August 2014 Tips and Tricks - Designing an Elegant Poster

**stygg2003** · 19 August 2014, 05:55 AM

Originally Posted by wizard509

Well done indeed Stygg. It looks super.

Thanks for you kind comment Larry.

"Never give up. You will never fail, you'll just find a whole lot of ways that don't work". That certainly applied to me the other day with the icons Larry

Sorted it out now though.

Stygg

**stygg2003** · 20 August 2014, 01:28 PM

One more for the road, I enjoy doing these, thanks Mike

Stygg

**wizard509** · 20 August 2014, 02:38 PM

This one looks very good too Stygg. These are a good tribute to Mike. I just gotta try one too, just don't know when.

**mwenz** · 20 August 2014, 05:46 PM

Hey, not a tribute to Mike at all. He's just a button-pusher...

The design and typeface is all Antonio's. I just reverse engineered it with his permission for use on TG. Antonio used Photoshop, we of course are using an Xara product and while most of the how is similar/the same, it is slightly different to do in a vector application.

And a note. I used a minimum number of steps in the blend. This was simply a close number of the steps in color value from the beginning to end of the blend steps. If this was intended for print, I would up the number and put up with XDP's warning that it could take some time.

Take care, Mike

**csehz** · 20 August 2014, 06:12 PM

That looks very nice Stygg in harmony with the figures

**Albacore** · 21 August 2014, 09:48 AM

I hope that everyone took notice of Mike's secret tip when making the "Darkest Colour"! It was when he was describing in "Colouring London" when using the colour editor, using k in CMYK, to take it fully to the right, back a bit to the left, then fully up to the right. This is to stop Xara producing Rich Black when he just want 100% k if exporting to PDF if the file is to be printed way from your desktop. I do it all the time and I know why I do it but I can't understand why a wiggle of the key can give the programme an instruction like that.

Well written and illustrate tut. Mike made it easy for me for me to do. I tried it with flowing ribbons and it looked terrible with such a simple and elegant font so wont show.

**mwenz** · 21 August 2014, 01:29 PM

Thanks for the kind words, Albacore.

As regards the 100% K slider movement. I, of course, read about it here or at XU shortly after first purchasing XDP6. I have not ever read a reason why this is what it takes. I have simply thought that it is because at its heart, XDP really is modeled around RGB.

Mike