How to replace all the same inages on a page?

[KIR23]

Keeping its transformations. coor variations, crops etc intact. I can do so by drag and drop with Shift key in my Xara 5. It allows to easily update the page when source image is also updated. Something that Photoshop implemented only recently.

Now I am trying to do the same in the Xara trial and it updates only currently selected image, no all the pieces of the same image.

[huorn]

Keeping its transformations. coor variations, crops etc intact. I can do so by drag and drop with Shift key in my Xara 5. It allows to easily update the page when source image is also updated. Something that Photoshop implemented only recently.

Now I am trying to do the same in the Xara trial and it updates only currently selected image, no all the pieces of the same image.

in name gallery find "old" bitmap >>> select fill tool >>> select new bitmap from combo box

[KIR23]

in name gallery find "old" bitmap >>> select fill tool >>> select new bitmap from combo box

Thank you

[gwpriester]

This behavior was changed a few versions ago.

Now you can right click on a photo and select Create Live Copy. Any change you make to the original, including editing with any of the Photo Tool > Enhance settings will be applied to all live copies.

[KIR23]

It's very pity since both fill button and live copy don't allow to replace things the same easy. I really like 64 bit Xara and much more stable work with big bitmaps but now I can't just drag and drop a couple of images to turn my albedo color texture design into a normal map or specular one on a next page.

It was a huge feature actually, a small touch of non-destructive approach Photoshop is always lacking



ps. Live copy doesn't suite at all since it shifts and can't be placed to other page automatically and the fill button changes the fill position. So I still don't see any solution

[huorn]

fill button changes the fill position.

i may be wrong, but try to change value HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Xara\XtremePro\7.1\Opti ons\Dragging\SmartDropBehaviour from 1 to 0
+check version, in this case 7.1

[KIR23]

i may be wrong, but try to change value HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Xara\XtremePro\7.1\Opti ons\Dragging\SmartDropBehaviour from 1 to 0
+check version, in this case 7.1

no, it doesn't help unfortunately

[handrawn]

have you tried dragging from the bitmap gallery with ctrl+shift

[handrawn]

oh and you asked about feathering alpha bitmaps in another thread - if you mean just feather around the border and not around the visible pixels, then you could try clipping with clipview, that may do what you want

[handrawn]

I just checked and a combination of ctrl+shift drag and live copies appears to update all the bitmaps without repositioning the fill, including across the pages - not sure if that fixes your problem or not ?