TraceyG wrote:
WOW, Thanks so much, for all the info, and I love the one with the clouds! Is Xara a large program? I would imagine it would be. I have aperture, viveza 2, neat image, was debating on Redynamix, but Xara sounds like a good program. Is it fairly user friendly?
Xara is beefy but the learning curve is quite level, its power to usability ratio is probably the best one out there; also Xara has a whole library of easy to understand tutorials. Xara understands that the majority of users out there are not hard core professionals and they need power to easily do what they want to do the most and even a lot more without having to learn a program that you could take college courses on.
Truth be told, the engineers that developed Xara are the core engineers that originally developed Corel Draw; for some reason they left Corel and went to Australia and developed Xara designing the Xara engine after the Corel design but making it much better. I may be wrong about some details but one thing is for certain, the developers of Xara were not some new "flying by the seat of their pants" software wannabees, they started Xara with a firm foundation of know-how in both the business and technical end of the Xara project.