I've been experimenting with a free trial of Filter Forge. I have run into a lot of problems with it. The plug in itself seems to work fine, but when the filter is applied to the image in Xara it doesn't always display correctly, for example one image I tried had a grey border around it. I tried to crop it but the photo tool wouldn't work on it. one image I did I was able to make a bitmap copy and work with that but a second image with the same filter applied sent Xara into a tizzy of errors when I tried to make a bitmap copy.

Has anyone else tried Filter Forge? You get a 30 day free trial of the fully working program.

It's too bad that this doesn't work better, Filter forge allows you to create your own filters a combination of that and Xara would be very interesting.