Bevels

Bevels give objects the appearance of depth instead of being flat on the page. They are particularly useful when creating buttons or headings for web pages.

The Xara Xtreme Bevel Tool allows you to quickly apply customized bevels to any object you draw. There are a range of set bevel types to choose from, such as flat, frame and rounded, and each one can be altered to make it unique.
You can alter the depth, contrast and lighting elevation (unique to Xara Xtreme) and angle, and you can choose whether the bevel should be inside or outside the object.

Xara Xtreme also allows you to treat a bevel like you would any other object in a document - so you can apply transparencies, color bitmap fills and so on. And again, the Bevel Tool takes advantage of Xara Xtreme's direct action feature.

See a demo