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Select the Fractal Plasma rainbow shapes with the Transparency Tool (use Alt click to drill down through the objects). Move the center of each transparency to the edge. Apply 20 pixels of feathering to each shape. Now the shapes look more like the rainbow-colored reflections you see on a soap bubble. Select the top shape and change the Feathering amount to 2. This makes the reflection sharper and more realistic. Right click the bitmap background and select Xara Picture Editor. Decrease the Brightness setting to -30. Press the red check icon and accept the changes.
One final change. The problematical shape at the top was too dominant and too opaque (non-transparent). Reflections on a bubble are more subtle. Change the transparency to Elliptical and drag the fill path arrows in towards the center a little bit to soften the jagged edge at the bottom of the shape.
Stop the presses! This works even better! Finally, I think I got it! Select the bubble and make a Bitmap Copy, True Color, 300dpi. Center a duplicate bubble shape with no transparency or feathering over the new bitmap. (Move or delete the previous bubble). Combine Shapes... Intersect Shapes to get rid of the background. Apply a Circular, Stained Glass transparency with the center transparency value 50% and the outside value 0%. Clone the shape and change the Transparency Type to Bleach. Now that finally looks like a bubble, doesn't it? It is lighter and more delicate. And you got to see a good example of what you normally do not see in my tutorials, me, floundering around desperately trying to find the right solution! And the last image certainly looks more like a bubble than my first attempt (see below). Your feedback is always good for my mental health (with the exception of John Rayner's). Please use the feedback form on the next page to send me your comments and questions. Gary W. Priester
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