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November 2005 Xara Xone Tutorial

Here's the final image. If you go back and compare it to the last image on the previous page, you can see that the light is more intense and the cast light itself is more dramatically positioned in the composition.

This is the beauty of the Live Effects Tool. While it would have been possible to create this lighting effect by creating a bitmap and applying transparency, the only way to modify the bitmap would be to recreate it. With Live Effects, you can edit the previous settings. And the best part is all the changes you make are reflected in real time.

 

November 2005 Xara Xone Tutorial

In this last example I wanted to simulate a photographic narrow depth of field effect so the bottom part of the image is in sharp focus and the top part of the photo is blurred.

This was accomplished by making a bitmap copy of the entire image and then editing the image in XPE Xara Picture Editor (Utilities > Xara Picture Editor). In the Enhance dialog ( Ctrl e when XPE is open), the Blur/Sharpen slider was moved to -50% creating a blurred photo. A Linear transparency was applied to the blurred image going from the top down. As the transparency increases the bottom of the image becomes sharper.

So there you have it. Our first tutorial using the new features of Xara Xtreme.

If you have any comments or questions, please use the form on the next page to send me your feedback.

Gary W. Priester
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