We've just added over 700 new Christmas and winter themed assets for print, web and social media, to help you make the most of the season. You can find them now in Elements / the Designs Gallery.
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Web improvements in the new v24.5 include easier insertion of third party widgets, improved control over font size in different variants, and better handling of the width of Web Blocks. Plus there's a smoother workflow for publishing to OVHCloud, our recommended web host.
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We've just released the Calendar designs for 2025, you'll find them in Elements/ the Designs Gallery of Photo & Graphic Designer+ and Designer Pro+.
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We've just added more than 200 Black Friday and Cyber Monday templates to help you make the most of these top shopping days of the year. You can find them now in Elements / the Designs Gallery of Photo & Graphic Designer+, Web Designer+ and Designer Pro+.
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We've just added more than 600 new graphic assets to Designer Pro+, Web Designer+ and Photo & Graphic Designer+ to help make your Halloween as scary as possible! You can find them now in Elements/ the Designs Gallery.
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Xara is happy announce a great new website hosting deal for Xara users with OVHcloud. V24.4 includes seamless integration with OVHcloud, plus enhanced support for AVIF and animated GIFs.
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The latest additions to Xara Elements offer new choices for your web design, with 5 new modular websites and 20 new sliders for the classic freeform websites.
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If you are a Real Estate broker and you worry about the amount of time your agents spend on creating and distributing marketing material - as opposed to actually selling properties! - then Xara Cloud's new Playbooks are for you. Playbooks offer a way to automate the creation of personalized marketing material for your agents.
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Out latest Xara Elements update adds many new professional-quality designs, catering to a wide range of industries. Fast track your marketing content with our new templates in the Social Media, Presentation and Postcard categories and a new Sales Document category.
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Our 24.3 update includes a cool new Bookflip transition effect, some valuable updates to web blocks and a host of minor web improvements.
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Another significant update to the template library for Web Designer+ and Designer Pro+, with 5 new modular website designs (including sliders and 50 web blocks) and 20 new slider components for the classic freeform websites.
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Some valuable additions to our recently launched slider feature in Designer Pro+ and Web Designer+.
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We’ve just added 45 new slider designs to Elements / Designs Gallery of Web Designer+ and Designer Pro+, so you can make the most of this great new feature.
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Updates to Designer Pro+, Web Designer+ and Photo & Graphic Designer+ with plenty to explore whether you want to add some excitement to your site with our new website sliders, or fine-tune your lines & borders with the new Stroke Settings dialog. Plus AVIF export & more.
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Xara Cloud offers a brilliant way to create social media posts that stand out from the crowd. Now we're also offering a new, super quick and easy way to post your Xara created content direct to your Facebook and Instagram accounts from within Xara Cloud.
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Our latest Elements update includes a huge selection of new icons and other assorted vector graphics, photo clipart and bitmap backgrounds. You 'll find more than 4000 new assets in Xara Elements (formerly Online Content Catalog) in Designer Pro+, Web Designer+ and Photo & Graphic Designer+.
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A major update including new creative choices such as video backgrounds (amongst other great web updates in Designer Pro and Web Designer), enhanced format support including AVIF, and productivity improvements to existing functionality such as the QuickShape flyout and text flow controls. Plus 350+ additions to Elements.
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We're excited to announce a new Xara Cloud template category in our massive library of Real Estate content, one frequently requested by our many Real Estate customers. With our new Email templates you can now apply the Xara magic to your email marketing.
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We’ve added a brand new Mockups template category that can add a whole new dimension to your design practice. You 'll find more than 130 examples in Xara Elements in Designer Pro+, Web Designer+ and Photo & Graphic Designer+.
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A whole host of improvements and fixes to smooth your workflow and increase your productivity. Updates to Designer Pro+, Web Designer+ and Photo & Graphic Designer+ include the mold tool, tables, Web Export and more.
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A seasonal boost to Xara Elements in Designer Pro+, Photo & Graphic Designer+ and Web Designer+, with 450+ new Spring and Easter themed templates, photo clipart and illustrations for social media, print and web design.
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A significant maintenance update with a host of small improvements and fixes suggested by our power users - but everyone will gain from the smoother workflow.
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Another step-up for Web Blocks in Web Designer+ and Designer Pro+, including live dragging and the ability to save Web Blocks for use in other projects. Plus some welcome improvements for the Web Publishing workflow, and PDF import.
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The Xara Cloud 2024 release calendar kicks off with some great improvements to the file and folder management, and many other enhancements including some nice tweaks to the new Document Check and Xpressdocs integration.
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A highlight of 23.6 in Web Designer+ and Designer Pro+ is the automatic resizing of Web Block mobile variants, making our new Modular Websites even easier to create. But there are plenty of other web, text and graphic design improvements to explore, and la nuova versione italiana!
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Another major addition to Xara Elements (formerly Online Content Catalog) to increase your creative choices for web design, including website templates and Web Blocks.
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There has been a huge boost to the library of Real Estate templates this year, but our designers have managed to squeeze in one more update for 2023.
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Just added to Xara Elements (formerly Online Content Catalog) of Designer Pro+ and Photo & Graphic Designer+: 18 new calendar templates to help you start getting your 2024 in order or use as promo items for your company!
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A significant Xara Cloud update for Real Estate Agents: Automatically copy listing data from your website to a Xara Cloud template, no MLS required.
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Our designers have been almost as busy as Santa, creating a sackful of new winter or Christmas themed templates for Real Estate.
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23.5 includes a big step forwards for Web Blocks and Modular websites, and a powerful new ‘FlexGroup’ type of group. Plus there's another significant boost to the Web Content in the Designs Gallery.
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The latest Xara Cloud update includes new row and column controls for our powerful Table Tool, new creative options for the Smart Layout library, and improved text box handling.
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We're excited to announce two important new options that enable fast and efficient creation of professional documents; Document Check and the popular Xpressdocs print service.
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We've added new Facebook and Instagram templates our collection of Real Estate templates in the Xara Cloud library.
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We've added 16 new postcard designs for the Real Estate industry Real Estate to the Xara Cloud template library.
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Recognising the expanding European market for our Plus titles, we now offer Dutch, Spanish and French versions of Xara Web Designer+, Photo & Graphic Designer+ and Designer Pro+ (in addition to the English and German languages already available), in a single convenient installer. Simply select the language you need in the Help > Language menu!
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The latest release for our Web Designer+ and Designer Pro+ titles adds new options for NavBar and NavBar menus, over 100 new NavBar designs, and a host of small improvements and fixes for web export. There is also a maintenance update for Photo & Graphic Designer+.
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Another great update to the Xara Cloud content library, offering a couple of very flexible new presentation templates and eleven updated real estate door hanger designs.
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Step into the new world of AI enhanced textual content. If you have been thinking that AI is just a news story, or something for the future, then think again. You can use Xara Cloud's AI powered text tool today, and it will change the way you create content.
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We now offer a German language version of Xara Cloud. You'll automatically see both Home Screen and Editing interface in German if your browser language is set to German, but you can also manually swap language via the team menu in the Home screen.
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A template bonanza with up to 700 new designs covering social media, web, print, e-books and presentations in Photo & Graphic Designer+ and Designer Pro+. Plus our game-changing new Web Blocks will now work in your existing Web Designer+ or Designer Pro+ website.
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The latest update to the Xara Cloud content library adds some fresh options for your social media; 6 Real Estate Facebook testimonial templates to boost the social proof of your realty business, and 2 topical AI themed templates (Trustworthy AI for Facebook and AI Webinar for Instagram). Plus there's a very flexible new presentation template;.
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The latest update to the Xara Cloud template library includes 8 new Facebook and Instagram templates with an Artificial Intelligence theme, designed for AI training, AI marketing, solutions and more.
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Xara Photo & Graphic Designer+, Web Designer+ and Designer Pro+ now include both German and English versions in one installer, simply swap between them using the Language option in the Help menu. There is also a new German language version of the complete online user guide and knowledgebase.
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If you regularly create documents with your personal details, such as name and address, phone number or social media links, then you'll love the new time-saving Personal SmartFields feature, new in this week's Xara Cloud update.
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Great news is you’re loving our new Web Blocks feature in Web Designer+ and Designer Pro+ – we’ve just added 12 new modular website templates, 92 new web blocks and almost 300 new page background styles to the Content Catalog.
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The latest update to the Xara Cloud template library includes 6 fresh new presentation templates. All have up to 15 slides each, offering plenty of layout choice, with all the key presentation components.
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We have just released a major update to the web building capabilities of Web Designer+ and Designer Pro+. Modular websites and web blocks offer the simplest, quickest way to build your new dream site - from Xara or anyone else!
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We've just added a big selection of new real estate templates to the Xara Cloud library, covering all your realty design needs - including carousels, flyers, Instagram posts, feedback forms, postcards and a sign-in sheet.
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We've added 19 new carousel templates for Facebook, Instagram and Linkedin to the Xara Cloud template library, to help supercharge your social media. Carousels are a great way to build your message over multiple images, and the possibilities are endless.
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One final 2022 update to the Online Content Catalog of Designer Pro+ and Photo & Graphic Designer+. Today's release adds a new category of calendar templates with a first set of fully customizable calendar designs.
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Another major update of the Online Content Catalog for the Plus editions of Designer Pro, Web Designer and Photo & Graphic Designer. Almost 1200 new photo filter overlays, offering a whole host of new creative photo effects.
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A 22.5 update for the Plus editions of Designer Pro, Web Designer and Photo & Graphic Designer, including support for Xara Tables in Microsoft Word, and an elegant solution for unsupported characters.
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The new Strategy & Planning category includes 15 essential Xara Cloud templates for your sales team.
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We've just added another 12 new website themes to the Online Content Catalog of Web Designer+ and Xara Designer Pro+, all with mobile variants and the latest animations and SEO optimizations.
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The latest additions & updates to the new Table Tool in the Plus editions of Designer Pro, Web Designer and Photo & Graphic Designer, hot off the press.
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We've just released another important update to the new Table Tool in the Plus versions; you can now copy and paste data from external sources straight into the Xara table.
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Another significant content update for the Plus editions of Designer Pro, Web Designer and Photo & Graphic Designer. Almost 1300 new photo filter overlays, offering some great new creative possibilities for your photos.
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Today's Xara Cloud release features a considerable update to the very popular Flaticon integration, with the addition of 37,000 stickers - the perfect way to add a bit of character to your document.
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A bonanza of new templates for the Plus versions of Designer, including tables, buttons, social media buttons and other new web and print templates.
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We've added a new Star Reviews component to Xara Cloud, so you can quickly add reviews to your document in a visual style that draws attention to your most important social proof.
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Today's update to Xara Cloud includes several refinements to the user interface of the editor, and a handy new option in the Home Screen for quickly sharing your team assets with other members of your team:
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There's another new addition to the Xara Cloud template library: 5 fully customizable multi-page e-booklet templates, each with a variety of page layouts. Sign in/sign up for free, you'll find them under NEW.
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We've just released a v22.2 update to the + versions of our desktop products: Designer Pro+, Web Designer+ and Photo & Graphic Designer+. The update includes new features for our brand new Table Tool, an extension to our flexible Repeating Objects feature, improvements to selection and more.
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We've just added 20 new website themes to the Online Content Catalog of Web Designer+ and Xara Designer Pro+, all with mobile variants.
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We have just released an update to the + versions of our desktop products: Designer Pro+, Web Designer+ and Photo & Graphic Designer+. V22.1 introduces a completely new table tool, a very flexible solution for creating this key component of many business documents and websites.
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We've just released a summer selection of new Product Sheet templates and signature banners, all fully editable in Xara Cloud to fit your requirement. Sign in/sign up for free, you'll find them under NEW.
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We have just released a Xara Cloud update with two new features you're going to love: Integrated support for the 7M+ Flaticons library from Freepik, and the first major step in an update that will offer a quick, easy and efficient way to upload and manage your team's digital assets within Xara Cloud.
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August gets off to a good start for Xara Cloud with the first release of a powerful new table implementation.
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We've just released a new selection of Facebook and Linked in templates to keep your social posts fresh, with an emphasis on Real Estate and Consulting but including some new generic designs. Plus there's a collection of new Product Sheet designs, all fully editable to fit your requirement. Sign in/sign up for free, you'll find them under NEW.
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We’re happy to introduce brand new subscription options for our most popular desktop products, with an updated clean and modern UI.
Our new+ titles offer all the advantages of a subscription model, namely frequent delivery of new features and content, as they are developed, and the fastest possible response to new compatibility issues and bug reports. You can always be sure you’ll have the latest version. What’s more they come with direct support from Xara.
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Our July release introduces some UI changes that will save you time when you're trying to get your new design just right, including the first steps towards brining the key text controls into the context menu.
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We've just released a summer selection of shiny new Xara Cloud templates, including a presentation (Sales Pitch Deck), some review & announcement templates for your Facebook and Instagram posts, and a selection of new property listing presentations for our Real Estate customers. Sign in/sign up for free, you'll find them under NEW.
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The new 21.9 offers a range of improvements for page layout, web design and general usability.
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Another month, another template update. Sign in / sign up for free and check out the 10 new Linkedin templates, designed with Consulting and Real Estate in mind, but customizable for any use case. You'll find them under NEW.
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We've just released an Update Service update for Xara Photo & Graphic Designer, including an improvement to color handling, and new Google Fonts. Find out more on our What's New page:
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We've just released an Update Service update for Web Designer Premium, including automatic self-hosting of Google Fonts, in response to the latest GDPR developments in Europe, and some handy new options to help you improve your SEO. Find out more on our What's New page:
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We've just released an Update Service update for Xara Designer Pro X, including automatic self-hosting of Google Fonts, in response to the latest GDPR developments in Europe, and some handy new options to help you improve your SEO. Find out more on our What's New page:
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A second update to Designer Pro+ in the last month, 21.8 offers automatic self-hosting of Google Fonts, in response to the latest GDPR developments.
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Our busy designers have just added another batch of new templates to the Xara Cloud / Designer Pro+ library. Sign in / sign up for free and check out 5 new catalogs: Art Exhibition, Product, Food Menu, Event Planner and Travel.
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The latest Designer Pro+ update (21.7) includes a significant step up in SVG support, which offers faster load times and sharper graphics for your websites.
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We've just released an update to Xara Cloud with two significant productivity improvements that will help you focus on the creativity rather than the process! Keyword search for templates will be a huge help in finding just the right template, now that the Xara Cloud library is so large. And drag & drop replacement of photos in your documents will make it a snip to explore the depths of the stock photo library. And there's more, check out the links below.
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Our designers have been busy creating new templates for the Xara Cloud / Designer Pro+ library, so you can be ready for the holiday season. We've just released new Christmas and New Year Facebook and Instagram templates, and some festive postcard templates too. Sign in / sign up for free and check them out now.
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The latest Designer Pro+ update (21.6) includes improvements to two great time-saving Designer Pro features, Live Copies and SmartFields. Plus there's another step up in SVG support, which offers faster load times and sharper graphics for your websites.
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The latest Xara Cloud release launches Xara Storage, an important update that will make it significantly easier for you and your team to access and manage your files and folders in Xara Cloud, improving your workflow, saving you valuable time and adding clarity to the process of saving and retrieving your documents.
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It's a busy month for new content in Xara Cloud. We've just added a range of templates designed to make life easier for HR, including job specs, offer letters and employee handbooks. Plus there are new additions to the ever-popular Diagrams folder, offering new creative ways to make your data visual. Sign in / sign up for free and check them out now.
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We've just released a selection of Black Friday and Cyber Monday templates to help your sale stand out from the crowd, including web banners, email headers, signature banners and social media templates.
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We have released another update to Xara Cloud, including a number of small improvements and fixes to smooth your working day, plus the possibility for realtors to connect their MLS to Xara Cloud.
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The latest Xara Cloud release includes a major update to the commenting feature, critical to successful collaboration on your key business and marketing documents.
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We've added two new categories to the Xara Cloud template collection, which will be good news for the marketing team: Email headers and signature banners. Plus there are new catalog and real estate listing presentation templates. Sign in / sign up for free and check them out now.
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The latest update to Xara Cloud adds some valuable useability improvements, including making key page operations (add, copy, delete page etc) more accessible, introducing a handy quick preview option for documents prior to publishing, and speeding up the document open process.
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We've just released an Update Service update for Xara Photo & Graphic Designer including improvements to the Shape Tool and a selection of new smart content. Find out more on our What's New page:
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We've just released an Update Service update for Xara Web Designer Premium, including support for the WebP format and OpenGraph. Find out more on our What's New page:
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We've just released an Update Service update for Xara Designer Pro X, including support for the WebP format and OpenGraph, improvements to the Shape Tool and lots of new content. Find out more on our What's New page:
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The latest Designer Pro+ update (21.5) includes some new options for improving your SEO, plus a host of other small but useful enhancements.
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The latest Designer Pro+ update (21.4) includes new Web Graph support and Shape Editor improvements.
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A second Designer Pro+ update for May introduces new edit-locking options, ideal for situations where you are creating documents in Designer Pro for your team to edit in Xara Cloud.
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We've added a new category of templates to Xara Cloud. Sign in / sign up for free and check out the new invoice designs now.
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The latest Designer Pro+ release completes support for the new WebP image format, and introduces some great new 'smart' designs to the diagram and timeline categories of the Online Content Catalog.
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The latest update to Xara Cloud significantly expands the page designs available for presentations, and adds a new category of timelines. Plus you can explore your creative side with a new 'text inside shapes' tool.
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The latest Designer Pro+ release introduces support for the new WebP image format, promising top quality with smaller file sizes, great for SEO.
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A bumper addition to the Xara Cloud design resources, with 20 new SmartLayout diagrams and 5 new designs for the popular product sheet category. Sign in / sign up for free and check them out now.
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A significant Xara Cloud update that introduces Word export from Xara Cloud, new flip and rotate tools, character spacing controls and improved SmartLayout diagrams.
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We've just released an Update Service update for Xara Photo & Graphic Designer including High DPI support, a time-saving Smart Duplication feature and improved on-screen CMYK display, plus a large selection of new templates. Find out more on our What's New page:
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We've just released an Update Service update for Xara Designer and Web Designer Premium, including High DPI support and enhanced web publishing workflow. Find out more on our What's New page:
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We've just released an Update Service update for Xara Designer Pro X, including much requested support for High DPI displays. Find out more on our What's New page:
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The latest update to Designer Pro+ introduces a new Smart Duplication feature to help speed up duplication and spacing operations and focus on the creativity!
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Whether you want to grasp the basics of branding for your new business, want to work on your brand strategy, are stuck with your brand visuals or want to find branding tips on how to grow your business, our new Branding Hub is the right place to start.
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We've just released an update to Xara Designer Pro+ with new and improved control over the CMYK color profiles, to ensure your designs are color-perfect.
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The first Xara Cloud update of 2021 includes some major enhancements to the Team Assets feature, improving its usability and ease of access for all team members, and introducing integrated local asset storage.
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The latest update to Designer Pro+ (included in the Xara Cloud+ bundle) includes an improvement to the display of CMYK colors on screen.
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We've just released an update to Designer Pro+ (included in the Xara Cloud+ bundle) with some significant improvements to PDF support.
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Today's update features a major overhaul to brand management in Xara Cloud, with a new brand wizard that makes it quick and easy to set up your brand assets and apply them to your documents.
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Today's update to Designer Pro+ (included in the Xara Cloud+ bundle) includes a revamp of the web export options, a new category of Header designs, and the latest steps in our workflow improvements.
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We've just released an Update Service update for Xara Photo & Graphic Designer. The focus is on workflow improvements but there is also a wide selection of new content including social media templates, text panels and photo frames and a new Diagrams category. Find out more on our What's New page:
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We've just released an Update Service update for Xara Designer and Web Designer Premium. The focus is on workflow improvements but the update also includes enhancements to tables, import & export filters and a wide selection of new content including website templates and a new Diagrams category. Find out more on our What's New page:
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We've just released an Update Service update for Xara Designer Pro X. The update focus is on workflow improvements but also includes new document design and web document options and a bumper selection of new content. Find out more on our What's New page:
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The latest Xara Cloud update introduces some significant enhancements to the Share to Web feature, including control over transition effects between pages for multi-page documents (scroll, flip etc).
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The latest update for Designer Pro+ (included in the Xara Cloud+ bundle) introduces a collection of small but valuable useability improvements, and a big selection of new content including a new Diagram category.
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Today's Xara Cloud update introduces 'Smart Duplication', a handy new option that allows you to select a shape or group of objects and quickly multiply them. Plus you should notice a significant improvement in performance, with reduced load times and faster editing.
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Today's Xara Cloud update adds some valuable new content. First there's a new category of Footers, which automatically resize and position themselves at the foot of your document. Plus we've added 40 new Google fonts to the font list.
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We've just released an update for Designer Pro+ (included in the Xara Cloud+ bundle). The latest enhancements include a fresh new set of Selector Tool and SmartShape handles, to match the modern new look of Xara Cloud (20th August release), and a new content category of page footers.
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The latest Xara Cloud update includes a complete new set of text and object selection handles, pointers and tooltips, for a more modern and less cluttered workspace. Plus it's now possible to copy and paste content from external sources directly into your Xara Cloud document.
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Today's Xara Cloud update includes a new Vizzlo integration that significantly expands your options for charts, graphs, infographics and business visualizations of all sorts. Vizzlo offers more than 100 fully customizable templates.
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Our latest update for Designer Pro+ (included in the Xara Cloud+ bundle) includes some time-saving improvements for tables, and extra controls for table of contents. There is now also a Demo Mode for Designer Pro+ to enable testing of new features, even when the free trial has expired.
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The latest Xara Cloud update introduces our all-new context sensitive menus, providing easier access to the most useful functions.
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An important update for Xara Designer Pro+ with the introduction of much requested support for high DPI.
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Our latest Xara Cloud update makes it a whole lot easier to create multiple different sizes of the same document, especially useful for fast turnaround of social media content. Simply select up to 5 different sizes in the Resize menu and they will be instantly created.
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Today's release includes the first update to Designer Pro+ (part of the Xara Cloud+ bundle) aswell as some refinements to Xara Cloud.
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The latest Xara Cloud update introduces some smart new color editing UI, making it quicker and easier to apply color themes and shades. We've also improved the handling of large, photo-heavy documents.
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Today's Xara Cloud update includes enhancements to Share to Web pages such as additional page and viewing controls, and the ability to download the shared page as a PDF. We've also streamlined the management of SmartFields and improved the Settings dialog.
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We’re excited to announce a totally new option for customers who want to combine the best of Xara products and services. Xara Cloud Pro+ combines the offline creative power of Xara Designer Pro with the online flexibility of Xara Cloud Pro. It’s the perfect all-in-one solution for those who value the ability to design anything, anywhere and on any device.
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We've just released an Update Service update for Xara Photo & Graphic Designer. New features include new heading & para styles (backgrounds and borders), support for tab leaders, as well as updates to all the major import/export formats. Find out more on our What's New page:
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We've just released an Update Service update for Xara Designer and Web Designer Premium. New features include some web related changes that should help with SEO, new heading & para styles (backgrounds and borders), support for tab leaders, and updates to all the major import/export formats. Find out more on our What's New page:
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We've just released an Update Service update for Xara Designer Pro. New features include new heading & para styles (backgrounds and borders), support for tab leaders, a first beta release of InDesign import, as well as updates to all the other major import/export formats, and some web related changes that should help with SEO. Find out more on our What's New page:
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Our latest Xara Cloud release includes the first of a series of improvements in the File Picker aimed at making it easier to find and control your templates and files. The new Template Management System includes the much requested ability to preview the templates in the File Picker.
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We've just released another major update to Xara Cloud, designed to smooth your workflow and make editing within Xara Cloud quicker and easier. Changes include a brand new add panel within the document editor, new replace context menus, and further improvements to selection and transforms.
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We've just released Update Service updates for Xara Photo & Graphic Designer. New features include support for line charts and other flexible new chart controls, color backgrounds for text headings and paragraphs, improvements in bleed support for commercial printing and lots of new content. Find out more on our What's New pages:
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We've just released Update Service updates for Xara Designer Pro, Web Designer and Web Designer Premium. New features include support for line charts and other flexible new chart controls, color backgrounds for text headings and paragraphs, improvements in bleed support for commercial printing and lots of new content. Find out more on our What's New pages:
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The latest Xara Cloud update includes two more UI changes to enhance the user experience; making it quicker and easier to add new pages to your document, and select objects for editing.
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Today's Xara Cloud update includes a couple of much-requested enhancements. There is a new Open from File option, so you can open a file or image from your local drive instead of a cloud drive. Secondly we have added support for list styles.
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Our latest Xara Cloud update introduces some significant improvements to the look & feel of the file picker and editor that will make it quicker and easier to select the perfect template and customize it to your exact needs.
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We've just released an update to Xara Cloud with enhanced bleed control, giving better results for commercial printing. There are also improvements to the selection handles making it easier to select groups or multiple objects.
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The latest Xara Cloud update introduces two significant enhancements; direct opening of PDF files from the File Picker (beta) and support for line charts. There are also other chart improvements and some new time-saving shortcuts.
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Another great new addition to the Xara Cloud template collection, including post cards, booklets and proposals. Sign in / sign up for free and check them out now.
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We've just released a large selection of new Xara Cloud templates, including designs for business cards, social media templates, catalogs, window displays (for Real Estate) and a new presentation and e-book. Sign in / sign up for free and check them out now.
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We've just released a significant update to Xara Cloud including Custom fonts (so you can upload your own fonts at last!), improved SmartShape handles, and Company SmartFields.
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We've just released an Update Service update for Xara Photo & Graphic Designer. Improvements include a new time-saving Smart Field feature, enhanced support for SVG and PDF, and a collection of new 'smart' content such as text and photo panels. Find out more on our What's New page:
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We've just released Update Service updates for Xara Designer Pro, Web Designer and Web Designer Premium. Improvements include a cool new 'scale to fit width' feature for web design, Smart Fields and enhanced support for SVG. Find out more on our What's New pages:
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The latest Xara Cloud update introduces a cool 'shrink text on overflow' option, which scales down text when you overflow the text area - useful for example when you need to add more text to your document but keep it constrained within a specific space.
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We've added a new subscription option to Xara Cloud: the Pro plan offers the extra features of the new Team plan, but for single users.
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We're just released another significant update to Xara Cloud, including support for tables - a valuable addition for many Xara Cloud document types such as proposals, product sheets and catalogs.
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The latest Xara Cloud update includes support for bleed and crop marks, an important step forward for anyone wanting to commercially print their documents created in Xara Cloud.
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Xara for Teams is another big step forward for Xara Cloud. It offers a team subscription for businesses, with central user management, shared documents and assets. A great time-saving feature of Xara for Teams is BrandSpaces, a super-easy way to apply the key elements of your brand (such as fonts, colors and logos) across all your graphics and documents.
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Our latest selection of new templates for Xara Cloud includes Post Cards, Business Cards, Door Hangers, Instagram Stories, Window Displays and a Brochure and Booklet! Sign in / sign up for free and check them out now.
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We've just added a new category of Window Display templates to our Real Estate collection, plus some additional social media designs. Sign in / sign up for free and check out the full Real Estate range.
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Today's release of Xara Cloud introduces a change that will significantly improve your workflow: Drag and drop of items from the Add+ panel.
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We've just released an Update Service update for Xara Photo & Graphic Designer. Highlights include significant improvements in table support, plus new and more flexible Text Panels, Photo Frames and Smart Lines, offering plenty of new creative options for graphic design. There's also support for more advanced Open Type features, enabling memorable and distinctive typography.
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We've just released Update Service updates for Xara Designer Pro, Web Designer and Web Designer Premium. Enhancements include support for more advanced Open Type features (titling alternates, stylistic alternates and swashes), table improvements and new SmartShapes and Smart Layouts. Find out more on our What's New pages:
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Our latest Xara Cloud update introduces some very useful additions, including controls for line width and color, export selected objects as SVG and some extra options for importing logos.
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Today we released some great additions to our Real Estate template collection, including new Facebook and Instagram templates and some additional flyer designs. Sign in / sign up for free and check out the full Real Estate collection.
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Our latest blog post looks at how Real Estate Agents could make the most of 8 of our Xara Cloud templates.
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The latest Xara Cloud update introduces some small but valuable usability improvements affecting text selection, object locking, alignment of the text in text panels and the right hand Properties Panel.
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Another great addition to our Real Estate templates: new social media, post card and business card templates, plus some very flexible new page components including text and photo panels, photo grids and photo frames to display your images to maximum effect. Sign in / sign up for free and check out the full Real Estate collection.
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8 suggested Open House flyer designs for Real Estate Agents, including when and why we think they'll work.
8 Great Designs for your Open House Flyer
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Following feedback from our many real estate customers, we've added 3 new template categories to our collection: door hangers, post cards and business cards. And there's a new set of web banners as a bonus!
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We've just released some additional flyer and social templates to our existing wide selection of designs for Real Estate Agents. Sign in / sign up for free and check out the full collection of essential documents for Realtors.
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Our first Xara Cloud update of 2019 adds some nice usability improvements, including enhancements to the file picker, a new 'lock' feature that prevents accidental dragging of items on your page, and the ability to download selected items as png or jpeg.
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Our latest Xara Cloud content update for realtors includes new Facebook & Instagram templates and Web Banners, specially designed for Real Estate.
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Another significant update, with more than 50 new SmartShapes including Photo Panels, Photo Grids and Photo Frames, Text Panels, line & arrows and other misc shapes including braces / brackets. Sign in to Xara Cloud (or Sign Up for free) and you'll find them right now in the +Add menu.
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We've just added some additional flyer templates to our existing wide range of designs for Real Estate Agents. Sign in / sign up for free and check out the full collection of must-have documents for Realtors.
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Our latest Xara Cloud update features an all-new file picker (feedback very welcome) and a collection of other useful updates, including a search option and high res image export for Powerpoint presentations.
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We've just released some new fully editable templates for Xara Cloud, including Happy Holiday e-cards and social media graphics. Sign in to your Xara Cloud account to access them, or if you haven't yet tried Xara Cloud then Sign Up for free.
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We've just released new seasonal theme packs for Xara Cloud, with some great new template options for Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The new templates include social media, e-cards, web banners and flyers.
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A summary of the top 10 tools that will help you keep your business ahead of the social media curve; social media services designed to save you time, reach further, keep the content of your social sites fresh and your responses timely.
Essential Social Media Tools
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We've just released a major update to Xara Photo & Graphic Designer. Key updates include an exciting new 'color palette from photo' feature, which automates the otherwise tedious manual process of matching document colors to the colors of the main photo; significant updates to the table and arrow SmartShapes, and a completely new Pie Chart SmartShape; many text and page layout improvements that include enhanced support for Open Type (support for ligatures, stylistic sets and alternates).
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We've just added some new templates to our already wide range of designs for Real Estate Agents. The new options include flyers and brochures, business cards, product sheets and social media.
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We've just released a major update to Xara Designer Pro X, Web Designer and Web Designer Premium. Key updates include an exciting new 'color palette from photo' feature, which automates the otherwise tedious manual process of matching document colors to the colors of the main photo; significant updates to the table and arrow SmartShapes, and a completely new Pie Chart SmartShape; many text and page layout improvements that include enhanced support for Open Type (support for ligatures, stylistic sets and alternates).
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Our latest update includes an important improvement to object selection, a great new text auto-fit feature and a few other enhancements requested by Xara Cloud users.
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We've just released a set of templates for Real Estate / Estate Agent businesses, including brochures, flyers and social media graphics. This supplements the product sheet, e-book and web banner templates released in August, to provide the full set of must-have documents for Realtors. We've also just published a handy guide to social media hashtags for Real Estate.
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An introduction to the essentials of successful branding, and how to make them work for your company.
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Today we've added two new e-books (Digital Marketing and Key Account Manager) and a 10 page booklet (Data Visualization) to the ever-growing selection of templates for Xara Cloud.
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Check out our latest Xara Cloud blog article for some top tips on designing presentations.
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In our latest content update we've added a selection of templates with a Key Account Manager theme, plus there's a new 12 page e-book and Marketing Product Sheet.
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Our latest Xara Cloud blog article offers 10 ideas for creating Instagram posts that will win your company business.
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The latest update to Xara Cloud includes the ability to download your presentations and use them offline, the addition of HSV color selection to the Color Editor, a new selection of Body Text fonts and some new on-boarding features that will make it easier than ever to get started with Xara Cloud.
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We've added a brand new set of templates with a Real Estate / Estate Agency theme, including an ebook, flyers, a product sheet, web banners and a social media set.
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Our latest Xara Blog article takes a look at how brand consistency can help your business succeed, and includes 3 tips to help you achieve it.
Brand Consistency: A Key To Business Success
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We've added some inspiring new business-oriented templates to Xara Cloud, including an additional presentation (Customer Lifetime Value), new product sheets and some extra social media templates for Twitter and Linkedin.
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Tech.eu covers all the biggest European tech stories, and Xara Cloud has caught their attention, as a solution "that allows businesses to easily create a range of professional-looking business documents and content".
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Top global business title Forbes flagged the latest Xara Cloud announcement amongst their 5 technology happenings of the week.
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The latest update to Xara Cloud includes a time-saving enhancement to the management of collaborators using the Share Edit feature, and a new option to download a zip file containing a JPEG or PNG for each page of a multi-page document (particularly useful for new multi-page social media designs).
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TechCrunch - the site to go to for major tech industry news - finds Xara Cloud an easy to use design tool to help businesses create better looking content.
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The latest content update for Xara Cloud includes 5 new presentations and 10 new social media graphics for Instagram.
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Our latest Xara Blog article offers a brief overview of some of the essentials of a successful social media strategy.
A Winning Strategy For Social Media
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We've just added a new YouTube category of templates in Xara Cloud, including YouTube intro graphics, channel art and channel thumbnails.
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We've just released a major update to Xara Cloud which includes a great new enhancement to the already powerful theme color feature. Now you have the option to automatically match your document theme colors to the main colors of a photo, potentially a huge time saver. There are also new alignment possibilities and support for PowerPoint export.
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Hot on the heels of our recent product updates, we’ve just added a large selection of new templates to the Online Content Catalog of Designer Pro, Web Designer and Photo & Graphic Designer. If you have a current Update Service you’ll see them now. In particular we’ve added some modern new web themes, plus there are new flyers, presentations, social media graphics, tables and some interesting new Text Panels. You can find more information in the Release Notes.
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Our latest Xara Blog post highlights some of the advantages that an active social media presence can bring to your business.
Why Companies of All Sizes Need to Embrace Social Media
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The latest content update for Xara Cloud includes a set of World Cup themed social media templates, plus some useful new text components and an additional theme with Flyers, Web Banners and Social Media sets (Contemporary).
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Our latest Xara Blog post offers six time-saving suggestions to help you keep on top of your social media accounts.
6 Time Hacks for Social Media
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We've just released an update to Xara Cloud with a much requested useability improvement: If you load documents that are wider than the workspace, the document will now automatically adjust to fit the available width.
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We’ve just released an update to Xara Photo & Graphic Designer under our Update Service. Headline new features include support for tables and text flow within shapes, with some professionally designed examples of both in the Online Content Catalog. The update is free for Photo & Graphic Designer owners with a current Update Service.
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We’ve just released an update to Web Designer and Web Designer Premium under our Update Service. Enhancements include support for tables and text flow within shapes, with some professionally designed examples of both in the Online Content Catalog alongside new website, presentation and social media templates. The update is free for Web Designer and Web Designer Premium owners with a current Update Service.
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We’ve just released an update to Xara Designer Pro X under our Update Service. Headline new features include support for tables and text flow within shapes, with some professionally designed examples of both in the Online Content Catalog. The update is free for Designer Pro X owners with a current Update Service.
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Our latest Xara blog post offers some useful tips on how to make your CV stand out from the crowd.
Top Tips For Your Resume
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We've just released a significant update to Xara Cloud, including a large selection of new content. The release includes enhancements to the color handling and embedded & anchored objects, and the new templates include 2 brand new categories, business cards and Instagram stories.
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For some top tips on making your brochures count, check out the latest article in the Xara Cloud blog.
Business Flyers 101
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There has been another major content update for Xara Cloud. We've added dozens of new social media headings (for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram) plus two brand new themes including presentations, flyers, e-books and web banners.
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How well you collaborate can be the difference between success and failure for your company. We look at a few reasons why that is in the latest article in the Xara Cloud blog.
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We are excited to announce the end of the Xara Online Designer beta, and the arrival of a full commercial version, renamed Xara Cloud! We have also refreshed and enhanced the User Interface and the Support available.
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There has been another major content update for Xara Online. There are three brand new categories - Proposals, Headers and Map Components (in Diagrams), plus an assortment of new designs in other categories including social media graphics, presentations, resumes and product sheets.
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In the second post in our new Xara Cloud blog, we offer some tips for making the most of all the skills in your company through collaboration.
How to Get Collaborative
We have released another significant update to Xara Online Designer, the addition of an easy-to-use Font Picker. Forget the keyboard shortcuts and simply select the font from the drop down and the font size using the slider or by entering the point size.
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If you suspect the constant need to multi-task is holding you back, check out the first post in our new Xara Cloud blog, as we put some scary figures on the cost to your business of ‘context switching’.
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We have just released another update to Online Designer, which includes an important step forward for team working with collaborator notifications. Plus there are improvements to SmartShape handles, and the ability to change properties across a group of selected items.
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There has been another major content update for Xara Online. There are two brand new categories of template, Web Banners and Catalogs, plus a large selection of new designs in the other categories including e-books, presentations, product sheets and social media.
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There's been a bumper content release for Xara Online Designer including new presentations, product sheets, e-books , social media posts and resumes, plus a new booklet, letter and flyer.
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Sean Garrity from Hosting Advice has been speaking with Xara founder Charles Moir about Xara Web Designer, in the context of 35 years of innovation at Xara. It makes for interesting reading!
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We have just released another update to Online Designer, which includes improvements to the Photo Effects and shape selection, a handy new Replace Logo option, and new content including 4 new presentations.
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We’ve just released an update to Xara Designer Pro X under our Update Service. Enhancements include a new time-saving auto-fit feature that makes it quick and easy to change documents to different sizes without having to redesign them. Plus there's new content including Web Themes, presentation themes and social media templates.
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We have just released another major update to Xara Online Designer, adding automatic page re-size. It's a huge time saver when it comes to resizing your designs, whether it's changing A4 flyers to US Letter, or Facebook posts to Twitter posts.
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We’ve just released another update to Photo & Graphic Designer under our Update Service. This is a major update that sees some of the Pro design and performance features migrated to Photo & Graphic Designer including support for CMYK color separations, PDF/X and multi-core rendering, and a new time-saving auto-fit feature that makes it quick and easy to change documents to different sizes without having to re-design them (eg A4 flyer to US letter, or Facebook cover to Twitter cover).
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We’ve just released an update to Web Designer and Web Designer Premium under our Update Service. Enhancements include a new time-saving auto-fit feature that makes it quick and easy to change documents to different sizes without having to redesign them, especially valuable for social media designs where you often use a single design for all the social sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Other updates include full support for hyphenation, and new content including Web Themes, Photo Filters and Flowline SmartShapes.
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We have just released another major update to Xara Online Designer, adding some cool new photo effects, and marquee selection.
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Xara has signed a worldwide distribution agreement for its desktop products with MAGIX Software, and Xara's marketing team will focus on driving forward its new cloud solution.
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We have just released another update to Xara Online Designer, which includes a host of useful 'under the bonnet' improvements, plus we've sneaked in a few new features.
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The September tutorial is Part 2 of our walk thru on creating business documents using the templates in Xara Online Designer. This month's offer is on upgrades and renewals for Photo & Graphic Designer, and in Inspirational Art we feature two designers new to the Outsider, Sandor Beres and Bruno Costa. Plus as usual there's a round up of Other News from Xara and TalkGraphics.
The September Outsider
Tutorial: Creating an Online Designer document Pt 2
Inspirational Art
Top Ten Reviews has awarded Page & Layout Designer the No 1 spot in the desktop publishing category, beating Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Publisher to the coveted Gold Award.
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The August tutorial takes a look at how to create your business documents using the templates in Xara Online Designer. There's an offer on Web Designer Premium upgrades and renewals, and in Inspirational Art we feature the work of Russian designer Anton Korenyako. Plus as usual there's a round up of Other News from Xara and TalkGraphics.
The August Outsider
Tutorial: Create your business docs in Online Designer
Inspirational Art
We've added another talented designer to the Xara Art Gallery. Tomas Kopecky is a professional illustrator, graphic designer and animator based in the Czech Republic, using Xara Designer Pro.
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We have just released another important update to Xara Online Designer. We've added a short Intro Tour for first time users, and some handy prompts to offer further guidance. New features include a photo coloring option, and the first stage in our implementation of Word and Powerpoint import. Plus there is a new Travel theme, including letters, flyers, presentations and social media graphics.
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We have just released a major update to Xara Online Designer. Significant additions include photo enhancement options (brightness, contrast etc), an integrated spell checker, the ability to add comments (ideal if you are collaborating on documents with your colleagues), new Flowline SmartShapes, and SVG import.
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In Part 3 of our SmartShape tutorial we take a look at chart & percentage ring SmartShapes. This month's offer is a discount on Designer Pro upgrades from all older versions of Designer Pro, with a copy of MAGIX Fastcut 1 as a bonus. And in Inspirational Art we feature the cartoon illustrations of Tomas Kopecky. Plus as usual there's a round up of Other News from Xara and TalkGraphics.
The July Outsider
Tutorial: Chart & Percentage Ring SmartShapes
Inspirational Art
We’ve just released the another update to Xara Designer Pro X365 under our 365 day Update Service. We've added a great selection of new content including all the Print Business Themes (100+), a new category of resumes, plus new social media templates, presentations, letters and flyers. Plus we've added support for PDF/X4 and a range of text editing improvements such as better support for multi-weight fonts.
More information on what's new
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We've just added another set of themed templates to Online Designer (BusinessCase), including flyers, social media headings and a 27 page presentation. Plus there are new color and text style themes.
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This month's featured tutorial takes a look at creating online presentations in Web Designer Premium and Designer Pro, and we also have demo movies on Online Designer. The June offer is a last chance to buy v11 of Photo & Graphic Designer or Web Designer Premium at a bargain stock clearance price. Inspirational Art introduces two new designers, and as usual there's a round up of Other News from Xara and TalkGraphics.
The June Outsider
Tutorial: Creating Online Presentations
Inspirational Art
We have just added a new selection of templates to Online Designer, including flyers, social media headings and a 16 page presentation in a contemporary new theme (BaseNew).
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We've just added seven new tutorial movies to the Online Designer play list in our YouTube channel. New movies cover adding stock photos and symbols, using SmartShapes, group selection and the new ready-made color schemes. Online Designer is currently included in the Update Service with 365 versions of Designer Pro X, Web Designer or Photo & Graphic Designer.
YouTube: Online Designer Playlist
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We have just released another update to Xara Online Designer. Changes include an improved color picker and item picker (for items such as photo grids, charts, arrows and symbols), and enhanced selection and snapping options. Plus there are new presentation, flyer and social media templates.
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We’ve just released another update to Photo & Graphic Designer under our 365 day Update Service. We've now added Online Designer to Photo & Graphic Designer, and other enhancements include new Photo Filter Overlays, ligature support, new SmartShapes and much more.
More information on what's new
Updated Release Notes
Update Service
The May Outsider tutorial is the second part of our series on SmartShapes, this time taking a closer look at Text and Photo Panels. This month's offer is a great value deal on Photo & Graphic Designer, a bundle with Panorama Studio 3 plus a free back up DVD. Inspirational Art features the work of Aiyanne Chan and Michael Tumey, and as usual there's a round up of Other News from Xara and TalkGraphics.
The May Outsider
Tutorial: SmartShapes Pt 2, Text & Photo Panels
Inspirational Art
We've updated the Xara Art Gallery with a selection of new illustrations by Aiyanne Chan. Aiyanne is a young British artist who specializes in vector illustration in the anime or kawaii style, using Photo & Graphic Designer.
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We've just added a couple of great new illustrations by Andrew Wrigley to the Xara Art Gallery. Andrew's photo realistic Zero and Hurricane illustrations were recently included in the Inspirational Art feature of the Xara Outsider.
Visit the Art Gallery
The Xara Outsider
There has been another update to Xara Online Designer. There are some major enhancements including integrated access to the Pixabay stock photo library and enhanced support for color schemes and text styles.
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In the April tutorial we explain how to edit some of the most popular SmartShapes, including arrows, shapes and spirals. The Featured Offer is a 25% discount on upgrades from Photo & Graphic Designer, Web Designer Premium and Page & Layout Designer to Designer Pro, and if you already own Pro you can take some inspiration from the work of Derek Cooper and Alan Wrigley in this month's Inspirational Art. Plus as usual there's a round up of Other News from Xara and TalkGraphics.
The April Outsider
Tutorial: SmartShapes Pt 1
Inspirational Art
We’ve just released an update to Web Designer 365 under our 365 day Update Service. Enhancements include the addition of stock photos and illustrations to the Online Content Catalog, SVG import & export, new SmartShapes and many other text, photo and general usability improvements.
More information on what's new
Updated Release Notes
Update Service
There has been another update to Xara Online Designer. The latest additions include a library of over 1500 symbols and icons which can be quickly and easily added to your document, either as a vector graphic or inline in the text.
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We’ve just released the another update to Xara Designer Pro X365 under our 365 day Update Service. New additions include ligature support for Open Type fonts, a new type of 'overlay' photo filter, and full width photo sliders for web pages. What's more we have a short offer on upgrades from all older versions of Designer Pro X (ends 6th April).
More information on what's new
Updated Release Notes
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We’ve just released another update to Web Designer Premium 365 under our 365 day Update Service. The most recent additions include a full width option for photos in the Xara Slideshow, ligature support for Open Type fonts, and greater control over the web settings of images within a group. Plus we also have a short offer on upgrades from all older versions of Web Designer and Web Designer Premium (ends 6th April).
More information on what's new
Updated Release Notes
Update Service
In this month's Featured Tutorial we take a closer look at creating bullet and number lists in the current Designer titles, while the Featured Movie covers the Screen Capture utility. To coincide with the latest Update Service updates to Web Designer Premium and Designer Pro we have a short upgrade offer on both titles. Inspirational Art features recent work from the TalkGraphics Art Gallery Forum, and as usual there's Other News from Xara and TalkGraphics.
The March Outsider
Tutorial: Creating Bullet & Number Lists
Inspirational Art
The Premium version of Xara Online Designer, included with the 365 versions of Web Designer Premium and Designer Pro X, has just been updated. Key improvements include the addition of a transparency control and the ability to make multiple selections.
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We’ve added two introductory movies and 7 other short tutorials to our YouTube channel, demonstrating all the key features of Online Designer. If you are an owner of the 365 version of Designer Pro X or Web Designer Premium you can use Online Designer to remotely edit your Xara websites or documents, in a browser and using any device (including iPads, Macs, Android tablets and Chromebooks).
YouTube: Online Designer Playlist
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This month's Featured Tutorial is an Introduction to Online Designer, our online remote editing service included with Designer Pro X and Web Designer Premium. There's also an offer on Premium and Pro, a free copy of Magix's video editing software Fastcut 1. Plus Inspirational Art features recent work from the TalkGraphics Art Gallery Forum, and as usual there's Other News from Xara and TalkGraphics.
The February Outsider
Tutorial: An Introduction to Xara Online Designer
Inspirational Art
We’ve added two new tutorial movies to the Xara website and YouTube channel, covering the Screen Capture utility and the Transparency Tool & Transparency Blend Modes.
YouTube: Xara channel
Designer Pro tutorials
Web Designer Premium tutorials
Photo & Graphic Designer tutorials
The Premium version of Xara Online Designer, included with the 365 versions of Web Designer Premium and Designer Pro X, has just been updated. Enhancements include a new ability for designers to quickly and easily give editing access to clients or co-workers via Share & Publish, even if the client or co-worker doesn't own a Xara product (client sign up no longer required).
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We’ve just released another update to Photo & Graphic Designer under our 365 day Update Service. Additions include a new category of Photo Filter Pre-Sets called Overlays, a really easy way to apply texture, transparency or pattern effects to your photos.
More information on what's new
Updated Release Notes
Update Service
The Premium version of Xara Online Designer, included with the 365 versions of Web Designer Premium and Designer Pro X, has just been updated. The key improvement is a major increase in the speed of publishing read-only copies of your document to the web via the Share... option, now faster by a factor or 10!
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In this month's featured tutorial we show you how to use Xara Online Designer (our online service included with the 365 versions of Web Designer Premium and Designer Pro) to create a simple, single page website. Plus there's some more great art from a designer who is new to the Outsider, and as usual there's other news from Xara and TalkGraphics.
The January Outsider
Tutorial: Use Xara Online Designer to create a Web Story
Art: Tomasz Sadzinica
The December Outsider has just been published. This month there are Christmas Holiday offers on our Designer titles, and a tutorial that shows you how to turn your favorite photo into a greeting card, while Inspirational Art features the work of two very talented icon designers. Plus as usual there's other news from Xara and TalkGraphics.
The December Outsider
Tutorial: Use your photos in cards or photo frames
Art: Icons by Alexi Ryazancev & Mike Miroshnikov
We've just added a selection of work by Aiyanne Chan to the Xara Art Gallery. Aiyanne is a young UK based artist who specialises in vector illustration in the anime or kawaii style. We recently featured some of her work in the November issue of Inspirational Art.
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Aiyanne Chan in Inspirational Art
We’ve added two new tutorial movies to the Xara website and YouTube channel. The new movies cover two great additions to the photo features of Photo & Graphic Designer, Web Designer and Designer Pro 365: Photo Grids and Photo Filters.
YouTube: Xara channel
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We've just added some great new illustrations to the collection of Estince Voi in the Xara Art Gallery. The 3 new images were recently featured in the Inspirational Art feature of the Xara Outsider.
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Estince Voi in Inspirational Art
The November Outsider has just been published. Not surprisingly our featured offer this month is a Black Friday special, with 30% off the Designer titles. Our tutorial takes a look at the new Photo Grids, and Inspirational Art features the work of Outsider newcomer Aiyanne Chan, who specializes in vector illustration in the anime or kawaii style. Plus as usual there's other news from Xara and TalkGraphics.
The November Outsider
Tutorial: Photo Grids
Art: Aiyanne Chan
This is Xara's biggest offer of the year, with 30% off new copies of our key Designer titles, from Thanksgiving (24th November) thru Black Friday to Cyber Monday (28th November) inclusive.
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We’ve just released the first update to Xara Designer Pro X365 under our new Update Service. The many new additions include the ability to automatically create a table of contents, 50 new photo filter pre-sets, improved web page animations, and new text features such as link to heading and vertically aligned text. Plus we also have a short offer on upgrades from all older versions of Designer Pro X (ends 18th November).
More information on what's new
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We’ve just released the second update to Web Designer Premium 365 under our new Update Service. The most recent additions include improved web page animations, 50 new photo filter pre-sets and 23 new photo grids, and new text features such as link to heading and vertically aligned text. Plus we also have a short offer on upgrades from all older versions of Web Designer and Web Designer Premium (ends 18th November).
More information on what's new
Updated Release Notes
Update Service
We've posted new surveys for owners of the 365 versions of Photo & Graphic Designer, Designer Pro X and Web Designer Premium. They only take a few minutes to complete and your feedback is really appreciated. As a little extra incentive we'll pick one lucky respondent to each survey at random to win a free upgrade the next version.
New Owner Surveys
The October Outsider has just been published. In this month's issue we have a Stock Clearance Offer on Photo & Graphic Designer 11. In our tutorial we work through an example of how you can use Photo & Graphic Designer or Designer Pro to transform your photos. Estince Voi is the artist that we have featured in our Inspirational Art section and don't miss our 3 latest movies on our YouTube channel. Photo Handles, Online Content Catalog and the Photo Effect Painter Tool.
The October Outsider
Tutorial: A photo transformed
All the Magix titles in the Xara online store have been updated to the latest version, and all now include the 365 day Update Service. To mark the new releases we’re including a coupon code with every purchase of a Designer title (including upgrades) worth \$15 / £10 / €15, which you can redeem against any one of the Magix audio or video titles sold in the Xara online store during the rest of October.
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We’ve just released the first update to Photo & Graphic Designer 365 under our new Update Service. The many new additions include 50 new photo filter pre-sets, a collection of royalty-free stock illustrations in the Content Catalog, a new chevron SmartShape and improved Word, PDF and SVG support, plus we're now bundling MAGIX Photo Manager 16. We also have a short return to the launch offer on new copies and upgrades (ends 16th October).
More information on what's new
Updated Release Notes
Update Service
We’ve added some new and revised tutorial movies to the Xara website and YouTube channel.
NEW videos include: The Magnetic Lasso tool, The Content Catalog and The Photo Effect Painter tool.
Revised videos: Web Animations and Sticky Objects.
YouTube: Xara channel
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The September Outsider has just been published. In this month's issue we have a full 20% discount on upgrades from Photo & Graphic Designer, Web Designer Premium or Page & Layout Designer to our flagship product Xara Designer Pro X. We return to the subject of web design for our tutorial and there is some more Inspirational Art. Don't miss our latest movie on our YouTube channel, introducing the new Magnetic Lasso tool.
The September Outsider
Tutorial: Create your own web story
Xara is 35 years old this weekend and we're celebrating with 35% off all first time purchases of Xara Designer Pro, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer, Xara Web Designer and Xara Page & Layout Designer. Offer ends Tuesday 30th August.
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35 years of Xara, 1981 - 2016
The August Outsider has just been published. In this month's issue we reveal our 35th Anniversary offers, plus we have two more tutorials on photo editing in Photo & Graphic Designer and Designer Pro, and Inspirational Art returns.
The August Outsider
Tutorial: Adjusting shadows & highlights in your photos
Tutorial: Changing colors in your photo
MAGIX has released the Spanish language version of the new Photo & Graphic Designer, including the 365 day Update Service. It's available right now on the MAGIX site.
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The 365 day Update Service
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MAGIX has released a Dutch version of the new Photo & Graphic Designer, including the 365 Update Service. It's available now on the MAGIX site.
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The 365 day Update Service
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The July Outsider has just been published. In this month's issue we have two featured tutorials on photo editing in Photo & Graphic Designer and Designer Pro, plus there's an offer on upgrades to Web Designer Premium 365, and other news from Xara and TalkGraphics.
The July Outsider
Tutorial: An introduction to the photo tools
Tutorial: A closer look at the Photo Enhance tool
MAGIX has released the German language version of the latest Xara Designer Pro X, including the new 365 day Update Service, and it is available right now on the MAGIX site.
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The 365 day Update Service
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MAGIX has released an Italian language version of the new Photo & Graphic Designer, including the 365 day Update Service. It's available now on the MAGIX site.
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MAGIX has released a French language version of Photo & Graphic Designer 365. It's available now on the MAGIX site.
Pour en savoir plus
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Our special edition of the Outsider focusses on the brand new Xara Designer Pro X365, including a First Look review by Gary Priester, and information on the launch offers. Plus there's other news from Xara and TalkGraphics.
The Outsider Special Edition
A First Look at Designer Pro X365 by Gary Priester
Xara Online Designer allows you (or your clients) to remotely edit the text and images in websites created with Web Designer or Designer Pro. The Premium version of Xara Online Designer, included with Web Designer 365 Premium and Designer Pro X365, has just been updated. New features include hyphenation support, the addition of new SmartShapes and some of the new text features just added to Xara Designer Pro X.
More about Online Designer
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We’ve just released a new version of our flagship product, Xara Designer Pro X. v365 is available right now on the Xara website and there's a short launch offer on new copies and upgrades from v11 and other Designer titles. You can find information on what’s new and the intro offers on the Designer Pro site, and of course download the free trial.
More about Designer Pro X
What's New in v365
Gary Priester’s First Look at Designer Pro X365 on the Xara Xone
We’ve just released the first update to Web Designer 365 Premium under our new Update Service. New features include the addition to the Online Content Catalog of an integrated stock photo and illustration library, and a collection of Photo Filter Pre-Sets.
What's New
Update Service
MAGIX has released the German language version of the new Foto & Grafik Designer, including the 365 day Update Service. It's available right now on the MAGIX site and will be available in stores in the next couple of weeks. Introductory offer ends: 30th June 2016.
Foto & Grafik Designer De: Mehr Infos
The 365 day Update Service
Info on all localized versions
MAGIX has released the Dutch language versions of the latest Web Designer and Web Designer Premium, including the new 365 day Update Service. They are available now on the MAGIX site.
Meer Info
The 365 day Update Service
Info on all localized versions
MAGIX has released the Spanish language versions of the latest Web Designer and Web Designer Premium, including the new 365 day Update Service. They are available now on the MAGIX site.
Más información
The 365 day Update Service
Info on all localized versions
MAGIX has released the Italian language versions of the latest Web Designer and Web Designer Premium, including the new 365 day Update Service. They are available now on the MAGIX site.
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The 365 day Update Service
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We have just released a free patch for Web Designer v365 and we recommend you update. If you own Xara Web Designer 365 / Web Designer 365 Premium click on the Update button in the Help menu to download it now.
More Info
The May Outsider has just been published. This month we cover the recent launch of a new version of Photo & Graphic Designer, with two Photo & Graphic Designer tutorials and of course launch offers. Plus there's other news from Xara and TalkGraphics.
The May Outsider
Tutorial: An introduction to Photo & Graphic Designer
Tutorial: The basics of photo editing with Photo & Graphic Designer
We’ve just launched a new version of Photo & Graphic Designer and it's available now for purchase and download on the Xara website. You can find information on what’s new, the free trial download and upgrade info (including an intro offer for v11 owners) on the Photo & Graphic Designer site. New feaetures include some exciting new photo tools, significant text enhancements and some great new content. We also have a new update model, the Update Guarantee, which gives access to updates in the 365 days after purchase.
More about Photo & Graphic Designer
What's New
More about the Update Guarantee
MAGIX has released the French language versions of Web Designer and Web Designer Premium, including the new 365 day Update Service. They are available now on the MAGIX site.
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The 365 day Update Service
Info on all localized versions
MAGIX has just released the German language version of the new Web Designer and Web Designer Premium, including the 365 day Update Service. They are available now on the MAGIX site, and will be in stores in Germany over the next few weeks.
Web Designer: Mehr Infos
The 365 day Update Service
Info on all localized versions
Xara Online Designer allows you (or your clients) to remotely edit the text and images in websites created with Web Designer or Designer Pro. The Premium version of Xara Online Designer, included with Web Designer 365 Premium, has just been updated. New features include the first SmartShapes, a color picker, additional photo grids and improved Dropbox and OneDrive integration.
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Versions of Online Designer
The April Outsider has just been published. The big news this month is the launch of a new version of Web Designer, and we include a tutorial on creating parallax scrolling effects using the new Web Designer 365 Premium. Plus there are offers and other news from Xara and TalkGraphics.
The April Outsider
Tutorial: Parallax animation effects with Xara Web Designer
We’ve just released a major upgrade to Xara Web Designer, packed with new content and features, and it's available now in the Xara online store. You can find information on what’s new, the free trial downloads and upgrade info on the Web Designer website. Top new features in Web Designer Premium include new scrolling animations (including parallax effects), other new animation effects, enhanced stickies and a huge increase in content, plus significant improvements to Xara Online Designer. We also have a new update model, the Update Guarantee.
What's New in Web Designer 365
More about the Update Service
The March Outsider has just been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and the Xara Xone, plus art, tutorials, offers and more. This month's tutorial is Part 2 of our series on color editing, covering Named Colors, Tints, Shades and Linked colors and more. In Inspirational Art we showcase the work of 6 talented designers who have recently posted in the Art Gallery forum of TalkGraphics, and there are special offers on MAGIX Movie Edit Pro and Designer Pro X10.
The March Outsider
Inspirational Art
Tutorial: Color Editing Pt 2
Xara Online Designer allows you (or your clients) to remotely edit the text and images in websites created with Web Designer 11 or Designer Pro 11, and is included for free with both titles. The latest update adds the ability to download your document as a PDF, or the current page as a JPEG or PNG. You'll find the two new options in the Documents menu at the top left hand side of the page in Online Designer.
More about Xara Online Designer
The February Outsider has just been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and the Xara Xone, plus art, tutorials, offers and more. This month's tutorial takes a look at the Color Editor and Color Line in the Designer titles, in Inspirational Art we showcase the work of Maxim Lysak, and there is a special offer on Web Designer 11 Premium.
The February Outsider
Inspirational Art
Tutorial: Color Editing Pt 1
MAGIX has released a Russian language version of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11, available now on the MAGIX site.
Дополнительная информация
Info on all localized versions
We’ve added a great new designer to the Art Gallery. Michael Tumey is a professional freelance cartographer creating illustrations in Designer Pro primarily for the gaming industry.
Visit the Art Gallery
The January Outsider has just been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and the Xara Xone, plus art, tutorials, offers and more. This month includes part 3 of our Beginner's Guide to Photo & Graphic Designer and looks closely at the drawing tools. There is a new addition to the Art Gallery, great January sales, movie news and more!
The January Outsider
Inspirational Art
The new version of MAGIX Photostory Deluxe has just been added to the Xara site and online store. New addtions to v2016 include convenient travel route animations, slideshows that change in sync with the soundtrack, themed movie templates and outstanding image stabilization.
More about MAGIX Photostory 2016 Deluxe
All MAGIX titles on xara.com
The December Outsider has just been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and the Xara Xone, plus art, tutorials, offers and more. This month includes Part 2 of the Beginner's Guide to Photo & Graphic Designer, there's a new artist in Inspirational Art and a seasonally generous selection of offers on Xara and MAGIX titles.
The December Outsider
Inspirational Art
The brand new 2016 versions of Music Maker and Music Maker Live have just been added to the Xara site and online store, which means there are now even more options for making your own sounds, beats and tracks quickly and easily on your own computer.
More about Music Maker 2016
More about Music Maker 2016 Live
All MAGIX titles on xara.com
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11 has been picked by the Computer Shopper editorial team as winner in the Best Software category in this year's prestigious Computer Shopper awards.
More about the Computer Shopper awards
Other reviews & testimonials
This is Xara's biggest offer of the year, with 30% off new copies of our key Designer 11 titles and 50% off template and widget packs, from Thanksgiving (26th November) thru Black Friday to Cyber Monday (30th November) inclusive.
Xara Online Designer allows you (or your clients) to remotely edit the text and images in websites created with Web Designer 11 or Designer Pro 11, and is included for free with both titles. There has been a major update to Online Designer, including the ability to edit text and photos in groups.
What's New in Xara Online Designer
More about Xara Online Designer
The November Outsider has just been published, with the latest news from Xara and TalkGraphics, plus art, tutorials, offers and more. This month's tutorial is a Beginner's Guide to Photo & Graphic Designer, and there are offers on Web Designer upgrades and MAGIX Music Maker. Plus the ever popular Inspirational Art features the work of three more designers using Xara software.
The November Outsider
Inspirational Art
The brand new version of MAGIX Movie Edit Pro Plus has just been added to the Xara site. Movie Edit Pro is the most popular MAGIX product with Xara customers and v2016 is available now for purchase in the Xara store.
More about MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 2011 Plus
All MAGIX titles on xara.com
We have just released a free patch for all Designer 11 series products and we recommend you update. If you own Xara Web Designer 11/ Web Designer 11 Premium, Photo & Graphic Designer 11, Page & Layout Designer 11 or Designer Pro X11 click on the Update button in the Help menu to download it now.
More Info on v11.2.4
The October Outsider has just been published, with the latest news from Xara and TalkGraphics, plus art, tutorials, offers and more. This month's tutorial looks at how to make the most of the Font Awesome icons and symbols, while the October Offer is a short return to the Pro 11 launch pricing. Inspirational Art introduces three artists who are new to Inspirational Art.
The October Outsider
Inspirational Art
We have just added five new tutorial videos to help you make the most of our v11 titles. Find out how to embed graphics or add highlights to your text. And for websites, discover how to create sticky objects and stretching backgrounds, or add eye catching animations to your mouseover or click actions or on reveal.
An index of all our tutorial movies
MAGIX has released the French language versions of Page & Layout Designer 11. It is available now on the MAGIX site.
Plus d'infos
Info on all localized versions
MAGIX has just released the Dutch version of the new Page & Layout Designer 11. It's available right now on the MAGIX site.
Page & Layout Designer 11 NL: Meer Info
Info on all localized versions
MAGIX has released the Spanish language versions of Page & Layout Designer 11. It is available now on the MAGIX site.
Más información
Info on all localized versions
MAGIX has just released the Italian language version of the new Page & Layout Designer 11. It's available right now on the MAGIX site.
Page & Layout Designer 11 It: Altre Info
Info on all localized versions
The Outsider has just been published, with the latest news from Xara and TalkGraphics, plus art, tutorials, offers and more. We have a tutorial all about Xara Online file sharing and collaborative editing, plus there's a special offer on Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11 and you can save 50% on Xara 3D Maker 7. Inspirational Art returns with a selection of recent highlights from the Xara Art Gallery forum on TalkGraphics.
The September Outsider
Inspirational Art
MAGIX has released a Dutch version of Photo & Graphic Designer 11. It's available now on the MAGIX site.
Meer informatie
Info on all localized versions
MAGIX has released the German language version of the new Xara Designer Pro X11 and it is available right now on the MAGIX site.
Xara Designer Pro X11 De: Mehr Infos
Info on all localized versions
MAGIX has released a French language version of Photo & Graphic Designer 11. It's available now on the MAGIX site.
Pour en savoir plus
MAGIX Magazine: Photo & Graphic Designer 11 - Deux univers réunis en un seul programme !
Info on all localized versions
MAGIX has released an Italian language version of Photo & Graphic Designer 11. It's available now on the MAGIX site.
Altre Info
MAGIX Magazine: Photo & Graphic Designer 11 – Due mondi in un unico programma
Info on all localized versions
MAGIX has released the Spanish language version of the new Photo & Graphic Designer 11. It's available right now on the MAGIX site, and will be in stores in Spain over the next few weeks.
Photo & Graphic Designer 11 ES: Más Información
MAGIX Magazine: Photo & Graphic Designer 11 – Dos mundos en un único programa
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We have just released a free patch for all Designer 11 series products and we recommend you update. If you own Xara Web Designer 11/ Web Designer 11 Premium, Photo & Graphic Designer 11, Page & Layout Designer 11 or Designer Pro X11 click on the Update button in the Help menu to download it now.
More Info on v11.2.3
We have just added 4 new contemporary web themes to Web Designer 11 Premium, based on the popular v11 demo sites. The new themes are in the Designs Gallery under Web Themes General (Mobile Ready): Ultimate, Hipster, Cooking, John James. Note: these themes require v 11.2.3 or later.
See previews of the new themes
MAGIX has just released the German language version of the new Page & Layout Designer 11. It's available right now on the MAGIX site.
Page & Layout Designer 11 De: Mehr Infos
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The Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, art, tutorials, offers and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. We have a tutorial introducing the new Xara Online Designer, plus there's a short half price offer on MAGIX Movie Edit Pro, and Inspirational Art returns with a selection of recent highlights from the Xara Art Gallery forum on TalkGraphics.
The August Outsider
Inspirational Art
New on the Xara Xone: Gary Bouton's 12 minute video tutorial introduces some of the most useful text controls (text styles, sub and superscript, baseline shift, tracking, soft breaks and custom bullets). Plus you can follow Gary's steps as he creates a logo with inter-twining letters and discover all the options of the Arrange in this month's Tips & Tricks tutorial. And finally, don’t miss the latest Free Stuff, 13 new tiling textures to download.
Tutorial Movie: Some Text Tool Basics
Tips & Tricks Tutorial: Making a Varsity Style Logo
Free Stuff: 13 new textures to download for free
MAGIX has released the German language version of the new Photo & Graphic Designer 11. It's available right now on the MAGIX site, and will be in stores in Germany over the next few weeks.
Foto & Grafik Designer 11 De: Mehr Infos
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MAGIX has released the French language versions of Web Designer and Web Designer Premium 11. They are available now on the MAGIX site.
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MAGIX has released the Dutch language versions of Web Designer 11 and Web Designer Premium 11. They are available now on the MAGIX site.
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MAGIX has released the Spanish language versions of Web Designer 11 and Web Designer Premium 11. They are available now on the MAGIX site.
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MAGIX has released the Italian language versions of Web Designer and Web Designer Premium 11. They are available now on the MAGIX site.
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The Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, art, tutorials, offers and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. We have launch offers on Xara Designer Pro X11, and in the Xara Xone there's new Free Stuff (the Knockout Venetian Font) and a Guest Tutorial by Paul Saumure with a great demo of the 3D Extrusion tool. Plus there's a bonus Xara tutorial on our Sticky and Stretchy web features. What's next? Sign up to our RSS feed to get Xara news as it happens!
The July Outsider
We have just released a free patch for Photo & Graphic Designer v11 and we recommend you update. If you own Photo & Graphic Designer v11, click on the Update button in the Help menu to download it now.
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New on the Xara Xone: Paul Saumure with Gary Bouton show you how to create an extruded battery in this month's tips and tricks. Get a great insight into our flagship product Xara Designer Pro X11 with Gary Priester's 'First Look' article. And finally, don’t miss the new Free Stuff: A knockout typeface for headlines and 3D extrusion.
Tips & Tricks: Create an extruded battery
First Look: Gary Priester's First Look at Designer Pro X11
Free Stuff: A knockout typeface for headlines and 3D extrusion
We’ve just released Xara Page & Layout Designer 11 and it's available right now on the Xara website, with a short launch offer on new copies. You can find information on what’s new, the free trial download and upgrade info on the Page & Layout Designer site.
More about Page & Layout Designer
What's New in v11
We’ve just released a new version of our flagship product, Xara Designer Pro. V11 is available right now on the Xara website and there's a short launch offer on upgrades. You can find information on what’s new and the intro offers on the Designer Pro site, and of course download the free trial.
More about Designer Pro
What's New in v11
Gary Priester’s First Look at Designer Pro X11 on the Xara Xone
The Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, art, tutorials, offers and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. We have launch offers on Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11, and in the Xara Xone there's new Free Stuff and a Guest Tutorial by Frances Proctor on creating golden text. What's next? Sign up to our RSS feed to get Xara news as it happens!
Outsider Special Edition
We’ve just released Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11 and it's available right now on the Xara website. You can find information on what’s new, the free trial download and upgrade info (including an intro offer for v10 owners) on the Photo & Graphic Designer site.
More about Photo & Graphic Designer
What's New in v11
Gary Priester’s First Look at Photo & Graphic Designer 11 on the Xara Xone
MAGIX has just released the German language version of the new Web Designer 11 and Web Designer 11 Premium. They are available now on the MAGIX site, and will be in stores in Germany over the next few weeks.
Web Designer 11: Mehr Infos
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We have just released a free patch for Web Designer v11 and we recommend you update. If you own Xara Web Designer 11 / Web Designer 11 Premium click on the Update button in the Help menu to download it now.
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The May Outsider has just been published. This month's edition features our new product, Web Designer 11! We have introductory launch offers, a 'First Look at v11' on the Xara Xone and a short intro movie. You can find details on the new v11 features in the Web Designer 11 Release Notes. Read the press reviews, catch up with the Xara news as it happens and why not have a go at our monthly challenges on Talk Graphics.
The May Outsider
We’ve just released a major upgrade to Xara Web Designer, packed with new content and features. Web Designer 11 and Web Designer 11 Premium are available now in the Xara online store. You can find information on what’s new, the free trial downloads and upgrade info on the Web Designer website. Top new features include sticky objects, stretching backgrounds and new animation types, plus the responsive web design feature is added to the standard version of Web Designer. Web Designer 11 users will also be able to use the beta version of cloud.xara, which enables remote editing of their websites from anywhere, on any device.
More about Web Designer
What's New in v11
An introduction to cloud.xara (beta)
Gary Priester’s First Look at Web Designer 11 on the Xara Xone
The April Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, art, tutorials, offers and more from Xara and TalkGraphics. This month we have upgrade offers on Xara Photo & Graphic Designer and Designer Pro v10. The Xara tutorial covers how to get the best from the Rectangle tool. This month's Inspirational Art features Xara's pick of work from the TalkGraphics Art Gallery Forum and elsewhere.
The April Outsider
We have just added the brand new MAGIX Video Pro X7 to the Xara site.This is MAGIX's top of the range video editing program for professional users. New features include comprehensive action cam support, and hardware accelerated decoding.
Find out more
The Xara website has had a complete facelift, which includes a modern, fully mobile-friendly new design. We hope you like the new look, all feedback is very welcome.
Send your feedback to marketing!
The March Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, art, tutorials, offers and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. This month we have half price offers on Xara 3D Maker 7 and MAGIX Video Pro X6. The Xara tutorial covers the very topical issue of responsive web design, and this month's Inspirational Art features Xara's pick of work from the TalkGraphics Art Gallery Forum, the Xara Gallery and Xara Xone Featured Artists..
The March Outsider
We've just updated the Xara Artist Gallery, adding the work of Dave Cockburn, a professional illustrator and animation director based in the UK.
Visit the Gallery now
New on the Xara Xone: Gary Bouton completes his tutorial on creating a poster for a casino night. See how he lays out the text and creates a custom brush amongst many other tips in Part 2. Plus check out Bob Taylor’s quick & easy wordless tutorial for drawing a fish. And don’t miss the new Free Stuff: a dozen free bump maps to download and, as a bonus, two mini tutorials on using them, including making some realistic water droplets. Suitable for Xara Photo & Graphic Designer and Designer Pro.
Movie Tutorial: Creating a Casino Poster (Part 2)
Tips & Tricks: Teach a man to fish
Use bump maps for cool artwork in Free Stuff
The Xone forum on TalkGraphics
We have just released a free patch for all v10 Xara Designer products and we recommend you update. If you own Xara Web Designer 10 / Web Designer 10 Premium, Photo & Graphic Designer 10, Page & Layout Designer 10 or Designer Pro X10 click on the Update button in the Help menu to download it now. This adds various minor web and photo enhancements and fixes to all titles.
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The February Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, art, tutorials, offers and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. This month's offers include free business web themes with Designer Pro and Web Designer Premium, plus a launch offer on Photostory 2015. The Xara tutorial covers photo galleries & photo pop-ups, and this month's Inspirational Art features Xara's pick of work from the TalkGraphics Gallery Forum and Xara Xone Featured Artists.
The February Outsider
We have just added 34 new designs to our collection of Business Web Themes, bringing the total to more than 150. Each theme includes pages tailored to a particular business type, including high quality graphics and photography suited to the business, so it's now quicker and easier than ever before for any small business to create a consistent, professional web presence. The themes are suitable for use with Web Designer 9 & 10 or Designer Pro X9 and X10.
See the Business Web Themes
In Part 1 of a new movie tutorial, Gary Bouton starts work on a poster advertising a casino night, drawing a roulette wheel and neon headline text, exploring many of the illustration tools of Designer Pro and Photo & Graphic Designer in the process. In a Tips & Tricks Guest Tutorial Frances Proctor takes a look at managing your colors, covering color palettes, color schemes and named colors. To top it off there's a new Nouveau Gothic font waiting to be downloaded in Free Stuff.
Movie Tutorial: Creating a Casino Poster (Part 1)
Nouveau Gothic Font in Free Stuff
Tips & Tricks: Managing Your Colors
The Xone forum on TalkGraphics
The new version of MAGIX Photostory Deluxe has just been added to the Xara site and online store, with a short launch offer. v2015 offers a new Photostory wizard, eight configurable tracks and a huge song and sound archive, making it easier than ever before to create showstopping slideshows.
More about MAGIX Photostory 2015 Deluxe
All MAGIX titles on xara.com
We've just updated the Xara Artist Gallery, adding the work of Estince Voi, a young professional designer from Vietnam who specialises in cartoons.
Visit the Gallery now
The January Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, art, tutorials, offers and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. The January tutorial is a 'real life' photo editing example, plus there are new tutorials on the Xara Xone, and a New Year Upgrade Offer. Inspirational Art is on the ever popular theme of Cars & Bikes.
The January Outsider
In his latest tutorial for the Xara Xone Gary Bouton guides you through setting up the best conditions for tracing from a photo, and then shows you how you can use blends and gradients to closely match a real photograph's elements in your illustration. Tips & Tricks looks at how to make objects with a texture fill look more genuinely textured. To cap it off there's another 25 free seamless tiling textures in Free Stuff.
Movie Tutorial: Illustrations based on a photo trace
25 free textures in Free Stuff
Tips & Tricks: Getting that textured look
The Xone forum on TalkGraphics
The brand new version of MAGIX Movie Edit Pro Plus has just been added to the Xara site. Movie Edit Pro is the most popular MAGIX product with Xara customers and v2015 is available now for purchase in the Xara store with a short introductory offer on the price, and including a free copy of Music Maker Soundtrack Edition during the launch offer.
More about MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 2015 Plus
All MAGIX titles on xara.com
The December Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, tutorials, offers and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. The tutorial of the month is Part 4 of our Photo Editing Guide, plus there are new tutorials on the Xara Xone, a sackful of Xmas offers and Inspirational Art on a theme of Christmas.
The December Outsider
Gary has added a tutorial movie and Tips & Tricks tutorial that give the drawing and design tools of Xara Designer Pro and Photo & Graphic Designer a good work out. Plus there's a collection of free form shapes donated by Igor Vojtela, along with instructions on how he created them, an enjoyable and instructive exercise to follow.
Igor's illustrations in Free Stuff
Movie Tutorial: Christmas tree illustration
Tips & Tricks: Jelly bean illustration
The Xone forum on TalkGraphics
We have just released a free patch for all v10 Xara Designer products and we recommend you update. If you own Xara Web Designer 10 / Web Designer 10 Premium, Photo & Graphic Designer 10, Page & Layout Designer 10 or Designer Pro X10 click on the Update button in the Help menu to download it now. This adds various minor web and photo enhancements and fixes to all titles.
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We have added a new MAGIX product to the Xara site and store. MAGIX Fastcut lets you edit and share recordings from GoPro and other action cams, it includes action templates and you can even automatically cut your footage to fit the beat of the music. We have a short launch offer, ends 30th December 2014.
Find out more about Fastcut
A list of all the MAGIX titles in the Xara store
In this month's video tutorial Gary Bouton considers the importance of backgrounds for any illustration, creating a room complete with floorboards and wallpaper as a backdrop for his coffee and donut to demonstrate the point. Suitable for Xara Photo & Graphic Designer or Designer Pro.
The Importance of Backgrounds
Discuss the latest Xone content in the Xone forum on TalkGraphics
This is Xara’s biggest offer of the year, with 30% off new copies of our key Designer 10 titles, from Thanksgiving (27th November) thru Black Friday to Cyber Monday (1st December) inclusive.
Black Friday Offers
MAGIX has released the French language versions of Page & Layout Designer 10. It is available now on the MAGIX site.
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Frances Proctor has created a new Guest Tutorial movie (suitable for Designer Pro and Photo & Graphic Designer) showing how she created some watery heading text, making good use of Enhance Transparency, Feathering, Opacity Masks and Soft Groups in the process. Plus she has donated 12 stone tiling textures to Free Stuff.
Watery Text Headings
12 Stone Textures in Free Stuff
MAGIX has released the Spanish language versions of Page & Layout Designer 10. It is available now on the MAGIX site.
Más información
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MAGIX has just released the Dutch version of the new Page & Layout Designer 10. It's available right now on the MAGIX site.
Page & Layout Designer 10 NL: Meer Info
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MAGIX has just released the Italian language version of the new Page & Layout Designer 10. It's available right now on the MAGIX site.
Page & Layout Designer 10 It: Altre Info
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MAGIX has just released the German language version of the new Page & Layout Designer 10. It's available right now on the MAGIX site.
Page & Layout Designer 10 De: Mehr Infos
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The October Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, tutorials, offers and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. The Outsider tutorial is a handy introduction to the Photo Tool of Photo & Graphic Designer and Designer Pro, plus there are offers on both those products, and the MAGIX video titles. There's also another new designer featured in Inspirational Art.
The October Outsider
Gary Bouton has added a second instalment to his tutorial series on page layout and typography, plus a Tips & Tricks tutorial on how to create eye catching animations without the usual penalty of massive file sizes. Meanwhile Christine Farrelly has donated 25 seamlessly tiling textures to Free Stuff (based on the Burgeon Ornaments font created by the TalkGraphics community).
Page & Layout Part 2
Tips & Tricks, Big GIFs, Tiny Animations
Free Stuff: 25 Tiling Textures
MAGIX has released the Spanish language versions of Web Designer 10 and Web Designer Premium 10. They are available now on the MAGIX site.
Más información
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The brand new 2015 versions of Music Maker and Music Maker Premium have just been added to the Xara site and online store, which means there are now even more options for making your own sounds, beats and tracks quickly and easily on your own computer.
More about Music Maker 2015
More about Music Maker 2015 Premium
All MAGIX titles on xara.com
MAGIX has released the Dutch language versions of Web Designer 10 and Web Designer Premium 10. They are available now on the MAGIX site.
Meer Info
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We have a short, sharp sale on MAGIX Music Maker 2014 and Music Maker 2014 Premium - 5 days only, 60% off. v2015 will be launched next week. This offer is only available in the Xara online store.
Music Maker
Music Maker Premium
MAGIX has released the French language versions of Web Designer and Web Designer Premium 10. They are available now on the MAGIX site.
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MAGIX has released the Italian language versions of Web Designer and Web Designer Premium 10. They are available now on the MAGIX site.
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Two new tutorials have just been added to the Xara Xone which will stretch your knowledge of the photo and drawing tools in Photo & Graphic Designer and Designer Pro. Gary Bouton's movie looks at the many ways to use the mask & region tools for photo editing, and Rik Datta has contributed a Guest Tutorial that takes the extrude tool way beyond the usual 3D text.
Photo Composition Part 2
Tips & Tricks, Illustration With Extrudes
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The September Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, tutorials, offers and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. There are two great tutorials on photo editing, offers on Web Designer upgrades and the Template / Web & Widget Packs, plus another two new designers featured in Inspirational Art.
The September Outsider
MAGIX has released a Dutch version of Photo & Graphic Designer 10. It's available now on the MAGIX site.
Meer informatie
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Gary Bouton has just added his latest tutorial movie to the Xara Xone. In part 1 of two movies on photo composition he looks at creating a depth of field effect and enhancing by color selection.
Photo Composition Part 1
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MAGIX has released an Italian language version of Photo & Graphic Designer 10. It's available now on the MAGIX site.
Altre Info
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MAGIX has released a French language version of Photo & Graphic Designer 10. It's available now on the MAGIX site.
Pour en savoir plus
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MAGIX has released the German language version of the new Xara Designer Pro X10 and it is available right now on the MAGIX site.
Xara Designer Pro X10 De: Mehr Infos
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MAGIX has today released the Spanish language version of the new Photo & Graphic Designer 10. It's available right now on the MAGIX site, and will be in stores in Spain over the next few weeks.
Photo & Graphic Designer 10 ES: Más Información
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We have just released a free patch for all v10 Xara Designer products and we recommend you update. If you own Xara Web Designer 10 / Web Designer 10 Premium, Photo & Graphic Designer 10, Page & Layout Designer 10 or Designer Pro X10 click on the Update button in the Help menu to download it now.
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The August Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, tutorials, offers and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. This month's tutorial looks at the new Shadow & Brightness controls in Photo & Graphic Designer 10 and Designer Pro X10, plus there's an offer on three popular MAGIX titles, and two interesting and exciting new designers featured in Inspirational Art.
The August Outsider
In this month's Tips & Tricks Guest Tutorial you can follow mwenz of TalkGraphics as he creates an elegant poster in Designer Pro, combining his love of great design and typography. Amongst other things you’ll discover how he created a soft shadow effect using blends, and an excellent use of Named Colors. Plus in Free Stuff there are 25 editable vector icons created by Gary Bouton, free to download.
Tips & Tricks Tutorial by mwenz: Design an Elegant Poster
Free Stuff: 25 vector icons
Discuss the latest Xone content in the Xone forum on TalkGraphics
MAGIX has released the German language version of the new Photo & Graphic Designer 10. It's available right now on the MAGIX site, and will be in stores in Germany over the next few weeks.
Foto & Grafik Designer 10 De: Mehr Infos
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MAGIX has released the German language version of the new Photo & Graphic Designer 10. It's available right now on the MAGIX site, and will be in stores in Germany over the next few weeks.
Foto & Grafik Designer 10 De: Mehr Infos
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We have just released a free patch for all v10 Xara Designer products and we recommend you update. If you own Xara Web Designer 10 / Web Designer 10 Premium, Photo & Graphic Designer 10, Page & Layout Designer 10 or Designer Pro X10 click on the Update button in the Help menu to download it now. This adds the Font Awesome feature to Web Designer 10 and various minor enhancements and fixes to all titles.
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The July Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, tutorials, offers and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. This month's Outsider is focussed on the brand new Xara Designer Pro X10, with information on the related articles, offers and more.
The July Outsider
We’ve just released Xara Designer Pro X10 and it's available right now on the Xara website. You can find information on what’s new, the free trial download and upgrade info (including an intro offer for v9 Pro, Photo & Graphic Designer, Web Designer Premium and Page & Layout Designer owners) on the Designer Pro site.
More about Designer Pro X10
What's New in v10
Gary Priester’s First Look at Designer Pro X10 on the Xara Xone
In this month's Tips & Tricks tutorial Gary Bouton demonstrates that there's more to creating eye catching 3D text than simply selecting the Extrude Tool and dragging on the face of your text. Plus in Free Stuff there are 12 new seamless tiling textures to download, and a bonus mini tutorial on how to wrap them round a sphere.
Tips & Tricks Tutorial: Beyond 3D
Free Stuff: 12 seamless tiling textures
Discuss the latest Xone content in the Xone forum on TalkGraphics
We’ve just released Xara Page & Layout Designer 10. You can find information on what’s new, the free trial download and upgrade info on the Page & Layout Designer site.
More about Page & Layout Designer 10
What's New in v10
We’ve just released Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 10 and it's available right now on the Xara website. You can find information on what’s new, the free trial download and upgrade info (including an intro offer for v9 owners) on the Photo & Graphic Designer site.
More about Photo & Graphic Designer
What's New in v10
Gary Priester’s First Look at Photo & Graphic Designer 10 on the Xara Xone
The June Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, tutorials, offers, art and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. This month's Outsider tutorial looks at creating pop-up photos for web pages, plus there's a launch offer on MAGIX Audio Cleaning Lab 2014 and Audio & Music Lab 2014, and Xara's pick of images from TalkGraphics and the Xara Xone in Inspirational Art.
The June Outsider
Gary Bouton has just added his latest tutorial movie to the Xara Xone. Follow his steps as he creates a transparent 3D cube combining an extruded shape with drawn lines, color fills and transparency using Xara Designer Pro.
Creating semi-transparent 3D cubes
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New in the Xara Xone this month: Gary Bouton takes you thru the steps of creating an image of molecules that makes good use of the Extrude tool, with back up from the Fill, Transparency and Shape tools of Xara Designer Pro and Photo & Graphic Designer. Plus there are free clouds in Free Stuff, with transparent backgrounds, guaranteed to make all your future skyscapes a snip!
Molecular Adventures Tutorial
Free Stuff: 7 Cut Out Clouds
Discuss the latest Xone content in the Xone forum on TalkGraphics
MAGIX Audio Cleaning Lab has been upgraded to v2014 and the new version is live now on the Xara site and in the Xara online store. We've also added a new product to the Xara site, MAGIX Audio & Music Lab 2014 Premium. We have a short introductory launch offer on both products, a copy of MAGIX MP3 Deluxe MX is included free with every copy sold in the Xara online store for the rest of June 2014.
Audio Cleaning Lab 2014
Audio & Music Lab Premium
The May Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, tutorials, offers, art and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. This month's Outsider tutorial covers the new SmartShapes feature of Web Designer 10, there are offers on MAGIX video titles and print & web theme bundles, plus Xara's pick of images from TalkGraphics and the Xara Xone in Inspirational Art.
The May Outsider
New in the Xara Xone this month: Gary thows light on an often confusing topic with his essay 'Pixel Based Graphics and Resolution'. Maya Doka is the Featured Artist (and there's an interview with Maya as a bonus), and there's 12 free tiling textures and some planar shapes in Free Stuff, along with a short exercise that uses them in a way that gives Xara Designer Pro's drawing tools a workout.
What is this DPI stuff anyhow?
Featured Artist: Maya Doka
Free Stuff: Tiling Textures & Planar Shapes
Discuss the latest Xone content in the Xone forum on TalkGraphics
MAGIX has just released the German language version of the new Web Designer 10 and Web Designer 10 Premium. They are available now on the MAGIX site, and will be in stores in Germany over the next few weeks.
Web Designer 10: Mehr Infos
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The April Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, tutorials, offers and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. This month's issue takes a closer look at the new Xara Web Designer 10, with links to example sites created with v10, Gary Priester's First Look, launch offers and more.
The April Outsider
New in the Xara Xone this month: Bob Taylor's Guest Tutorial shows you how to create the ideal heading for a fire sale, making good use of novelty brushes, clipview, contours, blends and more in Photo & Graphic Designer or Designer Pro. Plus there are 10 free seamless tiling textures in Free Stuff with a complementary tutorial by Gary Bouton showing how you might make good use of the textures, drawing 3D cubes and exercising the Brightness Level dialog in the process.
Visit The Xara Xone
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We’ve just released a major upgrade to Xara Web Designer, packed with new content and features. Web Designer 10 and Web Designer 10 Premium are available now in the Xara online store. You can find information on what’s new (including a responsive web design feature and Supersites), the free trial downloads and upgrade info on the Web Designer website.
More about Web Designer
What's New in v10
Gary Priester’s First Look at Web Designer 10 on the Xara Xone
The March Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, art, tutorials, offers and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. This month's Outsider tutorial looks at the best ways to create and annotate screenshots, and there are two new tutorials on the Xara Xone. Inspirational Art features our own selection of images from TalkGraphics, and there are offers on new copies of Web Designer and crossgrades to Designer Pro.
The March Outsider
We have just released a new range of business print themes for Page & Layout Designer 9 or Designer Pro X9. Each theme includes a complete set of print document templates, and is tailored to a particular business type, including high quality graphics and photography suited to the business. These match our existing web business themes (suitable for use with Web Designer 9 or Designer Pro X9), so it's now quicker and easier than ever before for any small business to create a consistent, professional business presence.
Find out more
In this month's video tutorial you can follow Gary Bouton's steps as he creates some 3D effect paper cut-out letters using Xara Designer Pro (could also be done in Xara Photo & Graphic Designer). Plus there's a tips & tricks tutorial from Frances Proctor giving guideance on guidelines, guide objects and guide layers in all the Xara Designer products. And there's a collection of free wispy smoke effects, available for download from Free Stuff.
Visit The Xara Xone
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We have just added the brand new MAGIX Video Pro X6 to the Xara site.This is MAGIX's top of the range video editing program for professional users.
Find out more
Gary Bouton offers his top time-saving tips in the February Tips & Tricks 'Seven things you might have overlooked in Xara', plus there's five free photo frames for February in Free Stuff.
Visit The Xara Xone
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The February Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, art, tutorials, offers and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. This month's Xara tutorial delves into fonts - Google fonts, web fonts, embedded fonts and more - while Gary Bouton offers his 7 top time-saving tips in the Xara Xone tutorial. Inspirational Art features our own selection of images from TalkGraphics and the Xara Xone, and there are offers on all web template and widget packs plus Web Designer 9.
The February Outsider
The January Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, art, tutorials, offers and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. This month's Xara Xone tutorial looks at using layers and the Page & Layer Gallery, Inspirational Art features a selection of our favorite images from TalkGraphics and the Xara Xone, and there are offers on upgrades and MAGIX video titles.
The January Outsider
There's a new video tutorial by Gary Bouton in which he takes a look at how to create plastic and metal effects in your illustrations (for Xara Photo & Graphic Designer and Designer Pro). Featured Artist is back, showcasing the work of Ron Duke, and there's a interview with Ron as a bonus. Plus there are 14 new tiling textures for 2014, available for download for free from Free Stuff.
Visit The Xara Xone
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MAGIX has released a Russian language version of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 9, available now on the MAGIX site.
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The December Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, art, tutorials, offers and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. New tutorials include a look at the Content Aware Photo Resizing tool and how to create a 3D pie chart, while Father Christmas gets his moment of glory in Inspirational Art.
The December Outsider
One last update before Christmas has added a new video tutorial by Gary Bouton demonstrating how to create a 3D pie chart, plus in Tips & Tricks he creates a 5 point compass star, with plenty of tips on color fills, shading and transparency. And the free giveaway for December is a 3D dodecagon calendar for 2014, which requires nothing more than a copy of Photo & Graphic Designer or Designer Pro and a pair of scissors.
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For the rest of the Christmas holiday period Xara is offering 30% off all MAGIX audio and video titles purchased in the Xara online store, including the latest 2014 versions of Movie Edit Pro Plus, Music Maker and Photostory.
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Over on the Xara Xone Gary Bouton has published Part 1 of a new series of video tutorials on page design in Xara Designer, explaining terminology such as bleed and trim and the concept of page grids. Plus Bob Taylor's tutorial consolidates the knowledge gained from several earlier Xara Xone tutorials about mapping text to an uneven surface and creating grunge effects. And there are more giveaways in Free Stuff, where Frances Proctor has provided an appropriately seasonal template for creating snowflakes.
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The November Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, art, tutorials, offers and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. This month's tutorial delves into the Color Select & Erase tool, and Inspirational Art is on the suitably seasonal theme of Christmas cards.
The November Outsider
We have just added a new collection of 60+ tiling website backgrounds to Xara Web Designer Premium 9 and Designer Pro X9. The backgrounds will automatically appear in the Designs Gallery under Website Backgrounds, and range from subtle textures to vibrant eye-catching patterns. The backgrounds are free for existing owners of v9.
This is Xara’s biggest offer of the year, with 30% off new copies of our key Designer titles, from Black Friday (28th November) to Cyber Monday (2nd December) inclusive.
Black Friday Offers
The brand new versions of Movie Edit Pro Plus and Samplitude Music Studio by MAGIX have just been added to the Xara site. v2014 of both titles is available now in the Xara online store, with short introductory offers.
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The new version of MAGIX Photostory Deluxe has just been added to the Xara site and online store. v2014 offers an even wider range of exciting design options for your slideshows, plus an enhanced user interface and faster performance.
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The October Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, art, tutorials, offers and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. Inspirational Art this month showcases a selection of images on a theme of cars and planes, and there are new tutorials on photo background erase, using the online presentation feature to create a Halloween invitation and all the drawing tools get a work out in Gary's Xara Xone tutorial.
The October Outsider
There are two new October tutorials, packed with tips for users of Designer Pro, Photo & Graphic Designer and Web Designer Premium. Gary Bouton gives the drawing tools a work out as he demonstrates 3 different ways to create a gear shape (and some gear shapes are included in Free Stuff), and Frances Proctor makes imaginative use of the online presentation feature of Designer Pro /Web Designer Premium by creating an online Halloween invitation.
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MAGIX has released French language versions of Xara Page & Layout Designer 9, Photo & Graphic Designer 9, Web Designer 9 and Web Designer Premium 9. They are all available now on the MAGIX site.
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Xara Designer Pro X9 has taken the top software prize at the PC Pro Excellence Awards 2013. It was chosen by the editors of the highly regarded UK computer title for the prestigious ‘Software of the Year’ award, from a shortlist including titles from Microsoft & Adobe among others.
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MAGIX has released Dutch language versions of Xara Page & Layout Designer 9, Photo & Graphic Designer 9, Web Designer 9 and Web Designer Premium 9. They are all available now on the MAGIX site.
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The brand new 2014 versions of Music Maker and Music Maker Premium have just been added to the Xara site and online store, which means there are now even more options for making your own sounds, beats and tracks quickly and easily on your own computer.
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MAGIX has released Spanish language versions of Xara Page & Layout Designer 9, Photo & Graphic Designer 9, Web Designer 9 and Web Designer Premium 9. They are all available now on the MAGIX site.
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We have issued an update to all the Designer v9 titles - Photo & Graphic Designer, Page & Layout Designer, Web Designer, Web Designer Premium and Designer Pro X. A patch can be downloaded by selecting Help > Update within the program, and includes fixes, help updates and new MS Word .docx support (beta) for Photo & Graphic Designer and Web Designer Premium. The update is free.
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The September Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, art, tutorials, offers and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. There are new tutorials relating to DTP, design and illustration, and Inspirational Art showcases a selection of images on a theme of Animals.
The September Outsider
MAGIX has released Italian language versions of Xara Page & Layout Designer 9, Photo & Graphic Designer 9 and Web Designer Premium 9. They are all available now on the MAGIX site, and will be in Italian stores soon.
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Two great new tutorials this month suitable for Xara Photo & Graphic Designer or Designer Pro. Rik Datta offers a wealth of illustration tips & tricks in creating a 3 dimensional invitation card and envelope, and Gary Bouton looks at some uncoventional uses of the extrude tool. Plus there's a new collection of completely free seamless tiling textures to download.
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We have just started a one week half price offer on all MAGIX video titles sold in the Xara Online store, open to all Xara customers. There's 50% off MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 2013 Plus, Video Easy 5, Video Pro X5 and Photostory on DVD 2013 Deluxe, until the end of Monday 16th September 2013.
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MAGIX has just released the German language versions of Xara Page & Layout Designer and Designer Pro X9. They are both available now on the MAGIX site, and will be in stores in Germany over the next few weeks.
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The August Outsider has just been published, with the latest news, art, tutorials, offers and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. New tutorials include creating presentations in Web Designer Premium and Designer Pro, and Inspirational Art showcases a selection of recent images from the TalkGraphics Art Gallery Forum.
The August Outsider
We have just started a one week half price offer on all MAGIX audio titles sold in the Xara Online store, open to all Xara customers. There's 50% off MAGIX Music Maker 2013, Music Maker 2013 Premium, Audio Cleaning Lab 2013, MP3 Deluxe MX and Samplitude Music Maker 2013 until the end of Monday 2nd September 2013.
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In the August movie tutorial Gary Bouton shows you how to import, edit and color a hand drawn cartoon in Xara Designer Pro/ Photo & Graphic Designer, with plenty of tips on the Shape Painter, coloring and more. There's more to learn in Tips & Tricks where you can find out how to make text on material like T Shirts look right, with the help of the Mold and Shape tools mixed with a bit of slicing and coloring. And finally there are a couple of completely free 'bling' brushes to download.
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The July Outsider just has been published, with the latest news, tutorials, offers and more from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. This month we focus on the new Designer Pro X9, with links to the ‘First Look’ on the Xone, information on what’s new and intro offers.
The July Outsider
In his final v9 'First Look' for the Xara Xone Gary Priester previews the brand new Designer Pro X9. The main tutorial this month comes from Rik Datta, who shows you his steps to creating a photo realistic drawing, in this instance a bottle cap. Plus Gary Bouton delves into the mould tool in his tutorial on adding text to packaging with the right perspective. And finally there are some elegant Victorian photo frames to download for free.
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Xara Xone Special: A Quick Look at Xara Designer Pro X9 by Gary Priester
Xara has just released the new version of MAGIX Video Easy. V5 is available now on the Xara site and in the online store. Plus there's a launch offer for Xara customers; for two weeks only we're including a free copy of MAGIX Photo & Videoshow Sound Archive (EU) or MAGIX Music Maker Soundtrack Edition (US).
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Xara has just launched a new version of their flagship design product, Xara Designer Pro, which combines all the features of Photo & Graphic Designer, Web Designer Premium and Page & Layout Designer. Designer Pro X9 is available now in the Xara online store.
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What's New in Designer Pro X9 website
A First Look at Designer Pro X9 by Gary Priester, on the Xara Xone
Xara has just launched a new product in the Designer line. Xara Page & Layout Designer combines all the text and page layout features of typical word processor & DTP packages with the image editing power of Xara's award winning illustration & photo editing tools, to produce a fully integrated 'Document Processor' that can be used to create all your personal and business documents. Page & Layout Designer is available now in the Xara online store and there is a free trial download.
The Page & Layout Designer website
A Quick Look at Page & Layout Designer by Gary Priester, on the Xara Xone
MAGIX has just released the German language version of the new Photo & Graphic Designer 9. It's available now on the MAGIX site, and will be in stores in Germany over the next few weeks.
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The June Outsider has been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. This month we focus on the brand new product in the Designer line, Page & Layout 9, including links to further information and resources.
The June Outsider
Xara has today announced that they plan to add a brand new product to the Xara Designer range. Page & Layout Designer will combine all the text & page layout features of the existing Designer range (and some new DTP features & templates), with the image editing power of the best of the illustration and photo editing tools. The result will be a fully integrated, flexible and powerful 'Document Processor' that can be used to create everything from business cards to multi-page brochures. Xara Page & Layout Designer will be launched in the week commencing 1st July 2013, but you can find pre-release information on the following sites:
The Page & Layout Designer website
A Quick Look at Page & Layout Designer by Gary Priester, on the Xara Xone
In the third of his special v9 Xara Xone features, Gary Priester takes a look at the new Page & Layout Designer. In the June movie tutorial, Gary Bouton shows you how to create a genuine chiselled-in-stone look using Designer Pro or Photo & Graphic Designer, and to complement that there is a selection of free tiling marble textures in Free Stuff. Plus in Tips & Tricks Bob Taylor takes a look at how to create camouflage patterns with vector textures.
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Xara Xone Special: A Quick Look at Page & Layout Designer 9 by Gary Priester
Following Adobe's recent announcement of a move to a subscription-only service for their design titles, Xara has created a Welcome Offer for owners of Adobe® Creative Suite® who are considering the alternatives to a subscription to Creative Cloud™. The offer includes a significant discount on Xara Designer Pro X, and a free upgrade to the next version.
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The May Outsider has been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. This month we focus on the new Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 9, including links to the preview, intro offers and all the supporting resources.
The May Outsider
We’ve just released a major upgrade to Xara Photo & Graphic Designer. v9 is available now in the Xara online store, with a very short introductory launch offer. You can find information on what’s new, the free trial download and upgrade info on the updated Photo & Graphic Designer website.
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What's New in v9
In the second of his special 'First Look' Xone features, Gary Priester puts the new Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 9 through its paces. In the May movie tutorial Gary Bouton returns to the popular subject of creating Flash animations (supported in Designer Pro, Photo & Graphic Designer and Web Designer Premium). Plus you can pick up some handy tips for creating leather, embossed text and gold foil effects in the May Tips & Tricks. And finally Frances Proctor takes the hard work out of creating a new YouTube 'One Channel' theme with a free template in Free Stuff.
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MAGIX has just released the German language version of the new Web Designer 9 and Web Designer 9 Premium. They are available now on the MAGIX site, and will be in stores in Germany over the next few weeks.
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The April Outsider has been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. This issue focusses on the new Xara Web Designer 9, including links to the preview, intro offers and all the supporting resources.
The April Outsider
It's a bumper month on the Xara Xone, with an extra feature by fomer Xone host Gary Priester, a ' first look' at the features of the new Web Designer 9. Plus Gary Bouton has added a movie tutorial on creating diffuse shadows using the Live Effects tool of Designer Pro or Photo & Graphic Designer. There's 12 new website backgrounds in Free Stuff, ideal for experimenting with the new web background features of Web Designer 9, and a short tutorial in Tips & Tricks on how to use them.
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Xara Xone Special: A First Look at Web Designer 9 by Gary Priester
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We have just released a brand new range of business specific themes for the new Web Designer 9 and Web Designer 9 Premium. Each theme is a complete website, with linked pages typically required for that business type, and with professional photography suited to the business. This makes it easier and quicker than ever to create a complete, professional looking website for almost any type of small business! More about the new business themes
We’ve just released a major upgrade to Web Designer, packed with new content and features. Web Designer 9 together with the more advanced version Web Designer 9 Premium are available now in the Xara online store. You can find information on what’s new, the free trial downloads and upgrade info on the updated Web Designer website. More about Web Designer What's New in v9
We have just added the brand new MAGIX Video Pro X5 to the Xara site, with a short introductory launch offer for Xara customers (20% off, ends 22nd April). This is MAGIX's top of the range video editing program for professional users.
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The March Outsider has just been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. This issue includes new tutorials on the Brightness Levels tool, creating neon effects and stained glass, offers on Xara 3D and MAGIX Video Pro X5, and Part 2 of Inspirational Art on a theme of Eating & Drinking.
The March Outsider
There are two excellent new tutorials in the Xara Xone this month. Firstly Gary Bouton has some fun with neon effects, making good use of the shadow, blend and contour tools of Designer Pro. Meanwhile Frances Proctor shows you how to create convincing stained glass. Plus there's 10 free seamless tiling textures to download in Free Stuff. As usual all Xara Xone resources can be discussed in the Xone forum.
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We've just updated the Xara Artist Gallery, adding the work of Graham Ward (Gray on TalkGraphics) whose aeroplane artwork has long been a highlight of TalkGraphics.
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The February Outsider has just been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and The Xara Xone. Headlines include Part 2 of our tutorial on Photo Editing, discount and bundle offers from Xara and MAGIX, and Inspirational Art on a theme of Eating & Drinking.
The February Outsider
We've just updated the Xara Artist Gallery, adding the work of Denis Sazhin (Centaurus on TalkGraphics), a professional icon designer and Xara Designer Pro user, based in Moscow, Russia.
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MAGIX has just released a Polish language version of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 2013. It is available now on the MAGIX site, and will be in stores in the next few weeks.
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In the February tutorial Gary Bouton talks you through some serious photo retouching using the clone tool, feathering and Live Effects in Xara Designer Pro / Photo & Graphic Designer. Meanwhile Stephen Whittle has created some psychedelic backgrounds with fractal fills in Tips & Tricks, and there's 4 elegant border designs that can be downloaded from Free Stuff. As usual all Xara Xone resources can be discussed in the Xone forum.
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We have just added the brand new Audio Cleaning Lab 2013 to the Xara site, with a short introductory launch offer for Xara customers (ends 4th March) and a MAGIX Anniversary bundle!
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We have just released Web Pack 2, a combination of new web page templates and photo widgets, suitable for Web Designer MX, Web Designer MX Premium and Designer Pro X. Both web pages and widgets make full use of the new v8 features such as automatic page resizing, text styles and fully resizeable widgets.
The January Outsider has just been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and the Xara Xone. Headlines include the New Year Upgrade Offer, the start of a new tutorial series on photo editing, and a Live Effects tutorial. The Inspirational Art this month is on a theme of icons.
The January Outsider
In the January tutorial movie Gary delves into the Live Effects tool in Xara Designer Pro and Photo & Graphic Designer, showing you how to make the most of plug-ins from Xara and third parties. In tips & tricks Frances Proctor turns her hand to creating a Valentines card. And there's even more free stuff, 25 customizable vector icons created by Gary for you to download for free. And as usual all Xara Xone resources can be discussed in the Xone forum.
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The December Outsider has just been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and the Xara Xone. Headlines include holiday offers on Xara and MAGIX titles, tutorials on creating photo popups for your website and creating brushes in Designer, and Inspirational Art on a theme of Christmas.
The December Outsider
Xara has just released the new version of MAGIX Photostory on DVD Deluxe, and added MAGIX Video Easy 4 to the Xara site and store. And for both products, there’s a double launch offer for Xara customers; an introductory 25% discount (ends 15th January) plus a free copy of MAGIX Photo Manager as an Anniversary Offer bundle from MAGIX (marking MAGIX's 20th anniversary).
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This month Gary shows how to create and edit brushes in Xara Designer Pro & Photo & Graphic Designer, demonstrated with a Christmas garland brush. Continuing the seasonal theme Frances Proctor has a tutorial in Tips & Tricks on creating a Christmas card. And last but not least there's 12 completely free tiling textures to download, from the sedate to the psychedelic. All Xara Xone resources can be discussed in the Xone forum and this month you can help trim the Xone forum tree as well.
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This is Xara’s biggest offer of the year, with 30% off new copies of our key titles, from Black Friday (23rd November) to Cyber Monday (26th November) inclusive.
Black Friday Offers
Xara has just released the new version of MAGIX Movie Edit Pro Plus. The 2013 version of this popular movie editing software is now available in the Xara online store, and there’s a double launch offer for Xara customers; an introductory 20% discount (ends 12th December) plus a free copy of MAGIX Photo Manager as an Anniversary Offer bundle from MAGIX (marking MAGIX's 20th anniversary).
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The November Outsider has just been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and the Xara Xone. Top news includes announcement of our Black Friday - Cyber Monday offers, new MAGIX releases and offers, and new tutorials on lighting effects in Designer and creating a wedding invitation. Plus there's part 2 of Inspirational Art on a theme of people.
The November Outsider
We've just added a new artist to the Xara Gallery. Andrew Wrigley has posted some exciting images in the TalkGraphics forum in recent years, he has now provided some of these plus some new work for everyone to see in the Xara Artist Gallery.
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Gary Bouton has just published a new tutorial movie covering some key things you need to know about creating lighting effects in Designer Pro and Photo & Graphic Designer, including insights into the shadow and extrude tools. Plus there's a further Tips & Tricks article looking specifically at edge lighting for portaits. Last but not least there's a free seasonal bonus, a collection of fully editable Christmas box & ribbon illustrations. All of which can be discussed as usual in the Xone forum on TalkGraphics.
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The brand new 2013 versions of Music Maker and Music Maker Premium have just been added to the Xara site and online store, which means it's now quicker than ever before to make songs quickly and easily on your own computer. Music Maker and Music Maker Premium include Anniversary Offer bundles (marking MAGIX's 20th anniversary), and there is also a short launch discount offer on Music Maker Premium.
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Samplitude Music Studio 2013 has just been added to the Xara site and online store. Music Studio offers a complete music studio for musicians, bands and producers, and is launched with a free 12GB Independence Sound Library as an Anniversary Offer (marking MAGIX's 20th anniversary).
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The October Outsider has just been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and the Xara Xone. This issue includes tutorials on creating a Halloween graphic, and an in-depth look at the Shape Tool. Plus there's Part 1 of Inspirational Art on a theme of 'People', and news of the latest offers including template & widget bundles with Web Designer and Pro, and a MAGIX Anniversary offer on Samplitude Music Maker 2013.
The October Outsider
We've just updated the Xara Art Gallery, adding the work of Bill Dale, a professional product designer specialising in styling, color, graphics and illustration of aircraft and other means of transport. Plus we've added some new images from Alfonso Montalvo.
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Gary Bouton takes an in depth look at the Shape Tool, essential viewing for anyone using Designer Pro or Photo & Graphic Design for illustration and design. Plus there's more Free Stuff in the shape of some free French curves from Frances Proctor, and Barbara Bouton offers tips on minimising your website graphics using Yahoo's Smush.it service. All of which can be discussed as usual in the Xone forum on TalkGraphics.
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MAGIX has just released Dutch language versions of Xara Web Designer MX and Web Designer MX Premium and a Turkish version of Web Designer MX. They are available now on the MAGIX sites, and will be in stores in the next few weeks.
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MAGIX has just released Dutch, Spanish and French language versions of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 2013. They are available now on the MAGIX sites, and will be in stores in the next few weeks.
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The September Outsider has just been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and the Xara Xone, including part 2 of Inspirational Art on a theme of Planes & Helicopters, a tutorial on creating a newsletter for your school and an in-depth look at control points and paths for illustrators using Designer Pro. Plus there are offers on MAGIX Music Maker and upgrades to Web Designer 8.
The September Outsider
The September tutorial is a back to basics for illustrators using Designer Pro, with Gary Bouton taking an in depth look at control points, handles and paths. Plus there's a guest tutorial by Frances Proctor who has some Tips & Tricks for creating textured extrusions. All of which can be discussed as usual in the Xone forum on TalkGraphics.
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We have just released Web Pack 1, a combination of new web page templates and photo slider widgets, suitable for Web Designer MX, Web Designer MX Premium and Designer Pro X. Both web pages and widgets make full use of the new v8 features such as automatic page resizing, text styles and fully resizeable widgets.
MAGIX has just released Italian, Spanish and French language versions of Xara Web Designer MX and Web Designer MX Premium. They are available now on the MAGIX sites, and will be in stores in the next few weeks.
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We have just started a special offer for Xara customers on MAGIX Music Maker, software from MAGIX for creating your own music. There's a new version coming, so we are able to offer a 40% discount on all orders in the Xara online store for a short while. Offer ends 24th September 2012.
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MAGIX has just released the Italian language version of the Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 2013. It is available now on the MAGIX site, and will be in stores in Italy in the next few weeks.
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The August Outsider has just been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and the Xara Xone, including the first of a two part Inspirational Art on a Plane & Helicopter theme, tutorials on designing your own gold medal and photo retouching, Designer Pro and Movie Edit Pro offers and more.
The August Outsider
We have just started a special offer for Xara customers on MAGIX Movie Edit Pro MX Plus, the most popular MAGIX product with Xara customers. There's a new version coming, so we have a one off 'stock clearance', a massive 60% discount on all orders in the Xara online store until 31st August 2012.
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There's a bumper update in the Xara Xone for August: Part 2 of the tutorial movie covering photo retouching in Photo & Graphic Designer and Designer Pro, a selection of oustanding art from Javier Vila, a tutorial on creating wavy flag effects and to round things off a selection of free background textures. All of which can be discussed in the Xone forum on TalkGraphics.
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MAGIX has just released the German language version of the new Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 2013 and Designer Pro X (v8). They are available now on the MAGIX site, and will be in stores in Germany over the next few weeks.
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The July Outsider has just been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and the Xara Xone, including Inspirational Art on a sporting theme, web design and photo editing tutorials, offers and more.
The July Outsider
The July Xara Xone is packed with new resources for the Xara community: A tutorial movie covering photo retouching in Photo & Graphic Designer and Designer Pro, plus expert advice on fonts from Gary Bouton (including his 20 must have fonts and where to get them), and a free Facebook timeline template from Frances Proctor. All of which can be discussed in the Xone forum on TalkGraphics.
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The latest version of MAGIX Music Maker Premium has just been added to the Xara site and online store. Music Maker MX Premium (v18) allows you to create your own music from scratch, although the new version includes over 5500 sounds and loops. There's a launch offer for Xara customers, 25% off all copies purchased in our online store before 31st July 2012.
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The June Outsider has just been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and the Xara Xone, including Inspirational Art on a theme of cars, tutorials, offers and more.
The June Outsider
Lots of great new material on the Xara Xone this month. Firstly a step by step tutorial in which Gary creates a new planet, followed by some clever Tips & Tricks for creating special text effects with the Text & Mould tools. And there's a free pack of seamless tiling textures created by TalkGraphics members. All of which can be discussed in the Xone forum on TalkGraphics.
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We have just added MAGIX's top of the range video editing solution to the Xara site and online store. MAGIX Video Pro X4 is intended for professional users, with high performance features for video and audio editing.
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The new version of PhotoStory on DVD from MAGIX has just been added to the Xara site and online store. PhotoStory is a popular option for creating multimedia slideshows for TV, PC, blu-ray, projectors and mobile devices. Plus there's a launch offer for Xara customers, 20% off all copies purchased in our online store before 28th June 2012.
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The May Outsider has just been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and the Xara Xone, including more information on the brand new versions of Photo & Graphic Designer and Designer Pro.
The May Outsider
Gary Bouton has just updated The Xara Xone with a new tutorial movie on creating seamless tiling patterns using the just-launched Xara Designer Pro X (including the new Shape Builder tool). Plus there's a new Guest Tutorial in Tips & Tricks by Frances Proctor with tips on how to give photos an antique distressed look. Both of which can be discussed in the Xone forum on TalkGraphics.
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Gary Bouton has just updated the Xara Xone with an in depth look at the new features of Xara Designer Pro X and Photo & Graphic Designer MX by Gary Priester, and you can discuss the article in the Xone forum on TalkGraphics.
Gary Priester's First Look at the new versions
The Xone Forum on TalkGraphics
We have just launched Photo & Graphic Designer MX 2013 and Designer Pro X, version 8. Both are available now in the Xara online store and you can find the free trial downloads and upgrade info on the updated Designer website.
The Designer site
What's New
The April Outsider has just been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and the Xara Xone, including tutorials, Inspirational Art and offers.
The April Outsider
The TalkGraphics community have created their very own font, which is free for everyone under the SIL Open Font license. ‘Celebrated Burgeon Ornaments TG’ is a symbol font created in Xara Designer Pro and based on a catalog of stamps originally used on pottery, glass and china, with TrueType and OpenType versions. You can find out more and join in the free font creation project in the Fonts & Typography forum of TalkGraphics.
Visit the Fonts & Typography Forum
Download Celebrated Burgeon Ornaments TG
The new MP3 Deluxe MX from MAGIX has just been added to the Xara site and online store. MP3 Deluxe is the latest (v18) version of this popular software for managing your music, with comprehensive features for importing, sorting and searching your music and even recommending new music based on your current collection. Compatible with all devices.
Find out more
Gary Bouton has just updated The Xara Xone with a new tutorial movie on creating outdoor signs, from concept to print, in Designer Pro. Plus there's a new Guest Tutorial in Tips & Tricks by Larry Leiker on creating animated snow effects, and there's more free offerings in Free Stuff. All of which can be discussed in the Xone forum on TalkGraphics.
Visit The Xara Xone
The Xone forum on TalkGraphics
Subscribe to the Xone YouTube Channel
We have just added the new Audio Cleaning Lab MX to the Xara site, software from MAGIX for digitizing and optimizing music. What's more we have a launch offer for Xara customers, a full 20% discount on all orders in the Xara online store until 3rd May 2012.
Find out more
The March Outsider has just been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and the Xara Xone, including more information on the new Web Designer MX 8.
The March Outsider
We have just launched v8 of Xara Web Designer. Web Designer MX together with the more advanced version Web Designer MX Premium include new web and page design features, plus new templates and widgets and they are available now in the Xara online store. You can find the free trial downloads and upgrade info on the updated Web Designer website.
The Web Designer MX site
Read the Xara Xone preview
There's a new font and typography forum on TalkGraphics, a welcoming place to discuss any font related issues, but also featuring a monthly Font Play challenge and sub-forums for naming and repairing fonts and offering free fonts.
Visit the Font & Typography Forum
Join the first Font Play Challenge
Gary Bouton has just updated The Xara Xone with a new tutorial movie on creating logos, and a Guest Tutorial in Tips & Tricks by Bob Taylor on creating a 'distressed' effect. Plus there's more free offerings in Free Stuff. All of which can be discussed in the new Xone forum on TalkGraphics.
Visit The Xara Xone
The Xone forum on TalkGraphics
Subscribe to the Xone YouTube Channel
A Polish language version of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 7 has just been released under the MAGIX brand, available now on the MAGIX site, and in stores in Poland over the next few weeks.
Info on all localized versions
The February Outsider has been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and the Xara Xone, plus tutorials on web page backgrounds, Flash animation and fractal effects, Inspirational Art on a theme of glass, offers and more.
The February Outsider
During the next month we are bundling 20 top quality handwriting fonts worth €24.95 for free with every purchase of Xara Designer Pro, Web Designer, Web Designer Premium, Photo & Graphic Designer and Xara 3D Maker.
Find out more
Gary Bouton has just updated The Xara Xone with a new tutorial movie on animation, a Guest Tutorial in Tips & Tricks by Frances Proctor on fractal effects, plus some free tiling textures from Gary and a font from TalkGraphics' Big Frank in Free Stuff. All of which can be discussed in the new Xone forum on TalkGraphics.
Visit The Xara Xone
The Xone forum on TalkGraphics
We have just started a special offer for Xara customers on MAGIX Movie Edit Pro MX Plus, the most popular MAGIX product with Xara customers. There's a full 20% discount on all orders in the Xara online store until 12th March.
Find out more
The January Outsider has been published, with the latest news from Xara, TalkGraphics and the new Xara Xone, plus tutorials on creating a Valentine's card and 1st steps with Web Designer, art from Mohamed Elhlaly and Derek Cooper, offers and more.
The January Outsider
Gary Bouton has created a YouTube channel for the movies he is creating for the new Xara Xone. You can subscribe and be notified of new movies as they are added.
Subscribe to the New Xone Channel
Visit The New Xara Xone
We have just started a special offer for Xara customers on MAGIX's popular slideshow software Photostory on CD & DVD 10 Deluxe; a full 25% discount on all orders in the Xara online store until 9th February.
Find out more
Gary Bouton has started his new job as creator of the Xara Xone with a funky new design. And for his first addition to the goldmine of Xone content created by Gary Preister over the last 15 years, he has added a new tutorial movie, some valuable new tips & tricks and the first featured artist of 2012. There is also a new Xone forum on TalkGraphics.
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The Xone forum on TalkGraphics
We have just released a second template pack for Xara Web Designer 7, Web Designer 7 Premium and Xara Designer Pro. The new pack offers 3 new website themes with up to 15 different page layouts each, plus a selection of photo clipart.
We have just launched a new support resource on the Xara site, an index of tutorials, movies and other support resources created by Xara and third parties.
The new Movie & Tutorial Index
The December Outsider has been published, with the latest Xara, Xara Xone and TalkGraphics news, including changes at the Xara Xone, Christmas offers on xara.com and a new Tutorial & Movie index, plus art, tutorials, tips and more.
The December Outsider
There's a full 25% off all MAGIX titles in the Xara Online store over the Christmas holiday period, including the recently released Movie Edit Pro MX and Music Maker MX.
All current offers
Gary Priester has just published his last Featured Artist show on the Xara Xone - a group show by 20 artists. Gary has announced his retirement after 15 years at the helm of the Xara Xone, creating more than 160 tutorials and more than 130 Featured Artist shows. In the New Year, author, illustrator and designer Gary Bouton will take over the Xone and attempt to follow that!
View The Last Show
TalkGraphics thread on Gary's retirement
The Xara Xone.
For the whole of December we're offering free top quality photos from Fotolia with every new copy of Photo & Graphic Designer and Designer Pro, and a free Template Pack 1 with every new copy of Web Designer and Web Designer Premium.
Find out more
We've just started 5 days of offers on the key Xara titles, running from Thanksgiving through Black Friday to Cyber Monday, 24th - 28th November.
Find our more
The November Outsider has been published, with the latest Xara, Xara Xone and TalkGraphics news, including announcement of our Black Friday + offer, inspirational art on a theme of Christmas, and tutorials on photo panoramas, magic erase and creating an Xmas gift voucher.
The November Outsider
Gary Priester has just published his choice of the best Xara tips from the last 15 years of the Xara Xone.
Read it now
Swedish and Finnish versions of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 7, Web Designer 7 and Web Designer Premium 7 have just been released under the MAGIX brand, available now on the MAGIX sites, and in stores in Finland and Sweden over the next few weeks.
Find out more
Xara has just released the new version of MAGIX Music Maker, the quick and easy way to compose your own tunes. The new Music Maker MX (v18) is available now in the Xara Online Store, with a special launch offer.
Find out more
The October Outsider has been published, with the latest Xara, Xara Xone and TalkGraphics news, including inspirational art on a theme of spherical ' things', intro photo tutorials, free Halloween clipart & tutorial, the latest offers and more.
The October Outsider
Widget Pack 1 has just been released, with 4 new widgets for displaying photos and product info on your website to the best effect. The widgets are suitable for sites created with Web Designer 7, Web Designer 7 Premium and Web Designer Pro 7.
We've updated the Xara Art Gallery again, with new work from Luca Pennisi, Evgeny Rogachev and Nancy Griffin.
Visit the Gallery now
The translators at MAGIX have been busy: French, Dutch and Spanish versions of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 7 and Web Designer/Web Designer Premium 7 have just been released under the MAGIX brand, available now on the MAGIX sites, and in stores in France, Holland and Spain over the next few weeks.
Find out more
Xara has just released the new version of Movie Edit Pro Plus, the popular movie editing software from MAGIX. The new MX (v18) is available now in the Xara Online Store, with a special launch offer.
Find out more
The German version of Xara Designer Pro 7 has just been released on an all new German language site for professional products from MAGIX and Xara.
All localised Xara software
The September Outsider has been published, with the latest Xara, Xara Xone and TalkGraphics news, including inspirational art on a theme of watches, Magic Erase and Flash tutorials, the latest offers and more.
The September Outsider
We've updated the work of no less than six artists in the Xara Art Gallery, you'll find new images from Derek Cooper, Javier Vila, Tim Seward, Gary Bouton, Leo Gonçalves and Mohamed Elhlaly.
Visit the Gallery now
The Italian version of the new Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 7 has just been released under the MAGIX brand, available now on the MAGIX site, including a free copy of MAGIX Foto Manager 10 Deluxe as a special launch offer.
All localised software
As part of our ongoing 30th Anniversary celebrations we've just added MAGIX titles to our offers, a full 30% off for one week only.
Find out more
Xara History & Product Timeline
We've just added some serious upgrade deals to our list of 30th Anniversary Offers. 30% off (of course!) upgrades from all older versions of Photo & Graphic Designer and Xara Xtreme, Designer Pro and Xara Xtreme Pro, Web Designer and Webstyle 3 & 4, and Xara3D.
Find out more
Xara History & Product Timeline
The August Outsider has been published, with the latest Xara, Xara Xone and TalkGraphics news, including inspirational art, Flash and web publishing tutorials, the latest offers and more.
The August Outsider
Xara is happy to announce our 30th Birthday. And we're celebrating in style with 30 days of special offers!
30th Anniversary Offers
Xara History & Product Timeline
The July Outsider has been published, with the latest Xara, Xara Xone and TalkGraphics news, including art and offers, and Facebook, Webinar and Web Designer tutorials.
The July Outsider
The German version of the new Xara Photo & Graphic Designer has been released under the MAGIX brand, available now on the MAGIX site, and in stores in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
All localised software
We've just added Samplitude Producer 11.5 to the Xara site and shop, and there's a special launch offer bundling Samplitude Producer with Music Maker 17, with huge discounts. Offer ends 25th August.
More on Music Maker 17
More on Samplitude Producer 11.5
The June Outsider has been published, with the latest Xara, Xara Xone and TalkGraphics news, including launch news on Photo & Graphic Designer 7 and Designer Pro 7.
The June Outsider
We've just added the new MAGIX MP3 Deluxe 17 to the Xara site, and there's a special launch offer for all Xara customers. 20% off, ends July 7th!
Find out more
We have just launched Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 7 and Designer Pro 7. These are major updates, available now, with an introductory upgrade offer for owners of V6.
Find out more
Press release
The May Outsider has been published, with the latest Xara, Xara Xone and TalkGraphics news, art and offers, including 3 new Designer tutorials from José Campoy and Gary Priester.
The May Outsider
The Website Gallery displaying sites created by users of the newly launched Web Designer 7 is now live and the first sites have been added. It will be updated regularly.
Visit the Website Gallery
MAGIX has just launched the German language versions of Web Designer 7 and Web Designer 7 Premium. They are available for purchase right now on the MAGIX site, and in stores throughout Germany in the coming weeks.
Info on all localized versions of Xara titles
The German, Dutch, Italian, French and Spanish language versions of the new Xara 3D Maker 7 have been released under the MAGIX brand, available now on the MAGIX sites, and in stores in Germany, Italy, France, Holland and Spain.
Find out more
The April Outsider has been published, with the latest Xara, Xara Xone and TalkGraphics news, including tutorials for Web Designer 7, and offers on upgrades and MAGIX Photostory.
The April Outsider
Template Pack 1 has been updated to work with the new Web Designer 7 and Web Designer 7 Premium. Existing owners of Template Pack can request their free update to Pack 1 from our sales team.
We have just published an updated Widget Guide that covers new widgets in Web Designer 7 Premium, such as Eyecatcher text and photo animation widgets, plus updated information on e-commerce, form, media, social networking and other widgets.
Browse the new Widget Guide
We've just added the new MAGIX Photostory on CD & DVD 10 Deluxe to the Xara site, and there's a special launch offer for all Xara customers. 20% off, ends May 20th!
Find out more
We have just launched the all-new Xara Web Designer 7. There are two versions, Web Designer 7 Premium is the upgrade route from Web Designer 6, and we’ve also introduced a new entry level version called simply Web Designer 7.
Find out more
The March Outsider has been published, with the latest Xara, Xara Xone and TalkGraphics news, including an abundance of cartoon art, 3 tutorials by José Campoy and offers on MAGIX Music Maker 7 and Xara Designer Pro 6.
The March Outsider
Xara is a triple winner in the about.com Reader's Choice awards for Desktop Publishing Software: Best for Graphic Design, Best for Business Professionals and Best for Personal Projects!
Find out more
MAGIX has recently launched MAGIX Music Maker 17, and we've got a special launch offer this month for all Xara customers. 20% off, ends April 11th.
Find out more
The February Outsider has been published, with the latest Xara, Xara Xone and TalkGraphics news, including tutorials and an offer on the new Xara 3D Maker 7.
The February Outsider
We have just launched a new version of Xara3D, renamed Xara 3D Maker 7. V7 features include new animation types and new bevel styles.
Find out more
Xara has made it to the shortlist in no less than 5 categories in this year's about.com Readers' Choice awards. You can vote for Xara here:
Vote for Designer Pro or Photo & Graphic Designer in 3 DTP categories
Vote for Web Designer in Best Web Editor
Vote for the Web Designer home page in Best Product Webpage Design
To complement the cartoon theme in the latest Outsider Inspirational Art, we've updated Zeb's Xara Gallery.
Visit the Gallery now
The January Outsider has been published, as usual full of Xara, Xara Xone and TalkGraphics news, including Inspirational Art, offers, tips and tutorials.
The January Outsider
Our New Year Upgrade Offer includes big discounts on upgrades from all older versions of Xara Xtreme, Xtreme Pro, Web Designer and Webstyle to V6, including a one-off offer for owners of Xtreme V1 - 4.
Upgrade Xtreme & Xtreme Pro
Upgrade Webstyle and Web Designer
There's another new artist in the Xara Gallery, check out the work of Vjekoslav Ranec. And we've updated the Gallery of José Campoy.
Visit the Gallery now
The December Outsider has been published, full of Xara, Xara Xone and TalkGraphics news, Inspirational Art, offers, tutorials and featured movies.
The December Outsider
We have another very special deal for Xara customers on a title from our parent company MAGIX. There are big discounts to be had on MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 17 Plus, if you order before January 5th 2011.
The November Outsider has been published, full of Xara, Xara Xone and TalkGraphics news, Inspirational Art, offers, tutorials and featured movies. Plus there's a poll for Xara owners to help us decide what sort of templates to work on.
The November Outsider
We have another very special deal for Xara customers on a title from our parent company MAGIX. There are big discounts to be had on MAGIX Photostory on CD & DVD 9 Deluxe, if you order before December 17th 2010.
Xara has just released the new version of MAGIX PC Check & Tuning, performance enhancing software for every PC. The download version is available now in the Xara Online Store.
We've arranged a great 2 week intro offer for Xara customers on the brand new version of MAGIX Movie Edit Pro, available now in the Xara store.
We've added another great artist to the Xara Gallery, check out the work of Nancy Griffin.
Visit the Gallery now
Xara has just released the new version of MAGIX's popular movie editing software, with over 50 new features including a whole new 3D dimension. The download version is available now in the Xara Online Store.
The translators at MAGIX have been busy: French, Dutch and Spanish versions of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer have just been released under the MAGIX brand, available now on the MAGIX sites, and in stores in France, Holland and Spain over the next few weeks.
Find out more
The September Outsider has been published, full of Xara, Xara Xone and TalkGraphics news, Inspirational Art, offers and tutorials, plus the shortlist for our football themed contest.
The September Outsider
We've added another accomplished artist to the Xara Gallery, showcasing the modern style rendering of pulp fiction covers from the 30s to 50s by Mark Lockett (MarkMyWords on TalkGraphics).
Visit the Gallery now
Xara has today released a German version of Xara Designer Pro 6, available for purchase right now on the Xara site, and in stores throughout Germany in the coming weeks.
We have another very special deal for Xara customers on a title from our parent company MAGIX. If you order before October 13th there's 20% off MAGIX Music Maker 16.
MAGIX has launched the Italian language MAGIX Photo & Graphic Designer 6 (equivalent in features to Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6). It is available for purchase right now on the MAGIX site, and will be in stores throughout Italy in the coming weeks.
Info on all localized versions of Xara titles
The August Outsider has been published, full of Xara, Xara Xone and TalkGraphics news, Inspirational Art, news about the August bank holiday offer, tutorials and contests.
The August Outsider
The July Outsider has been published, full of Xara and Xara Xone News, tutorials, offers and contests.
The July Outsider
We've created another very special deal for Xara customers on a title from our parent company MAGIX: 34% off MAGIX PC Check & Tuning. Offer ends August 31st.
MAGIX has launched the German language MAGIX Foto & Grafik Designer 6 (equivalent in features to Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6). It is available for purchase right now on the MAGIX site, and in stores throughout Germany in the coming weeks.
We have released a free patch for Xara Web Designer 6, and an updated trial version.
We've just added two new plug-ins from AvBros, an updated version of Page Curl (v2.2) and Puzzle Pro 3.0, both offered at a special price for Xara customers.
The June Outsider has been published, full of Xara and Xara Xone News, tutorials, offers and contests.
The June Outsider
We've added two more great artists to the Xara Gallery, Tim Seward and Luca Pennisi. Plus there are updates from Ron Duke, Mohamed Elhlaly and Javier Vila.
Visit the Gallery now
We have just released a major upgrade for Xara Xtreme. Xtreme is renamed Photo & Graphic Designer 6 and Xtreme Pro becomes Designer Pro 6. These are major updates, available now, with an upgrade offer for owners of V5.
Find out more
Xara Xone preview
MAGIX has launched the German language MAGIX Web Designer 6 (equivalent in features to Xara Web Designer 6). It is available for purchase right now on the MAGIX site, and in stores throughout Germany in the coming weeks.
We have added new art from Derek Cooper, Jose Campoy and Ron Duke, not to be missed!
Visit the Xara Gallery
The February Outsider has been published, packed with Xara and Xara Xone News, tips, tutorials, contests, movies and even more Art than usual. Plus discover the winner of the 'Autumn' themed contest.
The February Outsider
We have just updated the Xara Gallery, our onsite showcase of some of the best artwork created by users of Xara Xtreme, with a new layout and image viewing options.
Visit the new Xara Gallery
Existing owners of Xara3D (v5/6) and Menu Maker (v1 and 1.1) can benefit from a \$10 (£7 or €7) discount on the price of Web Designer on orders placed before Monday March 1st.
Buy Web Designer
The shortlist has been announced for the latest quarterly contest in the Outsider, on a theme of 'Autumn'. The winner is chosen by popular vote, you can view the shortlist and cast your vote now, and also find out about the next contest in the January Outsider.
Vote now & discover the next contest
The January Outsider has been published, full of news, inspirational art and offers. Hot topics include the shortlist for the Autumn themed contest and news of the next competition, plus a bike themed Inspirational Art.
The January Outsider
Xara has just released a download-only version of the German language Xara Xtreme Pro 5, plus a free downloadable 30 day trial. Find out more now on our German language website xara.com/de.
The December Outsider has been published, full of news, inspirational art and offers. Hot topics include news of a Christmas offer, the latest commercial artwork by Miro and details on the recently released template pack and Xtreme Guide.
The December Outsider
Xara and MAGIX have joined together to make this one week great value bundle offer: Xara Web Designer + MAGIX Video Easy for just \$59 - compared with a combined price of \$88.99 if purchased separately. Offer ends 21st December 09.
Xara has just launched the first Template Pack for Xtreme and Web Designer, offering new themes and a new category of Web Clipart. The pack can be purchased and downloaded now and works with both Xara and MAGIX versions of Xtreme 5, Xtreme Pro 5 and Web Designer (all languages).
We have released a free patch for Xara Web Designer.
We have released a free patch for the CD version of Xara Xtreme 5 and Xara Xtreme Pro 5.
The November Outsider has been published, full of news, inspirational art and offers. Hot topics include news of the release of Gary Bouton's Xara Xtreme Guide, an offer on Xara3D 5, widget tutorials for Xtreme and Web Designer and the result of our icons contest.
The November Outsider
The much anticipated new book by Gary Bouton 'Xara Xtreme, The Official Guide', published by McGraw Hill is due in stock on Friday 27th November, and you can place your orders now.
Xara and MAGIX have joined together to make this one week great value bundle offer: Xara Web Designer + MAGIX Music Maker 15 for just \$69 - compared with the combined price of \$108.99 if purchased separately. Offer ends 1st December 09.
MAGIX has just released an Italian version of MAGIX Xtreme Web Designer (the MAGIX brand equivalent of Xara Web Designer). It can be purchased from the MAGIX site right now with a launch offer including free copies of MAGIX PC Check & Tuning 2010 and MAGIX Foto su CD & DVD 8 and 6 bonus templates. That's a bundle worth €159.99, on offer now for just €79.99!
Info on all localized versions of Xara titles
MAGIX has just released Spanish, Dutch and French versions of MAGIX Xtreme Web Designer (the MAGIX brand equivalent of Xara Web Designer). It can be purchased from the MAGIX sites right now with a launch offer including free copies of MAGIX PC Check & Tuning 2010 and MAGIX Foto su CD & DVD 8 and 6 bonus templates. That's a bundle worth €159.99, on offer now for just €79.99!
Info on all localized versions of Xara titles
The October Outsider has been published, full of news, inspirational art, offers and tips. Hot topics include an offer on Xara Xtreme 2, the latest on Gary Bouton's Xara Xtreme Guide, the shortlist for voting on our icons contest and news on the next contest.
The October Outsider
Xara and MAGIX have joined together to make this one week great value bundle offer: Xara Xtreme 5 + MAGIX Xtreme Photostory for CD & DVD 8 Deluxe for just \$99.99 - that's \$69 off the normal combined price of \$169. Offer ends 30/10/09 extended to Monday 2nd November.
For the first time, Xara has released a Russian language version of Xara Xtreme Pro 5, having agreed a distribution deal with CPS. The Moscow based distributor has over 1500 vendors throughout Russia and the CIS.
Info on all localized versions of Xara titles
Xara has today released a German version of Xara Xtreme Pro 5, available for purchase right now on the Xara site, and in stores throughout Germany in the coming weeks.
Info on all localized versions of Xara titles
We have negotiated a special discount for Xara customers of this great selection of 52 handwriting fonts from Softmaker. \$20 / €20 off if you order before 14/10/09.
Xara and MAGIX have joined together to make this one week offer on the perfect web package: Xara Web Designer + MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 15 for just \$69.99, that's 30% off the normal combined price. Offer ends 30/09/09.
MAGIX has this week released French, Spanish and Dutch language versions of MAGIX Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer 5 (the MAGIX brand equivalent of Xara Xtreme 5). It can be purchased from the MAGIX sites right now with a launch offer including a free copy of MAGIX PC Check & Tuning 2010, worth €29.99.
Info on all localized versions of Xara titles
MAGIX has today released an Italian language version of MAGIX Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer 5 (the MAGIX brand equivalent of Xara Xtreme 5). The retail boxed version is being sold from the MAGIX site right now, and it will also be available in retail stores throughout Italy in the coming weeks.
Info on all localized versions of Xara titles
Our panel of judges have chosen the six lucky winners who will have their work printed in the forthcoming Xara Xtreme Guide,
currently being written by Gary Bouton to be published by McGraw Hill later this year.
Xara is pleased to announce the release of msi network versions of the new Xtreme 5 and Xtreme Pro 5, available for purchase from this week.
MAGIX has today released a new retail boxed version of MAGIX 3D, the German language edition of Xara3D sold
from the MAGIX site and in retail stores throughout Germany.
Info on all localized versions of Xara titles
Xara has today launched a new product, Xara Web Designer. Xara Web Designer is unlike any web page editor that you will have seen before; an easy to use template based web page creation tool that gives you total page design freedom, absolutely no HTML or Javascript skills required.
Find out more
Read the press release
Visit the new TalkGraphics Forum
View an example website
Check out the intro videos
Read the Xara FAQs
The February Outsider previews a brand new product line
that Xara will launch this week, Xara Web Designer. For more information, watch this space!
Check out the intro video.
Xara has today released a new download-only version of the German language Xara Xtreme Pro 4. You can purchase it right now in the German webstore. A free 30 day trial is now also available.
Info on all localized versions of Xara titles
You can now sign up for Xara tweets and catch the latest Xara news as it happens, become a Xara follower at twittter.com/xaragroup.
Customers in the UK will be pleased to hear that we now offer the opportunity to purchase Xara Xtreme / Xtreme Pro in sterling in our new UK webstore.
The Xara Xone has had its usual/01/makeover. The Xone is packed with Xara tutorials, tips, featured artists and more, gathered together by Xone guru Gary Priester. Check out the new design at xaraxone.com.
Top honors in the August November Outsider Contest go to Srdjan Markovic for his Hot Chillies. Congratulations to Srdjan and to the other worthy shortlisted finalists (Hot Chillies is Entry E) and a big thank you to everyone who entered the contest. You can enter the new contest, the theme is Christmas, end date/02/15th 09.
From 1/12/the rate of VAT charged on orders for Xara's English language products in the European Union was reduced to 15%. That's a price cut of 2.5% for all EU customers!
Xara has today released a Spanish language version of Xara Xtreme Pro 4. Plus there's a new Spanish website at xara.com/es where you can find full details of the new Pro 4.
MAGIX has launched new localised versions of Magix Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer v2. This is equivalent to Xara Xtreme v4 and is sold both online and in retail stores throughout France, Spain and Holland.
Xara has today released a French language version of Xara Xtreme Pro 4. Plus there's a new French website at xara.com/fr where you can find full details of the new Pro 4.
Top honors in the/07/Outsider Contest goes to Rogerio Weikersheimer - Option A. Congratulations to Rogerio and our other shortlisted finalist and a big thank you to everyone who entered the contest.
Xara has introduced a new crossgrade option for Xara Xtreme Pro 4, to encourage owners of other graphics software to try Xara Xtreme. Owners of competing products can now purchase Xtreme Pro 4 from as little as \$159.
Xara has today released a German language version of Xara Xtreme Pro 4. Plus there's a new German website, xara.de, where you can find full details of the new Pro.
Xara's parent company MAGIX has today launched new Spanish and French language versions of Xara3D called Magix 3D Maker, available from their webstore now.
Xara's parent company MAGIX has today launched a new German language version of Xara3D called Magix 3D Maker, available from their webstore now.
MAGIX has launched a new version of Magix Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer, the Italian language version of
Xara Xtreme sold by our parent company MAGIX. This is equivalent to the new Xara Xtreme v4 and is sold both online and in retail stores throughout Italy.
The winner of the the/06/Outsider contest was Crash - (option B) - with over a third of the votes! Congratulations to Derek Cooper (aka Masque on TalkGraphics) and a big thank you to everyone who entered the contest.
Xara has released free patch updates to Xara Xtreme Pro 4 and Xara Xtreme 4. Owners of the v4 CD can download it now.
MAGIX has launched a new version of Magix Xtreme Foto & Grafik Designer, the German language version of
Xara Xtreme sold by our parent company MAGIX. This is equivalent to the new Xara Xtreme v4 and is sold both online
and in retail stores throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Xara is pleased to announce the release of updates to both Xara Xtreme and Xara Xtreme Pro. V4 is available now.
Xara is pleased to announce the release of a Japanese version of Xara Xtreme by our distribution partners in Japan, NetJapan.
MAGIX has released free downloadable 30 day trials for MAGIX Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer (the version of Xara Xtreme sold by our parent company MAGIX) and ESD versions for purchase in French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch.
MAGIX has released a free downloadable trial of MAGIX Xtreme Foto & Grafik Designer, the German version of Xara Xtreme sold by our parent company MAGIX, and an ESD version for purchase.
The latest release of Xara Xtreme Pro 3.2 now has full compatibility with the new Microsoft XPS format to provide users with even
higher quality documents.
Xara has released free patch updates to Xara Xtreme Pro 3.2 and Xara Xtreme 3.2. Owners of the 3.2 CD can download it now.
MAGIX has today released a French language version of MAGIX Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer (a Xara developed product under the
MAGIX brand, similiar in functionality to Xara Xtreme 3.2) which can now be purchased on the MAGIX website or in retail stores in France.
MAGIX has today released a Italian language version of MAGIX Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer (a Xara developed product under the
MAGIX brand, similiar in functionality to Xara Xtreme 3.2) which can now be purchased on the MAGIX website or in retail stores in Italy.
MAGIX has today released a Dutch language version of MAGIX Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer (a Xara developed product under the
MAGIX brand, similiar in functionality to Xara Xtreme 3.2) which can now be purchased on the MAGIX website or in retail stores in The Netherlands.
MAGIX has today released a Spanish language version of MAGIX Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer (a Xara developed product under the
MAGIX brand, similiar in functionality to Xara Xtreme 3.2) which can now be purchased on the MAGIX website or in retail stores in Spain.
Xara has introduced a tempting offer on Xara Xtreme Pro for owners of Adobe's recently cancelled FreeHand package.
Xara is pleased to announce the release of updates to both Xara Xtreme and Xara Xtreme Pro. V3.2 is available now.
Find out more.
Press release.
Xara is pleased to announce the launch of a new Pro version of Xara Graphic Studio. Graphic Studio is a great value bundle of our 3 most
popular products
Xara Xtreme, Xara Webstyle and Xara3D. The new Pro option includes Xara Xtreme Pro instead of Xara Xtreme.
We want to increase the range of high quality templates that are available in Xara Xtreme, so we're looking for Xara artists and designers to
create some new designs and we're offering \$100 USD for each design that we accept.
Following our acquisition by Magix we're on the lookout for new staff to join our development, design and support teams.
Find out more.
We've created a new Calendar template for 2007. To download them click the 'Get Clipart' button in the Xtreme clipart gallery, open the Calendar folder and select the month, then click Open.
Xara announce that it has been acquired by German company, MAGIX AG who hold the leading market position for the distribution of photo, music and
video software in Germany and various other European countries, as well as being one of the three leading market players in the USA.
Xara Graphic Studio (a bundle of our 3 most popular products
Xara Xtreme, Xara Webstyle and Xara3D) has proved a popular option and so it's
here to stay. Now we've introduced discounts for existing owners of the current versions of any one of those 3 products, making this the most
cost effective option for any owner of one of our products interested in trying the other two.
We've updated the Xara Gallery with new artists and new artwork, including a collection of new examples in the Business Designs section.
Check it out.
Xara is pleased to announce the launch of Xara Xtreme Pro, a new flagship for the Xtreme range. Pro adds high end features for Pro designers.
Find out more.
We've created a new Thanksgiving themed scrapbook & card template for Xtreme. Webstyle 4 owners aren't left out there's a couple of free Thanksgiving page designs and a photo album. To download the new templates click the 'Get Clipart' button in the Xtreme clipart gallery, select the card and click Open, or click 'Update' in Webstyle .
The Xara support site has been given an overhaul, with an expanded FAQ section and new Troubleshooter.
Find out more.
TalkGraphics is pleased to welcome some new moderators who joined us recently. Regulars Availor, sallybode, simsmj
and Soquili have kindly agreed to help keep TalkGraphics running smoothly.
TalkGraphics was also recently upgraded to the latest version of the vBulletin messageboard software. New features include
the ability to easily quote multiple posts in one reply, and more details can be found at TalkGraphics.com.
Xara is pleased to announce the release of another Xara Xtreme for Linux update.
Improvements since 0.6 include text tool improvements, drag and drop file import, additional import and export formats supported, Adobe Illustrator import, and numerous other stability improvements and bug fixes.
Incredible as it/05/seem to us, Xara is 25 years old this month. We're having a one off, once only 25 hour offer on/08/1st so you can join our celebrations!
Xara is pleased to announce the release of another Xara LX (Linux Open Source version of Xara Xtreme) update.
Improvements since 0.5 include rulers, printing support, advanced color editor and line gallery, and most of the functionality of Xara Xtreme is now there.
Xara has released a further template pack for Webstyle 4 owners, including 5 new contemporary web page designs in up to 9 layouts, plus a collection of new heading designs.
We've released a brand new 8 minute movie that demonstrates some of the great effects you can achieve by combining Xara
Xtreme and Xara3D (click to play or right click 'save target as' to download. Requires Windows Media Player 9+).
Xara has partnered with SoftMaker to provide their complete inifiniType premium font collection at a discount price, exclusive to Xara customers.
Xara announces the release of Xara LX 0.5, a big step forward for the Linux Open Source version of Xara Xtreme. 0.5 adds save and export options, and many other updates.
Xara's offline channel continues to expand with the appointment of Siener Informatique as the first reseller of Xara software in France.
We've given our monthly newsletter a major facelift, with a much broader range of material, which we hope will appeal to anyone interested in graphics and design, as well as all Xara customers. You can subscribe on this page. Read the first issue.
At the Libre Graphics meeting in Lyon on 18th March, Xara announced that it has now made the first release of the majority of the Xara LX source code for public download, after several months of readying the source code.
More info.
Xara software is now stocked by the UK's most popular online retailer. Simply search on 'Xara' on the amazon.co.uk site to order from stock
in pounds, shillings and pence.
Xara is pleased to announce they are co-sponsoring the first graphics conference focussed solely on open-source (free) graphics products, The Libre Graphics Meeting to be held in Lyon, France from 17th to 19th March, 2006
Xara is pleased to announce the appointment of Webserver Design Ltd to handle Nordic distribution, providing new local purchase options for Xara customers in Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.
Xara plans to shake up the Graphics world with three major announcements.
1) A new product Xara Xtreme
the fastest most versatile graphics software available
2) Plans to create Linux and Mac versions
3) Plans to Open Source it.
More info about Xara Xtreme.
More info about the Open Source Xara Xtreme.
Xara is pleased to announce the appointment of Computers Unlimited as a distributor for Xara titles in the UK. CU has long been the most respected supplier of creative products to the UK reseller channel.
Xara has just released Xara Graphic Studio, a special summer offer bundle of our 3 most popular products
Xara has created a series of short tutorial movies showing how to use Xara X
Xara has released a further template pack for Webstyle 4 owners, offering 5 great new web page templates in up to 8 layouts, including photo albums; plus a collection of modern button designs for all the commonly required uses such as Home and Info.
Xara has announced the release of a German-language version of their enormously popular 3D graphics program, Xara3D. The German version of Xara3D 6 is available now, from German distributor Haage & Partner.
Xara has today released an all-new version of its enormously popular 3D graphics program, Xara3D. V6 offers new graphic types and a completely overhauled and improved UI.
More details on what's new in Xara3D 6.
Download the new trial.
Xara has announced the release of a German-language version of their flagship graphics package, Xara X. The German version of Xara X is available now, from German distributor Haage & Partner.
Xara has released an additional template pack for Menu Maker 1.0 and 1.1 owners, containing 26 great new NavBar designs.
Xara has released a third downloadable template pack for Webstyle 4 owners, offering 6 great new web page designs in up to 6 layouts, and 12 new NavBar designs in horizontal and vertical formats, plus matching standalone button templates.
Xara has released a second downloadable template pack for Webstyle 4 owners, offering 3 great new web page designs in up to 6 layouts, and 16 new animated banner ads in various popular sizes.
Xara has released 11 free business sets for Xara X
We've updated the Xara Gallery, with new artists, new artwork and a new web zoom technique to demonstrate the awesome quality of this artwork
and we'll be adding more in the coming months.
More info.
Xara has today released an update to its illustration software Xara X. Xara X
Xara has released a downloadable template pack for Webstyle 4 owners, offering 5 great new web page designs in up to 6 layouts, and 23 new animated banner ads in various popular sizes.
XARA has launched a new and improved version of Menu Maker which adds some great new NavBar designs, plus enhances compatability with the latest browsers and most recent releases of Dreamweaver and FrontPage.
XARA has today released an updated version of its popular Webstyle web graphics software which includes new
Web Page creation and Photo Albums.
XARA has released a downloadable template pack for Webstyle 2 and 3 owners, containing a collection of new NavBar, Banner Ad and Heading designs. Template Pack 1 is included FREE with new purchases of Webstyle 3.1 as part of a Summer Offer.
XARA has announced the release of a 3D screensaver maker that enables anyone to create screensavers in 3D designer text or with images on tumbling cubes. Designed to be simple to use, the screensaver maker is highly versatile, fast and fun to use.
Xara has today announced the launch of File Protect, an online utility
that enables non technical Webmasters or website owners to quickly
add password protected file download to their website.
Xara has introduced two new Xara Online add-on Collections. The Value Collection is the place to start exploring our online products, while the Professional Collection offers the complete enchillada
no less than 36 add-ons in one bundle!
Xara has released a new website add-on that provides a quick and easy way for colleagues, friends and family to text you directly from the web.
XARA has announced the release of a German-language version of their popular 'slimware' 3D package, Xara3D, which can be used to create 3D headings and logos, animated or static, in seconds. The German version of Xara3D 5 is available now, from German distributor Haage & Partner.
XARA has today released an updated version of it's popular Webstyle web graphics software which includes new photo
tool and DHTML menu creation functionality. Webstyle 3.1 is also being offered as a FREE upgrade to all Webstyle 3.0 owners.
Top tricks, tips and advice to help bring your designs and marketing to life.
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