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
TIP: You can also create creative photo montages with the copy function by placing image elements at different positions.
Practical:
- The areas you want to retouch usually only have to be roughly selected
- To achieve realistic results, even large areas are filled with a multitude of smaller pixel clusters
- The new background is inserted into the environment seamlessly with flowing transitions
- If desired, repeated use provides alternative results
*Note: The results depend on the composition of the image element (matching pixels can only be found if they are available).
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! 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! 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.
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.
