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 setting 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, 8-bit color is fine.

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!