Etched in stone?

**iamtheblues** · 01 June 2013, 06:56 AM

Originally Posted by jim64

... Another person on my ignore list, all the ones on my list so far are from the UK hmmmm need to ponder that.

I just did a search and I imagine Google can now amend their count to 12,201.
Bob.

**Gare** · 01 June 2013, 12:51 PM

I'd like to ask (beg, actually) that a cease-fire takes place from this post on.

At very least, it's getting off-topic with the posts that are 100% personal and 0% on how to create a stone-etched design in Xara.

I, or a different Moderator, or the Administrator will PM the offending/offended parties later today probably, but please let's let the attitudes and grudge matches go—they defeat the definition of a community, which is what tg is based on.

Summer is just beginning in the Northern Hemisphere. I for one need to get into a serious water balloon fight with the children next door in a few hours in an attempt to combat Global Warming.

Thanks!

Gary

**jim64** · 01 June 2013, 01:01 PM

I chilled out and Apologize to all.

**Gare** · 01 June 2013, 01:15 PM

Before Xara had a Bevel tool, I really, really wanted to created a chiseled text effect, sort of like what United Artists used as a signature decades ago at the end of films (their own films).

I've attached my work in a post here, and will probably use this as the video tutorial for June at The Xara Xone. It's a lot of slicing, determining a centerline, and use of transparency modes, but there are also some rules (artistic and optical ones) that will make recreating this go a lot faster.

But in the meantime, I saw no reason not to share the result, because a lot of members are really good at decompiling art and figuring out stuff with no teacher intervention.

My Best,

Gary

**jim64** · 11 July 2013, 10:54 PM

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Better late than never

**angelize** · 12 July 2013, 02:53 AM

Nicely done Jim.

**PhilM** · 12 July 2013, 08:44 AM

Hi folks,

Here's a little bit of fun: You can actually, interactively chisel into the face of a block of stone in versions of the program that have the eraser tool. Here's how:
* Draw a rectangle
* Give it a stone fill from the fill gallery, such as Granite6
* Apply a thick bevel to the rectangle (at least as big as the eraser nib radius)
* Now go to the eraser tool, make sure softness is set to 0
* Start erasing in the centre of the rectangle

You should see that you appear to be "chisellling" into the stone as you draw.

Phil