But did you know that you can also nudge control points? Yup: you select a control point along a path, press the arrow keys, and you’ve achieved a very sophisticated and precise transformation of the shape itself. The second thing is that most of us are aware of the Nudge feature in Xara you select a shape or shapes, and then use the keyboard arrows to move these shapes into the exit position you need. And this is what I’ll show you when you shade the jelly bean shape, which is neither plastic nor very reflective in its surface property. However, before multi-stage gradients were introduced to drawing programs, artists would use Blends to achieve airbrush smoothness, and one of the advantages of using blend steps between different objects is that you can control the shape of the transition from one color to another-you can use virtually any two shapes, and begin and end the blend anywhere you like. One of our talents extraordinaire on, Maya Doka, uses gradients and transparencies with fractal attributes on scores of shapes to build up a vector “painting”, heavily layered, exquisitely detailed.
However, this tutorial addresses at least two things that I don’t believe have been adequately emphasized in the past on The Xara Xone, at least not on my watch.įirst, gradients are swell. A jelly bean-or a kidney bean (or an actual kidney), or a lima bean-might not be the first thing a mature, emotionally well-adjusted adult sits down to draw in Xara, granted.
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