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38 Getting Started

When you replace an existing photo, the Photo tool is selected and the
smartphoto adjustment handles (on page 361) appear on the photo.
You can use the adjustment handles to rotate and scale the picture, move it within its
outline frame, resize the frame and even round its frame edges.

Importing Large Photos
When importing high resolution photos (anything above 1920 pixels either wide or high)
into a web document, Xara Web Designer Premium automatically resizes the photo down
to HD screen size without asking you if you want to import a lower resolution version. For
a web document, even at the reduced size, there should be more than enough resolution
in your photos for high quality results on your website, so it’s rarely necessary to import
digital camera images at full resolution for web use.

However, if you are importing a large photo into a print or animation document, Xara
Web Designer Premium asks you if you want to import a lower resolution version of your
photos. If your document is to include many photos, you may want to choose this
reduced resolution option. Otherwise with large photos you may find that your saved
design file is much bigger than it needs to be (because it contains a copy of each of your
photos). And memory requirements when editing and exporting your document will be
higher than necessary.

The Photo Tool
The Photo Tool provides a range of ways to enhance and crop any photo.

To crop a photo, just drag across the photo while in the ENHANCE PHOTO TOOL.
You can adjust the crop edges by dragging on the crop handles around the
outside of the photo.
Or use the CLIP TOOL for more control over crops.

See the section on Photo Handling (on page 352) for background information on the
advanced way in which Xara Web Designer Premium handles photos, and the section on
the Photo tool to find out how to use the Photo tool.

Thumbnail Photos With Pop-ups
You can very easily create small thumbnail photos that when clicked will show an
enlarged version. Simply resize your photo to be small, the usual way using the
SELECTOR TOOL.