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December 2005 Xara Xone Tutorial

In the Layer Gallery, uncheck the Make Layer Editable check box (the arrow icon) for the 5 Circles layer and check the Make Layer Editable check box for the 3 Circles layer. Select the 3 Circles layer title bar to select the layer.

Select the 3 circles and from the Line Gallery > New Brush Strokes folder, select and apply the Pine Branches brush. Randomize each circle. You can also change the Width setting for each circle.

NOTE: On older computers, the redraw time for all the brushes on the wreath may drive you mad. We have completed the basic wreath and you might want to save the wreath first and then convert the wreath to a bitmap (Arrange > Create Bitmap Copy). Use the True Color + Alpha Color Depth and set the Resolution as desired. Delete the brush stroke on circles wreath and save your drawing with a new name. Things will go much faster and you can always insert the brush version at a later date.

 

December 2005 Xara Xone Tutorial

Select the Freehand and Brush Tool (F3) then select that weird thing we created which will pass for Mistletoe. Click Create Brush and name the new brush Mistletoe and press OK. Drag a horizontal line as shown above.

NOTE: The custom in many countries is to place some mistletoe under a doorway and if any two people pass under the mistletoe they are supposed to kiss. How passionate is the kiss is not clear. While this is all very charming, I should point out that mistletoe is a parasite, or as I have just discovered after a Google search, a semi-parasite. In New Mexico, mistletoe attaches itself to some of the weaker drought-streesed Juniper trees and eventually kills the host tree.

 

December 2005 Xara Xone Tutorial

Select the line and edit the brush as shown above. I have shown each of the edits separately so you can see what the effect of each edit will be. The last example is how the final edit will look. Press Save in the Edit Brush dialog.

 

 

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