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November 2005 Xara Xone Tutorial

Select the smaller rectangle and apply a deep red fill. Select the rectangle then click the deep red color square on the screen palette.

TIP: If you let the cursor rest over any of the colors on the screen color palette for a few seconds, a tool tip will appear with the name of the color, or in the case of the diamond shaped, web safe colors, the RGB values. If the values you see in the tool tip are in % and not in 0-255 you need to change the Color Units setting the Page Options > Units tabbed section (Utilities > Options...). Colors can also be edited in the Color Editor (Ctrl e).

Open the Clip Art Gallery (Shift F10) or click the scissors icon on the Infobar. Open the People tabbed section and scroll down to the Leonardo da Vinci 2 image. Click Import to bring the image into Xara. You can also drag the image from the gallery onto the page.

Resize the image to fit into the smaller rectangle as shown above.

 

NOTE: When you select an object or group of objects in Xara, a set of small squares appears around the object. This is called a bounding box. Dragging on any of the corner squares will resize the object proportionately if the Lock Aspect Ratio icon is in the down (enabled) position). Dragging on the non-corner squares will resize the object vertically or horizontally.

 

November 2005 Xara Xone Tutorial

Using the Text Tool (F8), click on the screen and key in the number 45. From the Font drop down list select Arial and from the Width drop down list, select 36 . Position the 45 over the lower right side of the stamp as shown above. Left click on the white square on the screen palette to change the color of the text to white. Key in "DaVinci " and make the same font, size, and color changes.

Click twice on the text to enable rotate/skew mode. You can tell you are in rotate/skew mode when the bounding box squares become arrows). Hold down the Ctrl key and drag any of the outside curved arrow handles to rotate the text 90 degrees. The Ctrl key constrains the angle of rotation. If you find this awkward, you can enter a rotation amount in the Angle of Selection text entry box on the Infobar and press Enter. In this case, 90 and Enter.

 

November 2005 Xara Xone Tutorial

Clone the serrated stamp shape (Ctrl k). Change the fill to 10% black and set the outline for both the original and clone shape to none.

TIP: Right click in the cross hatched box to the left of the screen palette colors to set the outline to none. Left click in the cross hatched box to set the fill to none.

Send the gray shape to the back (Ctrl b) and move it down 1 pixel and to the right 1 pixel.

TIP: You can set your Nudge Size (the distance an object moves when you press any of the the arrow keys on your computers keyboard), in the Utilities > Page Options > General tabbed section. I like to use 1pix for my nudge size. If you hold down the Shift key and press any of the arrow keys, the selection moves 10x the nudge size. Hold down the Alt key and the selection moves 1 pixel at any zoom factor.

 

 

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