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Table Of Contents
- Welcome to Xara 3D Maker 7
- Purchasing and unlocking Xara 3D Maker
- What's New in Xara 3D Maker Version 7
- Other Xara products
- Getting Help
- Working with Xara 3D Maker
- How To ...
- Quick overview
- Open a new document
- Change the text
- Rotate and position the graphic
- Light the graphic
- Color the graphic
- Resize the graphic
- Add bevels & extrude
- Select characters
- Add shadows
- Create animations
- Creating cursor (CUR & ANI) files
- Importing 2D objects
- Apply the style of an existing graphic
- Create buttons, boards, boards + holes and borders
- Create screen savers
- Create Flash files
- Save and export
- Export options for GIF, PNG or BMP files
- Export options for JPG
- Export options for animated cursors (ANI)
- Export options for animated GIFs
- Export options for AVIs (movies and screen savers)
- Export options for screen savers (SCR)
- Export options for Flash bitmap format (SWF) files
- Export options for Flash vector format (SWF) files
- General info on AVI videos
- Exporting transparent title animations for movies
- Customize Xara 3D Maker
- Reference Section
- Legal
Quick overview
Use these pages if you want to find out how to do something in Xara 3D Maker.
The basics
Text & 2D objects
Positioning & rotating
Changing the size
Changing the wording
Changing text spacing
Changing the font
Changing the color
Changing the bevel (edges)
Changing the 3D extrude (depth)
Changing the effects applied to selected characters
Changing the lighting
Creating hollow text
Shiny & matt surfaces
Selecting text
Typing international (accented) characters
Importing styles from an existing heading
Importing animation settings from an existing heading
Importing 2D objects
Creating 3D buttons, boards and border designs
Colors
Changing the text and background color
Changing the colors of the lights
Changing the shadow color
Changing the texture color (tint)
Creating and moving shadows
Changing the shadow color and type
Changing the shadow transparency and blur
Textures
and text
and the background
Changing the texture color (tint)
The lights
Changing their color and position
Buttons, boards and borders
Creating buttons, boards and border designs
Making the designs wider or narrower
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