Xara announces the release of the latest new version of their creative design and photo editing software.
(PRWEB) July 17, 2014
Xara announces the release of the latest new version of their creative design and photo editing software, Xara Photo and Graphic Designer v10 - an easy-to-use program that provides all the tools for a range of graphic design and photo editing tasks. Xara Photo & Graphic Designer is ideal for any graphics enthusiast, small company or academic user.
New shadow and highlight tools provide the user with precise editing control over specific areas of their photo that are in deep shadow or bright light. Bundled with this release is a new Photoshop plug-in called PhotoLooks from Red Giant (previously sold by Red Giant for $199) for users wishing to intensify the mood of their photo via various color and lighting effects or adding a popular film look from soft lighting to Hollywood drama. The plug-in includes over 100 pre-sets inspired by real commercial projects, from wedding vignettes to popular cinematic looks.
A new way to ‘enhance by color’ provides a way to selectively enhance or process areas in an image based on its color. So for example, users can just click on the sky, and all similar blue areas are now active, and further adjustment of any photo enhance control (e.g. brightness levels, saturation, blur/sharpen, tinting, re-coloring etc) will now apply to all those blue areas.
Xara SmartShapes are a new and innovative way to draw aesthetically attractive shapes on a document, that require no knowledge of any drawing tools, and furthermore, they remain fully customizable. Users can quickly and easily create and edit some of the most commonly required shapes. The library of SmartShapes will grow over time, but starts with text panels, speech bubbles, arrows and more. Xara has also introduced a quick and easy way to insert graphical symbols from a large and growing Font Awesome selection.
The automatic panorama stitching has been improved to automatically detect the position of stitched images and it also produces higher quality results. This release also includes a new online content catalog, support for the automatic rotation of images from iPhones and other cameras with orientation sensors, a new insert menu, improved import/export support for .doc and .docx files, RTF files, and significantly improved PDF import that allows almost all PDF files to be edited.
Charles Moir, Founder and Managing Director said, "Photo & Graphic Designer is different and superior to standard photo editors because it's not only a great photo editing tool but it’s also combined with powerful vector graphics and illustration tools."
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 10 costs just $89.99 for US customers, £69.99 for UK (inc VAT) and €69.99 (inc VAT) for the EU.
Upgrades from v9 to Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 10 cost $35 for US customers, £25 for UK (inc VAT) and €25 (inc VAT) for the EU
It operates on Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 (PhotoLooks 2, XP not officially supported).
For more information and a trial version visit xara.com.
Editor’s Notes
More information and downloads:
Please see the press center at http://www.xara.com/press-center/photo-graphic-designer/.
This includes press materials, example graphics, screenshots, product information and details of what’s new in v10.
For detailed release notes see http://www.xara.com/photo-graphic-designer/notes.
Contact:
For more details or a serial number to unlock the trial version please contact: Nova Fisher, nova(at)xara(dot)com Tel: +44 1442 351035
About Xara Group Ltd
Xara, founded in 1981, was one of the oldest independent software developers in the UK, until it was acquired by Magix AG in 2007. Xara continues to develop innovative graphics, website building, and document publishing tools, which are marketed around the world under both the MAGIX and Xara brand names.
About MAGIX AG
MAGIX is a leading international provider of high-quality software, online services and digital contents for multimedia communications. Since 1993, MAGIX has been developing leading technologies for creation, editing, management and presentation of photos and graphics, videos and music. Internationally, MAGIX operates from branches in the USA, Canada, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. The product range is targeted towards laymen and professionals alike and goes beyond the PC range to include seamlessly integrated online and mobile applications.
According to its retail sales figures, MAGIX leads in the multimedia software sector in the most important European markets, and is one of the most successful competitors in the USA. Fifteen years of market presence as well as one thousand awards worldwide testify to the company's power of innovation. Reported by PRWeb 7 hours ago.
(PRWEB) July 17, 2014
Xara announces the release of the latest new version of their creative design and photo editing software, Xara Photo and Graphic Designer v10 - an easy-to-use program that provides all the tools for a range of graphic design and photo editing tasks. Xara Photo & Graphic Designer is ideal for any graphics enthusiast, small company or academic user.
New shadow and highlight tools provide the user with precise editing control over specific areas of their photo that are in deep shadow or bright light. Bundled with this release is a new Photoshop plug-in called PhotoLooks from Red Giant (previously sold by Red Giant for $199) for users wishing to intensify the mood of their photo via various color and lighting effects or adding a popular film look from soft lighting to Hollywood drama. The plug-in includes over 100 pre-sets inspired by real commercial projects, from wedding vignettes to popular cinematic looks.
A new way to ‘enhance by color’ provides a way to selectively enhance or process areas in an image based on its color. So for example, users can just click on the sky, and all similar blue areas are now active, and further adjustment of any photo enhance control (e.g. brightness levels, saturation, blur/sharpen, tinting, re-coloring etc) will now apply to all those blue areas.
Xara SmartShapes are a new and innovative way to draw aesthetically attractive shapes on a document, that require no knowledge of any drawing tools, and furthermore, they remain fully customizable. Users can quickly and easily create and edit some of the most commonly required shapes. The library of SmartShapes will grow over time, but starts with text panels, speech bubbles, arrows and more. Xara has also introduced a quick and easy way to insert graphical symbols from a large and growing Font Awesome selection.
The automatic panorama stitching has been improved to automatically detect the position of stitched images and it also produces higher quality results. This release also includes a new online content catalog, support for the automatic rotation of images from iPhones and other cameras with orientation sensors, a new insert menu, improved import/export support for .doc and .docx files, RTF files, and significantly improved PDF import that allows almost all PDF files to be edited.
Charles Moir, Founder and Managing Director said, "Photo & Graphic Designer is different and superior to standard photo editors because it's not only a great photo editing tool but it’s also combined with powerful vector graphics and illustration tools."
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 10 costs just $89.99 for US customers, £69.99 for UK (inc VAT) and €69.99 (inc VAT) for the EU.
Upgrades from v9 to Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 10 cost $35 for US customers, £25 for UK (inc VAT) and €25 (inc VAT) for the EU
It operates on Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 (PhotoLooks 2, XP not officially supported).
For more information and a trial version visit xara.com.
Editor’s Notes
More information and downloads:
Please see the press center at http://www.xara.com/press-center/photo-graphic-designer/.
This includes press materials, example graphics, screenshots, product information and details of what’s new in v10.
For detailed release notes see http://www.xara.com/photo-graphic-designer/notes.
Contact:
For more details or a serial number to unlock the trial version please contact: Nova Fisher, nova(at)xara(dot)com Tel: +44 1442 351035
About Xara Group Ltd
Xara, founded in 1981, was one of the oldest independent software developers in the UK, until it was acquired by Magix AG in 2007. Xara continues to develop innovative graphics, website building, and document publishing tools, which are marketed around the world under both the MAGIX and Xara brand names.
About MAGIX AG
MAGIX is a leading international provider of high-quality software, online services and digital contents for multimedia communications. Since 1993, MAGIX has been developing leading technologies for creation, editing, management and presentation of photos and graphics, videos and music. Internationally, MAGIX operates from branches in the USA, Canada, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. The product range is targeted towards laymen and professionals alike and goes beyond the PC range to include seamlessly integrated online and mobile applications.
According to its retail sales figures, MAGIX leads in the multimedia software sector in the most important European markets, and is one of the most successful competitors in the USA. Fifteen years of market presence as well as one thousand awards worldwide testify to the company's power of innovation. Reported by PRWeb 7 hours ago.