Re: erratic red eye removal
i guess grouping the clipped photo groups would do it...
Re: erratic red eye removal
Hello Hamish, I can't replicate the problem here. the photo tool red eye works fine for me. Perhaps if you can post a .xar file it may help someone figure this out.
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Re: erratic red eye removal
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hamishmacd
The red-eye tool steadfastly refuses to permit a red-eye circle less than so many pixels, i.e the greyed out circle won't go smaller than the entire eye, eyebrow and all!
Hold Ctrl and select the grey area and resize it as required using the size handles, or use the info bar size input.
Then use the feather slider to blend the edges into the photo.
You can even convert to editable shapes and use the curve handle to fine tune the grey shape.
For a border, I drop a new rectangle shape behind, size and centre it to the photo with the alignment tool. A drop shadow applied to the photo above a white border looks attractive.
Re: erratic red eye removal
Thank you both for taking the time to reply. I'd no idea the red-eye tool was that flexible.
I'll just get used to editing the photos first, grouping them, then applying the border and drop shaddow last. This is I suppose the more logical sequence.
Re: erratic red eye removal
You know you can always bypass the redeye tool in this version.
In older version the red eye tool only affected the colour red but in the newest version it affects all colours. All your doing in version 5 is drawing a black circle with saturation transparency, which is simply a way of making a colour photo into a black and white photo.
On your photo, try creating a big black square over part or all of it and apply the saturation transparency and you will see and understand better what is happening.........frank
Re: erratic red eye removal
Thanks Frank, I see what you mean. I was just a bit confused by this. Now I've had a chance to play around, I understand it better. It just feels out of kilter with the way I'm used to Xtreme working. A bit clunkier really. Why would you ever want a red eye tool to take on the outline properties of the photo upon which you are working? I found myself creating a huge red-eye circle, then removing the outline, then tweaking the red-eye area to scale. That said, the ability to squish the shape to fit an obscuring eye lid may come in handy.
This was always just a quick-fix when putting photos onto a video display that we use. It's slightly more involved now but now I get it, I can live with it.
Re: erratic red eye removal
Just out of a sense of completeness, in case this is of use to other readers, I solved the problems I was having. The solution was actually dead simple. I was dealing with some very low resolution graphics, which meant having to zoom right in. The 8 pix border that was applied to the photo was the problem. Because of the 8 pix border applied to the photo, Xara also applied this border to the red-eye thus it only gave me the option of a minimum of an 8 pix red-eye circle.
I was left with two solutions firstly to just to set the bit map editor as XPE and use the old red-eye tool from the previous version of Xara. This is what I'll probably do. It's not as flexible but it is quick. This method doesn't convert the photo to a clip view.
Alternatively I could apply the border first, deselect the photo and then apply the red-eye to it. Somehow Xara knows you are applying red eye to a particular photo without it being selected. This way the red-eye behaves normally.
I also ran into problems with the border disapearing the moment the photo was changed to a clip-view. The solution to this was equally simple. If you need to alter the border, but not to have the red-eye border affected, CTRL click just the photo and you can edit just its border without the red-eye border also being affected.
I noticed how many people read my post. I hope this is of use to someone.
Re: erratic red eye removal
I'm sure it will be. :) Thanks, Hamish.