New Xara Plus Photo Overlays

[Acorn]

@Kate, I am sure these overlays will have some use:

We’ve added another 1200 Photo Filter Overlays to the Online Content Catalog of Xara Designer Pro+. Overlays can be added to your photo, even on top of other photo filters, to provide a huge choice of creative possibilities.

You can find them in Components > Image resources > Photo Filter Presets > Overlays, in 4 new categories (Light Rays, Night Sky, Rose Petal and additions to Light Leak). To apply the overlay simply select your photo, then select the overlay and click Import.

The problem I have is I am not going to click Import on 1,200 overlays to download them so I can check how good each may be against any given photo.

Will you please restore the Download All option!

Acorn

[handrawn]

I have wondered if so many options are actually of practical use....

[Acorn]

I have wondered if so many options are actually of practical use....

handrawn, I personally do not see what the benefit is either.
I use Filter Forge 12 and can get thousands of variations of a single filter and I have some 10,000 Library Filters to chose from.
In addition, I can design my own filter and tweak on the fly and apply directly to any image I choose.
The bonus is they can usually be applied as seamless tiling or overlays and quick to regenerate, e.g., Soft Rainbow Gradient - Variation 29155.

I am not claiming thesebeat the Xara ones, just they are dramatically faster to try out.

Acorn

[handrawn]

well to paraphrase William of Ockham once again the more options you have, the more time you will waste

I dare say they may well be useful but if i were a cynic [...which thank the lord I'm not sir...] I might think this is a soft option to keep the updates coming rather than, say, fix what is broke...

[gwpriester]

I've looked at the overlays and I agree this does seem like overkill.

I would be thrilled just to have the FX contents of Pro X added back to Pro+ This is the only reason I still have Pro X on my computer.

[MB365]

I've looked at the overlays and I agree this does seem like overkill.

I would be thrilled just to have the FX contents of Pro X added back to Pro+ This is the only reason I still have Pro X on my computer.

@Gary, is this what you are looking for?
https://helpandsupport.xara.com/xara...lterm=fx%20pro

[handrawn]

Amazing what you find in a manual

I think that will please Gary...

Personally there is a lot of stuff switchable in the registry that I would like to see in the UI [eg autodeselect freehand, set default bitmap copy resolution...];

plus
a freehand tool that does not wobble when you use it with smoothing set
vector and bitmap mesh warp like affinity
affinity is a very good program but xara's UI is far easier to use - vector/bitmap mesh warp alone would be enough to bring me back to pro+ [the xara mould tool does not begin to hack it]

[gwpriester]

Yes!

[ss-kalm]

But why should he have to do that Matt?

Why isn't that particular section AUTOMATICALLY included in Pro+

[handrawn]

what matt is saying, effectively, is that if you have a magix version installed you can use the filters that you purchased with your magix version, in pro+

however, as they are magix filters, if you don't have a magix version purchased, you cannot