Hi, Emma, that's a good start, just some tweaking needed.

I don't think you've used the cursor to select different objects.

If you click on the a|b button, a big girder should appear at the bottom right of your screen in Xara3d. That's the cursor. Think of the screen as a page of text. Xara3d was originally only a text application, and it still lays out the 3d objects on that basis. Holding shift while moving the cursor across an object highlights it. Whatever options you choose from the dialogues affects only that highlighted object. If nothing is highlighted, any option you apply will apply to everything in the file. Some things, like Animation type are always global, ie, affect everything.

Hold the shift key down and tap the left arrow key. The "a" of Emma should be highlighted.
Continue holding down the shift key and keep tapping the left arrow until you have selected all the text.
Now go to the Animation dialogue, and click on the axis buttons to choose a different spin axis. There are three of those, with a Reverse direction button at the end.

If you use the cursor to highlight individual squares, you can choose different spin axes for these, too, and can click on the reverse button (the one at the end with two arrow heads) to have one spin in the opposite direction.

While the text is still selected, go to the Texture dialogue, and untick the texture button. You can then go to the Colour dialogue and choose a colour for the text.

As to the photo, there are options in the Texture dialogue you can use to resize and move the photo on the squares. Use the cursor to select the four squares together for this.

Be aware that Xara3d will tile textures so if the texture is too small to fill the object you are painting it on, you will see multiple copies of the texture appearing.

If all the above doesn't help, try posting your .x3d file, and we can have a look at it.

But you are nearly there already.

Mike