xtreme Clipart Gallery. It was later used as an Intersect Shape with a copy of the coffee bean background to give it its matching fill. The text is filled with the Canvas1 Fabric Fill from the XX Fill Gallery and a drop shadow was later applied. The white steamy area is just a rectangle with a 40pix feather region and 65% flat mix transparency applied to it.

This would be a nice tutorial for someone starting out with Xara Xtreme to try.

Other tutorials made easier with Xara Xtreme,
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