Photo & Graphic Designer is a fast and flexible photo editor that allows you to do amazing things with photos. Plus there's the added benefit of powerful drawing tools and advanced text handling - all in one seamlessly integrated environment. So whether you simply want to edit and enhance your photos, or you want to create compositions from your photos, illustrations and text, then Photo & Graphic Designer is the software for you!

Photo tools include:

• easy crop, rotate & resize,
• quick & easy auto enhancement, or manual control (brightness, contrast, blur, saturation, temperature, cross process)
• background erase (example below) and a magnetic lasso for cutting out objects
• photo healing and magic erase to remove scratches or blemishes or even quite significant unwanted objects (examples below)
• color select (example below)
• shadow & highlights control to adjust brightness in areas of shadow & highlight without affecting the rest of the photo
• red eye fix
• perspective fix
• a panorama maker (example below)
• advanced content aware resizing
• masking and cloning tools
• plus over 60 Photoshop plug-ins and ready-made photo filter pre-sets

Other graphic design features include: a flexible text tool which includes direct integration of 600+ Google fonts, freehand drawing and shape tools, tools for design effects such as transparency, bevels, shadows and blends and a 3D extrude tool.

Before and after examples using some of Xara's photo editing tools (clockwise from top left: photo heal, color select, background erase and magic erase) and underneath an example panorama