Here's the finished illustration.I made some last
minute alterations as you may have noticed. I reduced the size of the gondola and added some very crude people shapes (the shapes are crude not the people!)
I adjusted the position of the ropes and added a
banner shape.
I created a bitmap copy of the balloon using the 8-bit option so I could take advantage of the transparent background option. I made a duplicate bitmap and positioned the two as you can see and
added some transparency to make them fade into the distance.
Xara thenextversioncomingsoon, has the option of 24-bit bitmap copy with Alpha Channel (transparency). However as these two bitmap
balloons are small and the colors are washed out so 8-bit color is OK.
Questions, comments, criticisms (I hope not). Proceed to the next page and take a moment to let me know how I did, or more importantly, how
you did.
And let us all hope together than next month's tutorial will be the first tutorial for Xara don'ttellanyonebutthenewnameisXARA X!