Guidelines for new brushes If brushes are created from bitmaps, then the bitmap should be clipped to remove as much empty space from the outside edges as possible. Choose a suitable line width from the line width control on the top bar. It’s also automatically selected as the current brush, so you can start drawing with it immediately. After this your new brush appears as the first entry in the brushes dropdown on the Freehand Tool InfoBar and in the first “New brush strokes” folder in the Line Gallery. This lets you choose whether to make an Art brush (the default) or a Scatter brush from the selection, and to enter a name for the new brush. Just select the object and press the Create Brush button on the Freehand Tool InfoBar. Creating your own brushes As with Scatter brushes, you can create a new Art brush from any objects. Draw some new lines with the Freehand Tool and they will use the same current brush and line width. Double click on a brush design in one of the “(Art)” folders of the Line Gallery, to apply that brush to your line. Give it a reasonably wide line width using the line width dropdown on the top bar. Use the Freehand drawing tool to draw a line as usual. How to use: In the Line Gallery there are some example Art brushes. Art brush strokes are only available in Designer Pro 11 and Photo and Graphic Designer 11. in scatter brush definitions, which makes them much more powerful. It's now possible to use feathering, text, extrusions, etc. You can now use any kind of object in a brush definition. This is an example vector brush design: And some example strokes using this brush The original type of brushes, in versions up to V10, are now called “Scatter” brushes because they repeat or scatter the brush shape at intervals along a line. Art Brushes We are introducing a new type of brush stroke called an “Art” brush, which stretches the brush shape, which can be either vector or bitmap, along the line. See the Web Designer 11 release notes for details on these features. The API isn’t ready to be released yet, but if you’re a JavaScript developer and this sounds interesting, send us a ticket via to register your interest and we’ll keep you posted.New Web Features This document doesn’t describe the new web features that have already been released in Web Designer 11 Premium, which are also included in Designer Pro X11. You can find more information on our website and detailed info in the release notes plus don’t miss Gary Priester’s traditional First Look at Īlso I’d like to mention again that the Liquify Tools and latest SmartShapes (don’t miss the new spiral) are the first quite simple examples of what can be created with our new plugin technology, for which we intend to publish an API so that third parties can add features, tools and SmartShapes. Share & Sync your files via Dropbox or Google Drive.An extension of the Shape Editor Tool (Liquify Tools).Lots of new & improved text features including abbreviation expansion and some you won’t have seen in Web Designer or Photo & Graphic Designer such as auto-hyphenation and greater flexibility with embedded graphics.New industry standard blend / transparency modes.A big step forwards for the Brush Tool, with new Art Brushes and enhanced Scatter Brushes.We have a couple of demo sites and (both now included as templates in Designer Pro 11) and for that matter the Xara Online Designer release notes are a good demo of Stickies. Still in beta but definitely worth a try: Xara Online Designer (formerly cloud.xara) introduces collaborative online editing of your sites from anywhere and on any device.New animation effects available on mouseover, on click or on reveal.Stretchy background images that fill the browser width.Stickies – objects that stick in place as the page scrolls.But nevertheless I’ll repeat the highlights: Designer Pro X11 has arrived at last! You will already know about most of the new features from the Web Designer and Photo & Graphic Designer 11 announcements.
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