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Reduce the size of the bitmap circle to about 125 pixels and position it to the left of the face and above the top of the mountain. This creates the effect of a transparent bubble reflecting the landscape.

Make several duplicate, different-sized bubbles and place them to the right as shown.

And that completes our fantasy landscape.

You can use these techniques with your own images or use the images in Xara's Clipart Photography 1 and 2 folders.

The terra cotta sun figure was one I had purchased at a garden shop and hangs on the stucco wall outside my office. The mountain is Sandia Mountain which is about 25 miles in length and is to the east of the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sandia means watermelon and refers to the pink color of the mountain when illuminated by the setting sun in the west.

Questions and comments are always encouraged. Please use the Feedback Form on the next page to let me know if this tutorial was too easy, too hard, or just right.

Gary W. Priester
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