This tutorial is designed to help introduce you to the basics of using the fractal program Xenodream, using a step by step visual guide. I will walk you through the process, step by step, to help you familiarize yourself with the process of creating your own XenoDream 3D fractals.

Why I wrote this tutorial.
First and foremost, I am not writing this tutorial because I somehow fancy myself as an expert at it, I am not! This is a complex program and while the help files and support by the author are excellent, I am a "show me" kind of guy! I know that I am not the only one that this approach works for, so hopefully this "hands on", step-by-step visual approach will be of help to some of you. I have also had requests for an XD tutorial similiar to my Tiera-zon tutorials and am finally getting around to doing this! This currently is a work in progress and I will add to it as time allows and as I learn more to share.

If anything is unclear, mistakes made, if you have suggestions or you found this tutorial helpful, please drop me an e-mail and let me know!

I would also like to acknowledge a few of individuals who were inspirational in their art as well as helpful in responding to questions from this "newbie"! Linda McCarthy's art with this program was what originally made me want to try XenoDream and her art had a high "wow" factor in inspiring me! She also patiently answered many of my original questions. Bryan Smith has been a tremendous help to Xenodream users as a whole and has answered a number of questions for me personally as well. My thanks to Anne Lauge for "proofing" this tutorial and pointing out some initial errors! Finally, to Garth Thornton the author of this fine program and for his willingness to help and his excellent program support. This is a rare commodity in the software world! Thanks Linda, Bryan, Anne & Garth!

WARNING!
Some of the pages in this tutorial may be slow to load due to the photos and/or your connection speed to the internet. I have tried to make the images as small as possible but wanted you to be able to see the programs window in order to fully understand what I was doing on each step. This is to make it easier for YOU to use! If you don't want to wait for all the images to load, don't! You can just follow the text instructions and move on. Enjoy!

Ok, I can hear you saying "Enough already! Let's get to it!" So without further ado, let's get started!