When you combine brush strokes with the transparency and edge fading features of Xara, you can create airbrush effects similar to the type of strokes you would get in a bitmap based painting application. The difference is that every stroke is a fully scalable vector-based object! Brush strokes respond to pen pressure if you have a pressure sensitive drawing tablet, and if you don't you can choose from several pressure profiles to apply pressure effects to your brush strokes.
Although Xara is not the first software to offer vector brush strokes, I wouldn't be surprised if it has more brush editing options than its competition. You can edit a brush's rotation, transparency, fill properties, spacing, offset, and scaling.
