My family was bugging me this year for a calendar of my photography, so I finally got around to it (OK, a month too late, really, but hey, I did it!). I've been using Xara since '96, and I do nearly everything with it. Well, not photo processing, but all design and layout work, for sure.
I'm putting my calendar and other assorted 'stuff' on www.cafepress.com/goosekirk for now. Some of it turned out pretty cool, I think.
I know most people might use Photoshop for this sort of work, but I would sooner pull out my fingernails. I really can't wrap my brain around Photoshop sometimes. Xara just works so intuitively and smoothly. For the background of my calendar, I built several layers of transparent textures, and it's so easy to manipulate them however I want... with Photoshop (or Paint Shop Pro, for that matter), you have to know so many obtuse commands to do the simplest things.
Anyway, I love my Xara, and I thought y'all might be interested in seeing how I'm using it for my photography.
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