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New Photo Tools

Photo Healing

A simple but incredibly effective tool that can be used to erase spots, scratches and blemishes from photos. In fact it can be used like a ’paint brush’ for the Magic Erase tool, so you can erase even quite large features from your photo with amazingly seamless results.

Background Erase

A really quick, easy and effective way of cutting complex objects out of photos, so you can place them on alternative backgrounds.

Mask Painter Tool

With the new mask and region tools it couldn’t be simpler. With the region painter tool you can draw a selection region to apply effects to (eg change the brightness or contrast) or you can use the mask painter tool to protect an area from being altered.

New Photo FX Plug-ins

11 all-new photo plug-ins for a dazzling array of creative photo effects.
Sepia
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Girl removed from background using the Healing Tool
Shadow side of face lifted using the Mask Painter Tool
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Multi column text

Designer Pro X9 introduces a direct and easy way to create multi-column flowing text areas. Simply right click in the selected text and choose Columns to open the dialog.  You can convert a single text area into multiple linked ones or, if there are already multiple linked columns in a set, you can adjust the column count.

Text flow & page creation

Designer Pro X9 can now act like a word processor, so that when text flows off the bottom of one page (or out of a text area) it automatically creates a new page (a copy of the previous layout) and flows text into this new page.

Page Numbers and Page & Column Breaks

It’s easy! Right click > Insert and you can add page numbers (with a selection of number styles) or insert a column or page break.  Inserting a column break will move the following text to the start of the next column, inserting a page break will move the following text to the start of the following page.

Word Import & Export (beta)

V9 includes import/export filters for Microsoft Word .docx file format.

Web Documents

Designer Pro enables you to publish a perfectly accurate WYSIWYG web version of your print documents, compatible with all modern web browsers, phones and tablets, no plug-ins required. By producing a completely accurate paginated web document, anyone on-line, including phone and tablet users, can quickly swipe through all the pages. So if you want to share print documents with friends, colleagues or customers, confident that they’ll see an accurate copy of your document, you no longer need to create and send PDFs nor worry about the quality of their PDF reader - you can just publish to the web (and of course a free hosting deal is included with Designer Pro).

New Text Features

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AUTOMATICALLY CREATE NEW PAGE
CHANGE COLUMN COUNT
New font picker 
We have fully integrated Google Web Fonts in Designer Pro X9. And it’s easy to add Google fonts from their full 600+ list,  simply browse and search through the font list, including font previews at any font size, select and automatically download and install any font in your Windows computer.
Right click for a new menu that lets you edit the backdrop or page color A new Designs Gallery section contains a selection of drag ‘n’ drop background designs Supports the new drag ‘n’ drop re-coloring methods for easy re- coloring (see below) Efficient tiling texture backgrounds Fixed backgrounds (stay fixed as the page scrolls over the top)

Improved page background handling

‘M’ hosting option & simpler publishing

All Designer titles include 500 Mbytes of MAGIX Online World web hosting space for free, and requires no configuration, just a simple sign-in. Designer Pro X9 has an enhanced ‘M’ hosting package with 2GB of space and a free top level domain.

NavBar replacement

You can now replace the complete design of a NavBar with an alternative design from the Designs Gallery by just dropping the new design onto an existing NavBar.
Original NavBar
Replacement NavBar
Color matched, replaced NavBar

New Web Features

Improved HTML5 & CSS3 compatibility

Graphic features such as background panels, rectangles, rounded rectangles, and objects with shadows are now exported as native HTML5, providing a more efficient and faster website download. .
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600+ fonts
Features that now export as HTML5/CSS3 include: Rectangles, rounded rectangles, with optional simple outline, linear graduated fill (single or multi-stop) and simple flat transparency Rotated or skewed rectangles Box Shadows (black or colored shadows) Text with shadows Page backgrounds, simple grad fills or more complex ones made up from tiling textures

Object re-coloring

Designer Pro X9 introduces a much improved way of re-coloring clipart, or anything made from a group of vector artwork, such as buttons, NavBars, text panels, headers and the new backgrounds.
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Retina® screen compatibility

Designer Pro X9 automatically creates high-resolution photos and web graphics for you. The web pages are smart and only load the correct resolution graphics for the browser being used.

New Web Features

Automatic object positioning & page resize

You can now add, edit and remove text in any part of the page,  all affected page elements now automatically grow and shrink to accommodate the changes.

Google Analytics

This free service from Google is the industry standard method of tracking website visitor numbers and a range of

other useful statistics. Simply copy and paste your tracking code into the new Analytics tab of the Web Properties

dialog (a free Google Analytics account is required).

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New Templates

New web themes

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New print themes

New logo designs

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New Widgets

A range of new widgets

Designer Pro X9 includes a number of new widgets (third party interactive objects you can place on your website, adding useful features & functionality and/or a bit of pizzaz!). Just drag them from the Designs Gallery (in Page Elements & Widgets)  onto your page to place and configure the widgets. Google AdSense is a flexible, hassle-free way to earn revenue by hosting relevant ads alongside your website content (Page Elements & Widgets > Other Widgets). Google+, a button and badge widget. Bring more traffic to your site by encouraging  visitors to share your page with other members of the Google+ network (Page Element & Widgets > Social Networking Widgets). Plus there’s a new table widget, for creating simple sortable tables from csv data. (Page Elements & Widgets > Other Widgets).

Table Widget

Six new photo related widgets

Available from Designs Gallery > Page Elements & Widgets > Photo Elements & Widgets > Photo Slideshows These provide a range of slick photo effects using Javascript and CSS animations for your website (compatible with all modern browsers including tablets and phones).
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New Website Backdrops

‘Infinitely wide’ effects with, for example, graduated fills, bars and/or textures stretching across the whole of the website background, are increasingly popular. In Designer Pro X9 the Designs Gallery contains a new collection of  color and resolution editable graduated fills, repeating bar designs and tiling textures. Perfect for trendy full width backgrounds.
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