OK, back to the tutorial.
As I mentioned on the home page, Xara's Linear Transparency is unique. CorelDRAW users should note that Corel's Linear Transparency was copied from Xara's.
Select the white highlight, then select the
Transparency Tool from the main tool bar. From the drop down list of Transparency Shapes at the top left of the Infobar, select Linear.
As with the Xara's Linear Fill
(the two are quite similar) the fill arrow appears in the center and extends to the right edge. Drag the control handles on either end of the fill path until the top edge of the highlight is
almost opaque and bottom edge is almost transparent. Extending the fill path arrow slightly above and below the shape accomplishes this. If the transparency end of the arrow is inside the highlight, the edge cleanly
disappears.
At this stage, except for the type and the drop shadow, we have replicated Apple's gel effect, without ever creating or editing a bitmap!