Page & Layout Designer 11
Designer Pro+
3D Maker 7
September 2017
- OFFERS: Photo & Graphic Designer upgrades & renewals
- TUTORIAL: Create a flyer in Xara Online Designer Pt 2
- ART: Bruno Costa & Sandor Beres
August 2017
- OFFERS: Web Designer upgrades & renewals
- TUTORIAL: Create a flyer in Xara Online Designer
- ART: Anton Korenyako
July 2017
- OFFERS: Xara Designer Pro Upgrades
- TUTORIAL: SmartShapes Part 3: Charts & percentage rings
- ART: Tomáš Kopecký
June 2017
- OFFERS: Web Designer 11 Premium & Photo & Graphic Designer 11 Stock Clearance
- TUTORIAL: Creating Online Presentations
- ART: Anna Antracit & Johnny Romero
May 2017
- OFFERS: Photo & Graphic Designer + Panorama Studio 3
- TUTORIAL: SmartShapes Pt 2: Text and Photo Panels
- ART: Aiyanne Chan & Michael Tumey
April 2017
- OFFERS: Save 25% on crossgrades to Designer Pro X
- TUTORIAL: SmartShapes Pt 1: arrows, shapes, spirals & pie charts
- ART: Derek Cooper & Andrew Wrigley
March 2017
- OFFERS: Designer Pro & Web Designer Premium upgrade offers
- TUTORIAL: Creating Bullet & Numbered Lists
- ART: Art Mix 19
- NEWS: The latest Update Service updates
February 2017
- OFFERS: Fastcut free with Designer Pro & Web Designer Premium
- TUTORIAL: An Intro to Xara Online Designer
- ART: Art Mix, a selection of work from TalkGraphics
January 2017
- OFFERS: Designer Pro upgrades
- TUTORIAL: Xara Online Designer
- ART: Tomasz Sadzinica
December 2016
- OFFERS: Xmas offers
- TUTORIAL: Create cards using your favorite photos
- ART: Icons by Alexi Ryazancev & Mike Miroshnikov
November 2016
- OFFERS: Black Friday, Cyber Monday & More
- TUTORIAL: Discover Photo Grids
- ART: Aiyanne Chan
October 2016
- OFFERS: Photo & Graphic Designer 11 stock clearance
- TUTORIAL: Transform Your Photos; Photo Handles, Content Catalog & Photo Effect Painter movies
- ART: Estince Voi
September 2016
- OFFERS: Upgrade Your Designer Product to Pro
- TUTORIAL: Publishing a Single Page Website
- ART: Art Mix 17
- OTHER NEWS: Take our Survey
August 2016
- OFFERS: 35th Anniversary = 35% Off!
- TUTORIAL: Photo Editing: Color Select and Shadow & Highlights
- OTHER NEWS: The latest Spanish & Dutch releases
July 2016
- OFFERS: Web Designer Upgrades
- TUTORIAL: Photo Editing Part 2 and 3
- OTHER NEWS: The latest German, French and Italian releases
June 2016
- NEW: Xara Designer Pro X365
- OFFERS: Launch offers on the new Designer Pro X365
- TUTORIAL: Gary Priester's First Look at Designer Pro X365
May 2016
- NEW: Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 365
- OFFERS: Launch offers on the new Photo & Graphic Designer 365
- TUTORIAL: Intro to Photo & Graphic Designer and Photo Editing Pt 1
April 2016
- NEW: Xara Web Designer 365
- OFFERS: Launch offers on the new Web Designer 365
- TUTORIAL: How to create parallax effects in Web Designer 365 Premium
March 2016
- OFFERS: Designer Pro X10 & Movie Edit Pro 2016 Plus
- TUTORIAL: Editing Colors - Part 2
- ART: Art Mix 16
February 2016
- OFFERS: Web Designer 11 Premium, new & upgrade
- TUTORIAL: Using Colors in the Designer titles
- ART: The work of Maxim Lysak
January 2016
- OFFERS: Upgrade to Designer Pro from other Xara titles
- TUTORIAL: An intro to the Photo & Graphic Designer drawing tools
- ART: Art Mix 15
December 2015
- OFFERS: Xmas Offers
- TUTORIAL: A look at the Text Tool
- ART: Maksimilijan Gečević
November 2015
- OFFERS: Web Designer Upgrades; MAGIX Music Maker
- TUTORIAL: Getting Started with Photo & Graphic Designer
- ART: Art Mix
October 2015
- OFFERS: Xara Designer Pro Upgrades
- TUTORIAL: Using Font Awesome in Designer titles
- ART: 3 designers new to the Outsider
September 2015
- OFFERS: Photo & Graphic Designer 11
- TUTORIAL: Collaborative editing with Xara Online Designer
- ART: A selection from recent TalkGraphics posts
August 2015
- OFFERS: Save 50% on MAGIX Movie Edit Pro
- TUTORIAL: Xara Online Designer; Typography tips & a text based logo on the Xone
- ART: A selection from recent TalkGraphics posts
July 2015
- NEW PRODUCT: Designer Pro X11
- TUTORIAL: A First Look at Designer Pro X11; Web Stickies & Stretchies
- OFFERS: Intro upgrade offers to Pro 11
June 2015
- NEW PRODUCTS: Photo & Graphic Designer 11
- TUTORIALS: A First Look at Photo & Graphic Designer 11
- OFFERS: Intro upgrade offers to V11
May 2015
- NEW: Xara Web Designer 11
- OFFERS: Launch offers on Web Designer 11
- TUTORIAL: A First Look at Web Designer 11
April 2015
- OFFERS: Upgrades to Photo & Graphic Designer and Designer Pro 10; Launch MAGIX Video Pro X7
- TUTORIAL: Working with Shapes
- ART: Art Mix
March 2015
- OFFERS: 50% off Xara 3D Maker 7 and MAGIX Video Pro X6
- TUTORIAL: Responsive Web Design
- ART: Art Mix
February 2015
- OFFERS: Free Bizz Themes with Designer Pro & Web Designer Premium; Launch offer on MAGIX Photostory 2015
- TUTORIAL: Photo Galleries & Photo Pop-Ups; Casino Poster Pt 1
- ART: Art Mix
January 2015
- OFFERS: V10 Upgrade Offer; Launch offer on MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 2015 Plus
- TUTORIAL: A typical photo editing example
- ART: Cars & Bike
December 2014
- XMAS OFFERS: 25% off Photo & Graphic Designer and Page & Layout Designer; Bundles with Designer Pro & Photo & Graphic Designer; MAGIX Fastcut
- TUTORIAL: Photo Editing Pt 4 (Color Select & Enhance)
- ART: The theme can only be Christmas!
November 2014
- OFFERS: Black Friday Offers
- TUTORIAL: Photo Editing Pt 3 (The Enhance Tool)
- ART: David Cockburn illustrations, animations, web design
October 2014
- OFFERS: Fotolia + Designer; MAGIX video titles
- TUTORIAL: Photo Editing Pt 2 (The Photo Tools); Photo Composition Pt 2; Page Layout Pt 2; Animated GIFs; 3D Extrudes in Illustration
- ART: The Art of Estince Voi
September 2014
- OFFERS: Web Designer Premium upgrades; Template Packs
- TUTORIAL: Photo Editing Part 1 (The Basics); Photo Composition Pt 1
- ART: Xara's Selection
August 2014
- OFFERS: V10 Intro Offers ending; MAGIX Sale
- TUTORIAL: The new Shadow & Highlight Control
- ART: Xara's Selection
July 2014
- NEW PRODUCTS: Designer Pro X10, Photo & Graphic Designer 10
- TUTORIALS: A First Look at Designer Pro 10 & Photo & Graphic Designer 10
- OFFERS: Intro upgrade offers to V10
June 2014
- OFFERS: MAGIX Audio Cleaning Lab 2014
- TUTORIAL: Website Pop-up Photos + 3D Transparent Cubes
- ART: Xara's selection
May 2014
- OFFERS: MAGIX movie titles; Print & web theme bundles
- TUTORIAL: SmartShapes; Pixel graphics & resolution
- OTHER NEWS: German language Web Designer 10
April 2014
- NEW: Xara Web Designer 10
- OFFERS: Launch offers on Web Designer 10
- TUTORIAL: A First Look at Web Designer 10
- OTHER NEWS: MAGIX music offer, Xara Xone tutorials
March 2014
- NEW: Business Print Themes
- OFFERS: Designer Pro/Web Designer + Web Pack bundles
- ART: Xara's Selection
- TUTORIAL: The best way to create screenshots / screengrabs
February 2014
- OFFERS: Web Templates, Web Designer
- ART: Xara's Selection
- TUTORIAL: Google Fonts & Web Fonts explained
January 2014
- OFFERS: New Year Upgrade Offer; MAGIX Video titles
- ART: Xara's Selection; Ron Duke
- TUTORIAL: Layers Explained; Plastic & Metallic Effects
December 2013
- OFFERS: 30% off all MAGIX titles, bundle offers for Web Designer & Pro
- ART: Father Christmas
- TUTORIAL: Intelligent Photo Rescaling & Zooming
November 2013
- OFFERS: Black Friday & Magix Launches
- ART: Christmas card designs
- TUTORIAL: Color select & erase
October 2013
- OFFERS: Web Designer upgrades, MAGIX Photostory
- ART: Cars & Planes
- TUTORIAL: Erasing Photo Backgrounds
September 2013
- OFFERS: Crossgrades to Designer Pro X9
- ART: On a theme of animals
- TUTORIAL: Creating a Multi-Page Brochure for Print and the Web
August 2013
- OFFERS: 50% off MAGIX Audio titles
- ART: A recent selection from TalkGraphics
- TUTORIAL: Creating a website presentation, digitooning
July 2013
- NEW PRODUCT: Xara Designer Pro X9
- TUTORIAL: A First Look at Designer Pro X9
- NEWS: MAGIX Video Easy Offer, surveys & CNET
June 2013
- NEW PRODUCT: Xara Page & Layout Designer 9
- TUTORIAL: A First Look at Page & Layout Designer 9
- NEWS: A German Photo & Graphic Designer 9
May 2013
- NEW PRODUCT: Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 9
- TUTORIAL: A First Look at Photo & Graphic Designer 9
- NEWS: A German Web Designer 9, MAGIX offers
April 2013
- NEW PRODUCT: Web Designer 9 & Web Designer 9 Premium
- TUTORIAL: A First Look at the new Web Designer 9
- OTHER NEWS: New Business Themes, Xara Xone tutorials
March 2013
- OFFERS: Xara 3D Maker 7, MAGIX Video Pro X5
- ART: Part 2 on a theme of Eating & Drinking
- TUTORIALS: Adjusting photo brightness levels
February 2013
- OFFERS: Web Pack 2, MAGIX Audio Cleaning Lab, Designer
- ART: On a theme of Eating & Drinking
- TUTORIALS: Photo editing part 2, an intro to the tools
January 2013
- OFFERS: The New Year Upgrade Offer
- ART: On a theme of icons
- TUTORIALS: An intro to photo editing, and Live Effects
December 2012
- OFFERS: Designer bundles & MAGIX discounts
- ART: On a theme of Christmas, of course!
- TUTORIALS: How to create & edit brushes; Displaying your Xmas photos
November 2012
- OFFERS: Black Friday special and MAGIX launch offers
- ART: Part 2 on a theme of people
- TUTORIALS: Create your own wedding invite
October 2012
- OFFERS: Free Templates & Widgets with Web Designer & Pro. Music Studio
- ART: Loosely on a theme of 'people'
- TUTORIALS: Create your own Halloween graphics; The Shape Tool
September 2012
- OFFERS: Web Designer 7 upgrades and MAGIX Music Maker
- ART: Part 2 of our flying theme
- TUTORIALS: Creating a school newsletter; control points & paths
August 2012
- OFFERS: Upgrades to Designer Pro, Movie Edit Pro
- ART: Planes & Helicopters Pt 1
- TUTORIALS: Create your own gold medal; Photo retouching Pt 2
July 2012
- OFFERS: Web Designer + Fotolia stock photos; MAGIX Music Maker
- ART: On a theme of sports
- TUTORIALS: Website creation Part 2, Photo re-touching
June 2012
- OFFERS: On MAGIX PhotoStory MX and Widget Pack 1
- ART: Great Car Art
- TUTORIALS: Creating a sports website in Web Designer
May 2012
- NEW PRODUCTS: Xara Photo & Graphic Designer MX 2013 and Xara Designer Pro X
- TUTORIAL: A first look at the new Designer products
- NEWS: New Xara Xone tutorials, German Web Designer MX
April 2012
- OFFERS: On Photo & Graphic Designer & Designer Pro
- ART: Inspirational Art on a theme of flowers
- TUTORIALS: Creating a postcard in Designer
- NEWS: Fonts on TalkGraphics, MAGIX launches
March 2012
- NEW PRODUCT: Xara Web Designer MX v8
- TUTORIAL: A First Look at the new Web Designer
- NEWS: Xara Xone tutorials & a new forum at TalkGraphics
February 2012
- OFFERS: MAGIX Movie Edit Pro & Free Fonts For All
- NEWS: Latest from the Xara Xone and TalkGraphics
- ART: Inspirational images on a theme of glass
- Tutorials: Hints & Tips on web page backgrounds, Flash (Xone)
January 2012
- OFFERS: Web Designer and MAGIX Photostory
- NEWS: The New Xara Xone
- ART: Mohamed Elhlaly and Derek Cooper
- Tutorials: 1st Steps with Web Designer & a Valentine's card
December 2011
- OFFERS: A Santa Sackful of Offers
- NEWS: All change at the Xara Xone
- ART & Tutorials: A Gary Priester Special
November 2011
- Black Friday +: Big Discounts On Our Key Titles
- TUTORIALS: Photo panoramas & magic erase, an Xmas gift voucher
- ART: On a theme of Christmas
October 2011
- LAUNCH OFFERS: MAGIX Movie Edit Pro MX and Widget Pack 1
- TUTORIALS: Enhancing & Cropping Photos
- ART: Spherical Things
September 2011
- OFFER: Upgrades from PGD and WDP to PRO!
- TUTORIALS: Flash animation controls & Magic Erase
- ART: Classic watches illustrations
August 2011
- OFFERS: 30 days of offers for our 30th Anniversary
- TUTORIALS: Flash & Publishing to the web
- ART: On a musical theme
July 2011
- TUTORIALS: Facebook, Webinars, Basics of Web Design
- ART: Portraits & People
- OFFERS: A fantastic value music bundle from MAGIX
June 2011
- New Product: Photo & Graphic Designer and Designer Pro 7
- TUTORIALS: An intro to the new V7 features
- OFFERS: An intro upgrade offer
May 2011
- ART & Design:Flowers & User's Website Gallery
- TUTORIALS:Classics from José Campoy & Gary Priester
- OFFERS:An irresistible offer on Designer Pro and PGD
April 2011
- New Product:Xara Web Designer 7
- TUTORIALS:Presentations in Web Designer Premium
- OFFERS: Upgrades to Web Designer 7 Premium, MAGIX PhotoStory 10
March 2011
- ART: Cartoons, Part 2
- TUTORIALS: 3 new tutorials from José Campoy
- OFFERS: Upgrades to Pro, and the new MAGIX Music Maker 17
February 2011
- NEWS: Xara 3D Maker 7
- TUTORIAL: An Intro to the new Xara 3D
- OFFERS: Intro offers on upgrades to 3D 7
January 2011
- OFFERS: A free Template Pack 1 with Designer Pro and Web Designer
- TUTORIAL: José Campoy's Xtreme tutorials & 3D Photos
- ART: Cartoons
- POLL: Games consoles, yes or no
December 2010
- OFFERS: Xmas Offers!
- TUTORIAL: Text on a curve & photo collages
- ART: Cameras
- POLL: Help us decide what templates to create, part 2
November 2010
- OFFERS: Discounts on upgrades from V5 & MAGIX Photostory
- TUTORIAL: Creating Flash & editing card templates
- ART: Part 2 of our flight themed Inspirational Art
- POLL Help us decide what templates to create
October 2010
- OFFERS: 30% discount on plug-ins from Alien Skin and AvBros
- COMPETITION: TalkGraphics logo competition
- TUTORIAL: A brand new widget guide
- ART: Truly great art on the theme of 'flight'
September 2010
- OFFERS: An offer on Pro & Web Designer + MAGIX Music Maker
- COMPETITION: Shortlist for the football theme
- TUTORIAL: A workbook for Designer Pro 6 & Tutorial for Xara3D
- ART: Animal art by Luca Pennisi
August 2010
- OFFERS: August Holiday Offer
- COMPETITION: Extra time for the football theme
- TUTORIAL: Gary creates a wall clock image in Designer Pro
- ART: Flowers
July 2010
- OFFERS: MAGIX PC Check & Tuning
- COMPETITION: Last kick for the football theme
- TUTORIAL: Xara Xone Designer Pro 6 in Depth
- ART: Food: Luca Pennisi and Derek Cooper
June 2010
- NEW: Xara Photo & Graphic Designer and Designer Pro 6
- OFFERS: V6 upgrades
- TIPS: Handy keyboard shortcuts
May 2010
- NEW: MAGIX products on xara.com
- OFFERS: Xtreme and Xtreme Pro
- COMPETITION: Web design winner and new contest
- TUTORIAL: Xara Xone Web Designer Workbook
- ART: Drinks
April 2010
- NEW: Xara Web Designer 6
- OFFERS: Web Designer upgrades & MAGIX Movie Edit Pro
- COMPETITION: Web page contest shortlist
- TIPS: Handy keyboard shortcuts
March 2010
- LOYALTY OFFER: \$10 off Xara3D 6 Download
- ART: Gadgets
- COMPETITION: New 'web pages' competition
- TIPS: Don't forget the Status Line, and Expand the Designs Gallery
February 2010
- LOYALTY OFFER: \$10 off Web Designer
- ART: Waterside Settings
- COMPETITION: New 'web pages' competition
- TIPS: Resizing Pages and The Wonder of Widgets
January 2010
- OFFER: Buy Xara3D 6 and get Menu Maker and ScreenMaker 3D free!
- ART: Bikes
- COMPETITION: New 'web pages' competition
- TIPS: Rotation & Reflection points, Arrowheads & tails, and Shortcut for font size
December 2009
- OFFER: 20% off download products
- ART: Commercial Designs by Miro
- NEWS: New Template Pack for Xtreme and Web Designer
- TIPS: Easy Ellipses, Scaling Filled Objects, and Making Copies
November 2009
- OFFER: Xara3D 5 for just \$9.99!
- ART: Landscapes
- TUTORIAL: Inserting Poll and Search features into Xara Web Designer and Xara Xtreme 5
- NEWS: Xara Xtreme: The Official Guide available!
October 2009
- OFFER: Xara Xtreme 2 for just \$19
- ART: Space
- COMPETITION: New 'autumn' competition
- TIPS: Closing Shapes, Selecting Words, and Automatic Web Graphics Optimization
September 2009
- OFFER: \$20/€20 off SoftMaker Fonts
- ART: Portraits
- TUTORIAL: Inserting Shopping Carts and Forms into Xara Web Designer and Xara Xtreme 5
- TIPS: Web Safe fonts, and Screensizes
August 2009
- OFFER: 20% off new copies of Xara software
- ART: Cars
- TUTORIAL: Inserting Tracking Codes and RSS Feeds into Xara Web Designer and Xara Xtreme 5
- TIPS: Drawing Perfect Squares & Circles, and Adding Documents to the Designs Gallery
July 2009
- COMPETITION: New 'icons' competition
- ART: Birds
- TUTORIAL: An introduction to the Xtreme Pro 5 Object Gallery, and Inserting Maps and Music into Xara Web Designer and Xara Xtreme 5
- TIPS: Easy Page Resizing, and Pushing the page
June 2009
- NEWS: Xara Xtreme 5 released!
- OFFER: Xara Xtreme upgrade intro offer
- TUTORIAL: An introduction to Xara Xtreme 5
- TIPS: Easy Symbols, and Double click to select the right tool
May 2009
- COMPETITION: Last chance to get your artwork featured in the book!
- ART: Fish
- TUTORIAL: Inserting News Widgets in Xara Web Designer, and Feathering in Xtreme
- TIPS: Rulers in Xtreme and Web Designer, and Switch between open documents in Xtreme and Web Designer
April 2009
- OFFER: Web Designer loyalty discount
- ART: Painterly Effects
- TUTORIAL: Inserting Widgets in Xara Web Designer
- TIPS: Reset photo edit in Xtreme and Web Designer, Rulers in Xtreme and Web Designer, and File transfer between Xtreme and Web Designer
March 2009
- COMPETITION: Get your artwork featured in a book!
- ART: Icons
- TUTORIAL: Creatig a drop down menu using Xara Web Designer
- TIPS: .web and .xar files
February 2009
- NEWS: New product announcement!
- ART: Flowers
- TUTORIAL: An introduction to Xara Web Designer
- TIPS: Selecting an object inside a group, Middle mouse button, and Switching solid drag on and off
January 2009
- OFFER: Xara Xtreme 2 for just \$19!
- ARTIST: Norman Spencer (parahandy)
- TUTORIAL: Make text appear to flow along a curve or around a sphere
- TIPS: Text tool tips
December 2008
- NEWS: Christmas Offer - 25% off all Xara software
- ART: Classic Christmas Cards
- TUTORIAL: Creating a seasonal Flash banner using Xtreme
- TIPS: Breaking Lines, and Control Bar Buttons
November 2008
- NEWS: New 'Christmas' competition and shortlisting of the 'Food' competition!
- ARTIST: Alan Burns
- TUTORIAL: Creating a heading in Xara Xtreme
- TIPS: Re-arrange your galleries, Copying Objects, and View Quality Shortcut (Pro 4 only)
October 2008
- NEWS: French and Spanish Xtreme Pro 4 launched
- ARTIST: Ron Duke
- TUTORIAL: Create a scrapbook in less than 10 minutes
- TIPS: Copy Attributes and Attributes for new objects
September 2008
- NEWS: German Xtreme Pro 4 and MAGIX 3D Maker launched
- ART: Lions
- TUTORIAL: Creating a newsletter and a website from scratch in about 10 minutes
- TIPS: Text and the status bar, Linking text areas, and Resizing text areas
August 2008
- NEWS: New Food competition and shortlisting of the Olympic competition!
- ART: Food
- TUTORIAL: Photo Stitching using Xara Xtreme
- TIPS: Photo Stitching, Photo Stitching 2, and Photo Stitching 3
July 2008
- NEWS: New Olympic competition and shortlisting of the 3D competition!
- ARTIST: Graham Ward
- TUTORIAL: Adjusting the brightness of part of a photo & Removing objects from photos
- TIPS: Un-Clip, Clip? Crop?, Photo Drag & Drop
June 2008
- NEWS: New 3D competition!
- ARTIST: MarkMyWords
- TUTORIALS: An introduction to creating 3D photos and text effects & Creating a 3D pie chart
- TIPS: Extrusion Color, 3D Lights, and More Info on 3D Extrude
May 2008
- OFFER: Xtreme Intro Upgrade Offer
- ARTIST: minimiro
- TUTORIAL: Create a multi-page website with pop-up and rollover buttons
- TIPS: Text for web pages, Changing the text size unit, and Changing the page background
April 2008
- NEWS: Xara Xtreme 4 released!
- ARTIST: Bob Hahn
- TUTORIALS: An introduction to Xara Xtreme 4
- TIPS: Easy Crop, Easy Crop 2, Add your own clipart, and Easy Text Select
February 2008
- NEWS: Xara3D 5 for just \$9.99!
- ARTIST: Denis Sazhin
- TUTORIAL: Using 'New Views' in Xtreme
- TIPS: Easy object copy, Changing font sizes, Page co-ordinates direction, and Editing stars
January 2008
- OFFER: Get Menu Maker 1.1 and ScreenMaker 3D free!
- ARTIST: Valery Kouleshov
- TUTORIALS: Using Grids, Guides, and Snapping in Xtreme
- TIPS: Easy Case Swap, Positioning Fills, and Symbol Shortcuts
December 2007
- OFFER: 25% off all Xara products!
- ART: Stereograms
- TUTORIAL: Creating an inner glow shadow using Xtreme
- TIPS: Switch in and out of Zoom & Push Tool shortcut
November 2007
- OFFER: All Xara products in one bundle!
- ART: Watches and clocks
- TUTORIALS: Improving photos using the Levels Tool in Xtreme Pro
- TIPS: The Ousider, Page Color, and Shape-shifting Quickshape Shortcuts
October 2007
- NEWS: Xara Xtreme 3.2 patch
- ARTIST: Alan Burns
- TUTORIAL: Advanced Flash Controls & Creating an old fashioned lightbulb
- TIPS: Easy rotate & Set line color
September 2007
- NEWS: 5 language versions of MAGIX Xtreme announced
- ARTIST: Bob Hahn
- TUTORIALS: Creating a Flash animation & manipulating screenshots using Xtreme
- TIPS: Changing Photo Editors, Round Cornered Rectangles & Solid Drag
August 2007
- NEWS: Amazing Xara3D 5 offer!
- ART: 3D Art
- TUTORIAL: Creating realistic shiny text with Xtreme
- TIPS: Un-smoothed bitmaps & Un-smoothed bitmaps 2
July 2007
- NEWS: Upgrade discount for Macromedia FreeHand owners
- ARTIST: Valery Kouleshov
- TUTORIALS: 5 things you may not know about the Freehand tool
- TIPS: Enhanced zooming with Xtreme 3.2
June 2007
- NEWS: Xara Xtreme 3.2 announced
- ART: Great flower images
- TUTORIAL: Creating animated Flash photo transitions using Xtreme 3.2
- TIPS: Downloading clipart & Pushing the color line
May 2007
- NEWS: MAGIX Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer in retail stores
- ART: A collection of vehicles
- TUTORIALS: Creating a realistic letter with stamp and postmark
- TIP: Rotating objects inside a ClipView
April 2007
- NEWS: MAGIX Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer announced
- ART: Cartoons
- TUTORIALS: Manipulating photo with Xara Xtreme
- TIPS: 5 top photo tips
March 2007
- FOCUS: Xtreme's Contour tool
- ARTIST: Vladimyr Savvateew
- TUTORIALS: Creating a realistic bear, and simple text effects using the contour tool
- TIP: Altering shapes witht the contour tool
February 2007
- NEWS: Introducing MAGIX
- ARTIST: Nicolae Trifu
- TUTORIALS: Live Effects tool & Creating a studded sphere
- TIP: Locking Live Effects
January 2007
- NEWS: Xara Xtreme Pro now shipping!
- ART: A collection of work from TalkGraphics
- TUTORIAL: Creating a photo montage
- TIPS: Cropping an image
December 2006
- NEWS: Xmas Special Offer
- ARTIST: Eugene Spearance
- MOVIES: Xtreme beginners movies added to YouTube
- TIP: Create and XY grid using the options dialog
November 2006
- NEWS: Xara Xtreme Pro launched
- ARTIST: Valery Kouleshov
- TUTORIAL: Xara Xtreme Pro Preview
- TIPS: Renaming layers/frames, Zoom, and Flash Examples
October 2006
- FOCUS: Thanksgiving
- ARTIST: Valery Kouleshov
- TUTORIALS: Editing scrapbook and card templates in Xtreme, and Creating a realistic pencil
- TIPS: Change the page color & Temporary Tool Selection
September 2006
- FOCUS: Xara X¹ Offer
- ART: A collection of human faces
- TUTORIALS: Creating realistic eggs, and a closer look at the Layer Gallery
- TIPS: Push Tool
August 2006
- NEWS: Webstyle 4 Template Pack 5 announced
- ART: Different inspirational styles
- TUTORIALS: Creating web buttons and image maps using Xara Xtreme
- TIPS: Select under. Select inside.
July 2006
- NEWS: Xara's 25th Anniversary
- FOCUS: 25 hour offer
- TUTORIALS: Creating great looking text in Xara Xtreme
- TIPS: How to make your photos black & white
June 2006
- FOCUS: Xara3D
- ARTIST: Mike Sims
- TUTORIALS: Creating 3D charts and logos with Xtreme and Xara3D
- TIPS: Caps lock crazy & Font Styles
May 2006
- NEWS: infiniType Offer
- ARTIST: Alan Burns
- TUTORIALS: Creating a 'carved in stone' effect & The Fill Gallery
- TIPS: Bitmap handling & Changing the page background color
April 2006
- FOCUS: First edition of the Outsider
- ARTIST: José Campoy
- TUTORIALS: Create a Tourneau Sportsgraph watch & Using the Layer Gallery
- TIPS: Drag selecting objects
Outsider Art
Every month in Inspirational Art we feature the work of a particular designer or pick a theme to showcase the work of a selection of Xara artists:
September 2017: Sandor Beres and Bruno Costa
August 2017: Anton Korenyako
July 2017: Tomas Kopecky
June 2017: Anna Antracit, Johnny Romero
May 2017: Aiyanne Chan, Michael Tumey
April 2017: Derek Cooper, Andrew Wrigley
March 2017: Denis Sazhin, Paul Saumure, Rik Datta & Gary Bouton, Andrew Wrigley
February 2017: Graham Ward, Gary Priester, Tomas Kopecky
January 2017: Tomasz Sadzinica
December 2016: Icons by Alexi Ryazancev & Mike Miroshnikov
November 2016: Aiyanne Chan
October 2016: Estince Voi
September 2016: Graham Ward, Mark Beckemeyer, Fred Van der Zee, Igor Vojtela
March 2016: Jose Campoy, Mark Beckemeyer, Andrew Wrigley, Graham Ward, Peter Windmill, Frances Proctor
February 2016: Maxim Lysak
January 2016: Andrew Wrigley, Vjekoslav Ranec, Derek Cooper
December 2015: Maksimilijan Gečević
November 2015: Xara's selection
October 2015: New Artists: Peter Windmill, Ronald Weed, Mark Beckemeyer
September 2015: Xara's selection
August 2015: Xara's Selection
April 2015: Xara's Selection
March 2015: Xara's Selection
February 2015: Xara's Selection
January 2015: Cars & Bikes
December 2014: Xmas
November 2014: New Artist: David Cockburn
October 2014: New Artist: Estince Voi
September 2014: New Artists: Anjna Masters and Mircea Dragoi
August 2014: New Artists: Michael Tumey and Tomas Kopecky
Outsider Tutorials
Every month we create a new tutorial for the Outsider:
September 2017: Using the Online Designer templates Pt 2
August 2017: Create docs using the Online Designer templates Pt1
July 2017: SmartShapes Pt 3 (charts & percentage rings)
June 2017: Online Presentations
May 2017: SmartShapes Pt 2 (text panels, photo panels, speech bubbles)
April 2017: SmartShapes Pt 1 (arrows, shapes, pie charts, spirals)
March 2017: Bullet & numbered lists
February 2017: An introduction to Xara Online Designer
January 2017: Create a Web Story in Xara Online Designer
December 2016: Create a greeting card with your favorite photo
November 2016: Photo Grids
September 2016: Create your own web story
May 2016: An Introduction to Photo & Graphic Designer
April 2016: Scrolling web backgrounds / parallax effects
March 2016: Editing colors Pt2, more advanced color editing
February 2016: The Color Line, the Color Line Context menu and the Color Editor
January 2016: Beginner's Guide to Photo & Graphic Designer Pt 3
(Drawing Tools)
December 2015: Beginner's Guide to Photo & Graphic Designer Pt 2 (Text)
October 2015: Using Font Awesome
July 2015: Sticky Objects and Stretching Backgrounds for Websites
April 2015: Exploring Rectangles (incl adding fills, shadows, bevels & more)
March 2015: Creating Mobile Friendly websites
February 2015: Photo Galleries and Photo Pop-Ups
January 2015: (revised October 2016) Example of a Photo Transformed
December 2014: (revised August 2016) Photo Editing 4: Color Select & Enhance
November 2014: (revised July 2016) Photo Editing 3: The Enhance Tool
October 2014: (revised July 2016) Photo Editing 2: Summary of the Photo Tools
September 2014: (revised May 2016) Photo Editing 1: The Basics
August 2014: (revised August 2016) Ajusting the brightness of shadows & highlights