Photo looks discussion thread

**zaphodeist** · 29 July 2014, 08:27 PM

See post #18 above

**wizard509** · 29 July 2014, 08:39 PM

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**ss-kalm** · 12 October 2015, 11:13 PM

Having just bought XP&GD10, which I'm running on an XP SP3 system, when I try to run the Photo Looks plug-in, I get the following error .... IS anyone running it on XP successfully?

I have a 128 MB ATI Radeon 9600 (STOP LAUGHING) card (Actually it's an ASUS A9600) running Open GL 2.0 ... I think - One day when I'm rich and famous, I'll have to buy a new computer.

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**zaphodeist** · 13 October 2015, 03:06 AM

http://www.redgiant.com/support/faq/...let-looks/441/ - could be new installs can't ... if you see what I mean

**ss-kalm** · 13 October 2015, 03:24 AM

Yes, I read that too John, it seemed to me that they have discontinued it from the suite. It doesn't say it will no longer run .... I've sent a ticket to Xara support anyway. I'll see what they say. Don't you ever sleep it's 3 a.m. there ...

**zaphodeist** · 13 October 2015, 06:17 AM

It's my nocturnal genes - my ancestors were fireplace guardians in some of the best caves

**ss-kalm** · 13 October 2015, 02:57 PM

Support replied as follows:

"It does appear Photolooks needs a more beefier graphics card to run, it does take a lot of resources rendering the images and effects. On the bright-side, not long now before you can sell the card as an antique."

Pretty much what I expected ....

**angelize** · 13 October 2015, 08:10 PM

TBH Keith you are not missing much. I think that Xara should pull photolooks I always had issues with it even with an good graphics card and a quad core PC. When I contacted Xara support I was told they had to pass my issues on to Red Giant so now that RG is no longer supporting it it makes no sense to keep it bundled.

. I use ON1 photo suite for most of my photo editing. It doesn't work as a plugin with Xara but it's awesome as a stand alone and you can get a version of the perfect effects module free. http://www.on1.com/apps/effects9free/

The folks at ON 1 posted once in their blog that they might be looking at supporting other non Adobe hosts in the future and Serif is pushing to get their foot in the door. I wish the folks at Xara would jump on this. http://www.on1.com/blog/page/5/

**ss-kalm** · 14 October 2015, 03:52 AM

Yes. I've had a look at PERFECT EFFECTS 9 FREE ... Trouble is my "wonderful" computer hasn't got a snowball's chance of running it. These are the specs it requires ... Since it needs *GB RAM that makes it a 64 bit machine, which I don't have.

If anyone rich wants to send me a new computer, I'll let you have my address ....

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It needs much more power that PHOTO LOOKS. However, my office laptop runs Photo Looks fine, and to be honest, I'm not too bothered anyway. I have lots of other programs and Plugins that do the same job, and I don't use them either.