Xara Xtreme -- Ideal for drawing and photo work. Xara Xtreme offers an unbeatably easy way to create graphics - combining drawings, photos and text with a power and flexibility that is unique to Xtreme.
This award winning graphics software comes in two editions, Xtreme (from $79) and Xtreme Pro (from $249).

-- Xara Xtreme is the world's highest performing drawing and illustration software??”by a huge margin. Its speed enables more complex, more realistic and stand-out drawings to be created more easily, in less time.

-- Xara Xtreme pioneered many of the graphic techniques taken for granted by users of high-end illustration software, such as vector anti-aliasing, transparency and graduated transparency effects, linked colors and a lot more. It continues to lead the way incorporating the world's most advanced rendering engine, producing the highest on-screen quality of any vector graphics program, as well as being the fastest.

Competitors have tried to imitate Xtreme's intuitive, uncluttered user interface, but Xtreme was designed from the ground up to be this way and that can??™t be matched. Xtreme's direct action tools and use of 'drag and drop' whenever possible ensure the image is always the focus of attention, with few distracting menus and dialogs - it's faster, it makes experimentation easy and that all adds up to much greater productivity.

Thanks xFOrCE, I'll give it a try.