Xara's photo-editing tools leave industry standard Adobe Photoshop in the dust.
That's a line from a review in the September 2011 issue of PC World with high praise for for the product, suggesting the professionals might be better off with the Xara product.

A more detailed version of the review is at PC World's website.

By the way, I recently purchased a product from Magix, the owner of Xara. I discovered the Magix website is marketing Photo & Graphics Designer 7 as "Magix Photo & Graphics Designer 7."

Bob