General
Designing
Web Graphics
Interactivity

Creating and Importing

Editing and Applying Special Effects

Animated GIF's

Exporting Results

Screen Shots

TRADITIONAL 3D programs are notoriously difficult to use and understand. Not so Xara3D. Unlike much modern 'bloatware' that offers more features than are ever likely to be used, and take an age to learn and understand, Xara3D has been created to perform one job, and performs that job with style, speed, and slick simplicity. Xara3D is solely designed to create the highest quality 3D titles and logos for use on Web pages. All images are fully anti-aliased for that smooth professional quality. Xara3D can also create simple, high quality animated GIFs or AVI movie sequences in seconds.

Creating and Importing
Uses any TrueType font. Six fonts are included in the download and a further 50 on the CD. Simply select the font from the drop down menu and type away.

Supports international character sets, such as Japanese, Chinese and Russian

Full text control, including alignment, sub- & superscript, line spacing, tracking and kerning values for individual characters or over whole selections

Instant access to full character sets from within the text dialog.

Can import 2D graphic shapes as Windows metafiles (WMF and EMF) and CorelXARA/Webster files (XAR and WEB) to be used as outlines.

You can select any background color and texture to match your web page background. Then you can position your image exactly against the background

Full anti-aliasing for the best possible on-screen display.

Editing and Applying Special Effects
Interactive control over the 3D extrude depth

Unlimited undo

Automatic button-making tool which converts any heading into a button

Real-time 3D positioning around three axes by simply dragging the image on screen

Real-time solid shading with optional error-diffusion dithering for top quality results

Areas of text can be selected, and different attributes such as bevel, color, fonts and text settings applied

A total of 21 different bevel types (see examples) with adjustable bevel size (screenshot)

Simple to alter lighting (three adjustable light arrows for interactive adjustment of the color and direction) - see screenshot

Flexible interactive controls over the color and texture of the image and background

Images can be displayed with front and back faces, or can be made hollow

Images can have bitmap textures applied

A total of 37 textures are included in the download, and there are 800+ on the CD-ROM you receive when you purchase. You can also import your own GIF or PNG files

Textures can be scaled, rotated and colored
Images can be matt or shiny

Images can have a soft-edged shadow and an intuitive interface allows you to simply alter the blur, transparency and color (see screenshot).

Animated GIFs
Images can be animated in many different ways (see examples), such as Rotate, Fade, Pulsate, Step, Fade and Swing, using a simple user interface (see screenshot)
Step-through multi-page animations of different images
The number of frames in a sequence, the rotation direction, the speed, pause and number of loops can all be selected through simple controls
GIF Animations can be paused (and pauses can be seen in the on-screen preview)
Great for creating animated buttons.

Exporting your results
Outputs JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG (including full PNG alpha channel), animated GIF and AVI
Optional background transparency
Color reduction and palette-optimization for maximum quality with the smallest file size.
Complete control over the image size, including a handy Fit To Width feature (with pixel size shown on screen).

Screenshots
When you purchase Xara3D, you will be sent a CD-ROM packed with extras.

All this for just $39 US.