Question About Xtreme Pro

**Soquili** · 10 July 2007, 11:12 PM

Joseph Xtreme and Xtreme Pro will work with very little RAM. Of course as with any program the more RAM you have the better.

Yes you can make Blends, but what are you calling a blend? Another new member a few weeks ago was referring to morphing as blending. Not exactly the same thing.

The attachment shows one possible blend using Xtreme Pro. Many other blends can be created.

I added a second attachment showing a blend along a curve (ellipse actually in this example).

**Joseph Witchard** · 10 July 2007, 11:53 PM

http://www.uhrebirth.com/images/char.../Witchard2.jpg

A friend of mine made me that signature using Photoshop blends. That's what I'd like to be able to do.

**raynerj1** · 10 July 2007, 11:54 PM

Xara excells at blends... If you are thinking blends and morphs are the same thing... Then a bitmap program like PSP or PS are what your are interested in. (don't forget the added expense of the plugins that actually do the morphing)

See attached example for a blend... Drew 2 pearls.. and created a blend along a line from one to the other...

**Soquili** · 11 July 2007, 12:17 AM

Joseph I call that a composite image. That is even easier to do in Xtreme Pro than making a blend.

**georgetroy** · 11 July 2007, 12:35 AM

Originally Posted by Joseph Witchard

I currently use PSP 9, and I am looking to upgrade. I like the idea of Adobe Photoshop, but $600+ is a lot of money, and if I can get a simliar program for the price of Xtreme Pro, I would take the opportunity.

Have I come to the right place?

In US dollars consider the Corel Draw Graphics Suite X3 $179.00 includes Photo-Paint(raster program) and much more or Paint Shop Pro X1 for $54.99 an upgrade may be less.

The current price on the Xara web site for Extreme Pro is $249.00 when it first came out I paid approx. $150.00 because I had previous versions. To sum up: I recommend The Corel Draw Graphics Suite X3 it has a fair price to do it all. My opinion, others may feel differently of course. GT

**Soquili** · 11 July 2007, 12:41 AM

Hi George,

The $179.00 price is for the upgrade, the full version of Corel Draw X3 is $399.00.

http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satelli.../1150981051301

The $249.00 price for Xtreme Pro includes two raster graphic editors (XPE and MAGIX Photo) and it includes Xara3D6.

**Joseph Witchard** · 11 July 2007, 01:39 AM

So with Xtreme or Xtreme Pro, I could make an image like I showed you?

**Soquili** · 11 July 2007, 01:41 AM

Yes. Very easily. In Photoshop you would need to create masks and multiple layers and set blend modes. Photoshop is easy once you master it, but not as easy to learn as Xtreme.