What is the v15 equivalent to "darken" in transparency tool?

[rpc9943]

Just wondering, looks like they removed "darken" from our options . I had used this extensively in previous versions. What is the best "option" for this? Color Burn does not act the same. Thanks!

[handrawn]

you can put the old transparencies back by editing the registry - change [modify] ShowLegacyTransparencyTypes to value 1

Messing about with the new 'adobe-compatible' types is more trouble than it's worth imo




PS - make sure the program is closed when you do this

[rpc9943]

you can put the old transparencies back by editing the registry - change [modify] ShowLegacyTransparencyTypes to value 1

Messing about with the new 'adobe-compatible' types is more trouble than it's worth imo




PS - make sure the program is closed when you do this

damn extremely helpful I will save this info to a text file and if there are more fixes please let me know!

[handrawn]

I use lighten darken and hue a lot, in fact it is one of the reasons I stick with xara at all, because it does exactly what I need to do, in clone steps as necessary

If I want to do 'adobe-style editing', well... I use photoshop

[rpc9943]

I use lighten darken and hue a lot, in fact it is one of the reasons I stick with xara at all, because it does exactly what I need to do, in clone steps as necessary

If I want to do 'adobe-style editing', well... I use photoshop

Well darn it. I changed the equivalent for the non pro version but it looks like it is not affecting it... Any ideas?

[handrawn]

did you make sure that the program was closed when you made the changes in regedit?

[rpc9943]

Aha I thought I had closed it but did not. Now it works! Thanks!

[handrawn]

I checked works ok in pro 15 [can't check P&G15 trial has expired]



Edit - ok

[mwenz]

The standard transparencies are important if one needs/wants to play nice with Adobe applications. Also note that if one opens an old file using the "old" transparencies, they are also in the menu even if the registry entry is not changed. At least they use to, haven't tried v.15 as I couldn't find an older file using them right off.

Mike

[handrawn]

you are right mike - they will appear in a fiie that contains them already, that is how we preserved them [in a template] before the registry fix was promulgated [but I also have not tried that in ver 15]

and sure the adobe transparencies are good for compatibility, but the old ones should not have been removed, it took away something that was special to xara, and why?.. simply beacause Xara thinks it would make the program too complictaed for those who cannot be bothered to learn it properly the snowflake gerenration...?