Alien Skin Live Effects

Hi,
In my business I make heavy use of Alien Skin plug-ins.
Problem is, live effects don't work anymore. The filters from the
top pull-down menu works, but that's not a live effect.
Suddenly, making revisions to customer demands will be very
hard. Alien Skin claims this is a bug in CS3, and they can't fix
it. Is anyone aware of this, and is it being worked on?
This is really important to me, and I just have to imagine
it's important to a whole host of other people too.
Any information is appreciated.
Thanks,
Dugan M.

Do you have the full version, or the stripped down version
which used
to install in FW 8 and earlier?
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SKB wrote:
> DugAllNicknamesTaken wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In my business I make heavy use of Alien Skin
plug-ins. Problem is,
>> live effects don't work anymore. The filters from
the top pull-down
>> menu works, but that's not a live effect.
>> Suddenly, making revisions to customer demands will
be very hard.
>> Alien Skin claims this is a bug in CS3, and they
can't fix it. Is
>> anyone aware of this, and is it being worked on?
>> This is really important to me, and I just have to
imagine it's
>> important to a whole host of other people too.
>>
>> Any information is appreciated.
>> Thanks,
>> Dugan M.
>>
> Dugan,
>
> My EyeCandy 4000 installation works as live effects.
Which Alien Skin
> product is not working for you?
>
> SKB

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<[email protected]> wrote:
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>
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>
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Peter
"Sam Poikail" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
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| Because Alien Skin discontinued the product a few months
ago. I would
still
| give them a call to either see if a special case can be
worked out or if
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They have always
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|
| ATB,
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| "heathrowe" <[email protected]> wrote in
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| news:g0u7n9$nmq$[email protected]..
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| > h
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