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Simply Better Images
With Xara Photo & Graphic Designer, you can get the most out of your photos & create your own drawings or turn sketches into vector art-all in one program! It's perfect for all photography enthusiasts, illustrators & digital artists.

• Fast, powerful image optimization
• All the essential for image retouching
• Creative photo collages
• Automatic panorama montages
• Freehand drawing & painting
• Intuitive 3D design

Innovative Options for Image Editing, Graphic Design & Creative Compositions
Optimize your photos & remove unwanted elements. Create extraordinary vector graphics & exciting illustrations-and then combine everything in a spectacular collage or layout. The program includes the pro graphics engine that also powers Xara Designer Pro X, so you'll be able to create outstanding results in no time at all-even on older PCs.

1. Optimize images
From quick image optimization to detailed retouching, the program contains everything you need to transform your images into amazing works of art.

2. Create graphics
Create your own vector graphics & illustrations. You can enlarge, shrink or edit these later without any loss of quality-graphic design is now more fun than ever before!

3. Design layout
Combine your images with text & graphics to create sensational collages. Create personal greeting cards or invitations & surprise your family & friends.

Photo Manager
The Photo Manager is a new component in Xara Photo & Graphic Designer & offers a wide range of options for organizing, finding & even evaluating your most beautiful photos & videos. Optimize exposure, focus & colors in your images in no time at all & then present them in a spectacular slideshow or save to CD & DVD.

New photo filters
Use one of the 50 brand new photo filters to transform a simple image into something amazing. Intensify colors, highlight areas within an image & add high-quality interfaces with rich contrast.

Stock illustrations
In addition to free stock photos, you can download high resolution graphics & illustrations in the content catalog. Access the catalog with over 760,000 free images fast using the new search function.

Drop-down list
Formatting lists is now even easier thanks to the new drop-down list. New options & improved navigation lets you view & edit your lists more quickly & efficiently than before.

Tons of other improvements
There's a huge range of improved features to help you get your projects done faster & more easily than ever before.

• New Chevron Smart Shapes for improved process displays
• Improved Effects Painter
• Improved PDF & word document import
• Improved SVG import
• Easier import of web buttons for creating printed documents

Other Great Features

Filters & effects
Use breathtaking effects to present your photos in totally new ways. Simply drag the filter you want to use onto your image or select a specific section of the image for targeted editing to give your image that special look.

Blend modes for color dodge & color burn
Enhance individual color areas in your images. With the tool for color dodge & color burn, you can darken or lighten precise sections.

Photo grids
Create amazing photo collages with the intelligent photo grid. Select the template you want & then drag & drop your pictures onto different positions. The photo grids can also be customized any way you want.

Straighten horizon
If the camera was not held straight when a photo was taken, images can appear crooked because the horizon seems slanted. In Xara Photo & Graphic Designer, you can simply use the "Straighten horizon" slider to adjust the position of the photo.

Magnetic lasso
Clip areas of your image quickly, cut figures out & add new backgrounds. Select an outline using the mouse & the intelligent selection tool will automatically create a path.

Links to license-free stock photo catalog
Looking for inspiring photos & images? Choose from a selection of over 600,000 free stock images & illustrations.

Improved smart shapes
Smart shapes are ideal for use as decorative elements in creative compositions. Easily add geometric shapes & embellishments & adjust them intuitively.

All Features In Photo & Graphic Designer
• Image Optimization
• Retouch
• Creative Design
• Illustrations
• Digital Drawings
• Powerful Technology

Image Optimization

Selective light & shadow editing
Pictures taken outside on a sunny day often have areas that are too bright or too dark. You can correct this with precise adjustments to lighter or shadowed areas. This helps to make the details in your photos more visible.

Adjust brightness & contrast
Use the photo tool to optimize contrast & brightness & give your images more brilliance or reduce contrast to create a vintage look. Innovative technology guarantees the details in your photos are never lost.

Cut & Level
Select a new image section or easily adjust the format. A grid is displayed to help you make the perfect cut. You can also use guidelines to ensure straight alignment.

Color correction
Easily optimize hue, brightness & saturation of certain color ranges. For instance, you can add more saturation to the green shades in a country landscape or adjust red shades in people's faces.

Resharpen
Make your images razor sharp. There are two tools you can use for this:

• The slider in the photo optimization tools
• Detailed "Unsharp Mask" filter

Intelligent scaling & zoom
Change the width & height of the image or enlarge specific parts. This prevents image elements, e.g. people, from becoming distorted. It's a great way to create website headers.

Customize specific areas
Select specific parts of the image using the Section Tool & edit them separately. This can be used to draw the viewer's attention to specific elements by making them brighter & darkening the surrounding elements. It can also be used to correct parts of the image that are poorly exposed.

Remove distortions
"Converging lines" often occur when taking photos of buildings using a wide angle lens. These are in fact parallel lines that meet at a single point in the distance. This can be corrected with a single click.

Retouch

Remove unwanted elements
Use the Photo Heal tool to remove spots & wrinkles from people's faces. Magic Erase lets you remove unwanted elements such as street signs or footprints.

Restore old photos
Remove scratches & dust using the Photo Heal Tool. Use the image optimization tools to add more contrast & sharpness to your photos.

Change body shapes
With the "Liquid Paint" feature you can make everyone look their best, e.g. by straightening the nose. Or you can enlarge or shrink other body parts any way you like.

Red eye correction
Red eye often occurs when the lens & the flash are very close to another in low light conditions. Get rid of this issue with just one click.

Creative Design

Photomontage
Select individual image elements & reposition them freely. By combining various elements, you can turn your ideas into digital works of art. Tip! Adjust the colors, brightness & contract of specific image areas. Add some feathering to blend it all together perfectly.

Blend modes for merging layers effectively
Give your picture a vintage look with scratches & dust or make it look like it was drawn on canvas, paper or stone. The blend modes let you easily add special effects & textures. The following methods, among others, are available to you:

• Soft light for a soft application of color
• Hard light for adding highlights & intensifying shadows
• Optimize for selectively editing specific image areas

Panoramas
Let the program automatically combine several images into a panorama.

Photo filters
Add unique effects to your images

Combine image & text
Create your own collector's album or a beautiful collage for greeting cards. Get creative with your photo editing & add some notable quotes or words of wisdom to your artworks. Special font effects transform your text into a real eye catcher!

• Text flows around shapes & images
• Fantastic painting & drawing tools
• 3D effects
• Detailed control of line spacing, paragraphs, line height, tracking etc.

Illustrations

3D design
Add a whole new dimension to your graphics with the 3D tool. You can even set perspective, depth & shadow.

Web graphics
Design buttons, menus, cards etc. for your website. The MX function makes it possible to transfer finished graphics directly to Xara Web Designer.

Logos
Design your own logo as a vector graphic. This makes it possible to export in any size without loss of quality.

Avatars
Create your own avatar by combining various body parts, e.g. a profile pic for Facebook.

Flow charts & process diagrams
With the graphics tools you can quickly & easily design impressive flow charts & process diagrams.

Floor plans
Draw your own floor plans & blueprints. This can very helpful when planning the interior design for your home.