Some cool facts about photo presets

[angelize]

Some interesting things about the presets/filters. While they are designed to be drag and drop effects they are editable in different ways and even better yet you can create your own. There is more than one way to create your own presets I have prepped some tutorials that show how to edit presets and also my favourite way to create my own : https://www.xaramarketplace.com/cate...a-tips-tricks/

[richinri]

Wonderful, thanks!

[tonylondon]

Very powerful!

[angelize]

yes this feature is quite powerful. A lot of people stopped looking at the collection of drag and drop effects Xara provided but two things caught my attention 1) that the effects were a stack of layers added in as a photo group, which automatically had me thinking that these were likely .xar files and 2) that if you download all on a folder from the content catalogue that content is stored on your computer somewhere. Once I found where that content is located and found the preset files I simply started dissecting them

[Egg Bramhill]

Interesting Frances. It also helps if you use named colours in your video example. It makes it very quick to change the colours without the need to edit the filter.

I attach a couple I reversed engineered files using the supplied presets (no named colours).

[Egg Bramhill]

Another couple:

[Egg Bramhill]

And a final two: