"Xara Designer Pro Does What Adobe CSStandard Does--For Far Less Money (...) the super-charged sister to Xara Photo & Graphic Designer. This all-in-one print and Web design tool can edit photos, graphics (including 3D), animation, and page layouts without switching between programs. (...)includes all of the features of Xara Web Designer 7 Premium--templates, widget support, hosting, to name a few--in addition to animated flash and .GIF export, navbar and popup creation, sitemaps, and webinar and web presentation support (...) The Designer Pro version of the software also adds support for multi-core processors, giving Designer Pro 7 the potential for extremely high-performing and speedy graphics rendering. For those who live in the print world, Designer Pro 7 allows you to preview CMYK separations and spot color plates, emulsion position, and other advanced settings; plus gives you PANTONE® color, PDF/X, and XPS support (...) is as intuitive, economical, and useful as Xara Photo & Graphic Designer and is well worth the upgrade if you know you'll need the additional Web authoring or print production tools: After all, you're still getting a first class product that can go head-to-head with Adobe Creative Suite Standard (a bundle that will set you back about $1,000), for a fraction of the price."

Xara Designer Pro 7, Clare Brandt, 23rd June 2011

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"Xara Photo & Graphic Designer: The $89 Photoshop-Killer?" "Xara Photo & Graphic Designer (...) is an all-in-one tool that can edit photos, 2D and 3D graphics, animation, text, and page layouts--for online or print media--seamlessly, without switching programs (...) If you are considering splashing out about $1,000 on Adobe Creative Suite Standard (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign bundled) or pretty much any other photo editor, illustrator, or page layout program, try out Xara's Photo & Graphic Designer first. The staggeringly affordable Photo & Graphic Designer is worth your time and the price of a few antacids while you learn. Plus, with $910 change in your pocket, you may never look back."

Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 7, Clare Brandt, 21st June 2011

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"Xara Photo & Graphic Designer is an excellent illustrator, one that certainly deserves the title of TopTen REVIEWS Gold Award winner in drawing software."

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"...I’ll say up front that Photo & Graphic Designer 7 has a few features that I have not seen elsewhere, and some features that work more smoothly than in any other image editor package on the market."

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"A solid list of improvements to an already outstanding program that combines illustration, DTP, image editing and animation in a friendly interface"

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"Excellent photo editing, vector drawing, and desktop publishing tools more than justify Photo & Graphic Designer's existence - it just might be the only drawing tool you ever need "

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"… is a fantastic all-purpose, cost-effective graphics program for individuals and small business."

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Winner of 3 About.com Reader’s Choice Awards, 2011: Best Desktop Publishing Software Graphic Designers, Best DTP Software for Business Professionals and Best DTP Software for Personal Projects.

"Xara Photo and Graphic Designer 6 is a steal, and make that a worthy addition to any graphics designer's toolbox."

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"Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6 is a fully fledged creative suite for the price of an image editor. Xara doesn’t compromise on features in any area."

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"There is other dedicated software around that can offer superior facilities in the separate fields of photo editing, web page design and desk-top publishing, but nothing that offers all this functionality in a single program."

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"Xara Photo & Graphic Designer is an excellent illustrator, one that certainly deserves the title of TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award winner in drawing software."

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"Designer Pro 6 provides plenty of creative power and could be enough to handle all your illustration and design needs. "

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"Xara Designer is one super-fast, easy-to-use program that does it all."

"Xara Designer Pro 6 continues being an awesome product that makes working with all graphic types so much easy."

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"...Xara is a corker of a program."

"This friendly, highly polished illustration package exels at creating graphics and logos, and can turn its hand to desktop publishing and even web design"

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"It's as close as you'll come to handing your Photoshop mock-up to a coder and saying "make that into a live site"." "Xara Xtreme is a particularly strong contender for this visual design approach."

"One of the most feature-packed vector design packages available for the PC." "The program is still very easy to use; and cannot be faulted from this point of view."

"The software is responsive in use, and impressively fast when working with complicated graphics and intricate designs. Excellent for producing web content, illustrations and multipage documents in particular, it's a comprehensive program for graphics-oriented jacks of all trades."

"Photoshop users will find Xara Pro 5's bitmap editing functions both pleasingly familiar and extremely powerful."

"As an all-round art and design app, Xara Xtreme Pro takes a lot to be beaten."

"From marvelous posters to multi-page brochures this tool can manage everything smoothly."

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"The software has an impressive line-up of features."