Magix Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 7 (PC)

Product Details

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• ASIN: B005LTG81K
• Release Date: 19 Oct 2011
  

By : Magix Entertainment Ltd
Price : £39.99

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description
Creative design for the future
All-in-One! Xara Photo ; Graphic Designer 7 is simply the most flexible and time-saving solution for creating impressive graphics: Powerful image editing, astounding illustration capabilities, professional design templates and extensive desktop publishing, all in a single intuitive program!
Take advantage of the many unique design options for personal and professional use, hobbies, clubs, colleges, schools. First-class results – also great for gifts and presentations! You only need to learn to use one software and save yourself the difficulty of switching between different programs.


The next generation of creative software
Benefit from the most modern and efficient design program that offers great value for your money. The all-in-one solution for image editing, illustration and desktop publishing (DTP) combines an intuitive user interface with a range of innovative real-time tools. Convince yourself of the world's fastest performance, its universal application possibilities, and flexible handling. Save in three ways: Time, money, and effort Edit different projects conveniently with just one program and export them for different purposes: as image files, PDF files in printed form, etc. All-in-One: For you this means purchasing and learning just one program, plus a non-stop workflow without having to switch between different software programs.

NEW! Export animations as video files
Create animations with ease and embed them in websites as Flash videos (.swf) or animated GIF graphics (.gif) – for example as interactive banner ads, special headings or happy faces. Including graphics, photos, text, flowing transitions between individual image elements (automatic "morphing") and interactive buttons and links.
NEW! Export animations and standard photo, text and artwork as video files (.avi) – even including transparent background (alpha channel). Perfect as a creative complement to video editing and slideshow software (e.g. MAGIX Movie Edit Pro and MAGIX PhotoStory on CD ; DVD): Create detailed opening/closing credits, professional titles, thematic chapter dividers, unique decorative elements, etc

NEW! Magic Erase (Intelligent photo retouching)
HIGHLIGHT! Realistic photo retouching has never been easier! Simply highlight the object you want to remove, click ‘magic erase’ and the unwanted object is automatically replaced with pixels sampled from the photo, with incredibly seamless results. You will hardly be able to produce faster or more precise results with standard cloning methods in other image editing programs, or only with much time and effort. You will be amazed! This new and powerful auto clone tool is perfectly suited for many creative purposes.
Areas of application:

• "Magic" delete function for unwanted objects of any kind
• Enhance nature photos (e.g. delete clouds)
• Remove unwanted sections from snapshots (e.g. when taking photos out of a driving car)
• Remove unimportant image elements that distract from the main subject of the photo
• Remove elements covering the main element of a photo (e.g. in front of tourist sights)
• Remove unwanted shadows (e.g. caused by the person taking the photo)
• Remove modern objects from nostalgic settings
• Smooth wrinkles, remove pigmentation and moles on portrait photos
• Remove cracks, scratches, wrinkles, or stains on scanned photos
• Virtually "repair" buildings or objects on photos

Note: The results depend on the composition of the image element (matching pixels can only be found if they are available).


NEW! RAW support for current camera models
In addition to all standard image file formats, Xara Photo ; Graphic Designer supports the import of over 130 new raw formats (RAW) of current camera models (over 400 in total). Including, for example, popular models such as Canon EOS 600D, Nikon D 5100 and Olympus E-PL1.Benefit from improved image quality and richness of detail to get the most out of your photos during editing and optimization.

NEW! Design templates incl. photo clip art
Use over 500 individually customizable templates for photo albums, calendars, invitations, brochures, greetings cards, vouchers, flyers, certificates, business cards, CD covers ; labels, letterhead, picture frames, poetry albums, wedding scrapbooks, and much more. Or you can illustrate documents and design your own logos using more than 2,500 vector graphic objects (clip art). You can customize all colors and properties and, if desired, use only individual elements for further editing. NEW! Over 100 photo clip art items with transparent background from different subject areas (nature, people, technology, food ; drink, etc.).



NEW! Even faster workflow
Benefit from many time-saving new features when creating and editing your projects:

• The new gallery system can be expanded and placed individually with the mouse. This makes it easier to access galleries quickly and to keep track of your workspace.
• The hierarchical order of all templates allows you to find matching designs and elements even faster.
• The clearly laid-out page gallery displays thumbnails and makes it easier to switch between individual pages in large projects.
• Switch between full single page view and the current multi-page view.
• If you change the headers or footers in multi-page documents, the changes are automatically applied to all pages.
• Copy entire pages and insert them at a different place or into a different project, including all layers and properties.
• Thanks to the independent copy ; paste function you can now even transfer object properties such as size and position, replace selected objects or copy them into an active layer.
• An optimized right-click menu provides direct access to the most frequently used functions.
• Anchored graphics: Objects can be linked to blocks of text, so that both can be moved together.
• Edit grouped, repeating, and anchored objects as separate "mini projects".
• Tabs that are available directly next to each other enable faster access to all loaded projects.

NEW! Magic Snap (Quick arrange)
Aligning elements (photos, graphics, text) is now even easier and faster – with 100% precision. Dynamic "Snap lines" display the corners of existing objects and the center of the page (horizontal, vertical, diagonal) when placing your content. Elements can be docked to these lines (just like a magnet), so you no longer need to align objects using manual guidelines. Multiple objects can be aligned in relation to each other simultaneously, for example, to create identical intervals between them.
PHOTO, GRAPHICS ;SLIDESHOWS
PhotoStory on CD ; DVD Deluxe HD
Photo ; Graphic Designer
High-class multimedia slideshows
The next generation of creative software
PHOTO
Optimization
Image editing
Artistic design
GRAPHICS
Drawing ; illustrating
Text layout
Create animation
3D design
SLIDESHOW
Automatic creation (styles)
25
Video, audio ; title effect
250
Advanced options
HD support
MANAGEMENT
Archiving
OUTPUT
Video discs (incl. menu templates)
80
Multi-page documents
Desktop publishing
Online (album, social networks, print)
FILE SUPPORT
Photo / RAW
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Graphic / PDF
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Video
(Export)
Audio

 

Magix Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 7 (PC)

 

Product Features

• Easy to learn! Image editing, illustration and desktop publishing all combined into one

Customer Reviews

First - I must say when installed - update the thing from the Help page, or it crashes as someone has mentioned already too!
When that's done - it runs fine.
Actually thats a good idea for any program you install!
Xara have emerged from the awful period with Corel - who specialise in shabby documentation and zero help.
It ran alongside Paint Shop Pro - my favourite until Corel destroyed it and it would not even run on my power PC.
Magix have reatined the interface and improved the stability and the helkp files!
HUZZAH,
The program is now usable again - its more for the Newby and towards intermediate user.
By that I mean it has all the tools for a new user to create quick and impressive graphics and (as was always)more aimed at web production.
That's why its not as powerful at detailed graphics editing of detailed or existing images; but there again its not aimed at Photoshop level users. Fair enough?
Should a new to reasonably confident user buy it?
YES - it will perform nicely.
Should a pro buy it - No, unless you want a cheap and fast quick graphic creation program for the web, poster, DTP etc - then Yes its useful.
Price - yes its overpriced for what it does - but it does it well and you would be unlikely to need another program.
If you want one and are more intermediate to advanced - Serifs DrawPlus beats it hands down for tools and ability and costs the same - but once a customer you get upgrade versions cheaper for life! I still do after 15 years!
Nice little program

This is a great piece of software, combining both graphics and photo-editing functions into one simple, well designed package.
I'd recommend this to anyone, from students to people putting together small websites, promo material etc for their own businesses back through home use for photo editing and the like. Although of course the industry standard is increasingly dominated by Adobe now, particularly with Illustrator and Photoshop, I've always found their software- although undoubtedly powerful- rather clunky and over-priced. Personally I used to be a huge fan of Macromedia Freehand [remember that anyone?], until it was bought out and absorbed into Illustator, and graphic design software choices took a step backward in my opinion. However the user interface of this software is the closest to the lovely simpicity and flexibility Freehand had, and although it has less functions and bells and whistles than a more expensive software package, it is something I will be using more than Illustrator now I think, as I've never really found Illustrator that easy to use for my [admittedly rather low to mid-level] design needs.
So well worth the five stars...I don't think you'd get anything better for this, or even twice, the price, and you can dive straight in and find your way around in a fun but quickly productive way. What's there not to like about that.

 

Magix Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 7 (PC)