Now any and all edits I do with the image: brighten, contrast adjustments, rescaling, cropping, rotating, applying bevels, transparency are stored as a list of edits. When you import a JPG of some terrain (for example), Xara stores a master copy of the original imported photo, but the display of that photo in Xara, technically isn't an image anymore, rather it's a vector rectangle at the pixel dimensions of the photo, with the photo itself as an image fill for that vector shape. The way it works depends on the unique way Xara stores it's files. One of the new features is Infinite Undo. Xara has a smaller toolset than Illustrator, for example, but the tools Xara has are among the most versatile and powerful versions of those tools.

Xara is a vector drawing application like Illustrator, CorelDraw, Serif DrawPlus, Inkscape and other similar programs.

And there are many changes, some big, some small. So I just got my DVD of Xara Designer Pro X9 in the mail yesterday and trying to accustom myself with the differences from Xara Xtreme Pro 4, the previous version I've been using.

Xara designer pro x9 tutorial