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Xara Xone Flying Eyeball step-by-step tutorial

Select the two duplicate wings. Open the Fill Gallery (the pouring paint can icon on the top right area of the Infobar). Open the Low Res - Medium Textures folder and select the fill, moonter.jpg. Press Fill to apply the fill to the wings. Right click on the wings with the Fill Tool. On the Infobar, change the Resolution to 250 dpi and press Enter to apply the change. We'll use these duplicates to apply a texture to the skin of the wings.

If you are a new user and don't have any fills in your Fill Gallery folders, see Adding Fills to your Folders in Workbook 20.

 

Xara Xone Flying Eyeball step-by-step tutorial

With the two texture-filled wings selected, open the Utilities menu. Select Bitmap Fills and Plug-ins... > Bitmap Effects... > Brightness and Contrast. Move the Brightness slider one tick to the left and the Contrast slider one tick to the right. Press OK to apply the modification.

 

Xara Xone Flying Eyeball step-by-step tutorial

This is the most complex step of the tutorial. Using the three colors shown, create a series of gradient fills for each of the wing sections.

The three panels on the right wing use 3 Color fills (Select Three Color from the Fill Type drop down list on the Infobar. Stretch the fill path arrows as shown and apply the colors indicated by the colors in the small squares.

The left wing uses Linear fills. The second panel from the top is a 3 color Linear fill. Double click on the fill path arrow to add the additional color station and then apply the fill. The wings now look like fabric stretched over a frame.

 

 

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