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A fine tooled and gilded leather book cover, fit for display on the swankiest coffee table in town, is within your reach with the Xara Designer and Xara’s Live Effects. Gary Bouton (Gare online) shows you the way to master this special effect.

Making a Striking Coffee Table Book Cover

Recent Tips and Tips Tutorials

  • Making a Striking Coffee Table Book Cover
  • Adding Custom Textures to Your Web Pages
  • Designing a Stained Glass Window
  • Making Surreal Backgrounds with Xara Fractals
  • Making A Handcrafted Valentine Card
  • A Raindeer Christmas Greeting Card
  • Edge Lighting
  • Optimizing Images for the Web with Smush.it
  • Creating Textured Extrusions with Displacement Maps
  • Salut! Make a Waving Flag with a Plugin
  • Bouton’s Desert Island 20 Typeface Collection
  • Using Text As A Shape
  • Everything New is Old Again!
  • Using Noise (instead of water) to Make Animated Snow
  • Building a Xara Vector Grunge Effect
  • Create Fabulous Fractal Textures
  • Taming and Grooming Xara Designer
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More Tips and Tricks

  • A Raindeer Christmas Greeting Card
  • Accesss Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Adding Custom Textures to Your Web Pages
  • Bevel Tip
  • Building a Xara Vector Grunge Effect
  • Carygee’s Gradient Fill Tip
  • Clip View Alternative
  • Closing an Open Path
  • Colors on the Fill Path 2
  • Constraining a Line
  • Create a Double Ended Arrow
  • Creating Textured Extrusions with Displacement Maps
  • Desert Island 20 Fonts
  • Designing A Stained Glass Window
  • Drawing Constrained Lines
  • Edge Lighting
  • Everything New is Old Again!
  • Fabulous Fractals
  • Fill An Open Path
  • Filled Shapes From Lines
  • Kate’s Interactive Fill Tip
  • Linear Fill and Transparency Shortcut
  • Making A Handcrafted Valentine Card
  • Making a Striking Coffee Table Book Cover
  • Making Surreal Backgrounds with Xara Fractals
  • Mikie Mason’s Layers Tip
  • More Text Tips
  • Mouse Wheel Tips
  • Moving Text Off The Path
  • Optimizing Images for the Web with Smush.it
  • Panfer’s Type Tip
  • Push and Zoom Tool Shortcuts
  • Salut! Make a Waving flag with a Plug-in!
  • Scrolling
  • Shadow Tip
  • Taming and Grooming Xara Designer
  • Text On A Circle
  • Using Noise to Make Animated Snow
  • Using Text as A Shape
This is just a few of the scores of tips submitted and posted in the last 15 years. To access the whole treasure trove of tips check out the Tips & Tricks section of our pre 2012 site.

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