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Xara Xone strawberry and cream tutorial

Make a clone of the bottom cream shape, then make another clone (total of 2 clones). Move the top clone down about 16 pixels. Select both clone shapes and Arrange > Combine Shapes... Subtract Shapes.

Move the new shape down so it is just under the whipped cream.

Alt click to select the pink highlight shape (check the status bar in the lower left corner of the screen to confirm selection) then hold down the Shift key to select the shape you just created.

Remember the pink highlight is under the partially transparent strawberry shape we created several pages ago. So you need to "drill down" using Alt click until you select the pink highlight shape.

With the two shapes selected, Arrange > Combine Shapes... Subtract Shapes. This creates a reflection just under the whipped cream.

 

Xara Xone strawberry and cream tutorial

And here is the final strawberry with whipped cream topping.

Now hold on, you're saying, what's all this other stuff?

Fair question. I added a rectangle background and applied a circular fill using a deep brown (RGB 51, 25, 0) and a pale cream color (RGB 250, 245, 235). This makes the whipped cream appear more white.

The reflection was created by creating a Bitmap Copy (Arrange menu) of the strawberry using the True Color + Alpha setting. The bitmap was flipped vertically, reduced in height to about 60%, moved under the strawberry, and a Linear, Mix transparency applied.

Looks yummy if I do say so myself.

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