Producing vector illustrations is quick and easy using the comprehensive drawing tools, but many of the advanced features which Xara pioneered - such as transparency and real-time anti-aliasing - can be applied to both vector and bitmap images. Rather than falling into the bloatware trap that is common with graphics products, Xara has concentrated on creating the world's best implementation of the essential toolset that designers really need, in order to ensure that working with Xara X can be both highly creative and very productive.

What's New in Xtreme PRO 4:
Headline new features
An integrated, ultra-fast, non-destructive photo tool
The world's fastest, highest quality vector 3D extrude tool
Major text tool improvements, including real-time 'liquid' text flow around shapes
A new 'website creation' feature. Build complete multi-page websites, with the world's most advanced WYSIWYG page layout controls
New super-high quality vector and photo rendering
Support for multi-core processors - the world's fastest graphics program is now even faster!

Saint Paint is the ideal paint package for creating and editing True Colour, 256 colour, 16 colour, and Monochrome graphics, and animating in any mode or combination of modes, with AVI editing support. It features all the essential graphic tools you'll need in everyday use, in a neat and very easy to use manner. Whether you are a newbie or a professional, you'll be amazed how you managed without it. Supporting GIF and JPG formats (and many more besides), it is the perfect package for designing web graphics. It is also fantastic for photo editing, with many tools including a tool for eliminating red-eye, image sharpening, and full support for printing out images. Its versatility makes it the essential graphics tool, whatever your needs are. Even if you already have a much more expensive paint package you'll find Saint Paint Studio to be invaluable. Developed for use in the games industry by artists and programmers, it has all you need for everyday use, and will establish itself as your only essential paint package.

PD Particles is a software program for sketching, doodling, painting and drawing with particles. It is loaded with features made for professionals, yet priced low enough for artists, students and hobbyists at all levels. If you like to draw, this is for you!

PD Particles is perfect for PC users with a passion for creativity. It is based on a standalone version of the award-winning particle painting system called OptiPustics, found also in Project Dogwaffle.
PD Particles also contains a number of fascinating natural fx brushes and can be used as a complete, self-contained painting program. However, it is primarily intended as a companion to your existing favorite photo editing, imaging and painting tools and it is focused on the use of a particular category of brushes: the Particle Brushes.

OpenCanvas 4.5 is the great painting and illustration software with a lot of new and improved features for not only experienced artists but also novices.

New openCanvas4.5 is more functional painting and illustration software with renewed GUI (graphic User Interface).
High performance image can be reproduced using pen for smooth and beautiful lines, brush of watercolor and supported several kinds of layers.
Additional features of "Grabber", Brush Tip" and enhanced event file effect more wonderful artworks.
openCanvas 4.5 cultivates new possibility on your illustration.

NeoPaint is a full featured artist's studio for Windows & vista that's easy-to-learn, powerful and affordable! It's simple enough for beginners yet packed with powerful features and advanced tools. Includes an excellent screen capture feature, animated GIF editor, icon editor, special effects, natural media painting tools, and more. NeoPaint makes it easy for business and home users to touch up photographs and create great looking graphics for desktop publishing, presentations and the Internet!

Mandala Painter 3 is the only professional Mandala drawing program for Mandala artists, designers and for everyone who just likes creating kaleidoscopic images. Due to it's very simple yet powerful mirroring tools the drawing becomes entertaining and easy. Mandala Painter's user interface was designed as simple as possible keeping it's creative aims. Creating such images was never easier before.

Main features:
Automated rotated drawing and workflow designed specially for Mandala painting
User can create custom multipliers: spirals, tiling, etc.
Photoshop like Layer based painting.
Supports opening the following file formats: Windows Bitmap, Jpeg, Photoshop Psd, Tiff, Gif, Truevision Targa, Pcx, PhotoCD, Paint Shop Pro Psp, Png
Supports saving the following file formats: Mandala (Mandala Painter layered format), Windows Bitmap (with alpha), Jpeg, PNG
Rich Symbol library collected for Mandala decoration: Petals, Leaves, Spheres, etc.
Mandala export directly to Adobe Photoshop
Upload Mandalas to online gallery
Clipboard connectivity with other painting applications
Modern, customizable user interface with dozens of skins
More than one hour high quality world music included with integrated music player
Localized user interface: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian

You don't have to have a PhD to use this magic natural media painting software. This cool kit is out of your imagination. You can not only use it to paint pictures, but also handle your digital photos, even use it to teach digital painting and image processing skills.

Features:
Many unique natural painting tools.
This extraordinary painting software, Wizardbrush, comes with many painting tools, including pencil, oil-paint-brush, water-color brush, chalk, charcoal, magic wand, mark pen, and many other brush tool.

The Creative Painter, an easy-to-use Windows program that lets kids have hours of fun painting pictures on their computer screens. Creative Painter is simple to learn and operate.

Kids can experiment with happy, kid-size graphics tools to create personalized works of art. Because it's easy for children to make very attractive pictures with Creative Painter, it encourages them to experiment and exercise their creativity.

Unlike static coloring-book software, Creative Painter lets kids work with colorful background pictures and engaging cartoon characters.

Children can add animated pictures to their paintings, from barking dogs and swaying flowers to swimming fish and flying butterflies. Choose from more than 20 drawing tools, including a paintbrush, pencil, marker pen, crayon, spray paint, and chalk. It's easy for kids to select a tool, adjust its width, and pick its color. The library of 50+ special background pictures provides the starting point, and there is no end to the colors, shapes, textures, and gradients that they can add, including magic patterns not found in other software, or in real life.

The Easy-to-Use Home Art Studio. Corel Painter Essentials 4 is the simple-to-use home art studio that makes it easy for you to sketch, paint and turn your photos into paintings. Two new workspaces put the tools you need at your fingertips, whether you're turning a photo into a painting, or sketching and painting on a blank canvas. Based on the world's most powerful painting and illustration software, Corel® Painter™, it's the ideal way to get started with digital art!