Welcome to the Xara Tutorial & Movie index. Here we link to tutorials, workbooks and movies created by Xara and third parties. In the top section we list resources created in the product you have selected, but also in the bottom section we list many resources that might still be relevant - for example created in older versions of the same product or with other products that have the same features.

Aligning Part 1
Xara - December 2014

3D Papercrafting in Xara
Gary Bouton - March 2014

Creating a Compass Rose Star
Gary Bouton - December 2013

Google Fonts
Xara - November 2013

Creating a Space Beacon
Gary Bouton - September 2013

Mapping Text to Wafting Fabric
Gary Bouton - August 2013

Xara Designer Pro X9 - First Look
Gary W. Priester - July 2013

3D Extrude
Xara - December 2014

Drawing Chrome & Plastic: What’s the Diff?
Gary Bouton - January 2014

Page Layout Part 1
Gary Bouton - December 2013

Document Handling
Xara - November 2013

Drawing an Invitation Card
Rik Datta - September 2013

Packaging and Perspective
Gary Bouton - July 2013

A Return to Animation
Gary Bouton - April 2013

Playing with Fire with Xara
Bob Taylor - April 2014

Creating 3D Pie Charts
Gary Bouton - December 2013

Putting Grunge Text on a 3D Wall
Bob Taylor - November 2013

Stepping into High Gear
Gary Bouton - October 2013

Digital Cartoons
Gary Bouton - August 2013

Draw a Bottle Cap
Rik Datta - July 2013

Twelve Mixed Theme Textures & Make a Sphere Tutorial
Gary Bouton - July 2014

Creating 3D Semi-Transparent Cubes in Xara
Gary Bouton - June 2014

Pixel-Based Graphics and Resolution
Gary Bouton - May 2014

Guide To Guidelines, Guide Layers and Guide Objects
Frances Proctor - March 2014

Designing a Vector Camouflage Pattern
Bob Taylor - February 2014

Content Aware Photo Scale
Xara - February 2014

Content Aware Photo Scaling & Zooming
Xara - December 2013

Web Backgrounds
Xara - December 2013

Content Aware Photo Zoom
Xara - November 2013

Creating a Multi-Page Brochure
Xara - September 2013

Creating a Professional Shadow
Gary Bouton - April 2013

Photo Editing Basics - Part 3
Xara - March 2013

Advanced Photo Retouching
Gary Bouton - February 2013

Photos with Pop-Ups and Slideshows
Xara - December 2012

Let There Be Light
Gary Bouton - November 2012

Xara’s Drawing Tools Guide, Part 2
Gary Bouton - October 2012

Color Select & Erase (V9 & earlier)
Xara - October 2012

Shape Builder Tool
Xara - October 2012

Newsletter Tutorial
Xara - September 2012

Creating a Gold Medal
Xara - August 2012

Photo Retouching, Part 2
Gary Bouton - August 2012

Removing Red Eye
Xara - July 2012

Planet-Building 101
Gary Bouton - June 2012

Everything New is Old Again!
Frances Proctor (Angleize) - May 2012

An example website created using Web Designer MX
Xara - April 2012

Make Animated Snow
Larry Leiker - April 2012

Introducing Text Styles
Xara - April 2012

Creating a Logo
Gary Bouton - March 2012

Custom navigation bar in Xara Web Designer 6
weggingt - February 2012

Creating Animations in Xara Designer
Gary Bouton - February 2012

Hand tracing bitmaps
Frances Proctor (angelize) - February 2012

Swapping people in photos
Frances Proctor (angelize) - February 2012

A beginner's guide to Web Designer 7
Xara - January 2012

Xara Website Basics Part 2 of 2
Xhris - January 2012

Favicons
Xara - January 2012

Drawing iPhone Nano on Xara Designer Pro
Guilhermemadaleno - November 2011

Magic Erase Tutorial
Xara - November 2011

Enhancing Photos
Xara - October 2011

Removing unwanted objects from photos with Magic Erase
Xara - September 2011

Text Repel Around Objects
Xara - September 2011

Editing lines with the Shape tool
Xara - September 2011

Text properties 2
Xara - September 2011

Drawing lines with the Freehand & Brush Tool
Xara - September 2011

Using shadows
Xara - September 2011

Using contours
Xara - September 2011

Slicing objects
Xara - September 2011

Using profiles
Xara - September 2011

Creating hot-spots
Xara - September 2011

Moving and resizing control bars
Xara - September 2011

Bitmap Export - Palette optimization
Xara - September 2011

Adding objects
Xara - September 2011

Drawing rectangles and squares
Xara - September 2011

Magic Snap
Xara - September 2011

Beginners 3
Xara - September 2011

Using grids & rulers
Xara - September 2011

Grouping objects
Xara - September 2011

Creating your own colors
Xara - September 2011

Flow Text Around
Xara - September 2011

Brightness Levels
Xara - September 2011

Clone tool 2
Xara - September 2011

Blending objects - Advanced
Xara - September 2011

Using The Text Tool
Xara - September 2011

Using fractal cloud fills
Xara - September 2011

Cropping photos
Xara - September 2011

Photo Galleries
Xara - September 2011

Photo Rollover Effects
Xara - September 2011

Text Tool 2
Xara - September 2011

Magic Erase 2
Xara - September 2011

Publishing to The Web
Xara - August 2011

Extruding Stuff
Gary Bouton - August 2011

Rubber Duck
Gary W. Priester - July 2011

Editing line widths, ends and joins & the Line Gallery
Xara - May 2011

Sketch Mode
Xara - May 2011

The Basics of Website Design
Gary W. Priester - May 2011

Oranges
José Campoy - May 2011

An Electrical Parlor Fan
Gary W. Priester - March 2011

Flower
José Campoy - March 2011

Web 2 Buttons
José Campoy - January 2011

Flash Seasons Greetings
Xara - November 2010

Focus on Xara Web Designer 6
Gary W. Priester - September 2010

Focus on Designer Pro 6
Gary W. Priester - July 2010

New Features in Xara Web Designer 6
Gary W. Priester - May 2010

Recreating an Existing Web Page
Ima Guest - April 2010

Text Tool
Gary W. Priester - February 2010

A Frosty Glass Window Pane
Gary W. Priester - December 2009

Creating Pseudo Frames
Gary W. Priester - October 2009

Creating a Favicon
Gary W. Priester - October 2009

Create a 3-State Navigational Button
Gary W. Priester - August 2009

Adding Sound to a Web Page
Gary W. Priester - August 2009

A Vintage Vector Burgundian Wine Bottle
Gary W. Priester - July 2009

Going Beyond 3D
Gary Bouton - July 2014

Mixing Extrudes and Shapes to Make Molecules
Gary Bouton - June 2014

Using Textures in a Novel Way
Gary Bouton - April 2014

Seven Things You Might Have Overlooked in Xara Designer
Gary Bouton - February 2014

Changing Colors in Groups
Xara - February 2014

Working with Layers
Xara - January 2014

Photo Heal Tool
Xara - December 2013

Editing Text Columns
Xara - December 2013

Erasing Backgrounds and Combining Photos
Xara - October 2013

Xara Page & Layout Designer 9 - First Look
Gary W. Priester - June 2013

Neon Effects Tutorial
Gary Bouton - March 2013

Photo Editing Basics - Part 2
Xara - February 2013

Photo Editing Basics - Part 1
Xara - January 2013

Making a Garland Brush
Gary Bouton - December 2012

Using ClipView
Xara - October 2012

Copy & Paste
Xara - October 2012

Shape Eraser Tool
Xara - October 2012

Graphical Bullets
Xara - October 2012

Xara’s Drawing Tools Guide, Part 1
Gary Bouton - September 2012

Multi-stage Transparency
Xara - August 2012

Creating a Sports Website - Part 2
Xara - July 2012

Anchoring Graphics in Text
Xara - July 2012

Creating a Sports Website - Part 1
Xara - June 2012

A First Look at Xara Designer Pro X and Photo & Graphic Designer MX 2013
Gary W. Priester - May 2012

Creating a Postcard
Xara - April 2012

Designing a Sign
Gary Bouton - April 2012

Content Slideshow Widgets
Xara - March 2012

Fabulous Fractals
Frances Proctor (angelize) - February 2012

Adding web page backgrounds
Xara - February 2012

Individually editable corners
Frances Proctor (angelize) - February 2012

A maple dipped doughnut tutorial
Frances Proctor (angelize) - February 2012

Opacity Masks tool
Frances Proctor (angelize) - February 2012

Xara Designer Pro 7 New Features Part 2 of 2
Xhris - January 2012

Xara Designer Pro 7 New Features Part 1 of 2
Xhris - January 2012

Edit Inside
Xara - January 2012

Creating Panoramic Photos
Xara - November 2011

Xara Designer Pro 6 alarm clock
Olias32 - October 2011

Cropping Photos
Xara - October 2011

Adding E-commerce to your site
Gary W. Priester - September 2011

Find and Replace Text
Xara - September 2011

Margins & Indents
Xara - September 2011

Creating a new Brush
Xara - September 2011

Smoothing lines and shapes
Xara - September 2011

Using bevels
Xara - September 2011

The Bitmap Tracer
Xara - September 2011

Subtracting objects
Xara - September 2011

Editing properties in the Name Gallery
Xara - September 2011

Image maps
Xara - September 2011

Moving and copying buttons
Xara - September 2011

Bitmap Export - Size tab
Xara - September 2011

Selecting objects
Xara - September 2011

Drawing QuickShapes
Xara - September 2011

Beginners 1
Xara - September 2011

Coloring objects
Xara - September 2011

Using object snapping
Xara - September 2011

Moving objects
Xara - September 2011

Using tints
Xara - September 2011

Duplicating and cloning objects
Xara - September 2011

Blending objects
Xara - September 2011

Enhancing photos
Xara - September 2011

Using envelope molds
Xara - September 2011

Photo Handling Overview
Xara - September 2011

Using perspective molds
Xara - September 2011

Using linear, circular, elliptical and conical fills
Xara - September 2011

Photo Composition
Xara - September 2011

Content aware zoom 2
Xara - September 2011

Photo Watermarks
Xara - September 2011

Content aware zoom 1
Xara - September 2011

Creating Animated Flash Photo Transitions
Xara - August 2011

Creating an Ornament with Live Copy
Paul Söderholm - August 2011

Adding a Custom Paint Job to a Photograph
Madalynne Crowe - June 2011

Pressure drawing in the Freehand tool
Xara - May 2011

Converting lines to editable shapes
Xara - May 2011

An Automobile Compass
Gary W. Priester - May 2011

Creating a 3D Wooden Train in Xara 3D Maker 7
Anas ibn Handel - April 2011

Carton Text
José Campoy - March 2011

Creating an Animated Flash Slideshow
Anas ibn Handel - January 2011

3D Photos
Xara - January 2011

A Vector (Mostly) Soccer Ball
Gary W. Priester - November 2010

Part 2: Seth Thomas No. 2 Regulator Wall Clock
Gary W. Priester - August 2010

Sweet Juicy Cherries
Frances Proctor - July 2010

A Zippy Little Sansa MP3 Player
Gary W. Priester - May 2010

Making Fire
Frances Proctor - March 2010

Embedding a Flash MP3 Player
Steve Ledger and Gary Priester - January 2010

Creating a Planet and a Solar System
Paul Söderholm - November 2009

An Animation Inside of a Photo
Gary W. Priester - October 2009

Lightning Over the Mesas
Gary W. Priester - October 2009

Creating a Popup with a Link
Gary W. Priester - August 2009

Creating an Expanding Text Area
Gary W. Priester - August 2009

What's New in Xara Xtreme 5
Gary W. Priester - June 2009

Creative Photo Displays with Pop-Ups for your Website
Xara - June 2014

A Creative Way to Use Textures
Gary Bouton - May 2014

Creating Screenshots with Annotations and Blurred Areas
Xara - March 2014

Web & Google Fonts
Xara - February 2014

Text Styles
Xara - February 2014

Shape Painter Tool
Xara - January 2014

Erasing Backgrounds from Photos
Xara - December 2013

Color Select & Erase Tutorial
Xara - November 2013

A Spooky Halloween Invitation
Frances Proctor - October 2013

Carved in Stone
Gary Bouton - June 2013

Designing a Stained Glass Window
Frances Proctor - March 2013

Making Surreal Backgrounds with Xara Fractals
Stephen Whittle - February 2013

Working With Live Effects
Gary Bouton - January 2013

Creating a Wedding Invitation
Xara - November 2012

Halloween Tutorial
Xara - October 2012

Magic Erase
Xara - October 2012

Auto Page Resize
Xara - October 2012

Color Select & Erase Examples (V9 & earlier)
Xara - October 2012

Creating Textured Extrusions with Displacement Maps
Frances Proctor - September 2012

Creating a Wavy Flag Effect
Gary Bouton - August 2012

Creating Animated GIFs
Xara - July 2012

Photo Retouching, Part 1
Gary Bouton - July 2012

Creating Seamless Patterns
Gary Bouton - May 2012

A beginner's guide to Web Designer MX
Xara - April 2012

Graphical Bullets Example
Xara - April 2012

Smart Page Resize & Reposition Example
Xara - April 2012

Xara Vector Grunge Effect
Bob Taylor (iamtheblues) - March 2012

Customized Xara Template
Gary Bouton - February 2012

Making a 3D Dodecahedron
Gary Bouton - February 2012

Creating depth in a 2D drawing
Frances Proctor (angelize) - February 2012

Creating a website heading
Frances Proctor (angelize) - February 2012

Glowing Halloween text
Frances Proctor (angelize) - February 2012

Intro to web design in Designer Pro 7
Xara - January 2012

Website Basics Part 1 of 2
Xhris - January 2012

Going Around in Circles
Gary Priester - December 2011

Creating A Christmas Gift Voucher
Xara - November 2011

Creating a Halloween Party Invite
Xara - October 2011

Advanced Flash Animation
Xara - September 2011

Spell Checking
Xara - September 2011

Tabs
Xara - September 2011

Line strokes & pressure effects
Xara - September 2011

Editing lines with the Freehand & Brush Tool
Xara - September 2011

Drawing lines with the Shape editor tool
Xara - September 2011

Using feathering
Xara - September 2011

Joining and breaking shapes
Xara - September 2011

Converting objects to editable shapes
Xara - September 2011

Creating new control bars
Xara - September 2011

Beginner's Guide to Web Designer 7
Xara - September 2011

Bitmap export
Xara - September 2011

Intersecting objects
Xara - September 2011

Drawing ellipses and circles
Xara - September 2011

Photo clipart
Xara - September 2011

Beginners 2
Xara - September 2011

The eye dropper
Xara - September 2011

Text properties 1
Xara - September 2011

Moving objects backwards and forwards within a layer
Xara - September 2011

Aligning Part 1
Xara - September 2011

Photo Panoramas 1
Xara - September 2011

Clone tool 3
Xara - September 2011

Clone Tool 1
Xara - September 2011

Using transparency
Xara - September 2011

Complex fills - Advanced
Xara - September 2011

Using bitmap fills
Xara - September 2011

Photo Resize
Xara - September 2011

Navigation Bars and Menus
Xara - September 2011

Text Tool 1
Xara - September 2011

Photo Captions
Xara - September 2011

Selective optimization
Xara - September 2011

Creating Flash Animation
Xara - August 2011

Speed drawing movie of weather related icons
Ikonkaru - July 2011

An Introduction to Xara Designer Pro 7
Gary Priester - June 2011

Straight Line tool
Xara - May 2011

Pressure sensitivity the Freehand & Brush Tool
Xara - May 2011

3D Text
José Campoy - May 2011

An Introduction to Xara Web Designer 7 Premium
Gary W. Priester - March 2011

Cake Icon
José Campoy - March 2011

Reminder Notes
José Campoy - January 2011

A Traveling World Time Clock
Gary W. Priester - January 2011

Image XU-oomer
Steve Ledger - October 2010

Part 1: Seth Thomas No. 2 Regulator Wall Clock
Gary W. Priester - August 2010

An Introduction to Xara Designer Pro 6
Gary Priester - June 2010

An Introduction to Xara Web Designer 6
Gary Priester - April 2010

The Puzzle Solved - A Rubik’s Cube
Gary W. Priester - March 2010

A Space Oddity 2010
Gary W. Priester - January 2010

Backgrounds for Your Website
Gary W. Priester - October 2009

Repelling Text Inside a Bitmap
Gary W. Priester - October 2009

Creating a Beautiful Inlaid Wooden Text Effect
Frances Proctor - September 2009

Creating a Flash Slide Show Transition
Gary W. Priester - August 2009

Creating Stretching Buttons
Eric Butters - August 2009