Live Effects Tool Ctrl-F5

Live Effects are 'effects' that can be applied to any object. These are by plug-ins to the Xara Picture Editor. These can be Adobe® Photoshop® plug-ins or Xara Picture Editor plug-ins. The list of available Live Effects is displayed in the Live Effects tool InfoBar by clicking the New button.

The range of possible effects is almost unlimited. They vary from simple effects that alter the brightness, contrast or saturation or blur (this is provided by the built-in Enhance tool in the Xara Picture Editor) to more complex effects that alter almost every aspect of the visual appearance of the object.

They are called Live Effects because the vector object remains editable just like a normal vector object. When you edit the object, the live effect is re-applied automatically to the new shape (this is not possible on some 'old-style' Photoshop® plug-ins).

To apply a Live Effect

Locked vs. Live Effects

Editing shapes

Photoshop vs. Xara Picture Editor plug-ins

Locking effects

Editing Live Effects

How Live Effects work

Live Effect resolution

Saving and transferring files

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