We have just launched Photo & Graphic Designer v9. You can find details on our site @ http://www.xara.com/photo-graphic-designer/whats-new/ but here’s a brief overview.

• Photo healing tool
• Background erase tool
• New Mask & Region tools
• 11 New Photo FX plug-ins
• Bonus photo software (MAGIX Photo Manager & MAGIX Online Photo Album free for one year)
• An easy way to re-color elements in complex grouped objects
• Direct support for Google Fonts & a new Google Font picker
• Support for multi-weight fonts in the font menu
• New Shape Painter tool (the Shape Builder previously seen in Pro X)
• Graphical Bullets & Numbers
• Various other misc improvements

In addition to the information on our website, you can find detailed info in our release notes @ http://www.xara.com/photo-graphic-designer/notes and of course don’t miss Gary Priester’s First Look on the Xara Xone http://xaraxone.magix.net/PGD9/

We’re going to surprise you this year by not releasing Designer Pro X9 at the same time. It’s on the way! Yes, it will have all the new features of Photo & Graphic Designer 9 (and Web Designer 9 Premium).