MAGIX Xara Photo & Graphic Designer -
A powerful tool for creating professional graphics using both vector
and bitmap images. With this program you can create graphics for a
variety of purposes: web graphics, vector graphics, photo composition,
Flash animation and more.
Tools to automatically generate
contours and soft shadows, squeezing and smoothing the edges of objects
allow you to work much more productive, and the unprecedented speed of
opening files and redraw the screen greatly save your time. The main
advantage of the editor is in compliance with the literate balance
between power and ease of development. Despite the fact that the program
is positioned as a tool for professionals, it is easy to master, even
for beginners.
For drawings or photo work, for print or web
graphics, it’s the perfect choice. Xara Designer photo handling beats
other graphics programs on many fronts: It’s much, much faster, produces
files that can be 10x or more smaller. It can handle multiple very high
resolution images with ease, even on a modest PC. Being entirely object
oriented means completely non-destructive photo editing, and uses a
fraction of the RAM required by other products. Xara Designer offers
unique non-destructive editing of photos – that means you can edit your
photo as many times as you like without the loss of quality that is
normal in other photo programs. Designer is also unique in the way it
handles and stores photos (with lossless vector-based photo editing,
combined with embedding the original JPEG) which means that files
containing photos can be anywhere from 3 to 100 times smaller than with
other programs.
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.
Xara Designer Pro (formerly Xtreme Pro) is our top of
the range product and includes all the features and templates of Web
Designer and Photo & Graphic Designer. Plus it adds extra features
that Pro designers need including support for PDF/X, PANTONE® and color
separations, multi-core processor support for extra speed, enhanced
import/export filters, a pro version of the photo panorama tool and
more.
Xara Designer Pro includes a complete ‘website creation’
feature that enables you to design multi-page websites with ease,
including mouseover and pop-up effects, navbars and menus, animations
and widgets. One click preview and ftp upload included. It’s the world’s
most advanced WYSIWYG web page layout – and with no HTML skills
required! Xara Photo and Graphic Designer and Designer Pro offer a
genuinely easy way to create really efficient Flash animations.
Xara
Designer Pro gives you total design freedom – using drag and drop you
can literally place anything, anywhere on the page. And things which are
normally difficult to achieve in HTML are a snap in Xara Designer Pro –
for example text with curved edges, text or graphics at an angle, text
flowing around objects – no problem! But Designer Pro has some clever
tricks too, to make things easier for you – here’s just a few of the
things that will save you time and trouble: Liquid text flow around
objects; easy mouseover, thumbnail and pop-up creation; automatic
adjustment of photos to the correct web resolution; one-click change of
site wide theme colors and shades; automatic color matching of imported
objects such as buttons; and buttons and text panels that automatically
stretch as you change the text.
Working with industry standards
is vital, so Xara Designer Pro sites are W3C compliant, cross browser
compatible (IE 5.5, Firefox, Safari, Chrome) and XHTML, CSS standards
based.
Designer offers support for a huge range of file formats,
making it easy to exchange your work with other users and programs. This
includes common bitmap types (eg GIF, JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF, PSD, and
RAW photos) and key vector types (eg PDF and AI/EPS, and EMF/WMF). For
text Xara Designer supports RTF (Rich Text Format) and for websites HTML
and Flash.
Xara Designer has full support for importing and
exporting Adobe Photoshop® PSD files including layer support. Xara
Designer offers industry leading export of super-clean, very compact PDF
files (including support for graduated color fills and flat / graduated
transparency). Combined with the PDF import feature, this provides
another way to interchange files.
Xara Designer Pro offers the
ability to produce CMYK color separations. This includes on-screen
preview of CMYK and spot color plates, PANTONE® color support, spot
colors, on-screen printer gamut preview and a lot more.
Xara Designer
Pro supports XPS export (and has a beta XPS import filter). This is an
entirely new ‘page description’ file format invented by Microsoft that’s
vector based, and so is ideal as a resolution-independent portable
document format.
