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Xara Xtreme Brass Hinge tutorial April 2006

Brass hinges often have a logo or some text stamped on them and so shall ours.

Create 2 ellipses to the sizes shown above and add some text.

Select the two ellipses and change the outline Width to 4pt and then from the Arrange menu select Convert Line to Shape.

Select the lines and the text and Arrange > Combine Shapes... Add Shapes or press Ctrl 1.

 

Xara Xtreme Brass Hinge tutorial April 2006

Reduce the logo to 96 pixels wide and place it about half way between the two upper screws.

The Color Editor and the Color Picker

Rather than specify colors for the next step, we'll use the Color Picker (the eyedropper) from the Color Editor (Ctrl e) to sample the colors.

Select the logo then drag the color picker just to the right of the logo to sample that color. The logo should almost disappear.

Copy the logo to the clipboard (Ctrl c). Using the arrow keys on your keyboard, move the logo about 1 pixel up and 1 pixel to the left. Sample the dark color on the rounded rectangle.

Paste the logo from the clipboard on top using Shift Ctrl v or Edit > Paste in Place.

Move the copy you just pasted in place down and to the right 1 pixel. Sample the pale brass color in the lower left corner of the rounded rectangle.

Paste a final copy in place. This is how we created an embossed or debossed effect before we had the Bevel Tool.

 

 

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