Description:
Traditional 3D programs are notoriously difficult to use and understand. Not so Xara3D. Unlike much modern ‘bloatware’ that offers more features than are ever likely to be used, and take an age to learn and understand, Xara3D has been created to perform one job, and performs that job with style, speed, and slick simplicity.

Xara3D is solely designed to create the highest quality 3D text and graphics, such as logos, titles, headings and buttons. It’s the perfect way to add impact to your web pages, mailshots and presentations (all images are fully anti-aliased for that smooth, professional quality). Xara3D can also create awesome 3D animations in seconds - GIFs, AVIs and simple Flash movie sequences - and you can even enhance your desktop by saving any animation as a screensaver!

Editing and Applying Special Effects :
- Interactive control over the 3D extrude depth - simply click and drag on the image
- Unlimited undo makes experimentation easy
- Real-time 3D positioning around three axes by simply dragging the image on screen
- Areas of text can be selected, and different attributes such as bevel, color, fonts, textures, animation and text settings applied
- The Style Picker allows you to easily grab any or all of the settings of one image and apply them to another - see screenshot
- A total of 27 different bevel types with adjustable bevel size - see screenshot
- Interactive, easy-to-use lighting controls (three adjustable light arrows which can be dragged on-screen) - see screenshot
- Flexible interactive controls over the color and/or texture of every part of the image, and the background
- A total of 37 textures are included in the download, and there are 400+ on the CD-ROM you receive when you purchase. You can also import your own GIF or PNG files
- Textures can be scaled, rotated and colored
- Images can be displayed with front and back faces, or can be made hollow
- Images can be matt or shiny
- Images can have a soft-edged shadow and an intuitive interface allows you to easily alter the shadow blur, transparency and color - see screenshot
- Real-time solid shading with optional error-diffusion dithering for top quality results.

Homepage:
http://www.xara.com/