Xara Photo & Graphic Designer Portable is an exceptional software solution for all your photo editing and graphic design needs. It features powerful tools for enhancing and editing photos, intuitive vector drawing capabilities, and advanced text handling—all seamlessly integrated into a single environment.
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer surpasses other graphics programs in multiple ways. It is significantly faster, produces smaller file sizes, and supports non-destructive editing, making it the ideal choice for photo composition.
One of its standout features is its unique photo handling and storage system, allowing files containing photos to be 3 to 100 times smaller compared to other software.
Features
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer stands out from the competition for many reasons, making it the perfect choice for photographers, illustrators, and graphic designers alike.
Revolutionary Photo Handling
- Fast and Non-Destructive Editing: Edit photos as many times as needed without any loss of quality, all while using minimal RAM.
- High-Resolution Support: Effortlessly handle multiple high-resolution images, even on less powerful computers.
- Unique Storage System: Significantly reduces file sizes while maintaining high image quality.
Integrated Photo Tool
- Real-Time Enhancements & Adjustments: Includes automatic photo enhancement and manual controls for brightness, contrast, sharpness, blur, saturation, temperature, and cross-processing effects.
- Advanced Editing Features: Supports cropping, red-eye removal, shadow and highlight adjustments, brightness level controls, and perspective correction.
- Vector Masking & Layer Blending: Enables highly detailed photo manipulation while remaining memory efficient.
Advanced Photo Manipulation
- Photo Healing & Magic Erase: Remove unwanted objects seamlessly for a polished look.
- Magnetic Lasso & Background Erase: Easily cut out objects or remove difficult backgrounds, such as hair, with precision.
- Color Enhance Control: Quickly adjust brightness, contrast, and colors based on selected areas of an image.
Creative Effects
- Live Effects & Photoshop Plugin Support: Apply over 60 creative filters, such as oil painting, pencil sketching, and fisheye effects, while keeping objects fully editable.
- Pre-Set Photo Filters: Instantly apply styles like ‘vintage,’ ‘summer,’ and ‘exposed’ to photos from the Content Catalog.
- Effect Painter & Masking Tools: Apply localized enhancements and creative effects with precision.
Photo Panoramas
- Seamless Stitching: Effortlessly merge multiple photos into a flawless panoramic image with just one click.
Intelligent Scaling
- Content-Aware Scaling: Stretch or compress images while maintaining the natural proportions of key elements, preventing unwanted distortion.
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer Portable is a comprehensive and powerful tool designed to simplify and enhance your creative workflow. Whether you're a professional designer or a hobbyist, it offers everything needed to produce stunning visual content efficiently and effortlessly.
Advanced Image Scaling
Xara Designer Pro+ introduces 'content-aware zooming,' which enables resizing of key objects within an image without affecting the overall dimensions. This feature is perfect for maintaining focus on important elements while adjusting compositions seamlessly.
Bitmap Tracer
The software's powerful bitmap tracer converts photos, logos, and line art into editable vector shapes, making it easy to scale and modify raster images without losing quality.
Creative Tools for Designers
Xara Designer Pro+ provides an extensive toolkit for illustrators and graphic designers, offering everything needed for vector illustrations and text styling.
Drawing Tools
The software includes a suite of intuitive drawing tools, such as Quickshape tools for fast rectangle and circle creation, freehand line drawing with smoothing options, and support for pressure-sensitive tablets. Additionally, the Shape Eraser and Shape Builder tools enable easy modification of both vector drawings and photos using a brush-like action.
Advanced Text Handling
Xara Designer Pro+ offers a robust text tool that supports custom text placement, curved paths, and full formatting control. Users can choose from over 600 Google Fonts and 1500+ icons from Font Awesome and Google Material Design. Text remains fully editable even when styled with effects like transparency, fills, and transformations.
3D Extrude
This software boasts the fastest and most advanced 3D extrude tool. Simply drag on a shape to transform it into a fully rendered, shaded 3D object with adjustable depth and lighting effects.
Blending Effects
The blend tool allows smooth transitions between shapes, text, and images, making it easy to create intricate highlights, blurred edges, and repeating patterns. It performs blending tasks faster and more efficiently than other design software, reducing system resource usage.
Transparency & Feathering
Xara pioneered transparency features in vector applications and continues to offer the most intuitive controls. With simple drag-and-drop functionality, users can apply graduated transparencies to objects, photos, and text. The software also introduced vector feathering (Soft Vectors), which softens object edges to blend seamlessly with backgrounds, enhancing photorealistic shading.
Latest Features & Enhancements
- New Calendar Templates – Includes new designs for 2025.
- Mockup Templates – A new collection for creating high-quality mockups.
- Expanded Format Support – Now supports AVIF format and improved usability in the QuickShape tool and color picker.
- FlexGroups – A new grouping feature for efficient design management.
- Multilingual Support – Now available in Dutch, French, and Spanish alongside English and German.
- Template Library Expansion – Over 400 new templates added.
- Photo Filter Overlays – 1,300+ new overlays for enhanced photo editing.
- Table Improvements – Copy and paste data from external sources, reorder rows and columns, and convert older Smart Tables to new ones.
Note: The program includes a loader that may trigger antivirus alerts as a false positive.
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