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Creating a Sacred Datura - Xara Xone tutorial 09-07

Clone the stamens (Ctrl k). Change the fill color to pale yellow. Apply 2 pixels feathering and apply a Linear transparency from the outside into the dark green center of the flower.

The flower is finished! Group all the shapes (Ctrl g).

 

Creating a Sacred Datura - Xara Xone tutorial 09-07

Create a background rectangle. With the Fill Tool, apply a Fractal Plasma fill using the two colors shown. Click again on the rectangle with the Fill Tool and change the Fractal Resolution and Fractal Graininess settings. Press Enter after each change.

 

Creating a Sacred Datura - Xara Xone tutorial 09-07

Add the darker leaves. Clone and rotate the leaves and arrange them in opposing pairs.

 

Creating a Sacred Datura - Xara Xone tutorial 09-07

Add the lighter leaves. Clone the lighter leaves as needed and rotate them as shown above.

Select all the lighter colored leaves then select the Shadow Tool (Ctrl F2). Click the Wall Shadow icon. Decrease the Shadow Transparency slider setting to 50%. Increase the Horizontal and Vertical positions to 9pix and -9pix respectively.

Right click on the background rectangle. From the pop up menu, select Create Bitmap Copy... Select the True Color Color Depth option. Press Create.

    NOTE: We selected just the background rectangle because if we selected all the elements some of the shadows might have extended beyond the rectangle and the resulting bitmap would have a white outline. Selecting just the background and the True Color option creates the bitmap to the exact size of the background rectangle. To see what I mean, look at the background rectangle and the leaves in Outline View (Window > Quality) and you will see the rectangles for the bitmap shadows, some of which might extend beyond the edges of the background.

Clone the bitmap (Ctrl k).

For the last steps we will work with the bitmap and cloned bitmap copies only. But save the vector shapes and background objects in case you feel the need to make any "improvements".

Save your drawing and take a short break. We are almost done.