The Xara Xone Workbook
GUEST TUTORIAL 2
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Creating a Treasure Map in Xara Xtreme

Creating a Treasure Map Guest Tutorial ©2009 Paul Söderholm

Select the Freehand Tool, set the Freehand Smoothing to about 20%. Draw the shape of your “treasure island”, change line Width to 4 pix. Apply an Intestine stroke shape

 

Creating a Treasure Map Guest Tutorial ©2009 Paul Söderholm

Add the palm tree and mountain line inside the island shape.
Flop and duplicate the palm tree.

Add a big X to mark the location of the treasure.

 

Creating a Treasure Map Guest Tutorial ©2009 Paul Söderholm

Make three groups of small circles. Select the groups and make a new brush. Set the Spacing to about 160 and random sequence.

Make a similar groups of short lines with 2 pix width and round caps. Convert the lines to shapes. Select groups and make a new brush. Uncheck the Rotate Along a Path check box, set Spacing to 110 and random sequence.

 

Creating a Treasure Map Guest Tutorial ©2009 Paul Söderholm

Use the dot brush to mark the sand beaches, and the line brush to mark the shore line. Do both freehand.

Select all and Create a Bitmap Copy, True Color, and 200 dpi.

 

Creating a Treasure Map Guest Tutorial ©2009 Paul Söderholm

Trace the bitmap. Change the settings to Grayscale, Final tolerance = 100 and Accuracy to 100. Press Trace.