Hubert, here's Xara's Help information:Optimization on import
When importing high resolution photos (anything above 1920 pixels either wide or high) into a web document, Xara Designer Pro X9 automatically resizes the photo down to HD screen size without asking you if you want to import a lower resolution version. For a web document, even at the reduced size, there should be more than enough resolution in your photos for high quality results on your website, so it's rarely necessary to import digital camera images at full resolution for web use.
However, if you are importing a large photo into a print or animation document, Xara Designer Pro X9 asks you if you want to import a lower resolution version of your photos. If your document is to include many photos, you may want to choose this reduced resolution option. Otherwise with large photos you may find that your saved design file is much bigger than it needs to be (because it contains a copy of each of your photos) and you may not have enough memory in your computer to load, edit and export your documents.
Perhaps you can save a higher resolution photo in a separate folder and use the Web Properties... > Link > Link to file approach to ensure the size is maintained.
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