XaraXone Xara Tutorials Page 4
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Duplicate the text and the shadow.

Open the Bitmap Gallery. Find the texture fill we just created. Select it then press Fill to apply the texture to the selection.

Select both the text and the outline and create another bitmap copy with True Color for the Color Depth. Delete the bitmap (a copy will be created in the Bitmap Gallery . So now that we have this bitmap, what do you think we will do with it? Here's what.

Select the colored text and outline.

Open the Bitmap Gallery. Select the textured text bitmap we just created and press Tranp. The white areas of the bitmap are removed from the colored text revealing the wall below. (Shown on the right half of the image). Now the text looks like it has been on the wall for years.

Make a Clone duplicate of the text (Ctrl k). Select the Transparency Tool and change the Transparency Type to Stained Glass. This adds a little more depth to the sign.

What do you think is underneath the stucco?

Let's find out.

Select the Freehand and Brush Tool. Move the Smoothness slider on the Infobar to the left to about 10% to maintain more detail when we draw.

Create two shapes that look somewhat like these two with thin areas at either end of the larger shape.

NOTE: In order to create a closed shape (one that can be filled) the end point of the outline needs to end right over the start point.