Corel Knockout 2 in Xara

[alanti]

Does anybody know if Corel Knockout 2 is as good as that masking tool in CS5?, and also if the plugin would work in Xara. It is a lot cheaper than Photoshop.

Alan

[steve.ledger]

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Hi Alan,

I don't think any Corel plugins will work with Xara Xtreme/Designer Pro.

[alanti]

Thanks for the reply, I was just wondering because the XDP6 help says that many Adobe Photoshop plug-ins will work, and the Corel Knockout site says that it is Photoshop compatible.

Problem is there doesn't seem to be a demo version and US99 is a bit much for something that may not work.

[steve.ledger]

Plugins and filters can become a bit confusing, though I have never used Corel Knockout my senses tell me that it would be a plugin application rather than a plugin filter, this means that it would only be accessible from the File>>Automate menu in Photoshop (such as AlienSkin Blowup and Genuine Fractals are).
These are not compatible with Xara Xtreme or Xara Designer Pro

[handrawn]

Hi

here's an alternative that does work with xtreme 5 [not yet tried it with designer 6]

there is a 10 day trial

http://akvis.com/en/smartmask/

I seem to remember there were problems with knockout and xtreme - but never tried knockout 2

[Big Frank]

I have Knockout 2 but I can't even get it to show in Xara so I've never bothered. If i can get it to show up i'll test it in wdp6