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Right click on the bitmap and select Xara Picture Editor... (XPE).

Press Ctrl e to open the Enhance dialog shown above.

Move the Blur / Sharpen slider to the left or key in -90. As you can see in the example above, this gets rid of the jaggies. But it also makes everything too out of focus. Not to worry. We can fix that too.

 

Gold and Chrome Xara Xone Tutorial

First, create a new bitmap copy (Arrange > Create Bitmap Copy...) and use the same settings as before, True Color and 300dpi. I'll explain the reason for the second bitmap in a moment.

Once you have created the new bitmap, delete the old one.

Open the Xara Picture Editor and press Ctrl e to open the Enhance dialog.

This time move the Blur / Sharpen slider to the right or key in 120. This restores the sharpness but gets rid of the jagged edges.

Here is the explanation for the second bitmap copy. The changes we made to the first bitmap, blurring the image to eliminate the jagged edges, remain with the bitmap (even if you save the file and reopen it 10 years later!). So if we moved the slider to Sharpen the bitmap, the blurring would be reversed and the jagged edges would now be even sharper. So we created a bitmap copy of the blurred image and then applied the sharpening. Cumbersome for sure, but it works.

 

Gold and Chrome Xara Xone Tutorial

Center the solid shape you made over the bitmap. (I've added a bit of transparency so you can see both objects—the bitmap is on the bottom). Select both the shape and the bitmap and Arrange > Combine Shapes... Intersect Shapes.

Now why did we do all that when we could have created a bitmap with the True Color + Alpha option and a transparent background? Read on.

 

 

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