The Xara Trompe L'Oeil Room Page 2
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With the new rectangle and the Rectangle Tool still selected, adjust the corner curvature to 0.5.

Select the new rectangle and then select Mould Tool. (Remember this is a British product!) The Mould Tool is used to apply interactively editable, enveloped shapes to objects, text objects, and groups of objects.

On the Infobar, select the Default Perspective envelope. (The second rectangle button on the Infobar). Drag the bottom corner control handles outward as shown. The modifications are applied in real time.

Disable Snap To Grid ( Window pull down menu).

NOTE: Xara has two kinds of interactive envelope shapes, straight sided and curved sided. The curved sided envelope shapes use Bezier control handles to modify the shape.

Select the larger curved rectangle and apply a solid deep blue fill.

Select the Fill Tool then from the drop down list of Fill Types on the Infobar at the top of the screen, select Linear.

An arrow will appear going from the center of the capsule shape to the right side. Drag each end of the fill path arrow until it is going up and down as shown.

I will explain in a moment how to adjust the color using the Color Editor. For the time being, just pick a deep blue. By default the second color in a Linear Fill is white, which is what we want in this case.