As an artist I love messing around with Photoshop and Illustrator or any graphical program for that matter but the other day I was surfing around and came across Xara Xtreme. I decided to download the trial version and then grabbed a few images to play with. The ease with which you can extract images from their backgrounds was what really got me excited.
Xara Xtreme still has a few clunky operations that I’d like to see rounded out a bit more – the 3D extrude for one – now to be fair, I haven’t yet explored whether or not I can break apart images and apply the 3D abilities to just portions rather than the entire image, so I’ll be investigating that shortly.
Intuitive Tool
Overall, Xara Xtreme is quite intuitive and very easy to work with. It isn’t Illustrator by any means and those who are strong graphics users will not find Xara Xtreme a replacement by any means, but for anyone who wants quick work made of image manipulations – it’s worth downloading the trial and seeing if it might not be one of the programs that can enhance your work a bit or make some things that you do in other graphics tools, a little quicker or easier to manage.
Here’s a Review done on Xara Xtreme that provides an overview of the program for those interesting in learning more from a source other than the company’s website.
