Page 370 - Xara Web Designer Premium

370 Photo Handling

• In the SELECTOR TOOL either drag a corner handle to resize the image, or enter the
required width or height into the "W" or "H" field on the InfoBar. Check the image size
is correct at 100%

• Click the 'EXPORT SELECTION AS JPG' button on the top bar.
• Enter a filename, Click the SETTINGS button if you need to control the compression, or
just click SAVE

To save any image as a PNG go through the same process except choose the PNG file
type.

Photo Edit Attributes

All edits performed using the PHOTO TOOL (on page 383), such as any altering of the
brightness, contrast, color, blur or sharpen values, are all just stored on the photo as
Web Designer Premium attributes.

Just as you can alter the color of a shape or line without altering the underlying shape, so
PHOTO TOOL attributes alter the visible appearance of the photo without affecting the
original image (this is called non-destructive editing). Another way of looking at this is
that Xara Web Designer Premium just stores a list of edits applied to your photo, and you
can change, remove or add new edits. You can always recover the original untouched
photo, even after the brightness, resizing, even clipping or cropping.

Attributes can be copied and pasted between objects. Not only does this apply to
traditional attributes such as line color and thickness, it also works with all the PHOTO
TOOL attributes. So this means you can easily copy all the enhancements made on one
photo to any other using the copy / paste attribute feature.
This also applies to all other attributes of the photo, such as line width and color, photo
coloring (contoning), shadows, etc.; all these can be copied from one photo to another
using the same technique.

Editing the outline of Photos

You can use the SHAPE TOOL (on page 155) to directly adjust the outline shape of a
photo. Similarly you can apply outlines the same way as for any shape, and shadow,
etc.