Reload/replace images after ediing in Outside Editor

[HarryPutnam]

Hi Harry,

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In order to edit a photo with Photoshop you can configure Xara to open PS when you double click a photo. Go to Options (shift/ctrl/O) and select ‘Effects & Plugins’. Under ‘Editing Bitmaps’ you can check the ‘Edit Bitmaps with this program’ and find Adobe Photoshop’s ‘Photoshop.exe’ file. It will probably be something like "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4 (64 Bit)\Photoshop.exe"

After that, just double click a photo to initialize PS, edit photo and save, and you’ll find it changed accordingly in Xara.

I'm not finding that to hold true here. I took the steps you laid out. Only difference was that in my version it isn't under `Effects and plugins' but under `Photo Editing'.

I set it to photo shop and saved the preferences. No amount of double clicking brings up photoshop.

I thought Maybe I needed to restart Xara for changes to take effect, so restarted, still no amount of double clicking brings up photoshop.

Then I thought maybe I needed to close photoshop, so did that. Still nogo. And I don't see anything on context menu or anywhere else to do it from a menu. Although I'll admit it was something of a quick scan.

[James Allen]

While we figure out the mouse business, you can select the photo and go to Utilities/Bitmap Editor and that should open PS if it is assigned as your bitmap editor.

In Options, under ‘mouse’, does your ‘left mouse button’ say ‘Normal click’?

Or it may be that your mouse double-click speed is configured at the wrong speed. Try checking this in Windows/Control Panel/Mouse to see the double-click speed. Mine is set on the second notch from the right, but then again, I double click pretty fast. I have nothing else checked in that box.

[HarryPutnam]

While we figure out the mouse business, you can select the photo and go to Utilities/Bitmap Editor and that should open PS if it is assigned as your bitmap editor.

In Options, under ‘mouse’, does your ‘left mouse button’ say ‘Normal click’?

Or it may be that your mouse double-click speed is configured at the wrong speed. Try checking this in Windows/Control Panel/Mouse to see the double-click speed. Mine is set on the second notch from the right, but then again, I double click pretty fast. I have nothing else checked in that box.

Yeah, I found the menu item shortly after saying I didn't see it (of course). So I know for sure PS is properly set there.

I tried various speeds right away with no luck, and now I've checked at control panel as you suggest... Mine was set on second from left... way slower than yours... I set it to second from right and tried again with various speeds... still no soap.

What I see on double click (on an Image) is my cursor change to a tiny four way stop on a street. A hollow box appears to the right and lower than the 4 way stop. All the handles on the Image become white hollow boxes.

Still the menu item alone is much faster than what I was doing... thanks.

[ODdOnLifeItself]

Hello James Allen,

Re: "Another way to crop is to place a rectangle over the photo, where you wish to crop, and select both the rectangle and the photo. Then press subtract shapes (ctrl/2) to crop."

Don't you mean, ctrl-3, Intersect shapes? If you do ctrl-2, you get the original photo with a rectangular hole in the middle.

Peace

James

[James Allen]

Thanks James - it should be ‘ctrl-3, Intersect Shapes’.

I tried various speeds right away with no luck

In my own case Harry, I prefer not to have that function anyway, because every time I was clicking around a photo PS would start up. I ended up disabling it by directing it to a dummy exe file, so now nothing starts up.

[HarryPutnam]

In my own case Harry, I prefer not to have that function anyway, because every time I was clicking around a photo PS would start up. I ended up disabling it by directing it to a dummy exe file, so now nothing starts up.

Thinking about a bit, I think I would find (if it were working), like you, that it is mostly annoying, so I think I will stand happy with double click not calling PS.