XARA 3D
Fantastic 3D Graphics

Both professional web graphic designers and home computer users have been using Xara3D to make buttons, animated gifs, banner graphics and titles for web pages and presentations - and you can too, for just $39 US.TRADITIONAL 3D programs are notoriously difficult to use and understand. Not so Xara3D. Unlike much modern 'bloatware' that offers more features than are ever likely to be used, and take an age to learn and understand, Xara3D has been created to perform one job, and performs that job with style, speed, and slick simplicity. Xara3D is solely designed to create the highest quality 3D titles and logos for use on Web pages. All images are fully anti-aliased for that smooth, professional quality. Xara3D can also create simple, high quality animated GIFs, AVIs and Flash movie sequences in seconds.

Creating and Importing

	Uses any TrueType font. Six fonts are included in the download and a further 50 on the CD. Simply select the font from the drop down menu and type away
	Six fonts are included in the download and a further 50 on the CD
	Supports international character sets, such as Japanese, Chinese and Russian
	Full text control, including window placement, alignment, sub- & superscript, line spacing, tracking and kerning values for individual characters or over whole selections
	Instant access to full character sets from within the text dialogue
	Can import 2D graphic shapes as Windows metafiles (WMF and EMF) and CorelXARA/Webster files (XAR and WEB) to be used as outlines
	You can select any background colour and texture to match your web page background
	Position images exactly against the background
	Full anti-aliasing for the best possible on-screen display

Editing and Applying Special Effects - see screenshot

	Interactive control over the 3D extrude depth
	Unlimited undo
	Automatic button-making tool which converts any heading into a button
	Real-time 3D positioning around three axis by simply dragging the image on screen
	A new Style Picker allows you to grab any or all of the settings of one file and apply them to another
	Real-time solid shading with optional error-diffusion dithering for top quality results
	Areas of text can be selected, and different attributes such as bevel, colour, fonts and text settings applied
	A total of 25 different bevel types with adjustable bevel size
	Simple to alter lighting (three adjustable light arrows for interactive adjustment of the colour and direction)
	Flexible interactive controls over the colour and texture of the image and background
	Images can be displayed with front and back faces, or can be made hollow
	Images can have bitmap textures applied
	A total of 37 textures are included in the download, and there are 800+ on the CD-ROM you receive when you purchase
	You can also import your own GIF or PNG files
	Textures can be scaled, rotated and coloured
	Images can be matt or shiny
	Images can have a soft-edged shadow and an intuitive interface allows you to simply alter the blur, transparency and colour

Animation

	Images can be animated in many different ways (see examples), such as Rotate, Fade, Pulsate, Step, Fade and Swing, using a simple interface
	Step-through multi-page animations of different images
	New Animation Picker lets you import the animation settings of one file and apply them to another
	Apply different animations to individual characters or sections of text
	The number of frames in a sequence, the rotation direction, the speed, pause and number of loops can all be selected through simple controls
	The new animation time line allows you to step through each frame, pause and export a single frame
	Lights and text can be rotated separately
	Great for creating animated buttons

Exporting your results - including Flash

	Outputs JPEG, Progressive JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG (including full PNG alpha channel), ICO (icon), CUR (cursor), animated GIF, AVI and SWF (vector and bitmap)
	Optional background transparency
	Colour reduction and palette-optimisation for maximum quality with the smallest file size
	Complete control over the image size, including a handy Fit To Width feature (with pixel size shown on screen)

examples
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