Xara Photo & Graphic Designer is simply the best graphics application that your photo and drawing design needs, ideal for both web and print.
If you're looking for drawing software then Xara Photo & Graphic Designer is a perfect solution for everything from simple logos to astonishingly detailed illustrations.
If you're working with photos then Xara Photo & Graphic Designer will match your ambitions from simple one click auto-enhance of your photo through to awesome photo compositions.
If you are looking for software for creating web graphics then Xara Photo & Graphic Designer can help you produce all the graphics you'll need for your site, from smart buttons to eye catching Flash animations. And with Xara Photo & Graphic Designer Pro you can even produce complete HTML web pages and sites.
Why not check out the examples of work by Xara artists in The Xara Gallery, from simple buttons to complete brochures.
Whatever graphics you need and whatever your skill level, the famously friendly user interface and fast processing of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer will make it an absolute pleasure to be creative. And at a price that won't break the bank!
Here are some key features of "Xara Photo & Graphic Designer MX":
· Xara Designer has the world's most sophisticated, highest performance vector rendering engine. Quite simply this makes it the fastest graphics software to be found.
· Xara Designer's Direct Action Tools allow you to create effects such as transparency, shadows, bevels or gradient fills in an interactive, fast and intuitive way. No distracting dialogs - simply drag on the object!
· Many tasks in Xara Designer benefit from being able to use the drag and drop principle, which is the most intuitive way of working and a great time saver. It also supports drag and drop import of files, such as photos.
· Instead of dragging outlines when you draw, move, rotate or resize objects, Designer offers solid live object manipulation. Only Designer is fast enough to do this on complex vector graphics.
· Being able to change what you have done is vital in a graphics package. Xara Designer allows unlimited undo, making experimentation easy.
· The Zoom tool allows magnification up to 25,000%, perfect for detailed work. And it's super-fast and resolution independent too.
· If this image was created in Photoshop with the same detail, the file would be 2000 x 3000 inches, take hundreds of megabytes of memory and file space. As a vector design it takes just 180Kbytes!
· Xara introduced the world's first vector anti-aliasing to bring maximum screen quality and is still a pioneer with the fastest, highest quality anti-aliasing available in any drawing program.
Requirements:
· 256MB of RAM
· 200MB of available hard-disk space
Limitations:
· 7-day trial (extendable to 30 days over the Internet)
· Nag screen
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Clone Tool (Clone and Magic Erase):
· The Clone Tool has been significantly improved. When you clone, copy or magic erase an area it now uses the current edited photo as the source, instead of the original photo (for manual clone and magic erase objects), which makes the whole process far more WYSIWYG.
Color Erase / Selection tool:
· This powerful new tool serves two purposes; to erase (make transparent) parts of photos based on colors, and secondly to allow only those color-selected areas to be adjusted using the Photo Tool Enhance operations (such as Brightness, Blur, Hue Adjustment etc).
· So you can, for example, easily adjust the brightness of the blue sky in your photo or remove it completely, or change the color of a flower, without affecting other parts of the picture.
· If you don’t want to select/erase colors across the whole photo, you can exclude any parts of the photo from the color selection operation using a mask.
Make soft mask:
· If instead of just erasing area...