WD 7 Where is the Live Effect tool?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cneal007]

I got Web Designer 7 Premium last week and quickly realized that it is missing the live effect tool that WD6 had. Is it gone for good or is it just me.... PLEASE HELP

[zaphodeist]

Web Designer 7 Premium is not an upgrade to Designer Pro 6 it is an upgrade to Web Designer 6, which didn't have the Live Effect tool either as the Web Designer family do not have Live Effects.

[jon404]

Doesn't have it. But it's a very good, fast-to-use drawing program -- for bitmaps, just keep Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro open, paste back and forth. Or Save from the bitmap editor and Import to WD7. This actually -- for me -- works better than Live Effects, where Xara opens the editor and you go back to Xara after making changes. There's something about that I don't like...

[zaphodeist]

If you've got PS or PSP yeah, if not it's best to go for Designer Pro I reckon. Everything within one program at a fraction of the price.

[jon404]

Also, WD7 doesn't let me make brushes ... but it can open .xar files with brushes, and then, when I start a new WD7 page, those brushes are available. As for drawing tools, WD7 has a lot. The only Xara 5 tool that seems to be missing is Contour (I don't have Xara 6). And the WD7 Bevel tool does -- for me -- pretty much waht the Contour tool did anyway. Cneal007, it's a good program -- keep messing with it, give it a fair shot. It's so fast and easy to use...