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November 2005 Xara Xone Tutorial

The size of the envelope is larger than I have room to show in its entirety so for the next several pages I will work with a portion of the envelope.

Using the Rectangle Tool, create a 912 x 396 pixel rectangle. Press the Curved Corners icon on the Infobar. From the drop down list, select Curvature and change the setting to 0.02 and press Enter to apply the change (or you can use the tiny arrow keys next to the text entry box).

TIP: If you resize the rectangle significantly, the corners will not be round. To get around this, create your rectangle to the correct size. Now using this rectangle as a guide, create a new rectangle and round the corners. Delete the other rectangle.

 

November 2005 Xara Xone Tutorial

Create a new rectangle to the size shown above. Open the Fill Gallery (Shift F1) and from the Background Fills folder, select Paper 18. Press Fill to apply the bitmap fill to the rectangle.

Set the rectangle's outline to none.

New Xtreme Feature: If you like your galleries to be docked to the side of the page, just drag the gallery to the right side of the screen and it will automatically dock. You can close and reopen the gallery and it will remain docked unless you drag it back onto the page by dragging on the title bar.

 

November 2005 Xara Xone Tutorial

The paper fill is too dark. No problem, we'll just create a lighter bitmap version.

Select the paper filled rectangle with the Transparency Tool (F6). Move the Transparency slider to the right to 50%.

With the rectangle still selected, from the Arrange menu, select Create Bitmap Copy... (Ignore any warnings you get about transparency). Set the Color Depth to True Color and in the Bitmap Size tabbed section set the Resolution to 300dpi.

 

 

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