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Photo tool

Photos are an integral part of almost all creative work nowadays, from websites, to flyers, brochures, DTP work and more. Photo handling in Xara Web Designer+ is very different from what you may be used to with other graphics programs. Here we’d like to cover the basic steps of manipulating photos and bitmap images in Xara Web Designer+. Below you will see all tools that are part of Photo editing, and follow these links for demo videos on how to use them: Photo Editing Part I, Photo Editing Part II, Photo Editing Part III

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Find out more about the power of Xara Web Designer+ in our summary of some of the key benefits and features below.

Additional information

In the online help you will find a lot of information on how to edit photos in Xara Web Designer effectively. Below are some of the useful topics.

• Photo Groups • Photo Grids, Panels and Frames • Importing Photos • Photo resolution • The Bitmap Gallery • Embedded JPEG files • Blending & Merging photos • Saving & Exporting Photos

• Photo Edit Attributes • Editing the outline of Photos • Cropping photos • Screenshots • Coloring photos • Photo Filter Presets • Integration with external Photo Editors

• Resize, rotate and position a photo within its frame • Horizon Straighten • Making a photo its full size • Optimizing Photos and Bitmaps • Converting objects or drawings to bitmaps

• Photo Documents • Editing Photo Files

Photo Enhance

When you select this Camera tool, it provides access to the main photo enhance controls - these adjust things like brightness and contrast levels, color controls such as saturation, color tinting, sharpen and blur and others. Here are the main controls on the Photo Enhance Tool.

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1. Using the Selector Tool drag it, rotate or resize it. Note how everything repels around it. 2. Drag and drop a replacement photo from Windows File Explorer to replace it with your own. Note how it’s automatically tinted to match the website colors. 3. Preview this web page and move the mouse over this picture to see the mouse-over effect. 4. Xara Web Designer+ includes powerful photo-editing tools. You can adjust the brightness, color, sharpness, and more, as well as crop any picture.

Photo Handling

Xara Web Designer Pro+ photo and bitmap handling is amongst the fastest to be found anywhere. It uses compression techniques that mean that Xara files including photos can be up to ten times smaller than equivalent images in other graphics programs, with enormous benefits for speed and usability. Plus Xara's unique non-destructive editing maintains the high quality of your original photo, however many times you edit it, and gives you the ability to undo any edits you've made to your photo, even after saving and reloading. As a result many people use Xara Web Designer+ as their primary, general purpose image composition tool.

Website made using only Xara Web Designer+, and no other graphics or software tools.

An Introduction

Photo tool

More Creative Photo Tools

Additional information

Photo Enhance

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Photo Handling

Photo tool

More Creative Photo Tools

Additional information

Photo Enhance

An Introduction

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Photo Handling