Color maps with Spray

[molucca]

I saw that I could use BMP color maps the same as those I use for SBP. I used a Fire and a Shell map for this image. Rich

[molucca]

I saw that I could use BMP color maps the same as those I use for SBP. I used a Fire and a Shell map for this image. Rich

[molucca]

Been fiddeling. I still haven't been able to make a closed shape in XX. So, a little slicing. Rich

[molucca]

For some reason, my system doesn't show a fill until I click on the color line. Rich

[OklaEd]

Nice Effect rich ... how did you get the "leaded" look on the outline?

-Ed.

[molucca]

Ed,

I studied Gary's tutorial on Gold and Chrome colors, and use the correct Hue for metals. So, I don't use gray scale for lead, it is about 240 in Hue.

I took the line drawing and increased the line width. Then converted the line to shapes, and did some slicing.

In this way, I get a drawing of the fil areas separated by spaces, and a wide line drawing.

I exported these to PNG/alpha, and opened them in Photoshop. Borh images were lead color, and I tried the line image, but didn't like the color with the red and green image. I used SBP to modify the color to gold. Then used AutoFX Gel to get some shaping of the lines.

For the lead fill drawing, I just applied Gel effect to one image and a SBP preset to make a second image. Once I had all these pieces, I opened them in Xara X, and aligned them.

Rich

[molucca]

Imagine the ligh blue as transparent. When you have spaces between the areas, the bitmap effects will shape each area individually. And, you can use the alpha channel to load a selection. Rich