

This isn’t an issue for too long, though. The menus offer little help, too, so it’ll probably take some exploration before you find the options you require.

Open a photo to edit it, for instance, and the toolbars remain packed with options that you probably don’t need right now (extrude and transparency tools, “snap to objects”, link properties and more). There is a down side to this level of graphics power, of course: the interface can be confusing, at least initially. An easy to use and very capable WYSIWYG web designer, a useful collection of 3,000 clipart items, and more. An excellent desktop publishing tool, with templates to help you build calendars, greetings cards, brochures, business cards, CD covers and labels, newspapers and more. Xara Designer Pro 6 is a photo editor, yes. So you’ll open one program for photo editing, another for web graphics, a third for desktop publishing, and the list goes on. There are many different ways to get creative with graphics, and satisfying all those needs can require an entire library of applications.
