Xara Designer Pro v6

The Professional All-Around Design Solution

XARA DESIGNER PRO 6 is the world's fastest and most versatile design all-around solution that is geared towards the unique requirements of ambitious and professional users.

This multi-award-winning software seamlessly combines all designrelevant functional areas into one clearly laid-out, new program interface for an efficient workflow, easy handling, and quick results.

New Features/Improvements

The design of Xara Designer Pro 6 has been completely revised and now features a sleek charcoal gray. The program is still as fast and precise as before, including a non-destructive and real-time workflow. New icons and fly-out menus for related applications and tools ensure a clear, user-friendly program interface that allows users to quickly find their way around the program. Countless new features and improvements to individual tools, galleries, and settings options have revolutionized the workflow and increased efficiency. Enjoy the completely revised content, including a large number of high-quality design templates that have been created for and with Designer Pro.

Brochures and Advertisements

Xara Designer Pro 6 is the perfect tool for designing multi-page documents such as flyers, brochures, business cards, posters, and other advertising materials. Dynamic text adjustment, easy integration of graphics and images with intuitive layout options, and practical templates make desktop publishing a pleasure.

Websites

Intuitively design websites in your corporate design including navigation, integrated players and dynamic elements – no programming skills required. It's just as easy as editing a regular text document.

Business Cards and Letterhead

Easily design all of your business documents yourself: Business cards, letterhead, and other business documents are made to match each other perfectly. Name, address, etc. can be changed simultaneously in all documents thanks to optimized project integration.

Outdoor Advertising and More

Think big. Thanks to flexible vectorization features, professional export functions, and especially fast programming in Xara Designer Pro 6, you can easily create very large files yourself, e.g. for large-scale billboards.

Appearance As A Success Factor

Xara Designer Pro 6 is ideal for anyone wanting to design their own advertising and business materials.

Ideal For:

• Restaurants and hotels
• Freelancers and self-employed people
• Small and medium-sized businesses
• Schools and universities
• Organizations and clubs

DTP Layout

Xara Designer Pro 6 offers versatile layout options for single and multi-page print products, including convenient word processing functions to create anything from simple flyers to entire newspapers.

Graphic Design

Extensive vector-based graphics editing options, from simple web elements to complex, photo-realistic illustrations.

Web Design

Design web elements such as buttons, advertising banners, email newsletters, and even entire multi-page websites – all directly from within the program.

Image Editing

Xara Designer Pro 6 offers extensive editing options such as crop, copy, transition, mask, add soft edges, distort, convert, and much more.

NEW Professional Templates For Quick Results

Xara Designer Pro 6 is an ideal program for creating tailor-made designs from scratch. Thanks to an extensive and versatile selection of more than 3000 clip art items and individually customizable design templates, it's particularly easy to design anything from business cards to entire websites.

It's remarkably easy to add your own fonts, photos, and graphics into practical placeholders and to individually modify designs and colors. This makes it easy to influence the entire color universe using color links: if you change the reference color, all tones and shadows of the entire template will change automatically.

IMPROVED Typography and Text Layout

Just like a classic word processing program, Xara Designer Pro is capable of formatting all kinds of text, including spacing, numbering, lists, super and subscripting, and other special cases. There's no limit to the amount of text.

INCLUDES Multilingual Spell Check

Supported Languages: English (US/UK), German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian and Dutch.

Photo Editing and Optimisation

The integrated photo tool provides a direct and very fast way of cropping, adjusting the brightness levels and sharpening photos, even for ultra-high-resolution images.

Automatic Optimisation

Useful, for example, for underexposed images. NEW Correct photo perspective ("converging lines" and horizons)

Manual Adjustments

Image section, brightness, contrast, color saturation, sharpness, and blur. NEW Color temperature.

Professional Optimization

NEW Magnetic drawing pencil / lasso for automatically adding lines. NEW Clone tool for retouching and copying image elements.

NEW Intelligent Zooming and Scaling

Stretch and squash your photos (without distorting key parts of the image)

The intelligent scaling feature allows you to change the image format without altering the proportions of the image's key parts. Thanks to the new intelligent zoom, you can zoom in and out of the image without distorting important details.
NEW Use the mask mode for precise selection and flexible editing (incl. feathering, NEW opacity mask).

Perfectly Suited For:

• Turning portrait into landscape format or vice versa
• Turning 4:3 into 16:9 widescreen format or vice versa
• Creating a panorama from almost any picture
• Using unique image formats loss free, (for example, for brochures and website headers)

Improved Bitmap-to-Vector Tracing

The high-performance bitmap converter turns bitmaps, photos, drawings, or logos into editable vector graphics. The tracer offers enormous flexibility: The color range and complexity between original and vectorization can be set. Distortion filters help to recognize and vectorize only the important information. This way, you can edit the shape, alter the transparency (including graduated transparency), use bitmaps as fills on any shape, add a drop shadow, and edit edges – all in real time.

NEW Includes MAGIX Panorama Studio 2

The ideal companion for designing 360 degree panoramas by stitching together any number of single images:

• No high-end camera or tripod required
• Advanced cropping, sharpening, and optimizing of the stitched image
• Automatic estimation of the focal length to reduce fish-eye effect
• Automatic barrel, pincushion, and vignette adjustments
• Automatic exposure correction
• Automatic detection of shared overlap points and seamless blending of joins
• Create 360 degree panoramas: Perfect for showing off interiors
• Automatic cropping of the final result