Xara Page & Graphic Designer 9 is Here! Gary Priester takes you on a tour of this all purpose photo editing, graphic design tool. The little brother to Designer Pro, Xara Page & Graphic Designer 9 is attractively priced, and has most of the tools and features you will ever need to create effective website graphics, illustrations, do photo edits, and more.

In this First Look, you'll get a look at the most important new features including the incredible Photo Heal Tool, the equally new and exciting Mask and Region Tools. Come and take a first look for yourself!

More than a year ago, Gary Bouton started Xarists off with an introduction to Flash animation, and this month you’ll return to the land of Flash and vector animation with an intriguing animation example that uses a reveal technique to make it look as though a pencil is writing a numeric countdown. Get the lead out, and get into an intermediate Xara animation tutorial!