New Version of Photo & Graphic Designer

**hseiken** · 26 May 2016, 05:14 AM

Gah, I feel like I just upgraded from 10. :\

But I do like that new photo process brush. I was just thinking about that being a real photo editing weakness today and next thing I know, it's in there....

can't upgrade till next paycheck, but this looks like a much better upgrade than 11 was from 10.

Also, can anyone report if the effect brush works on non-photo shapes?

**Michael** · 26 May 2016, 06:14 AM

What's more important is the way the software is delivered. Xara sell's a license to use the software and in return for your money you also get a year free of updates. From the website: "For the 365 days from purchase you’ll get access to new feature, updates and content. At the end of the 365 days you can choose to upgrade again, or not. If you choose not to, then the online services (the online Content Catalog) will be removed or restricted (these are online services anyway that would typically be part of a subscription"

That is an interesting construction and though I'm really sympathetic towards Computer Concepts and the idea of selling this way of delivering software renders some questions. Are you entitled to upgrades when the product fails (i.e. you discover a bug after more then one year)? And what to do with a leap year?

And where is the Magix moniker?

**David O'Neil** · 26 May 2016, 12:06 PM

Originally Posted by Michael

...If you choose not to, then the online services (the online Content Catalog) will be removed or restricted (these are online services anyway that would typically be part of a subscription"

In XP Pro 11, every time I use the line gallery for the first time, it seems to download the corresponding files from the web when the gallery first opens up. If I update, will I lose the lines and arrowheads after a year? (I'm really not impressed by the current implementation of these 'protection' features, and if that is the way Xara is continuing in, is not something I will continue supporting.)

David

**gwpriester** · 26 May 2016, 12:45 PM

David - Xara retarded the loading of the brushes until the user selects something from the Line Gallery. Loading the brushes was really increasing the time it took Designer to open. I am not sure if they download or just load on demand. I just tried this in Photo & Graphic Designer and it does the same thing but really fast.

**gwpriester** · 26 May 2016, 12:50 PM

Is anybody else seeing this? When I open Photo & Graphic Designer 365 I am getting some kind of white rectangle in the top left portion of the screen.

**hseiken** · 26 May 2016, 02:26 PM

Originally Posted by gwpriester

Is anybody else seeing this? When I open Photo & Graphic Designer 365 I am getting some kind of white rectangle in the top left portion of the screen.

I actually had weird graphic anomolies with Photo and Graphic similar to this. White boxes would appear overlayed on entire windows system and wouldn't go away until xara was closed. It happened again and again until I restared my computer. I couldn't recreate it, I'm guessing it was a graphic card memory leak.

**bb2** · 26 May 2016, 03:04 PM

Thanks for reporting this Gary. We will try and reproduce the problem and then try and determine what process is causing the window to appear.

**gracehjs** · 26 May 2016, 04:04 PM

Don't forget to use "custom install" or you will get simpleclean installed.

**Grenou** · 26 May 2016, 06:53 PM

Downloaded and installed. Great fun for the price of a nice lunch.
I won't eat tomorrow :-)

Grenou

**AceMatrix** · 22 June 2016, 07:59 PM

I have the new version Photo & Graphic Designer 365. Is there no longer a "Page Curl" effect that was in previous versions? If not , this is very disappointing, as I use that function quite often in my graphics creations. I've done many searches to get an answer to this, but no one seems to talk about it. Any Help here would be appreciated. Thank-you.