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Web Designer MX vs Web Designer MX Premium, v8: Premium offers a host of additional features for advanced users, including web authoring and publishing features and extra graphic tools. This table is a list of the additional features that are in Premium (it's not a list of all Web Designer features!) clicking on any of the features will tell you a little bit more about that feature. There is an upgrade path for existing owners of Web Designer to Premium, see here for details.




Web Authoring and Publishing
Presentations
With Web Designer Premium you can create web-based 'slide-show' style presentations that your website visitors can step through using the keyboard arrow keys. Apply animated transition effects as each step and page is displayed. You can also easily remotely host a web meeting (a ‘Webinar’) to showcase your presentation, step by step and page by page, to a group of invited participants. See an example presentation.
Animation (flash and gif)
Web Designer Premium includes a genuinely easy way to create really efficient flash animations. It also supports Animated GIF creation.
Extra Widgets including slideshows, e-commerce and charts
Web Designer Premium includes a larger selection of Widgets in the Designs Gallery, including the the new resizeable photo and content slidehow Widgets that can help give your website an edge, making them more interesting and dynamic. Plus Premium includes a selection of interactive chart and graph Widgets (see examples, a choice of e-commerce Widgets and a neat 'embed a website' Widget - perfect for embedding blogs, microsites and other sites within your page.

Embedded Fonts
Web Designer Premium's font embedding technology overcomes the serious design limitation of having to stick to the very small selection of so called 'web safe' fonts. The technique is compatible with the vast majority of modern web browsers, and works by embedding a special version of the font on your website which the web browser can download and display.
Animated page and layer transitions
Web Designer Premium makes it easy to add a wide range of animated effects to the layers and page links in your website. You can add animated transitions to any page link or pop-up layer in your web pages.
Sitemaps
You can automatically generate a sitemap to assist search engines with the crawling of your website.
FTP explorer
You can browse, view and delete files and folders on your FTP server using Web Designer Premium 's built-in Web Space Explorer.
Extra templates
Web Designer Premium offers some additional templates that relate to features not supported in the classic version of Web Designer, in particular presentations and Flash animations. There is also a much larger selection of web page themes (see examples).
Graphical bullets and numbers
In Premium you can design your own bullets and numbers for use in lists, which can make a surprisingly big improvement to the appearance of any lists and is particularly useful for presentations.
Graphics Tools
Freehand and Brush tool
You can use this tool to draw in a freehand manner, as you would with a pencil. It can also be used to create brush strokes. And it includes the option to draw variable width lines using a compatible pressure sensitive drawing device such as a graphics tablet.
Quickshape tool
The Quickshape Tool lets you quickly create almost any regular, symmetrical shape with sharp or rounded corners.
Live Effects tool and Photoshop Plugins
In Premium Photoshop plug-in effects can be applied to both photos and vector graphics, opening up a huge range of special graphical effects. What’s more we have included more than 40 plug-ins from MAGIX and Xara.
Some options in the Text tool (find and replace)
The Find & Replace function performs live search so that as you type the search string the text is searched and highlighted in real-time.
Some additional options in the Fill tool (some fill shapes and profiles)
The Fill tool lets you apply color fill to objects. Premium includes conical, diamond, 3 color and 4 color fills and a Fill profile control.
Some additional options in the Transparency tool (some transparency shapes and profiles)
The transparency tool lets you specify how much of the underlying colors and objects appear through an object. Premium including non-mix type transparency types and a transparency profile control.
Some additional options in the Shadow tool (profiles)
The Shadow tool lets you apply, remove, and modify semi-transparent (or "soft") shadows. Premium includes an adjustable shadow profile for advanced control over the rate of change of a shadow.
Bevel tool
The Bevel tool gives objects an appearance of depth instead of being flat on the page.
Mould tool
The Mould tool lets you perspectivize shapes to give an impression of depth.
Feathering tool
The Feather tool enables you to blur the edges of an object so it blends, or fades, into a background object.
3D Extrude tool
The Extrude Tool provides a fast and easy way of turning 2D drawn shapes and text into high quality 3D extruded versions, with colored light illumination and very high quality shading.
Photo tool: Red eye
The Red Eye tool allows you to quickly remove red eye effects from faces in your photos.
Photo tool: Panorama
Web Designer Premium includes a tool that can automatically stitch together up to 6 photographs into a single wide, high-resolution panorama.
Photo tool: Masking
A number of operations can take a mask to indicate which parts of a photo or drawing are to be operated on. Eg content aware scaling, simple cut/copy/paste, clone and photo enhance.
Galleries
Line Gallery
The Line Gallery can be used to apply a range of line styles or attributes, such as brush strokes, dash patterns, arrow heads, and more.
In Page & Layer Gallery
Premium offers the additional ability to browse objects in the Page & Layer Gallery, not just page and layers.
General
Combine shapes
The menu option "Arrange -> Combine shapes" (or right click and choose Combine Shapes) provides you with a range of advanced options to combine shapes to make new shapes, such as adding, cutting, or slicing. You can use combine shapes on any type of object, including bitmaps.
Advanced Paste
Additional options which give more flexibility to pasting operations: Paste position, Paste size, Paste replacing selection, Paste in current layer and Paste in place in current layer.
Color naming and some color models
Premium includes support for RGB, greyscale, 3D and web palette colors. Also the ability to name a color: If you want to use a color many times throughout a document, you can create your own Named Color, which will appear on the Color Line. When you edit it later all objects using this color are instantly changed.
Printing
In Web Designer Premium you can print your documents!
Screen capture
Web Designer Premium includes an easy to use screen grab utility.
Some additional import and export formats
AVI export, Flash and animated GIF export. SVG import and beta import of Open Office (.odp) and PowerPoint (.pptx).
HTML 5 video
MP4 movie files added to your website will now play without Flash installed if the browser supports HTML5 video, so movies play on iOS devices such as iPhones and iPads.
12 months free domain
Web Designer Premium has one year's free top level domain name included with the free MAGIX Online World hosting.

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