Master the world's fastest drawing program!
Learn the principles of vector drawing as you learn technique, composition, and other art essentials--then apply your skills to creating websites, animations, logos, photographic retouches, and more. Xara Xtreme 5: The Official Guide shows you how to customize the software, use QuickShapes, draw vector paths, use fills for photorealistic effects, and compose professional desktop publishing documents. This hands-on resource brings you from concept to completion with examples that span a range of art styles--using the vector drawing program that thinks it's a bitmap editor. With these tutorials that apply to Xara Xtreme, Xtreme Pro, and Magix Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer, you'll:

• Work with vector paths that look like paint strokes
  
• Tag colors to dramatically change complex drawings in seconds
  
• Build multi-page, graphically rich websites in a few hours
  
• Convert bitmap web graphics to resizable vector shapes
  
• Design artwork in minutes that looks like it took days
  
• Create and export original Flash animations for the web in no time
  
• Create 3D text and apply special effects to imported photos and vector shapes
  
• Invisibly retouch photographs with feathering, fractal fills, multi-step gradients, and transparencies
  

Inside you'll find an inspirational Xara GrandMasters Gallery of award-winning artwork from around the world.