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As always, we will be using Pixels as our units of measure. Right click on the screen and select Page Options... from the pop up menu. In the Units tabbed section, select Pixels for the Units and 0-255 for the Color Units. In the Grid and Ruler tabbed section set the Major Spacing to 100pix (key it in exactly like this please) and the Number of Subdivisions to 10. Press OK to close the dialog and apply the changes. To see a tutorial on Xara Basics visit Workbook 20. NOTE: You will notice from time to time I apply arbitrary colors to objects. I do this to make the objects easier to see. If I do not specify a fill for an object, you do not have to apply a fill or outline color. When I show an ellipse or rectangle that has just been created, that has no fill, it is because I have set the fill to none before I exported the illustration. By default, all ellipses, rectangles and Quick Shapes have a black outline and a black fill. There is nothing wrong with your copy of Xara. Naming Conventions. I use bold face to indicate the names of tools, galleries, keyboard shortcuts, and dialogs. Items such as unnamed icons and drop down lists, which have names when you let your cursor rest over them for a moment, are displayed in italics. The Infobar is the context sensitive menu at the top of the screen and changes to reflect the options for the selected tool. Some of the tool icons have changed in Xara X1, and this may cause some confusion for new users. If you are using an older version of Xara, click here to see my Rosetta Stone for translating the old buttons into the new. |
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One of my clients, La Puerta Real Estate Services, in Placitas, New Mexico asked me to design a logo that represented the Placitas area. The logo I created is shown above and is a stylized image of a stuccoed adobe wall and gateway revealing Sandia Mountain in the background under a cloud-filled New Mexico sky.
The photo above shows 3 different stucco walls and gateways which I used for reference. These gateways reflect the Spanish Adobe Pueblo style of architecture which is very prevalent in the American southwest. You can also see some Chamisa or Rabbit Bush in front of the gate in the large photo. This is a native plant of the southwest. In this tutorial, we will create a similar illustration. There are a lot of steps, 42 in all, but the steps are all pretty basic and so even a new user should be able to complete this tutorial. I ask one favor of those who do the tutorial. As this is a real logo, designed, paid for and in use by a real client, please do not use this logo illustration for any commercial purposes. Thanks.
Using the Rectangle Tool, draw a series of rectangles to the sizes shown above and position the rectangles as shown. TIP: The easiest was to create a rectangle to a precise size is to create a rectangle any size, then enter the width and height in the text entry box on the Infobar and press Enter . You can only do this with the rectangle selected. Right click on the page and select Snap To Objects from the pop up list. Drag guidelines from the screen rulers (Ctrl L to display rulers) and snap the guides to the edges of the rectangles shown above in yellow.
Using the guidelines, delete the yellow rectangles and draw new rectangles within the guidelines. Select the top rectangle with the Rectangle Tool and press the Curved Corners icon on the Infobar (the arc icon highlighted here in yellow). Select Curvature from the drop down list and change the setting to 0.5. Apply corner curvature to the other two rectangles and modify the Curvature settings as shown. NOTE: If you modify the dimensions of a rectangle and then apply corner curvature, the corners may not be perfectly rounded. Using the guidelines and drawing new rectangles to the exact size ensures the corners will be round. After you have rounded the corners, select the rounded rectangles (hold down the Shift key and click on all three to multiple select). From the Arrange menu, select Convert to Editable Shapes . Once you have converted a rectangle to editable shapes, the corner curvature capability is disabled.
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