Returning Filter Forge results

Don't have Photopaint, but just checked the way it works on PS and clicking the "Apply" button does directly change the image open in PS without those saving steps.

I have the FF icon on my desktop and a lot of times I'll just open that and work on an image, save it, and then open it up in GIMP or another editing program, bypassing PS completely.

i dont have photopaint either, but i do have paint shop pro from corel, so maybe that's close enough.

i open FF in psp by going to my menu in the effects menu and picking filter forge from one of my plugin lists. it opens, i pick the filter i want to apply to an image/layer, and down in the lower right hand corner, instead of a save button, it says 'apply'. when i hit that, it closes out FF and applies whatever effect i've chosen to the layer that was active in psp.

so, assuming photopaint works anywhere close to the same way, you shldnt even have a save button when running FF from photopaint. it shld just be an 'apply' button instead. and since that doesnt seem to be the case here, i would think that either photopaint isnt a completely compatible .8bf plugin type or that your install of FF wasnt quite right.

from what you've said so far, it sounds like FF is opening in the stand-alone mode. are you sure you installed it so that it acts as a plugin? you did say you're calling it from photopaint, so, sounds like its partially working and that may indicate a compatibility issue or maybe it's just a file type assignment issue. is photopaint your default program for opening and running .jpgs and other file types?

ah, yeah, had that happen too back when i first started

glad you got it solved.