Photo and Graphic Designer MX & Designer Pro X Released

[planetsquid]

...is there a way to remove just a "Section" of the white background say in a cartoon character without removing the whites in the eyes as well?...

Yes, you can apply a mask which allows you to choose which parts of the image are affected. Download the demo and check out the help section for that tool.

Rich

[gwpriester]

rpc - You can also create some simple white shapes and send them behind the eyes.

[rpc9943]

rpc - You can also create some simple white shapes and send them behind the eyes.

Well, yeah I know. I was just wondering if we had a "contiguous" "non-contiguous" kind of switch

[gwpriester]

Well the mask as Rich suggested is another way to do this. Or you could use a white that was not completely white for the eyes, but that would probably be spotty at best.

[tonylondon]

Have signed up to the new Pro X and everything is working brilliantly. The paragraph and character styles, the embedded graphics and the graphic bullets work a treat. Once there is automatic pages numbering and automatic contents generation I'll have everything I need for creating long documents and will be able to ditch Indesign. Incidentally, when I carefully logged into the Xara UK site and clicked the button to buy (£79) I was automatically sent to the US site. This might account for some of the pricing confusion raised in this thread. Anyway must return to play with the new software.

[gwpriester]

Well, Tony, I would add to this list, hyphenation and support for Glyphs. I recently purchased a beautiful font called Aire that has some extremely elegant glyph swash caps and ligatures that I have to break down and open my copy of Illustrator CS5.5 to access. And you cannot even copy and paste into Xara.

[tonylondon]

Well, Tony, I would add to this list, hyphenation and support for Glyphs. I recently purchased a beautiful font called Aire that has some extremely elegant glyph swash caps and ligatures that I have to break down and open my copy of Illustrator CS5.5 to access. And you cannot even copy and paste into Xara.

Ah! Good job someone's checking!

[mwenz]

...Once there is automatic pages numbering and automatic contents generation I'll have everything I need for creating long documents and will be able to ditch Indesign...

Don't forget running headers/footers, indexing, ebook and other interactive PDFs, and, and, and...

However, if you wish to dump ID and can live without running headers/footers (though there is a cludge of a work-around) pick up PagePlus. The problem for me with dumping ID, even though I far prefer to use PP whenever possible, is that I have too much work that the customers need to obtain the ID version. This also applies to that moderately useful AI piece of garbage from Adobe. But if I do have control over what I use for such work, PP it is.

All that said, if there is something I can produce in Xara, Xara it is. And I think the new version just extends that capability / usefulness.

Take care, Mike

[tonylondon]

Don't forget running headers/footers, indexing, ebook and other interactive PDFs, and, and, and...

However, if you wish to dump ID and can live without running headers/footers (though there is a cludge of a work-around) pick up PagePlus. The problem for me with dumping ID, even though I far prefer to use PP whenever possible, is that I have too much work that the customers need to obtain the ID version. This also applies to that moderately useful AI piece of garbage from Adobe. But if I do have control over what I use for such work, PP it is.

All that said, if there is something I can produce in Xara, Xara it is. And I think the new version just extends that capability / usefulness.

Take care, Mike

An interesting point. I have problems with Indesign which Adobe couldn't solve but have work-arounds for them. I'll limp on with ID where functionality requires it, but hope for that day finally when a X upgrade allows me to bin it.