Is anyone familiar with Philipp Spoeth's "Retro-Dots"? It is a filter plugin that was originally written for PhotoShop, but is said to also work with PSP.

I downloaded and installed it - no problem. But when I tried to apply the filter to an image, it totally killed my PSP. I tried three (3) times with three different images and it caused an error and a program shutdown every single time. The filter does open, but then almost instantly before the configuration screen can even appear, everything goes blank.

I know I have it installed correctly and am familiar with how to use plugins and filters. Has anyone ever encountered this problem? Any suggestions as to a resolution? It's a very cool filter and I'd love to be able to use it.

Thanks, Mrs. B

Just a thought Mrs. Bond, did you try to uninstall it, then reinstall it??

Hi Lorraine - Yes I did think of that, and I actually found the filter at three (3) individual sources on the Internet. Thinking perhaps the first one might have been a corrupt file, I downloaded it from each of the others and tried separately to see if they would work, but didn't have any luck with any of them.

I guess so Mrs. Bond, you sure wouldn't have installed them 3 times if you didn't uninstall them, Sorry about that. I have a friend that uses PhotoShop. PSP is PhotoShop Pro. right?? I'll check and see if she has any idea.

And maybe someone here has an Idea.

Hi Lorraine - No, PSP is "Paint Shop Pro", and I use version 10. That of course is part of my problem. Not many people use v10 - most have either 8 or 9. Plus tutorials and "help" documents are very difficult to find for v10.

It's really frustrating because 10 is actually not all that new and I know that the tut writers have definitely had enough time to write tuts if they wanted to. Corel has actually even already published v11 so you know that v10 has already become an old-timer.

Oh well, so it goes ... maybe this particular filter is one I'll just have to forego ... perhaps the Trash Bin would just be a good place for it.

That's what my friend said, that it was Paint Shop Pro..She uses it, but she doesn't use any of the plugins.

Why don't you hold on to it for a while, just maybe someone else has used it, and maybe they'll stop in.

Good idea Lorraine - I'll do that.
Thanks for trying to help and for asking your friend about it. I appreciate your thoughtfulness!

messes with psp9 too. used to be a .dll needed to run these .8bf files. i'll see if i can remember and find that .dll and see if it makes a diff.

it's plugin.dll and msvcrt10.dll but the program still crashes. oh well

Hi Wes - thanks for your efforts.

Unfortunately, I do already have both of those DLL files, and like you say, they don't make any difference. I'm beginning to think it's just a faulty filter. Really aggravates me though .............

I was doing some more research today and read somewhere that it was actually not originally written for PhotoShop, but rather for After Effects. So I'm guessing that someone tried to adapt it for PS and again later for PSP. Too bad they didn't do a very good job!