Looking for Xara Xtreme? You've found it.  Xara Xtreme has been renamed Xara Photo & Graphic Designer and Xtreme Pro has become Xara Designer Pro. Both versions of Designer support Flash creation.

Xara Designer offers one of the easiest ways to create really efficient Flash animations.

Flash animations use vector graphics. Unfortunately existing Flash tools have a reputation for being unintuitive, difficult to master and over complex. As a result Flash has been restricted to those willing to dedicate substantial time to mastering these tools. On the other hand, the Designer drawing tools have the reputation of being extremely easy to learn and slick. So now we bring the ease of Designer to Flash animations.

Designer Flash animation doesn't use complex time-lines. Instead it's more like traditional animator's art, where you produce snap-shots or key frames of your animations at points in time. Designer automatically produces in-between frames to create smooth, really compact Flash animations.

Note: Designer Flash animation does not support complex advanced features such as scripting, sound or embedded movies. Instead it's Flash animation for the rest of us, perfect for creating banner ads, text and photo effects like the examples below.

There are plenty of helpful resources that will help you get started with Flash in Xara Designer, here are just a few: