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Introduction
The Photo Tool
provides a direct and very fast way of cropping, adjusting the brightness levels and sharpening photos,
even for ultra high-resolution images. This tool provides:

One-click auto-enhance your photos; this is particularly good for dull, underexposed images.
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Manually adjust the brightness, contrast, color saturation, photo color temperature and blur or
sharpness of photos.
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Crop images. This is "live crop" so you can un-crop and adjust the crop at any time.
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A single-click "Compare" function to quickly compare changes against the original.
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Easy copy / paste all photo enhance edits between different images.
All these operations are interactive with live update. As you adjust the values, the image is updated
instantly. They are also all non-destructive, meaning that your original image is not altered and you can
always adjust or remove any adjustment.
There is also an anti-redeye
tool.
Photo Tool Benefits
There are three major benefits of this tool:
1.
It's non destructive
2.
It's very, very fast, even for huge images
3.
Photo Edits require no memory.
Benefits explained in more detail
The non-destructive
point means that all edits do not affect the original image. You can adjust or remove the edits and the
original image remains unaffected. This differs from most photo editors where an alteration makes a
permanent change to the pixels of the photo. In Web Designer Premium you can adjust the settings as
many times as you like in the sound knowledge that you are not altering the real actual original photo
data.
Even the crop feature is non-destructive (which is why it's called clip). You you can restore the cropped
areas and adjust or enlarge the crop region at any time, even after you've saved a file.
The speed
point is self-evident, but a good demonstration of the speed is to rotate a very high resolution photo. In
other tools you usually have to enter a number of degrees, and then wait for this to be processed. In Xara
Web Designer 7 Premium you can drag rotate a full resolution image in real time (or enter any rotation
value), and it uses high-quality bi-cubic image sampling to ensure the highest quality results.
The no memory
point refers to the fact most photo editors need to make a copy of a bitmap in memory in order to
provide an undo capability, and usually one copy each time you adjust or edit. For large, hi-res digital
photos this can mean very large amounts of memory being required for your photo editing (a typical 8 mb
digital photo requires 32 mb of memory; make ten edits and that's 320 mb of memory). Xara Web
Designer 7 Premium requires zero memory. You can make as many edits as you like and make as many
copies of your photo in your document, and the additional RAM and file space required by for this is
zero.
Finally, JPEG images are embedded into the native .xar file, and not expanded into raw images as they
are in other graphics tools. This means a native file size typically 10 times smaller. Combine this with the
zero memory copies, the real-time enhance features described above and it's quite possible to have file
sizes 30 times or more smaller than with other graphics tools. And that means they are much, much
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