I came across the tutorial linked to below and followed it. It gave me quite a few hours of interest and taught me things that I didn't know the program was capable of. Thanks Gary Priester.

https://www.xara.com/news/february07/tutorial.asp

The tutorial is some years old and done in a much earlier version of the program but it was possible to figure out where all the controls are in Xara Photo & Graphics Designer 17. A different background to the finished item in the tutorial but that maybe makes it look even more alien.

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