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Step 3. Paste in same place (Ctrl+Shift+V) the original shape (which had no transp or feather etc). Change colour to white. Apart from the top transp profile box setting the next adjustment is the same as in the Sparkly Text tutorial Steps 3 to 4 - please refer to this if you would like a more thorough explanation of the paragraph below. Apply culttext.jpg (Misc folder in the Fill Gallery - Shift F11) as a bitmap transparency, change transparency dpi to 270. The transparency profile top box setting is a little different to the text sparkles, I set this to 0.43 for more sparkles and the bottom profile box is the standard -1. I originally used the default - start transparency 0% to end 100%, however for a more subtle effect and to help give the impression that the gel/ink is colouring over the sparkles a little you could increase the start transparency. I used a start transparency of 7%, although not a great deal of difference, it was just to take the white brightness off a little.
Step 4. This looks a bit sparkly but presuming that a glittery gel pen uses metallic type flakes, then like with normal glitter some of the metallic flakes will catch the light and some won't - giving brighter and darker speckles ... so to create the darker speckles ... Clone the sparkly white shape (Ctrl k) and change the colour to a darker version of your pen colour (I used RGB: 88, 0, 176). Using the Transparency Tool, click on the centre transparency handle and move it elsewhere so that the darker specks are in a different place. If they look a bit dark, increase the start transparency, here I used a starting transparency of 30%. I sent this darker shape below the white sparkles. You can use a grey colour for the darker speckles if you prefer, but again I was trying to give the impression that the ink was 'colouring' the metallic flakes; also if a gel pen line is very slightly thick/raised, then the metallic flakes may be more embedded in the gel ink.
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The Xara Xone Guest Tutorials ©2005 Gary W. Priester All rights reserved
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