was renamed to Designer Pro. In May 2011, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 7 and Xara Designer Pro 7 were released. Features included 'magic' photo erase, user interface improvements to docking galleries and snapping alignment and (in Pro) new web page and website design features. In May 2012, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 2013 and Xara Designer Pro X (v8) were released. In May 2013, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 9 was released. In July 2013, Xara Designer Pro X9 was released. New or upgraded tools for photo healing, background erase and masking. Special effects plugins. Web authoring gets improved tools for background handling, embedding of fonts and handling of high-res images for high resolution displays on mobile units. Page layout tools now have support for Google fonts, automatic end-of-document page creation, multi-column text boxes, web documents and import of docx-files. In July 2014 (16 July), Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 10 was released. and (23 July) Xara Designer Pro X10 was released. In June 2015 (29 June), Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 11 was released. and in July 2015 Xara Designer Pro X11 was released. In 2016, the delivery model was changed to an Update Service, which can be renewed annually. Users are entitled to any updates released while the Update Service is active. The first Update Service updates were in May 2016 for Xara Photo & Graphic Designer and July 2016 for Xara Designer Pro X. The most recent Update Service releases were in October 2018. Features Xara Photo & Graphic Designer is known for its usability and fast renderer. It provides a fully anti-aliased display, advanced gradient fill, and transparency tools. Among vector editors, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer is considered to be fairly easy to learn, with similarities to CorelDRAW and Inkscape in terms of interface. Alongside the vector illustration tools, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer also includes an integrated photo tool offering manual and automatic photo enhance, cropping, adjustment of brightness levels, red-eye fix, 'magic' erase, photo healing, color and background erase, panoramas and content aware resizing. Designer Pro includes a wider range of tools for other design tasks including the creation of web pages and websites, and text and page layout tools for DTP with the aim of providing a single solution for all graphic and web design tasks. See also .xar file format Comparison of vector graphics editors Comparison of raster-to-vector conversion software