Outline tutorial for XD by D.C.Monteny

Fractal • Work In Progress • posted on Sep 09, 2004

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Xenodream, no pp, PS6 for frame. Sometimes while working in XD you may have a need for an outline around your objects. Here's one technique to achieve this. For this i used one of my "heraldic" studies. The original (top) image is nice, but on some places the colours of the main object and background seem to closely matched, which costs us in contrast. That can be helped by an outline. Also, since this image referes to *heraldic* it would be nice to get a graphic outline. So, once we rendered the top image, we goto "edit", "copy/merge picture", and we choose "new background picture" and click OK. Return to the lighting panel. Now we need a lighting which gives us an outline of our main object. The best thing is to create them yourself in line with your style of work. But for this image we choose a pre-made one from the lighting presets. Click on the *fox* thumb to open the presets and choose "Art/black acrylic outline". Click OK and render, which will give you the middle image. Now there's only one thing left to do. From the "merge mode" list, choose "multiply" instead of "normal". We now get the lower image, a merge with a nice outline. Goto "edit", "copy/merge picture", and now choose "overwrite background picture" and click OK. Now save your final picture to disk. It's that simple ;-) Have fun with your Xenodream !! Dirk

Comments (21)

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Dreamingbee

9:10AM | Thu, 09 September 2004

cool ! that is an great idea! :hug:

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CarolSassy

9:16AM | Thu, 09 September 2004

Well at least if I ever get to have that program I know where to go to learn this cool lesson! lol q-: Very interesting to know, and I might try something similar to this in PSP. Nice work! V (:

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redbeard

9:19AM | Thu, 09 September 2004

You can really see the difference. The very distinct edges of the final image makes it well worth the time spent. Thanks for the interesting lesson!

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pixart1

9:44AM | Thu, 09 September 2004

Thank you Dirk - copy-paste-saved as "DirkXenoTut2" and has to wait to be worked off until I spend more time with Xeno.Thanks for sharing!!

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saldegal

9:49AM | Thu, 09 September 2004

Thanks for sharing, very inspirational to see how someone else has done things, fantastic heraldic shield too!

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kimpe

10:07AM | Thu, 09 September 2004

Awesome XD construction.

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rocserum

10:26AM | Thu, 09 September 2004

XD is a great program. and I've used it also for filter on imported images. The mergemode gives a extra possibility. Thanks, RS

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RodolfoCiminelli

10:36AM | Thu, 09 September 2004

I find this technique very useful and at the same time ingenious to find the edge effect, also this very well explained. Splendid final result Dirk.....!!

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zzzzra

12:04PM | Thu, 09 September 2004

Thanks for the mini tutorial !

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locomouse

12:21PM | Thu, 09 September 2004

I've copied and pasted this tutorial into my letter to Santa... cuz I'm thinking if he realizes that I'm ready to learn XD... he'll drop a copy down my chimney this year... ;) Thank you, Dirk!! :)

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