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As always, we will be using Pixels as our units of measure. Right click on the screen and select Page Options... from the pop up menu. In the Units tabbed section, select Pixels for the Units and 0-255 for the Color Units. In the Grid and Ruler tabbed section set the Major Spacing to 100pix (key it in exactly like this please) and the Number of Subdivisions to 10. Press OK to close the dialog and apply the changes. To see a tutorial on Xara Basics visit Workbook 20. NOTE: You will notice from time to time I apply arbitrary colors to objects. I do this to make the objects easier to see. If I do not specify a fill for an object, you do not have to apply a fill or outline color. When I show an ellipse or rectangle that has just been created, that has no fill, it is because I have set the fill to none before I exported the illustration. By default, all ellipses, rectangles and Quick Shapes have a black outline and a black fill. There is nothing wrong with your copy of Xara. Naming Conventions. I use bold face to indicate the names of tools, galleries, keyboard shortcuts, and dialogs. Items such as unnamed icons and drop down lists, which have names when you let your cursor rest over them for a moment, are displayed in italics. The Infobar is the context sensitive menu at the top of the screen and changes to reflect the options for the selected tool. Some of the tool icons have changed in Xara X1, and this may cause some confusion for new users. If you are using an older version of Xara, click here to see my Rosetta Stone for translating the old buttons into the new. New Users? I have created some quick start mini-tutorials to get you though the basics. Workbook 20, Workbook 30, and Workbook 31 cover the main things you need to know to get started. While you should be able to create all the steps in previous versions of Xara, some of the tool icons have changed for Xara X1, and this may cause some confusion for new users. If you are using an older version of Xara, click here to see my Rosetta Stone for translating the old buttons into the new. |
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Here is the final image from last month's tutorial. In reality, if our eye-pod (hey did I write that?), were really in the Australian outback, the chrome would be reflecting the landscape. We would see the vegetation reflected in the chrome and in the glass helmet. And the chrome cab (the pod) would have more thickness. In this month's tutorial, we'll make some additions to the image and see if we cannot make it blend more into the native environment.
We'll begin by creating a new background which we will use to make the reflections of sky and earth in the various chrome surfaces. As the eye pod faces away from the red hill, we will not see any of the hill in the reflection so we will need to create the opposite view. Using the Rectangle Tool, create two rectangles to the sizes shown.
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TIP: Draw a rectangle to the approximate
size, then before you switch to the Selector Tool (the arrow pointer) enter the two sizes in the two text entry boxes on the Infobar at the top of the screen. The top text entry box is Width and the
lower text entry box is Height. Enter the two numbers shown above and press Enter to apply the change.