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Giant soap bubble Xara X1 step-by-step tutorial

Find the duplicate bubble shape and make a few more duplicates.

Center the duplicate bubble shape over the bitmap. From the Arrange menu, select Combine Shapes... Intersect Shapes. This crops out the background and leaves only the bubble shape.

NOTE: If you are wondering why we did not use the True Color + Alpha option when we created the bitmap, here's the answer. The True Color + Alpha creates a transparent background. But if you look at the bitmap in Outline view, you will see that the bitmap is still a rectangle. If you try to apply feathering to the bitmap it will feather the edges of the rectangle and not the bubble shape. Intersecting shapes eliminates this problem.

 

Giant soap bubble Xara X1 step-by-step tutorial

In this step, we will use another of those duplicate bubble shapes.

Select the Freehand and Brush Tool. Move the Smoothness slider to about 20% (for more accuracy). Drag a squiggly line such as shown above. Extend the line over the edges of the gray shape.

Select the line and the duplicate gray bubble shape. From the Arrange menu, select Combine Shapes... Slice Shapes. Delete the bottom section of the shape.

 

 

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