came up with what he calls a Corn Brush to create a mouthwatering ear of corn. It was pretty impressive.Your editor, who also is a frequent visitor and contributor to the Xara Conference, felt obliged to translate
Soquili's corn brush into glass. Here is a bonus Mini-Tutorial on how it was done. This tutorial assumes some familiarity with Xara X.
1. Create a small 40 x 60 pixel rectangle and round the corners to 0.7. Apply a 3-color Linear Fill using the colors shown.
2. Apply an
Elliptical, Mix Transparency. Drag the center of the transparency down a bit.
3. Add a small white ellipse for a highlight.
4. Add a Mix, Linear Transparency
to the highlight. (Just like the GEL buttons).
5.
Create and center two circles, 110 pixels and 106 pixels in diameter. Use Copy and Paste Attributes, to Copy the fill from step two and apply it to the large circle. Change the fill type to Conical
. Copy the fill and elliptical transparency and apply it to the smaller circle. Clone the small circle (Ctrl K) and Combine Shapes > Subtract Shapes with the large circle.