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Edited by Gary W. Priester Number 62 • August 15, 2007

Covered in this month's Workbook:

• The Automatic Color Edit Setting
• The Bevel Tool
• Scale Rotate Skew
• Adding a Drop Cap Initial
• A Lucky Horseshoe

In the Xara Xone: The August Xara Xtreme tutorial is a Western Salsify, a weed of the southwest that has a head like a dandelion. Some knowledge of Xara is never hurts. Egg Bramhill literally mumbles his way through this month's Guest Tutorial Egg, who also moderates many of the TalkGraphics forums, shares his secrets for creating YouTube Xtreme Tutorials in a 3 part tutorial. Newton Florentino returns as the August Featured Artist with a series of images he create for greeting cards. Newton has also contributed a Guest Tutorial in which he demonstrates his photorealistic style. Check it out. If you would like to be considered for a single or one of the upcoming group shows, e-mail me and let me know where I can see a few of your images. CopyHotKey.ini is a utility that restores the Spacebar - Selector Tool - last tool used function to Xtreme 3.2. As you might have noticed the default for the Spacebar has been changed to toggle the Push Tool. CopyHotKey.ini restores the Spacebar to its previous function. You can download it for free in the Shareware Page. While you're there check out all the other cool freeware goodies.

I am accepting your contributions (Tips, Brushes, Templates, stuff like that). I'm starting to run out of ideas and could use your input. If your site has Xara graphics and is not listed, send me your link and a brief description of how you have used Xara on your site.

You are probably aware of Xara Xtreme but have you downloaded Xara Xtreme Pro? All the tutorials in this Workbook are done in Xtreme Pro, so if you don't have it, get it now.

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