Xara error and Eye Candy 7

**jyoung** · 09 July 2013, 10:30 PM

Was wondering if anyone else has experienced this. I just installed the new Designer Pro X9 and added the Eye Candy 7 plugins. I can get to the plugin just fine. If I apply an effect and hit OK everything is fine. BUT, if I go to Eye Candy 7 and change my mind and hit Cancel, while in Eye Candy, I get an access violation (see attached) upon return to DPX9 and DPX9 gets hung up.

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Happen to anyone else? By the way, the same thing happens when I use DPX (the previous version) as well

**gwpriester** · 10 July 2013, 01:23 AM

I think I heard some time ago that these filters had changed and no longer worked. And I suspect this is why they are no longer included with the program.

**steve.ledger** · 10 July 2013, 01:58 AM

Eye Candy 7 should work, it's their latest. I have several other Eye Candy plugins that work fine in DPX9 32bit, though I don't have the version 7 collection.
Eye Candy 4000 was the version Xara stopped shipping.

**jyoung** · 10 July 2013, 04:00 AM

Everything seems to work fine, except when you cancel out. Whatever it sends back to Xara gives Xara the hiccups or something. Oh well, will just use it in Elements.

**steve.ledger** · 10 July 2013, 04:15 AM

You could use Elements as your Bitmap Editor in Xara Designer's Options.
This way the effect applied in Elements is sent back to Designer.

**angelize** · 10 July 2013, 04:49 AM

Hi guys, I was in touch recently with a support guy from Alien Skin and the Eye Candy 7 plugins had a rewrite to cater to the newest versions of Photoshop and as you have seen they no longer work so nicely with Xara. Apparently Alien Skin have no immediate plans to look at supporting Xara as a host, and they want to direct their resources to the PS users . I was told maybe in the future if there was enough interest they might reconsider. (contacting Alien Skin support can't hurt, the more of us that ask the more interest they'll see. ) They have a handy Live chat support http://support.alienskin.com/entries...8-chat-support

As well as Steve's very good suggestion you can use the plugins in Xara and lock the effect. If you set a default resolution for locked effects of at least 300dpi it works well. Also if you have version 6 of the plugins they still work quite fine with DP9, the only difference is the lightning effect and the new thumbnail panel in version 7. I've decided to stick with version 6 for now.