Gary

I used to use these a lot, and melt is still one a go to for some things

it is locked whatever you set in xara, this is quite common; if you do the convert to editable shape you get a 96dpi image... I do not think you can do anything about this in xara, it is like being locked regardless, just they way they work in this program

in photoshop they are clipped by the canvas [as I recall] - there is no canvas in xara, so they 'bleed out'