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.

Web Designer Premium includes a genuinely easy way to create really efficient flash animations. It also supports Animated GIF creation.

Web Designer Premium includes a larger selection of Widgets in the Designs Gallery, including the new slick photo and text animation 'eye catcher' Widgets that can help give your website an edge, making them more interesting and dynamic. More widgets will be automatically downloaded and added to the Designs Gallery over time.

Plus Premium includes a selection of e-commerce Widgets and a neat 'embed a website' Widget - perfect for embedding blogs, microsites and other sites within your page.

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.

You can automatically generate a sitemap to assist search engines with the crawling of your website.

You can browse, view and delete files and folders on your FTP server using Web Designer Premium 's built-in Web Space Explorer.

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 are also some extra web page themes.

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.

The Quickshape Tool lets you quickly create almost any regular, symmetrical shape with sharp or rounded corners.

The Find & Replace function performs live search so that as you type the search string the text is searched and highlighted in real-time.

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.

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.

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.

The Bevel tool gives objects an appearance of depth instead of being flat on the page.

The Mould tool lets you perspectivize shapes to give an impression of depth.

The Feather tool enables you to blur the edges of an object so it blends, or fades, into a background object.

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.

The Red Eye tool allows you to quickly remove red eye effects from faces in your photos.

Web Designer Premium includes a tool that can automatically stitch together up to 6 photographs into a single wide, high-resolution panorama.

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.

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.

Premium offers the additional ability to browse objects in the Page & Layer Gallery, not just page and layers.

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.

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.

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.

In Web Designer Premium you can print your documents!

Web Designer Premium includes an easy to use screen grab utility.

Import graphics from the web, AVI export, Flash and animated GIF export.

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.