Xara X Photoshop plug-in support for bitmap effects

[byron_friday]

Any one have any tips or references where I can find some of these plug ins?

What about filters too?

[byron_friday]

Any one have any tips or references where I can find some of these plug ins?

What about filters too?

[Availor]

Hello,

There are basically few plugins that deal with bitmaps inside Xarax....

http://www.xaraxone.com/html/ss-emboss.html
Take a look at this link. You will find some more basic raster effects there.

I suppose some of the KPT effects will work with Xarax... Look in the xara.com site, there are some effects listed there.

[John Rayner]

Hello Byronious,

here are all the filter from Adobe photoshop 7 that work with X1...

3D Transform.8bf
Accented Edges.8bf
Adobefilters.txt
Angled Strokes.8bf
Bas Relief.8bf
BLURLG.8BF
BLURMG.8BF
BLURMU.8BF
BrowsPal.8bf
Chalk & Charcoal.8bf
Charcoal.8bf
Chrome.8bf
Colored Pencil.8bf
Conte Crayon.8bf
Craquelure.8bf
Cutout.8bf
Dark Strokes.8bf
Diffuse Glow.8bf
DitherBox Preferences
DitherBx.8bf
Dry Brush.8bf
Emboss.doc
EmbossGy.8bf
EmbossHl.8bf
EmbossSh.8bf
Extract.8bf
Film Grain.8bf
Fresco.8bf
Glass.8bf
Glowing Edges.8bf
Grain.8bf
Graphic Pen.8bf
Halftone Pattern.8bf
Ink Outlines.8bf
MoldSpAd.8bf
MoldSpBg.8bf
Mosaic Tiles.8bf
MSVCRT10.DLL
Neon Glow.8bf
Note Paper.8bf
NTSC8B.8BF
Ocean Ripple.8bf
Paint Daubs.8bf
Palette Knife.8bf
Patchwork.8bf
Photocopy.8bf
Plaster.8bf
Plastic Wrap.8bf
Poster Edges.8bf
Reticulation.8bf
Rough Pastels.8bf
SandR.8bf
Smudge Stick.8bf
Spatter.8bf
Sponge.8bf
Sprayed Strokes.8bf
SSMask.8bf
SSUnshrp.8bf
Stamp.8bf
Sumi-e.8bf
Texturizer.8bf
Torn Edges.8bf
Underpainting.8bf
Water Paper.8bf
Watercolor.8bf

[Don Lamb]

John,

I have tried a number of these PSD filters on bitmaps in Xara X1 and keep getting this error message:
"The plug-in requires services not provided by this host."
How did you get them to work?

Don

[molucca]

You may need plugin.dll if it isn't in your system. I didn't think PS filters above V5.5 would work in Xara Rich

[John Rayner]

Hi don,

I do have PS7 loaded on my system would that be the difference? I am not absolutley positive each and every one of these will work with xara. I copied all the PS7 filers into a directory under xara, then pointed the plugins to that directory. The ones that loaded fine and did not crash xara I kept. I have used many of them but will not swear that all work.

Which ones do not work for you and I can verify that they do or do not work on my machine. Your list of "a number of these PSD filters" is not very descriptive and makes it hard for me to help you further with more info. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/confused.gif

[Don Lamb]

Hi John,

I tried the following filters from you PSD list and got the same message I described previously.

Accented Edges, Angled Stokes, Chalk&Charcoal, Chrome, Colored Pencil, Craquelure, Glowing Edges, Grain, Graphic Pen, Mosaic Tiles, Neon Glow, Paint Daubes, Patchwork, Plastic Wrap, and Texturizer all with the extension .8bf. After trying 15 of 64 I ran out of time to spend on it.
After thinking about this issue I seem to recall reading that PSD filters past version 5 did not work with Xara X1. The search engine is down so I couldn't search the forum archives to find verification.

My Xara X1 filters work quite well so that is not a factor. Also the PSD filters gave an immediate error box when tested with a 32bit Xara rasterized image so I tested the filters with a 24 bit image as the box requested.

Don

[mike engles]

Hello

I have to say that I cannot get Xara in WinXP to use Photoshop 7 filters. It will use the KPT filters and others that conform to the protocol,but not all.

I can get it to use some Photoshop 4 filters under Win 98SE

Mike Engles

[molucca]

Adobe changed the filters in version 6. From whaat I read, it was to make money of the developers. Many of the 5.5 filters work with Xara. Filters requiring selections, won't work. Being PS compatible doesn't mean filters will work in applications that can handle PS compatible filters. An example would be Super Blade Pro that works in PS and PSP. I looked at the free Flamingpear plugings, and some worked. Just got to try things. You still may need plugin.dll with Xara. Rich