Now that we are into October I thought that this would be fun. I'm providing the pumpkin and I am inviting you all to use Xara to carve it or decorate it.
The file contains the pumpkin and its stem which are two separate images and some vector leaves and a brush. You can add to it, put it on a different background, whatever you want.
I took my boy camping with the cub scouts and we did pumpkin carving and trick-or-treating on Saturday night. The pumpkin looked great, but I didn't have the tripod with me to take a good photo. So, I decided to take the photo on Sunday night at home, but by then the pumpkin wasn't looking so good anymore. I used a couple of toothpicks to hold it together and took the photo, then fixed it in Photoshop.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a image in grayscale that is posterized into three colors. Now I want to convert this image into three colors black, yellow, and orange, In other words something like this:
How do I do this? I want to get an idea of how my picture will look on my pumpkin.
I think my gimp version is 2.6.8p2.
Does anyone have any nifty techniques to simulate a tree carving? I'm looking to "carve" items into a photograph of a tree...
View 7 Replies View RelatedSo I am trying to take an image of a tree trunk (or a school desk, or a wooden door) and "carve" a heart with some people's names into it and make it look somewhat realistic, as if they carved their names into it themselves.
I am not completely new to photoshop, I can find my way around and have edited several other projects. I am, however, completely stumped on how to do this one. Please help! Let me know if you need any more info.
I am looking for a way to make a realistic looking heart on a old oak tree using photoshop
View 2 Replies View RelatedI a trying to follow the tutorial for Chiseling and Carving Text.? Step 6 seem to be a problem.? I am following exactly--duplicate layer, maximum filter set to 1 pixel, and changing the color.? Go through this all 5 times.? However I do not end up with what Mark says I should.
directly on top of each other with the top one being white.? Thus it white type.? Because they are all identical other than color changing the layer order just changes the top color.? I do not end up with the graduated color white at the center and black outside.?
I am trying to achieve this quite simple carving effect around buttons and on surfaces. It seems simple, but I cant figure out how to get the effect just right.
Refer to this image for an example:
my friend has a picture of a girl and he wnats it 'engraved or carved' into wood.
every tutorial i found on google is seriously poor quality.
I downloaded a trial of Xara Xtreme and Xara 3d 6. Well, I wasn't happy with Xtreme. The demo is sans textures and a few other things and seems to have the need to contact home for everything. I really don't like demos that don't offer the full app. Xara 3d 6 however was really quite a surprise. Then I recalled purchasing 5 last year just for fun but never installing it. I located the disk and ran it. What I didn't know was that I could export quite a few file formats usable in PS, not just animated gifs. That the image can be fully manipulated using keyboard commands and that you can create textures in other apps like Bryce, ZBrush and PS and place the jpegs into Xara's texture folder and use them as applicable textures. Now, as you may know, a great source for shapes can be found using fonts. Using fonts in Xara, applying some homegrown textures along with the inherent 3d capabilities of Xara 3D will be a great source of elements for the type of work I do in Photoshop.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm doing a bit of very simple DTP in Xara and I wanted to check my approach to creating text across multiple pages:
1) Create a text block (I think Xara calls these a 'story') about the size of the page on Page 1 and then enter a bunch of text until it spills out of the bottom.
2) Add a second page.
3) Here's where I may not be doing things 'correctly'... I want the spill over from Page 1 to go onto page 2 so I copied the text block on Page 1, Paste it in-place onto Page 2, deleted the text content on Page 2 then finally go back to page 1 and drag from the little icon in the bottom right of the text block into page 2's block.
When exporting to SVG is there a way to just have the graphic exported and not the whole page? Even when the graphic is selected when going into the Export option the saved file shows the whole page and not just the graphic.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWell, I've searched and this, apparently, is not a problem. I'm running Windows 7 pro 32 bit and don't get thumbnails from my Xara photo&Graphic designer 6. I've put up with it for months now, ever since I loaded W7, due to sheer inertia (laziness) meaning to look for a solution, and now that I do, thinking it was something I'd overlooked I can't find anything..
View 9 Replies View RelatedHow can I export a pdf/x for commercial printing and have the black text export as 100% process black, not cmyk tints?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI just downloaded this months freebie from the Xara newsletter... it was a package of textures. I have never downloaded textures or other things like this before so I have a dumb question, lol... I unzipped the folder, but I don't know where to put the textures. I thought there would be a "textures" folder or something in the program files that would be obvious, but I'm not seeing anything.
View 9 Replies View RelatedAre there additional plugins coming soon? If not, for me, there isn't much of a reason to use the 64 bit in what I do. Or, possibly, I'm not aware of advantages 64 bit is bringing me right now.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI can't find anything about .dng support in the Help Files. Or is it only supported in the Pro version?
View 2 Replies View Relatedhow to name layers?
View 6 Replies View Relateddrew two circles with Ellipse tool in Xara Designer Pro.
As I can see on the picture for me the two circles are overlapping, so one of them is over the other. But on the guide I can see all the lines so in whole also that circle, which is under of the second.
what is the way to draw these two circles that both has all the lines?
i use the Photo Grafic designer 2013, how do I cut out a shape. For example I want to cut out a car and get rid of the backgound so that I can use the image of the car somewhere else.
View 1 Replies View Relatedevery time I export my webpage out of Xara pro 7 it keeps exporting SWF files I have deleted and have been replaced. So instead of one SWF file in my index_htm_files I have 3, 2 of which I don't need. How do I stop this from happening.
View 1 Replies View RelatedEvery time I try to export this file to a .pdf I get an error: "access violation exception at 0xF440D0D0" and the program crashes. I did a search on TalkGraphics without finding something.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have over a hundred gif images to load into xtreme pro 6 but each time I do they come in with different sizes, however, they were all the same height when exported from excel (they are different lengths).Is there any way to get them all to the same screen resolution and hence make the heights the same for all images? I would rather not have to do each one manually.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI trying to export (as a cmx) from xara to corel, and yes it opens in corel but it has lost any blends and feather regions that were created in xara, I need to move files into draw, so that I can then export them as cad files, am I doing something wrong, is there another way of creating cad files in xara?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have no problem with transparency in Xtreme. I cannot seem to get it to translate to the internet. When I convert to PNG or Gif I get no transparency just a black rectangle.
View 9 Replies View RelatedDoes the embedding of color profiles no longer work in Designer Pro 6?
Try to export as PDF.
Preset Selections: Custom.
Click on Advanced Options.
Choose Pre-Press.
Here I chose a custom color profile (PSRgravureHWC.icc), which significantly changes the colors.
Everything worked okay in Xtreme Pro 5.
But now, when I switch on Embed profile, the resulting PDF shows the same colors, as if the switch was not ticked.
I haven't used Xara in a while but tonight I did some adjustments on a jpg and tried to export it as a .pdf. For some reason I do not have the option under Export Files to export to a pdf. I know I have done this many times in the past. Is my Xara corrupted or something.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm making a brochure on A4 but I want to print it om A3 paper that is folded to A4. What is the best approach to do this. The A4 pages are good for copying the text from MS word into the xar file. But after that I have to print it on A3 in the right printing order.
View 6 Replies View Relatedhow do you print out A4 doc at from 96 dpi to 300 dpi without it increasing in size cant seem to find how to make dpi bigger but doc original size?
View 5 Replies View RelatedCan Xara X export psd files with layers intact, so that the layers remain when opening in PS.
View 5 Replies View Relatedway to further clean up or enhance the attached image. It is my Grandparents wedding photo which my Father asked if I could clean up.
I have mainly used the magic erase tool to remove spots. I have tried some live effects but lose some definition especially in the faces.