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JULY 2009 - ANJNA MASTER
 After finishing school at the beginning of the 90's, I gained a place at what was then Wimbledon School of Art, which has since gone to be a part of
the University Of Arts, London. I completed a Foundation course there which enabled me to explore a variety of art based disciplines such as Graphics, Ceramics, Stage design amongst many others.
At this point, the computer age was yet to dawn and everything we did was done the "old fashioned" way, with paints, pencils and paper. Upon
graduating, I left and went to on work in totally non-related fields for the next seventeen years. During this time, although my creative flair
remained, I kept dismissing the idea of ever returning to design as a career. The field of design seemed to have moved on at such a rapid pace in the interim, and having no
knowledge or skill whatsoever with the computer technology and software most design seemed to be done on in the present, I felt like my skills were antiquated and close to being
regarded as obsolete—how could I possibly catch up and compete with those who had been taught such things as a matter of course and were so well versed in the plethora of design programmes out there?
Eventually, at the end of 2007, I grew tired of wondering "what if?" and running the internal
dialogue expressed above. Conveniently, this came at a time when I also felt a change of career was called for, so I decided to give it a go and teach myself. No matter how it worked
out, at least I would know I had tried and thus reach a definitive answer about whether I had a future in design. I looked at the biggest software name available for design and illustration
purposes, but eventually I found Xara Xtreme Pro. I started working with it at the beginning of 2008, teaching myself from absolute scratch how to use it and with patience, application
and time, within the space of nine months, I had put together a portfolio of work I was happy with. Not only was I thrilled with what I could create using Xara and how easy it was to get
to grips with, I was also happy to have found a "homegrown" product which, having tried its bigger named rival once or twice in the mean time, I think is definitely the David to their
Goliath. Just as able yet so much more superior in its user friendliness, Xara is a great product, it's as simple as that!
Being a girly girl, I tend to come up with images that make me and other such girly girls smile and feel good! That is the beauty of the world, there will always be enough room for
something feminine, vibrant, soft, light, fluffy, charming and fun. So colour me here.
Anjna
www.honeyville.co.uk
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Xara makes several graphics products and all of them are fun and easy to use. And Xara
makes this site possible so it would be nice if you just went to these pages and had a look see. Thanks.
Just released. The next generation of Xara Xtreme and Xara Xtreme Pro. Lots of new features and improved website creation ability.
Here are some other products made by Xara and links to the Xara.com Website.
- Xara Xtreme Pro Xara’s flagship product. Now with full PDF import and export support
and Flash animation capabilities which you can see demonstrated in the upper left corner of this page. Xara is the world’s faster vector drawing program and as the
artwork in the Featured Artist Gallery attests, one heck of a program. Click here to
download your FREE trial version or to upgrade to Xara Xtreme Pro today!
- Xara Menu Maker Create professional graphical NavBars and DHTML menus in an instant
with Xara Menu Maker - no technical or design skills required. (And Xara does all of the heavy lifting!)
- Xara Screenmaker 3D A 3D screensaver maker that's fast, fun and easy to use. Create
animated 3D text or tumbling picture cube screensavers. (This application will make you a hero in your office or home. And it is embarrassingly inexpensive!)
- Xara 3D-6 Xara 3D is the Number 1 tool for creating stunning, professional-quality 3D
web graphics. See why for yourself. You can use a 3D program and drive yourself nuts trying to figure out all that X Y and Z axis nonsense, or you can make your life easy
(and fun) with Xara 3D. It’s up to you.
- Xara 3D Heading Maker Add this great interactive tool to your web site and let your visitors make 3D graphics online.
- Xara Online Web pages stand out with Xara Online's state-of-the-art web page add
-ons. Choose graphics, text and photo effects, or advanced applications, all fully-customizable and on your site in minutes.
- BuyFonts.Com All designers need fonts - get yours for as little as $2 US. Question: Is
life a contest to see how few fonts you can use? With low prices and high quality fonts that you get at BuyFonts.com, do you need to ask?
©2009 Gary W. Priester
All art is copyright of the artist and may not be used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the author.
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