Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11 has just been launched.

As usual you can find an overview on our website @ http://www.xara.com/photo-graphic-designer/whats-new/ and more detailed information in the release notes @ http://xaragroup.magix.net/PGD11releasenotes/ but the highlights are:

• A big step forwards for the Brush Tool, with new Art Brushes and enhanced Scatter Brushes
• New industry standard blend / transparency modes
• Lots of new & improved text features including abbreviation expansion
• Document sync with Dropbox or GDrive
• Significant PDF and Word import improvements
• An extension of the Shape Editor Tool (Liquify Tools).

Gary Priester has done his traditional first look which you can find here http://xaragroup.magix.net/PGD11/

Fyi the Liquify Tools and latest SmartShapes (check out the new spiral) are the first quite simple examples of what can be created with our new plug-in technology, for which we intend to publish an API so that third parties can add features, tools and SmartShapes. The API isn’t ready to be released yet, but if you’re a JavaScript developer and this sounds interesting, send us a ticket via support.xara.com to register your interest and we’ll keep you posted. In the meantime I hope you enjoy the new features, they will of course all be in Pro 11.