Transparency Profiles in Xara PhotoGraphics Designer Pro
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Creating Transparency Profiles in Xara PhotoGraphics Designer Pro
It is very easy in Xara
PhotoGraphics Designer Pro Software to Create Transparency under
any text or shape or object . The best feature of Xara
Designer Pro is that whatever you do shows up instantly.
Profiles are provided with most direct action tools in the left
hand side tool bar in Xara Designer Pro interface. Once you
click on a direct action tool. Each direct action tool will have
a slider bar next to it will be a digital window. Further to its
right will be another slider for some thing else with a second
digital output window and after that you will see a thick short
right arrow which is normally the profile. Often there may be
one more similar thick right arrow for profiles of the
attributes of the object selected on the page. Click on the
first right arrow which gives profiles for the shape object and
a small drop down menu will show up. Default profile will be a
straight diagonal line. Below that you will see at least five
profiles. Select each of these profiles to find how each one
affects the Transparency of the object selected. In the shape
profiles the first four are preset and the lowermost is a set of
two sliders. move the sliders and watch how they effect the
transparency of the shape.
Working With Transparency Profiles in Xara Designer Pro
In this video above, I have demonstrated the creation of
Transparency Profiles and how to use transparency profiles to
manipulate the Trasnparency to as realistic as you want it to
be. In the video I have created a four point star something like
a deformed rhombus and applied transparency to it. Clicking on
the Profile icon which looks like a thick right pointing arrow
and selecting the desired transparency profile to change the
transparency quality as well as how to change transparency
manually using the two sliders in the fifth manual transparency
profile icon. You can change the colour of the shape by clicking
any colour from the colour pallet below the drawing area, use
the dropper icon to select a colour anywhere on your monitor
screen or use Edit Current Colour button on the left of the
dropper icon. Changing the colour of the shape will change the
colour of the transparency instantly. On the larger quadrant of
circle on the top left of the drawing area, I have demonstrated
how to use transparency profile to change the linear
transparency into striking stripes, soft transparency and how to
change the transparency in many ways. Then I have created a gear
like shape on top of the circle quadrant on top left and applied
transparency to it to show how the two shapes one over the other
show up when transparency is applied.
Transparency Works Seamlessly with Other Action Tools in Xara PhotoGraphics Designer Pro
The Transparency Profiles work with all the
transparency settings available like the linear transparency,
the circular transparency, the eliptical transparency, the
fractal plasma etc. All these transparencies can be further
changed with two settings namely Simple or Repeating
Transparencies. In between these two settings you will also find
an additional setting called the Normal Mix. Even this can be
changed to ten different mix like the stained glass, screen
bleach, overlay, hard light, soft light,luminosity, colour,
colour burn, colour dodge and enhance transparency settings.
Thus it can be seen that a small tool like Transparency in Xara
PhotoGraphics Designer Pro Software has so many different and
unique sub settings and features that can be used to suit the
most demanding graphic artist's requirement. These settings are
so elaborate and so accurate and yet gets rendered in real time
the moment your mouse button is pressed. The transparency tool
in Xara Designer Pro works seamlessly with all the other
settings without conflict. In other words, whilst adjusting the
Transparency or Transparency profile in Xara, you can use the
other tools like blend, 3D, colour, erase and everything else.
The only limitation whilst using Xara PhotoGraphics Designer Pro
Software is the limit of the user's imagination.
