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As you can see on the left, the Retina quality image is designated My iPad 3 will load the version.

The browser or mobile device will load the appropriate images. Two versions of your photos will be published, at two resolutions, 96 and 192ppi. Once again, the only thing with which you the web designer need concern yourself is the resolution of your image. On most monitors there will not be a difference, but if you are viewing this page on a Retina quality display, the part of the image on the right will look very clean and crisp, but by comparison the image on the left will appear softer and not as clean and crisp. I optimized my Praying Mantis photo above at 96 and 192ppi. To this end, Web Designer 9 will optimize all photos at 192ppi (this is the same as dpi). Most high end tablet and mobile phones currently have or will have Retina quality resolution very soon. And this does not just include Apple products. Hold down the Alt key and you can use your scroll wheel on your mouse to increase or decrease the size of the brush.Photos will look 200% sharper on Retina quality displays. Release the Alt key at the end of the straight line, then hold it down to start a new straight line. If you hold down the Alt key, you can stretch the operation in a straight line like a rubber band. TIPS: If you hold down the Shift key, the operation switches to erase, so you can add to or remove areas of the mask and regions as you draw. A Mask is an area that is protected from any edits made to the image for example color selection. While these tools are similar, the main difference is a Region is an area into which you can apply enhancements, using the Photo Tool settings. Delete Mask or Region removes the mask or region. Invert Simply reverses what is masked and what is protected. If you hold down the Shift key, the brush (all the mask tools actually) becomes an eraser and subtracts areas from the mask. As with the Regional Painter, the Mask Painter allows you to adjust the size of the masking brush from about 10 pixels to about 100 pixels. Or you can just paint the mask on directly. The Mask Painter works two ways, if you select this tool, any active regions become a mask. You can edit within the regions using the Photo Tool, Enhance functions, for example, you can brighten the colors in your region, increase or decrease the saturation, edit the contrast, warm cool balance, etc. Examples of regions and masks are shown on the right. Not surprisingly, the Rectangle Region creates rectangular editing areas. This is good for defining more precise areas. The Freehand Region works in the same manner as the Freehand and Brush Tool and has the same Smoothness slider settings. The Region Painter works with adjustable size brushes to paint on a region area. Rectangle Region The region tools (1-3), allow you to edit within the regional area. Let’s look at the Mask and Region tools and see what they do. The photo edits you make are non-destructive vector shapes, which means you can remove any photo edits by selecting the edited area (hold down the Ctrl key and click) and pressing Delete. A region lets you edit within the selection while a mask protects the contents of the selection.

Creating a region or a mask lets you isolate an area of a photo or vector object without effecting other areas in the photo or drawing. The New Mask and Region Tools Right below the Selector Tool (the arrow pointer) is the all new Mask and Region Tools fly out menu. We’ll start with a look at the new Mask and Region Tools. Those of you familiar with Xara products will notice a bunch of new tools in the fly out menus, especially the new Mask and Region Tools (the first flyout), a few new additions to the Photo Tool fly out (the X!), and a great new tool in the Line Tools fly out menu. Reconfigured Tool Bar The Tool Bar has been reorganized as you can see on the right.

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In this First Look, we’ll look at the new features including the incredible Photo Heal Tool, the equally new and exciting Mask and Region Tools, plus other new features and a few of the existing features that I feel are worth revisiting (there are so many great features, I often rediscover them when I write a new review). While XP&G9 lacks some of the high end tools and features of Designer Pro, XPG9 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.

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Ara has just released Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 9, an all purpose photo editing, graphic design tool that is perfect for new users and professional designers alike.

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