adding some depth

[raynerj1]

Awe, but the background is not a solid color which would make pasting the bitmap back in a bit of a pain... A blend is the much quicker approach.

[zee]

Awe, but the background is not a solid color which would make pasting the bitmap back in a bit of a pain... A blend is the much quicker approach.

Maybe I'm missing something. Why would pasting the bitmap back in be a pain?

[adwb]

Thanks everbody for the advice, Zee that is just what what I wanted to do
I did not realise i could just cut and paste.
Cloning also works well but using Xara 3d give me more creative scope.
thank you
Alistair

[raynerj1]

Pasting a bitmap (even a .png with alpha transparency) can and does cause issues... with the background (ghosting/jaggies). You also loose the quality... What is the DPI for a pasted bitmap from X3D (96DPI?)

[handrawn]

you can increase the point[ pixels] size in xara3D so that a 96dpi export is not an issue - any more than it would be in any other vector program

don't recall having had any problem myself

could do it either way quite happily

[zee]

Alistair,
Your very welcome. The simple "copy & paste" is an often over-looked feature of moving text & shapes between XaraXtreme and 3D6.