Photo Objects

In Xara photos (or bitmaps) are just another type of object on the page. You can drag and drop photos onto the page from your Windows file explorer, and then you can resize, rotate, copy and move them around just like any other object. Importantly you can adjust the transparency, even graduated transparency, feather edges and clip and cut shapes out of photos with ease. The transparency feature lets you blend, merge or create composite photos.

Where you might have to use layers in other photo tools, every object in Xara is on its own layer and, just as with any object on the page, you can move it forward to be in front, or backwards to be behind other objects.