The Xara Xone Workbook
GUEST TUTORIAL 3
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Creating a Treasure Map in Xara Xtreme

Creating a Treasure Map Guest Tutorial ©2009 Paul Söderholm

This is the result of the bitmap trace.

 

Creating a Treasure Map Guest Tutorial ©2009 Paul Söderholm

The trace will be inserted as a group. Ctrl-click on the background of the trace and press the Delete key to remove it. Use Join shapes (Ctrl+J) to merge the rest of the objects, Set the fill color to dark brown.

 

Creating a Treasure Map Guest Tutorial ©2009 Paul Söderholm

For the parchment paper upon which the map is drawn, make a rectangle and apply a Fractal Cloud fill with light brown colors.

Clone the rectangle (Ctrl+K) and change the fill to Fractal Plasma with a Fractal Resolution of 300dpi and a Fractal Scale of 50. Apply a Flat, Stained Glass transparency.

Make another clone of the rectangle. Apply a bitmap fill with Coarse Grain 18. Select black for the dark Contone color. Set the transparency to 90%, Stained Glass

 

Creating a Treasure Map Guest Tutorial ©2009 Paul Söderholm

Make a slightly irregular rectangle shape with the Shape Editor Tool or the Freehand and Brush Tool. This will be the paper form of the map.

Make a triangular shape, select it and make a new brush. Set Spacing to about 420% with the maximum Random Spacing. Set the Random Scaling to 60-166%.

 

Creating a Treasure Map Guest Tutorial ©2009 Paul Söderholm

With the Freehand Tool, draw a shape around the paper shape.

 

Apply the triangular brush to the rectangle. Increase the Line Width to around 56 pixels. Convert the Line to Shapes.