Press release

MAGIX Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer 2: Photo design software for every situation

Image editing, home desktop publishing, web design, Flash animation, portrait optimization, PDF editing, professional use, school, university, and clubs in a single program

MAGIX presents MAGIX Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer 2 with noticeably advanced functionality. The new version is available starting 31 May, 2008 for the price of its predecessor, SRP £59.99, also available of course at www.magix.co.uk. This repeatedly distinguished photo design program (1) covers all important necessities of image editing and publishing for print und web. The new version offers directly integrated, real-time image editing, 1-click panoramas, facial retouching, and RAW import. Furthermore, this photo design software enables design of complete HTML websites, 3D objects, Flash animations, and PDF editing.


Photos are everywhere – day-to-day privately and professionally, and in media and advertising. In the most seldom cases they appear alone, but usually rather they are embedded with text as a graphical background. Professionally, agencies try to achieve the right connection between photos and graphics. Private or semi-professional users have been on their own – until now! After editing the images, available office tools offer only rudimentary options. Special programs for business cards, for example, are only useful for specific tasks. But editing and embedding cannot be separated from one another. Ideally, there must be a program which unifies all of these functions. This is exactly what MAGIX created one year ago with its new software category – the "photo design program" solution!


The second version of MAGIX Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer unifies additional sensible and optimized photo design functions. Every graphics function and the most important image editing functions can now be operated directly from the same interface in real time. This has the advantage that photos can also be edited with graphics tools, e.g. photos can be painted and written on directly. Image editing is now also possible for additional formats, for example RAW, and output material is not touched (non-destructive editing). Especially for faces, there's a new editing option which makes photos more radiant, reduces wrinkles and brightens smiles, and otherwise improves facial expressions. After editing, photos can be enriched further with 250 complete templates, each of which can be individually customized. 1000 pieces of clipart complete your unique photo design project.This also applies to day-to-day printed creations like photo albums, calendars, invitations, greeting and business cards, advertising and office materials, CD/DVD covers and labels, and now even real estate prospects and collectors' albums. These can also be exported in the correct formats, e.g. EPS, for professional developers. The online world has also been kept in mind with complete websites and newsletters. For Internet presentations and info brochures in PDF format, MAGIX Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer 2 offers importing, all graphics editing options, and export functions. Whether online, PDF, or print, special effects turn graphically embedded photos into professional designs. For example, three-dimensional text or shapes can be created with a click, and then set to rotate and be illuminated with light and shadows in real time.Text can also be set to flow around shapes with only a few clicks.

(1) The previous version achieved a "very good" grade from each of PC Praxis, PCgo, and CHIP (D) magazines, test winner from Computer Hoy (Spain) magazine, and a rating of 9 out of 10 points from Computer Totaal (NL) and PC Open (UK) magazines.

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