Xara Internal Photo Editor (XPE) Crashes System

**handrawn** · 07 September 2008, 10:17 PM

thanks for putting up the screen shot Egg - makes it clearer - I hadn't time

**Egg Bramhill** · 07 September 2008, 10:43 PM

Steve, I must apologies, I skimmed through the posts and completely missed your

**handrawn** · 08 September 2008, 08:19 AM

No problem Egg - it makes the point all that much clearer

**Jimi King** · 08 September 2008, 11:04 AM

Correct me if I'm wrong though, but the only way to get to use the plugin filters is still through XPE, right?

**steve.ledger** · 08 September 2008, 11:17 AM

Yep Jimi, you're right that's wrong

The plugin filters are available via the plug icon on the main tools palette (Ctrl+F5).
Same as previous versions actually.
No need for XPE to be involved here either.

**Jimi King** · 08 September 2008, 11:27 AM

Coo, so it is. I learn something new every day!

**jackbp** · 08 September 2008, 11:58 AM

Thanks guys...

See what happens when you give a crayon to an engineer?

1stly....I stand corrected on my statement about "Xara Photo Editor falling off." Obviously, I didn't do my homework.

2ndly....Yes, Photoshop in largely redundant....and difficult....and pretty much overbloated for an amateur like me......I guess I've been trying to recover some usage out a rather poor financial decision where PS CS3 is concerned......actually, I haven't found anything I can't do in Xara faster and more intuitively than I can in PS.

In any event, Thanks again for all your suggestions and educational insights.

I'm afraid I've been guilty of the proverbial "Forrest for the Trees"....

All the best,

Jack

**David O'Neil** · 08 September 2008, 10:43 PM

Originally Posted by jackbp

...actually, I haven't found anything I can't do in Xara faster and more intuitively than I can in PS.

Photoshop's brushes are infinitely superior to Xtreme's brushes for painting-style pictures, and allow you to do fine shading and texturing much more rapidly than you can in Xtreme. PS's digital painting tools give a much better approximation of physical painting than do the tools in our favorite vector app. If you play with PS that way, you may find that your investment was not for naught, so to speak! There is a reason it is number one.

**jackbp** · 13 September 2008, 02:43 PM

David, I'm sure you are absolutely correct.

Unfortunately I haven't progressed far enough with PS to avail myself of it's superior capabilities.

I guess for the purposes at hand XXP4 is my choice for right now, as time moves ahead I'll hopefully be able to spend more time with PS CS3.....or I guess I should say CS4. It's supposed to be out very shortly.

In any event, Thanks to all of you folks for your input and help.

All the best,

Jack