2/18/2024 0 Comments Xara 3d gradient![]() ![]() Instantly create pre-set shapes or complex ones with SmartShapes. Convert straight lines into curves by dragging on the lines. The integrated bitmap tracer can convert your bitmaps – whether photos, line-art or logos – into editable vector shapes.įreehand-draw lines and shapes on the page. The ‘Content aware scaling’ allows stretching or changing aspect ratios without distorting the content of the picture. ‘Live Effects’ plugins include oil painting, pencil and crayon drawing, crumple, fish-eye, waves, ‘liquid paint’ for creating caricatures and many, many more. Use Color Select to enhance images based on a selected color. Instantly erase unwanted objects and remove backgrounds with the Photo Healing, Magic Erase and Magnetic Lasso tools. Also included are flexible cropping, red eye removal, shadow & highlight controls, and brightness levels. Paired with low RAM usage, it makes handling high res images, a breeze in any computer.Īpply automatic and manual enhancements to any high-resolution image as well as scaling and rotating them in real-time. Hold down the Alt key and you can use your scroll wheel on your mouse to increase or decrease the size of the brush.Completely non-destructive photo editing means more room for editing without worrying about losing resolution. Release the Alt key at the end of the straight line, then hold it down to start a new straight line. If you hold down the Alt key, you can stretch the operation in a straight line like a rubber band. TIPS: If you hold down the Shift key, the operation switches to erase, so you can add to or remove areas of the mask and regions as you draw. A Mask is an area that is protected from any edits made to the image for example color selection. While these tools are similar, the main difference is a Region is an area into which you can apply enhancements, using the Photo Tool settings. Delete Mask or Region removes the mask or region. Invert Simply reverses what is masked and what is protected. If you hold down the Shift key, the brush (all the mask tools actually) becomes an eraser and subtracts areas from the mask. As with the Regional Painter, the Mask Painter allows you to adjust the size of the masking brush from about 10 pixels to about 100 pixels. Or you can just paint the mask on directly. The Mask Painter works two ways, if you select this tool, any active regions become a mask. You can edit within the regions using the Photo Tool, Enhance functions, for example, you can brighten the colors in your region, increase or decrease the saturation, edit the contrast, warm cool balance, etc. Examples of regions and masks are shown on the right. Not surprisingly, the Rectangle Region creates rectangular editing areas. This is good for defining more precise areas. The Freehand Region works in the same manner as the Freehand and Brush Tool and has the same Smoothness slider settings. The Region Painter works with adjustable size brushes to paint on a region area. Rectangle Region The region tools (1-3), allow you to edit within the regional area. Let’s look at the Mask and Region tools and see what they do. The photo edits you make are non-destructive vector shapes, which means you can remove any photo edits by selecting the edited area (hold down the Ctrl key and click) and pressing Delete. A region lets you edit within the selection while a mask protects the contents of the selection. Creating a region or a mask lets you isolate an area of a photo or vector object without effecting other areas in the photo or drawing. The New Mask and Region Tools Right below the Selector Tool (the arrow pointer) is the all new Mask and Region Tools fly out menu. We’ll start with a look at the new Mask and Region Tools. Those of you familiar with Xara products will notice a bunch of new tools in the fly out menus, especially the new Mask and Region Tools (the first flyout), a few new additions to the Photo Tool fly out (the X!), and a great new tool in the Line Tools fly out menu. Reconfigured Tool Bar The Tool Bar has been reorganized as you can see on the right. In this First Look, we’ll look at the new features including the incredible Photo Heal Tool, the equally new and exciting Mask and Region Tools, plus other new features and a few of the existing features that I feel are worth revisiting (there are so many great features, I often rediscover them when I write a new review). While XP&G9 lacks some of the high end tools and features of Designer Pro, XPG9 is attractively priced and has most of the tools and features you will ever need to create effective website graphics, illustrations, do photo edits, and more. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ara has just released Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 9, an all purpose photo editing, graphic design tool that is perfect for new users and professional designers alike. ![]()
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