The beauty treatment for your photos
Quick optimization and detailed restoration
MAGIX Photo & Graphic Designer finally offers you all image editing capabilities, intuitively combined in one program: - quick photo optimization with just one click - superior photo editing, as well as - intelligent graphic design that satisfies the highest demands, providing you with just the right tips and templates. Just perfect turns designing into a pleasure. First-class photo editing and quick optimization with tools perfectly suited for the beginner and the professional alike. Retouch and restore every photo with the program's useful guidance in just a few steps. Cmprehensive! Photo editing & restoration, create panorama photos & collages Easy! Photomontage & artistic effects, perspective distortion, Quick! Screenshots series, Task Assistant

Edit and share photos

In MAGIX Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer your photos will be edited quickly and precisely. Its comprehensive set of features gives your less successful shots a helping hand and assists in transforming your photo ideas into reality. An intelligent Task Wizard explains simple and complex editing steps, resulting in successful image editing, fast!
Edit Retouch Design Optimize Distort Easy optimization of color, brightness, contrast, or customization with MAGIX Xtreme Photo Designer 6 you can edit your photos with great ease and amazing speed. Retouch blemishes, scratches or tears on old photos, and use the cloning tool, magix wand, and other pro tools to create impressive collages. MAGIX Xtreme Foto Designer 6 supports all common image formats, as well as images from TWAIN-compatible scanners and digital cameras.
Quick photo optimization and editing in detail Its worth the effort to display your favourite photo memories just the way they should appear. We offer you 1-click tools that make your photos shine in a flash. Extensive photo tasks like retouching or cloning can be accomplished quickly and reliably if you like, with the help of our Task Wizard, which offers you step-by-step instructions and just the right tools. Excellent picture layout options are bound to impress.
Artistically distort photos Unusual effects and filters transform photos into amazing works of art. Printing procedures and textures added with a click give impressive results every time. You can apply filters to your photos so that, for example, they look like a silkscreen or a painting. In addition, MAGIX Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer offers you an amazing range of photo altering possibilities with the "liquid colors" tool. Using it, you can achieve especially artistic effects. In perfect unison: MAGIX products and iPACE Online Services Discover the possibilities offered by the online MAGIX iPACE Services accessible directly from your MAGIX product. Every MAGIX product offers an easy gateway to the world of online multimedia. Present your photos, videos and music directly in your Online Album or in the worldwide Internet communities. You can create your own personalized website in professional Flash design with photos, videos, music & impressive animations. Order brilliant photo prints to be sent directly to your doorstep quick, easy and at the right price.
Your advantages at a glance! Fotobearbeitung
It's worth the effort to display your favourite photo memories the way they should be. We provide 1-click tools that instantly impress and get pictures to shine.
Quick optimization Level horizon Fix red eye Get rid of scratches, rips and stains Easy extraction Magic surface selector Distort artistically Uniquely customise Adobe Photoshop compatible
Image cropping, brightness, auto-contrast, auto-colour, white balance and much more at the touch of a button Quickly adjust crooked horizons Child's play just one click Restoration of old pictures (cloning, colour correction, etc.) The magnetic lasso outlines objects to cut them out for future use in collages. The magic wand selects surfaces held together by a specific colour. Transforms photos into realistic oil paintings, pencil drawings, silk screens, caricatures, and lots more More than 60 additional effects and functions (soft-focus lens,distort, colour gradient, add shadow effects, histogram, etc) Supports Photoshop compatible plug-in effects filter

MAGIX Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6 is simply the most flexible and time-saving solution for creating impressive graphics: powerful image editing and photo tools, compelling graphic design, professional design templates and flexible page layout features, all in a single intuitive program! Take advantage of the many unique design options for personal and professional use, hobbies, clubs, colleges, schools. First-class results also great for gifts and presentations!
The powerful universal solution! Photo work Graphic design Page layout Easy, intuitive, fast
No previous experience required!
1. More than 100 powerful functions for photo, graphic and presentation work:
MAGIX Photo Manager 9: View, manage & archive photos

BONUS!

More than 3,000 professional templates

IDEAL!

As a companion to other photo, video, and website programs

Transform your images!

Whether you require quick photo enhancements or creative design, MAGIX Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6 offers tailor-made options and intelligent tools for every occasion. And what's more, your original photos always remain intact (non-destructive).
NEW! Intelligent zooming & scaling
Stretch and squash your photos without distorting key parts of the image
NEW! Retouch image series
Make unwanted tourists vanish from your holiday photos

Remove unwanted objects

e.g. fences, posts, power lines
NEW! Correct photo perspective
Ideal for architectural photography
NEW! Create photo compositions
Combine elements of different photos into one perfect group photo

Image composition

NEW! Selection, mask, and clone tools for flexible cropping and editing

Optimize & restore

Includes color temperature, red eye correction and much more. NEW! Dynamic color shades
IMPROVED! Panorama montages
Turn your individual photos into impressive panoramas
Endless possibilities, impressive results

Creative design

Turn your photos into impressive works of art: Pencil sketch, oil painting, mosaic, caricature ("liquid color"), vectorize ("Bitmap tracer"), Pop Art and many other creative effects!

Graphic design

With versatile tools for vector-based graphic design, including 3D effects. NEW! Also for pressure-sensitive graphics tablets, pen tools and touchscreens***

Creative templates

More than 500 individually customizable templates for photo albums, calendars, invitations, brochures, greeting cards, flyers, vouchers, business cards, certificates as well as 2,500 clip art items and much more.

Text & page layout

Complete design freedom including full formatting controls, text flow around images, spell check, bundled fonts and much more. NEW! Support for bullet and number lists

Print & present

Easy printing thanks to ready-to-use print templates for photo albums and much more. Conveniently present images in the free Online Album. Plus interactive online presentations (HTML, PDF).

Program interface

All of the advantages at a glance
Optimization: Ultra-fast, loss-free realtime editing (non-destructive): Crop, brightness, contrast, color temperature, color fill, saturation, tone value correction, (NEW! Manual correction curve), white balance, focus, horizon leveling, correct red eyes and much more (including automatisations) NEW! Selective optimization: Brighten precisely defined areas, design stages of effects gradients NEW! Masking tool for flexible cutting/cropping and precise editing (incl. feathering, NEW! Opacity mask), correct image faults, etc. NEW! Magnetic drawing pencil / lasso for automatically adding lines and masks at the contours of photos and graphics NEW! Clon tool for intelligently removing image elements and combining elements of multiple photos (e.g. to remove tourists from vacation photos, etc.) NEW! Correct photo perspective ("converging lines") (ideal for architectural photography) NEW! Intelligent zoom for changing the size of characteristic image elements IMPROVED! Intelligent scaling: Change image formats without distorting important image content Artistic distortion: Over 50 creative effects (oil painting, pencil sketch, blur, color gradient, shadow, and more) Caricatures: Freely transform image areas ("liquid paint"), e.g. to create fun caricatures or to alter body proportions Advanced image design: Draw in photos and add artistic text and objects, 3D effects, supports Photoshop-compatible effect filters, and much more IMPROVED! Montages: 1-click montage of realistic panorama photos, creative photo montages or group photos Multi-photo options: NEW! All/multiple photos in a project can be optimized at the same time, assistant for easily creating screenshots (NEW! can be set according to timed settings / alternatively, via your keyboard), apply editing steps to other photos NEW! Meta information of photos is displayed directly in the program (EXIF) NEW! Exif data remains intact after exporting (creation date, etc.) NEW! Size and resolution of included photos is reduced to enable a faster workflow in large projects

Graphics

Draw freehand: Professional drawing tools, automatic line smoothing, real-time tools for color gradient, fills, transparency, contour, edges, shadows, morphing, and more NEW! Additional tools for drawing straight lines and arrows automatically 3D design: Transform shapes, text, or photos into 3D objects with realistic perspectives, light reflections, and shadows Bitmap tracer: Transform photos into freely scalable and moldable vector graphics NEW! Texture stamp for transferring any stamp of a texture to photos and graphics Color linking: Simultaneous color adjustment of different objects Animations: Transform photos, shapes and text into animations and export for web pages, slideshows or videos (Flash) Edge smoothing: Brilliantly sharp fonts and graphics, even for low and high monitor and print resolutions (anti-aliasing) NEW! Supports operation via pressure-sensitive graphics tablets / pen tools NEW! Supports operation via touch enabled screen (Windows 7)

Layout

Design, edit and export multi-page documents in multiple ways Templates for personal and professional use, schools, colleges, clubs, etc.: More than 250 customizable templates: photo albums, greeting cards, collector's albums, business cards, letterhead, brochures, interactive presentations, real estate prospects, CD/DVD cases, booklets and labels, certificates & vouchers, logos, and more NEW! More than 2,500 universally customizable vector graphics objects (clip art) for illustrating your own creations NEW! Automatic filling of entire photo gallery templates via drag 'n' drop Detailed design tools for text, typography and document layout "Flowing text": Text wrap around shapes/photos Spell checker (multilingual) NEW! Justification (even for text flow functions), bullets, numbered lists, line indents and the anchoring of graphics Clear project management (NEW! Page/object gallery incl. editing of layers) NEW! Improved handling thanks to darker user interface with flyout tools

Output

Photo printing: Scan and print single images, series and graphics Desktop Publishing: Export for printing companies (pre-press in CMYK color space) Presentations: Export as website or interactive PDF (incl. templates and 500 MB free web space) Online Print Service for photo prints Free Online Album website

Supported formats

Image (import): RAW formats**, JPEG, JPEG2000, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PSD (with layers), PNG, TGA, PCX, PPM, PGM, PBM, MS Paint, MacPaint, PICT, TARGA, and more Image (export): JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PNG, PSD, TGA, RAS, PPM, PGM, PCX, and more Graphics (import): PDF, EPS, AI, XAR, WEB, CDR, CDT, CMX, DRW, AFF, ACO, ACT, PAL, CPL, CMX, HTM, HTML, and more Graphics (export): GIF, PDF, EPS, AI, XAR, WEB, CMX, DCX, PCX, RAS, WPG, WIX, HTM, HTML, and more PDF files: Import, edit, extract and export Additional formats: Import and export RTF documents, export Flash (SWF), TIFF (incl. CMYK support), SVG files, import WMF, EMF, and Internet files (FTP)

System requirements

For Microsoft Windows XP I Vista | 7 For 32bit and 64bit systems

Minimum configuration:

PC with Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon 700 Mhz or higher 256 MB RAM, 150 MB hard disk space for program files CD-ROM or DVD drive, Microsoft compatible mouse SVGA graphics card with min. 32 MB RAM (min. resolution1024 x 600 at 16-bit high color) Integrated online services and video tutorials require an Internet connection and up-to-date web browser
Note! The following awards refer to the previous version, MAGIX Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer 5.
* Best-selling software for photo, graphics & design: MAGIX (Xtreme) Photo & Graphic Designer has sold the most products of any publisher in the "photo, graphics & design" segment. Basis: GfK Weekly TrendSetter Software Germany, inquiry period June 2009 to June 2010 [as of June 2010]. ** For an updated list of all compatible camera models, see www.magix.com ***Support for touchscreens requires Windows 7 Copyright Xara Group Ltd., 1994 2010. All rights reserved. Xara is a registered trademark of Xara Group Ltd. Xara Group Ltd. is an affiliate company of MAGIX AG. MAGIX is a registered trademark of MAGIX AG. Xtreme Photo Designer: Copyright MAGIX AG, 2000 2010. Photo Manager: Copyright MAGIX AG, 2003 2010.