Xara :: How To Do Shading Effect On Front Of The Box
Jun 21, 2011
I ran across a thread a while back on doing a 3D box, that I believe Rik did. Shown is the example box. How to do the "shading" effect on the front of the box? Is just a overlapping of different shapes with different transparencies? I played around with the transparency tool, but didn't get the same effect.
I am new to this and get over whelmed by all of the cool effects you guys do. Is there a "central" location that might show samples of looks, and a how to? Also the 3D box thread link, can't seem to find again.
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Apr 27, 2013
Any way for me to recreate something like this picture?
I wish to recreate a similar effect as shown in this photo, the left side of another man's face is darker than his right.
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May 29, 2011
I have a PDF that I need to place a picture of my DL on. But when import it the photo (JPG) it is behind the PDF and I can't seem to get it to come from behind the PDF so I can attach to it. I'm pretty sure I've clicked everything I can with no success. I tried importing the jpg first then importing the PDF, but it still goes behind the PDF.
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Jun 9, 2012
I need to recreate a burning wood effect similar to attached sample or even more realistic. I thought I saw such tutorial here, but can't find it now.
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Feb 3, 2011
How do I get rid of a "Locked Bitmap Effect" in a layer ? I can't seem to delete it.
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Jul 21, 2013
I realized that can not find a live effect which was in before Designer Pro version, where is the posterize actually? Assumingly that should be in the Fx list but for me that is only which is on the picture
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Mar 2, 2012
I have something that appears so simple yet I want it to look exactly as example shows and do it with DP7.
I've tried shadow too, and cloning/offsetting. It doesn't give desired look.
3D extruding isn't the answer as then the type gets a skewed perspective and that's not what I need.
Perhaps there's some way this look can be achieved that I don't know about.
Here's the example, then my efforts that don't look right.
There's a remote chance it's the font. If so, how to recognize that font? I do know that original artwork was cut in a 2 pc vinyl stencil as I asked artist but she doesn't recall font or program used as it was a few years ago.
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Aug 3, 2012
How to create a glowing text effect? I need for a poster design I'm working.
Example : [URL]..........
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Jul 28, 2013
how to get the desired end result. When applying the Gaussian blur effect, I find that doing this always adds additional width or height to my object which makes the graphic larger than the desired size. To be more specific, I have a rectangle that is 640px by 100px and I want to add an element on top of that is 640px by 4px. I add the Gaussian blur effect to the 640px by 4px object so that my rectangle appears to have depth and my overall graphic is not flat. The problem comes when I export the both elements because the Gaussian blur has now increased the width of my graphic to be larger then desired. Is there a why to add the Gaussian blur effect without increasing the width of my graphic? The final result is a graphic width of 656px.
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Dec 21, 2012
Likely a pretty simple procedure, but I just can't figure it out. The Word Negative dealing with the effect, did not show up in the index or search of the app's help.
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Jun 12, 2013
I have looked everywhere at all sorts of photoshop and illustrator tutorials (because I couldn't find a Xara one) to accomplish this effect. I am creating a website for my client Jim and would like to incorporate a similar image to what he's using on his book cover, but with some different colors as the background to his site.
You can see what I'm trying to do in his blog header background here: [URL]......
I've found that this is a stock photo used in a lot of places, but I'm not really interested in getting the original image - I have that, but as a Jpeg on a black background. I'd prefer to learn how to create a similar effect in Xara.
I have tried all sorts of things that are kind of close, but just not there yet. I've tried using a line with pen pressure with a glow shadow. I've tried lines with a stained glass color overlay. I've tried creating a number of different brushes with a few levels of color, some with Gaussian blur applied, etc. but I just can't get this effect down. It always looks pretty good when I'm done, but then I look at the inspirational original and I'm not even in the ballpark for the amount of shine, glow, impact, etc.
In the end, this may not even work for the site since will be putting it on a light colored background, but I still want to know how to create this, as I'm sure I'll be able to use the technique elsewhere.
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Apr 25, 2011
I'm trying to add a live effect to my file and I received an error when I tried to add a shatter effect (see attachment). Is this a problem with my copy of the program
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Feb 13, 2011
this is from the magix website. how to create this in xara
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Jun 24, 2013
how to create an image like the one of the flag in the attachment. I think they call it a "grunge" effect image - but I'm not sure.
I am sure the effect is obtained by using a mask, but I've never used masks
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Mar 26, 2011
Here's a way to make fairly realistic metal fill for an object, without having to fiddle with dragging colors from the color bar to the fill tool arrow.
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May 13, 2011
how to produce the kind of effect the Vista OS used in the logon screen. I imagine this has been done often with Xara, given that it has been such a popular effect. But I haven't been able to get a foothold on even the related terminology. What terms should I be searching for in order to find relevant examples and descriptions of methods?
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May 13, 2011
I'm trying to blur some text so that it blends in with the background a little. I found the perfect way to do this using the Live Effect, Soften Filter, Motion Blur. However, when I finish getting it to blur to exactly how I need it to look, there is no option to apply this to the text. When I close the box (the only option available) I lose the effect! How do I get it to apply to my text? Do I need to change the text to a shape first?
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Jul 25, 2011
Is these a way to replicate the graph paper too in CorelDraw - it makes it super-fast to divide a page up into X number of colums etc. I cant find this in Xara.
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Oct 29, 2012
I'd really like to be able to create the sparkle effect seen in the image below using Designer Pro X, but try as I may, I haven't figured out how to do this. It is a one-click effort in MediaChance's RealDraw.
The top image is the image without the sparkles; the one below it adds the sparkles, and the bottom image is just a black field on which the same sparkles are placed so you can see them without distraction.
Is there a (preferably easy) way to do this in Designer Pro X?
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Mar 19, 2011
i want to make a fill effect from a color to transparent and could not find any solution in xara designer; how do you do it??
see attachment made with fireworks
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Jan 30, 2013
I have put together this mini tutorial for doing a letterpress effect, and what's really nice is that the text stays as editable text and this effect is editable! You can change the text and/or the font without losing the effect as long as you don't overflow the text box.
I have attached a png large enough for viewing on screen (just click the thumbnail then click the pop up) and a .xar file with the instructions and examples you can pull apart.
You should be able to do this in Designer Pro or Photo & Graphic Designer from version 6 and up.
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Oct 22, 2011
I can't seem to get the transition effect I apply to the original object to take on all repeating objects.
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Sep 2, 2009
How to make a vector shape appear distressed or cracked in a natural-looking way? The best example I can think of is the Chickenfoot logo. It is a simple 2-color logo and looks nicely aged. I've been thinking about this for a while, but can't decide on an effective approach to achieve it.
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Aug 20, 2012
I'm using Photo & Graphic Designer 2013. I notice that the buttons are now under the Page Elements menu. I'm trying to figure out how to change the button color without losing the 3D effect. The Help says:
�Change the color by clicking on the appropriate colors on the left end of the Color Line and choosing 'edit'
if I just highlight the button and change the color, it turns the button into a flat color.
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Apr 9, 2011
I need to produce a PNG image that will be used as a menu bar that has a shadow effect on the top side only. The image will ultimately be just 1 pixel wide and then be repeated as required to create the right width (length) on the web page. How can I slice the image without getting a shadow effect on any of the other 3 sides?
Obviously the edges of the image must be sharp so there is no banding effect when the image is extended.
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Oct 21, 2013
I have added live effects (mainly liquid color, edited many times, don't know if the latter matters) to a bitmap image that additionally is heavily cropped beforehand (inside Designer).
Now every time I change the size or angle of that bitmap, it takes like two minutes to render that change
Is there a way to discard the cropped parts of the image (or something), in order to speed up that re-rendering -- but without losing my many layers (or at least the final stage, but including editability of it) of the liquid color effect?
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Oct 19, 2013
I hand drew some pictures of rats that I have to use for a video pitch assignment. I'd like to add some fur using the live effect found in the Eye Candy 4000 plugin. I have disabilities and drawing in Xara is very difficult. Is it possible to add a live effect to a picture without having to draw over it using the program? I also drew smiling cheese that I'd like to add the gradient glow live effect to.
One of my rats (fur live effect wanted): [URL]
Smiley cheese (glow live effect wanted): [URL]
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Nov 29, 2011
I was trying to learn about naming colors. I named a color, only to find it was now in my default color palette, which was now 'Untitled1'. I did not want to have the default palette that opens on the Color Line when I open the program changed and requiring me to rename it every time I named a color. I tried to undo my actions but had only partial success. The new named color is gone, but the color palette is still 'Untitled1', and how to restore the palette name. How can I correct this?
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Mar 15, 2012
I'm tearing my hair out after creating an iPod jukebox style ad (i.e. album cover carousel) where the pix made with the LEFT perspective using Mold tool work fine, but the two made with RIGHT perspective using Mold tool come out skewed rather than moulded after exporting to PDF.
All images are jpegs; I've checked and am doing exact same process on either side. Tried killing the images in bitmap gallery and re-importing - makes no difference.
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Nov 16, 2013
To show our customers where we serve I would like to highlight everything below this black line... I have done some basic highlighting but it just doesn't looks professional. just shade everything below this black line and make it look professional?
I need it done on this map .
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Mar 15, 2011
the hardware shading options are all greyed and I can not activate these options. in openGL or DX9 (dx10 isn't working so fine as it seems). My computer is sse3 enabled. I do not understand.
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