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    Re: Designer Pro Plus Black GUI

    Chris, you are not alone, it really is a deal breaker for me too.

    Why can't I choose ? It should be so simple to implement.
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    Shades of grey to shades of a colour.

    Greeting from sunny Penzance,

    Is there a way to change shades of grey into shades of a colour?

    I’ve been experimenting with the commands “Select colours to enhance” and “Photo hue” and have...
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    There must be a better way

    I don’t want multicoloured prettiness just a way to make states 2 and 3
    instantly, easily, obviously stand out from state 1.

    May I start a challenge ?
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    Black and White impenetrable icons

    Spawned from https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?87402-Xara-Plus-Version-23-1-Toolbar-Reset

    I like the description B&W "impenetrable" icons.

    The monochrome icons are real barrier to my...
  5. Thread: I love Xara

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    Re: I love Xara

    Thanks for the replies.
    I'm not sure what I was hoping for.
    I will continue to be a big fan of and ambassador for Photo and Graphic Designer.
  6. Thread: Traditional Spiral

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    Re: Traditional Spiral

    I see 4 levels of spiral with fab depth and a flat background.
    Super.
  7. Thread: I love Xara

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    I love Xara

    1. I love Xara.

    2. I'm British.

    3. I'm confused by the number of products and who gets the cash.

    4. Magix bought Xara ??

    5. British Xara emerged from the ashes ???
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    Re: Had Fun Making This Magazine Cover

    That made me smile.

    The pool looks very posh.
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    Re: Summertime Stereogram

    The white spray of the wave looks lovely and very 3D forward.
  10. Thread: Summer Drink

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    Re: Summer Drink

    I can always see these as 3D and this one seems to have excellent depth.

    With most I can get a "different" but still 3D view.

    This one sometimes shows as two complete drinks close together and...
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    Re: Default Line Spacing, Ver 15

    Yes thanks Egg, I was having the same problem as Dan.
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    Re: Expiration of Designer Pro

    I have more computers and virtual machines than is sensible.

    When I upgraded DP from V11 to V365 I was able to do 4 activations, 2 for V11 and 2 for V365.

    Will an upgrade of V365.1 to V365.2...
  13. Thread: Fade to nothing

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    Re: Fade to nothing

    I was a bit surprised at the even fade on the rectangle given that the FX setup only specifies a radius.

    If you want to try it.

    Select the rectangle.

    1. Click the Fx tool
    2. Click new and...
  14. Thread: Fade to nothing

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    Re: Fade to nothing

    Might Fx/SoftenFilter/GaussianBlur be of use ?

    Maybe even applied multiple times.
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    Re: Set contone colour for selected region of bitmap

    Just thought I'd share:

    Reading again what Phil said about the region tool and clone...

    I have now learnt that clone will clone the regions if the region tool is selected.
    But that clone will...
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    Re: Set contone colour for selected region of bitmap

    Just played some more with transparency...

    Cover areas with a red shape and then apply 0% "Colour dodge" or 0% "Screen bleach" to make "underneath" black go red.

    So thanks Gary, that's the...
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    Re: Set contone colour for selected region of bitmap

    Phil.
    Thanks that method is quicker AND I've learned something important about regions/masks.

    Gary.
    I also had a go at shapes with transparency as that would be quick too but I couldn't see a...
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    Re: Set contone colour for selected region of bitmap

    Thank you for all the ideas.

    I had a black and white photo of some sums and wanted to make all 4 sigmas red and ended up doing:

    1. Ctrl-K clone image
    2. Draw 4 shapes to cover the 4 sigmas....
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    Set contone colour for selected region of bitmap

    With a photo bitmap selected I can right click a colour to "set contone light" or "set contone dark".

    I have a black and white bitmap and would like to change black to some other colour but only...
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    Re: Update, Upgrade or wait ?

    To add to the fun I note that the xara website shows products:
    Web Designer 365
    Photo & Graphic Designer 365
    Designer Pro X365 ( n.b. no space )

    So there must a product called Designer Pro...
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    Re: Update, Upgrade or wait ?

    I've received my new DVD.

    It's just labelled a generic Designer Pro X.

    No mention of 12 or 365, the only hint as to version is a copyright 2016 in small print on the DVD.

    I notice the new...
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    Re: Registry Editor for Xara

    Thanks to all, I hadn't thought to look on the xara-users.info forum.

    I wanted large page thumbs, now I have them, thanks XaReg2.

    DaveD
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    Registry Editor for Xara

    I'm setting up a new PC.

    Could someone please point me to a download for the registry editor utility ?

    I've had a quick look around and I'm not sure if I should be looking for XaReg2 or XaRT.
    ...
  24. Thread: Text tool fractions

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    Re: Text tool fractions

    Acorn: Thanks for the undo.

    mwenz: I wonder what other "opentype features" might be available, I'll do some googling.

    Xara may implement these in the future !

    DD
  25. Thread: Text tool fractions

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    Re: Text tool fractions

    Thanks Gary and Rob,

    I now see its a font thing, I thought it might be some fancy processing.

    Didn't know about the windows START MENU> character map.

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