COMPANY: Xara Group Limited | URL: (See Buy link below) | TYPE: Standalone | PLATFORM: Windows | PRICE: $299
			Xara Xtreme has had a major makeover and there are new names to go with the new look! Xara Xtreme becomes Xara Photo & Graphic Designer and Xtreme Pro becomes Designer Pro. Xara Designer Pro 6 is simply the best graphics software for all your drawing and photo design needs, ideal for both print and the web. If you're looking for drawing software, Designer is a perfect solution for everything from simple logos to astonishingly detailed illustrations. If you're working with photos then 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, Designer can help you produce all the graphics you'll need for your site, from smart buttons to eye-catching Flash animations. And with Designer Pro you can even produce complete HTML web pages and sites. Whatever graphics you need and whatever your skill level, the famously friendly user interface and fast processing of Xara Designer will make it an absolute pleasure to be creative. And at a price that won't break the bank! General enhancements: Totally re-designed application appearance There's an all-new look to Designer, including modern skin and icons New fly-out tools and buttons Fly-out tools and buttons present a simpler user interface, but with direct one-click access to a wider range of common functions Hierarchical Designs Gallery A hierarchical arrangement of the Designs Gallery makes it far easier to find the template you're looking for at a glance Auto-updating Designs Gallery The Designs Gallery includes new 'download' sections and content, that can be updated remotely by Xara Automatic backup of all open documents A new set of controls in the Options dialog provides an automatic backup facility where the program can regularly save copies of all open documents Automatic save and restore of open documents on application closedown You can now just close Designer (or shut down your computer) and Designer saves all open documents and restores them the next time you start the program Drawing & Design features: Drawing Tool improvements A new straight line /arrowhead tool, solid, live shape drawing, a new Sketch Mode button on the Infobar of the Freehand tool, balanced bezier editing, solid blend update Enhanced pressure support Support for pressure sensitive tablets has been re-written so it's much more accurate and responsive Opacity Masks A new and powerful way of defining and applying transparency New Enhance Transparency Type Enhance Transparency allows you to adjust the brightness, contrast, color saturation and color temperature of any part of your document, including text and drawings. Improved Page & Layer Gallery The Page & Layer Gallery shows all the objects on the page, and includes thumbnail views of all objects. The updated Page & Layer Gallery offers better page and layer management, including a new "Solo" mode which allows a specific layer to be viewed and worked on in isolation Selector Tool perimeter and area info The InfoBar in the Selector tool has two new fields displaying the perimeter length of any selected closed shape or the line length, and the area of any closed shape Easier control of graphic styles (attributes) There is a major change in the way that attributes (the appearance or 'style' of an object) are applied to a newly drawn object or line. Now a new object can take on the style of the last selected object, rather than the last drawn. It sounds like a small change, but is more intuitive and more powerful - for example you can copy the style of any object by just selecting it then drawing a new object. New paste style fly-out There is a new copy/paste fly-out bar on the top toolbar, which provides direct access to the common clipboard operations: Cut, Copy, Paste, Paste in same position, Paste Attributes (an easy way of copying the style or appearance from one object to another) and Paste Opacity Mask (see above). Text Features: Enhanced Text tool The Text tool has been improved to include bullets, numbered lists and indents. Text Tool Find & Replace A real-time search and replace function has been added to the Text tool which can search the current story, page or whole document. Content Aware Scaling and Zoom This has been enhanced with some innovative new intelligent scaling features. Photo Features: Content-aware photo zoom, alternative 'Content Aware Scale', single prepare button for CAS and CAZ Vector Based Photo Enhance & Photo Groups You can now perform selective enhancements (brightness, contrast, saturation, warm/cool color temperature, blur/sharpen, levels) to any part or region of a photo using the Mask feature Clone area tool "Erase" region of photos by copying (cloning) parts of a photo from one place to another, even from one photo to another EXIF viewer View the embedded EXIF values of a JPEG photo. EXIF data is now preserved on export of JPEG photos and across an Optimize Photo operation. Perspective Correction Tool A simple one-click way to automatically correct common perspective effects. Simplified photo editing workflow Now you can just open a JPEG, edit it, and click Save to get an edited JPEG saved back in its place Brightness Curves In the Levels dialog you can now create a manual brightness curve which provides very detailed and advanced control over brightness levels for any photos. Edge Trace for freehand drawing Draw vector lines around the outline of high-contrast shapes or objects in photos. The program will analyse the underlying image and draw the line along the edge. Optimizing Photos Auto-downsizing of imported photos; optimize all JPEGS 1:1 Photo Resize at 100% 1:1 mapping between image pixels and screen pixels, so you know at 100% zoom that you are seeing the full resolution, non-scaled image Web Features: Free web hosting offer Designer now comes with a free website hosting offer from MAGIX, so you can publish your website as part of Magix-Online world Auto filling of the photo-gallery via simple drag 'n' drop