What’s new in Xara Photo & Graphic Designer+

A new Italian version and a clutch of other text and graphic design improvements to explore.

We’ve added 18 new calendar templates for 2024 and updated the existing ones, you’ll find them now in Xara Elements (formerly Online Content Catalog) under Print > Calendars

A powerful new ‘FlexGroup’ type of group offers a new way to create great designs in less time!

Photo & Graphic Designer+ is now available in Dutch, French and Spanish (in addition to the existing English and German), all in one convenient installer.

A major boost to the template library with over 400 new designs in the Designs Gallery, plus a useful selection of improvements including SmartFields and font selection via the Name Gallery.

The installer now includes German versions, including a complete online user guide and knowledgebase.

For maximum convenience and productivity, the Designs Gallery now automatically connects and updates online, so it has the same content as the Content Catalog (except for stock photos and illustrations).

We’ve just added a new Calendar category to the Designs Gallery. You’ll find 12 new calendar templates in Print > Calendars, fully customizable to your brand – just in time to get 2023 off to a great visual start.

Another major addition to the Photo & Graphic Designer+ Online Content Catalog.

We’ve added nearly 1200 new photo filter overlays in 4 new categories in Image Resources > Photo Filter Presets > Overlays (Light Rays, Night Sky, Rose Petal and additions to Light Leak).

Photo overlays can be added to your photo, even on top of other photo filters, to provide a huge choice of creative possibilities.

Tables created with the new Xara Table tool and exported to Microsoft Word (in docx format) are now fully editable in Word.

No more ▯ when you paste in a character that isn’t supported by your current font, such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean letters.

Xara will now check for fonts that support the character and insert the correct character into your text using that font.

Find out more in the Photo & Graphic Designer+

Hot off the press, a couple of additions to our new Table Tool to smooth your table workflow:

• A new ‘paste unformatted’ option, so you can copy and paste between table cells without styles if required
• And improved handling of multi-line text when copy and pasting data from external applications such as spreadsheets into your Xara tables

Another important step forward for our new Table Tool: You can now copy and paste data from spreadsheets or other external sources straight into your Xara tables.

Another huge update to the Photo & Graphic Designer+ Content Catalog.

We’ve added nearly 1300 new photo filter overlays in 4 new categories in Image Resources > Photo Filter Presets > Overlays (Bokeh, Color Gradient, Light Leak and Snow).

Why not explore the Photo Filter folder this autumn and see what interest, drama, mood or personality you can add to your photos with our huge range of photo filters and overlays.

Christmas has come early with this massive update to the Online Content Catalog of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer+:

• 57 extra tables, so you can make the most of our brand new table tool
• 42 social media buttons to help you maximize the potential of your social media
• 125 ‘fancy’ buttons with creative outlines
• 3 restaurant menus
• 1 invoice

Why not check them out right now in the Online Content Catalog.

Our great new table tool gets even better. Whatever your table requirements, it’ll be quick and easy in Xara:

• you can now re-order rows & columns with a simple click & drag
• an automatic way to convert old Smart tables to the new tables
• a host of other minor improvements & fixes, listed in full in the Photo & Graphic Designer+ Release Notes, including an interim 22.1.1 release

We have a brand new table tool, so now it’s a snip to enhance your document with any shape or form of table, of your own design or from the templates in the Online Content Catalog

You’ll find the new tool at the bottom of the left hand toolbar, full instructions in our Release Notes and more than 20 new professional table templates in the Online Content Catalog (all old ones are revised to work with the new tool too so that makes almost 50 – and you can easily create your own tables from scratch).

To mark the release of our new subscription version, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer+ has a brand new clean and modern look that will enhance your everyday usage:

• The new darker background puts more focus on your design, with less user interface distractions
• There are new, clearer icon designs throughout
• All icons and mouse pointers are now High DPI, so they look sharp and clear on high resolution displays
• And other minor tweaks and improvements – for example in the Page & Layer Gallery, the Page names are now separated from the page thumbnails, so both are clearly visible.