Explore Xara's Photo & Graphic Designer 11 as a program that can be used for creating graphics for PowerPoint.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint
Introduction
Using Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11
Pricing and Support
Conclusion
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11 enables you to edit photos and vector drawings. It allows you to perform text handling at a minute level. Photo & Graphic Designer is used by many illustrators and includes a set of really easy to use vector line and shape drawing and editing tools. Version 11 Premium is the newest one. When compared with Xara Designer Pro X v8 (or earlier), you'll find plenty of new features and content in Photo & Graphic Designer 11.
With Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11, you can sync files via Dropbox and Google Drive. With this option, the same file can be opened on multiple computers, and you can edit the file and then save it on your computer. The same file will thus be immediately updated in Photo & Graphic Designer on the other computers.
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11 is from Xara, a company based in Gaddesden Place, UK. Other than Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11, Xara also creates other graphic software such as Xara Web Designer 11 Premium. You can learn more about their products and download a trial version of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11 from their site.
In this review, we will explore Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11 as a tool to create graphics that can be used in PowerPoint slides.
My contact for this review was Nova Fisher. Thank you, Nova.
Download the installer, run the setup routine and follow the instructions. When launched, you will see the Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11 interface, as shown in Figure 1, below.
Figure 1: The Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11 interface
In this review, we'll explore how you can use Shapes, Smart Shapes, Text Panels, etc., and then export them as PNG files so that they can be used within PowerPoint.
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11 costs US$89.99. Support is through e-mail, an online knowledge base, and FAQs. Extensive online tutorials including demo movies are available.
We have explored older versions of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer, and have found that it makes a great graphic tool to use for both bitmap and vector needs. In this review, we found that it makes an amazing accompanient to PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office programs. And at just $89.99, it's a steal.
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