![]() ![]() ![]() But whether you’re a novice using the automated tools, or an expert doing pro-image manipulation, Photo & Graphic Designer really shines. There are a few things to learn it’s difficult to find basic commands like rotate and resize if you’re used to looking in the menus rather than on Xara’s infobar and Xara’s focus on the novice sometimes gets in the way of doing things manually, easily. Print design gurus may want to look at Xara Designer Pro 7 for these, and a few other high-end power-user features.ĭirectly comparing Photo & Graphic Designer’s photo editing tools with Adobe Photoshop, the industry standard, leaves Adobe in a cloud of dust wondering what hit them. That said, most of the features you’d find in InDesign are here, with the exception of support for PANTONE® and CMYK color separation. Layers are semi-automated, but they’re a little counter-intuitive, especially to an Adobe user. For example, leading has been renamed to “line spacing” and paragraph indents are set using a sliding triangle on the ruler rather than a number attribute in a dialog box. After all, where are all the complicated settings and technical names for things? When manipulating text, Photo & Graphic Designer works somewhat more like a word processing program than a typical page layout program like InDesign or Quark does. ![]() Most of the content pack templates are geared to the novice user, and indeed they are simple to manipulate: Add your own text and graphics, and publish as your own.įor more experienced users, the page layout aspect of Photo & Graphic Designer can seem a little lacking at first. ![]() The seven-day trial incorporates all of the features of the $89 program without the add-on content pack that includes 281.12 MB of clipart royalty-free photographs and templates for brochures, business cards, CD labels, calendars, certificates, greeting cards, photo albums, presentations, scrapbooks, animated banners, Web pages, and more. ![]()
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