More Tips and Tricks
This is just a few of the scores of tips submitted and posted in the last 15 years. To access the whole treasure trove of tips check out the Tips & Tricks section of our pre 2012 site.
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- Create Seamless Patterns with Xara
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- Igor’s Propellers – December 2014 Free Giveaway
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- 25 Ornate Textures – October 2014 Giveaway
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- August 2014 Free Giveaway-25 Icons
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- Unearthly Textures & Planar Shapes – May 2014
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- Wisps of Steam or Smoke – March 2014
- Five Frames for Febuaray
- 14 Textures for 2014 – January 2014
- Dodecagon 2014 Calendar – December 2013
- Snowflake Template – November 2013
- 12 Vector Gears – October 2013 Free Giveaway
- The Diry Dozen Textures – September 2013
- Victorian Frames – July 2013
- Six Marble Textures – June 2013
- YouTube One Channel Template-May 2013
- 12 Website Backgrounds – April 2013
- 10 Spring Textures – March 2013
- More Free Stuff
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- Tips & Tricks
- Tips and Tricks
- Making a Varsity-Style Logo
- Creating a Battery With Extrudes
- Cast in Gold
- Teach A Man to Fish
- Organizing a World of Colors
- Edgework: Another Step to 3D Drawing
- How To Draw a Jelly Bean
- Big GIFs, Tiny Animations
- Creating illustrations With Only Extrudes
- Designing an Elegant Poster
- Going Beyond 3D
- Playing with Fire (In a Fun, Harmless way) with Xara
- Guiding Your Way
- Seven Things You Might Have Overlooked in Xara Designer
- 2013 Tips and Tricks
- Creating A Compass Rose-Style Star
- Putting Grunge Text on a 3D Wall
- Making a Creepy Interactive Halloween Invitation
- Drawing an Invitation Card
- Mapping Text to Wafting Fabric
- How to Draw a Photorealistic Bottle Cap
- Designing a Vector Camouflage Pattern
- Making a Striking Coffee Table Book Cover
- Adding Custom Textures to Your Web Pages
- Designing A Stained Glass Window
- Making Surreal Backgrounds with Xara Fractals
- Making A Handcrafted Valentine Card
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Tips & Tricks
Get ready to do some workspace customizing and using commands of which you might not have discovered their full power. Creating a “Varsity-style” logo puts you into the thick of Xara’s operations, but keeps it simple…and your clients will eat this stuff up! Take a trip now with Gary Bouton as he shows you how to make an intertwining, two character logo that’s precise and makes you a more knowledgeable Xartist.
Recent Tips and Tips Tutorials
- Making a Varsity-style Logo
- Creating a Battery With Extrudes
- Cast in Gold
- Teach A Man To Fish
- Organizing a World of Colors
- Edgework: Another Step to 3D Drawing
- How To Draw a Jelly Bean
- Making Watery Text
- Big GIFs, Tiny Animations
- Creating illustrations With Only Extrudes
- Designing an Elegant Poster
- Going Beyond 3D
- Mixing Extrudes and Shapes to Make Molecules
- Playing With Fire (In a Fun, Harmless way) with Xara
- Guiding Your Way
- Seven Things You Might Have Overlooked in Xara Designer
- Creating A Compass Rose-Style Star
- Putting Grunge Text on a 3D Wall
- Making a Creepy Interactive Halloween Invitation
- Drawing an Invitation Card
- Mapping Text to Wafting Fabric
- How to Draw a Photorealistic Bottle Cap
- Designing a Vector Camouflage Pattern
- Making a Striking Coffee Table Book Cover
- Adding Custom Textures to Your Web Pages
- Designing a Stained Glass Window
- Making Surreal Backgrounds with Xara Fractals
- Making A Handcrafted Valentine Card
- A Raindeer Christmas Greeting Card
- Edge Lighting
- Optimizing Images for the Web with Smush.it
- Creating Textured Extrusions with Displacement Maps
- Salut! Make a Waving Flag with a Plugin
- Bouton’s Desert Island 20 Typeface Collection
- Using Text As A Shape
- Everything New is Old Again!
- Using Noise (instead of water) to Make Animated Snow
- Building a Xara Vector Grunge Effect
- Create Fabulous Fractal Textures
- Taming and Grooming Xara Designer
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