Completely reshape and recast your xamCarouselPanel's navigator through a custom template, so it best matches the look and feel of your application.

Automatically create a reflective work surface within the carousel panel to draw users into your application.  These item reflections can be disabled by simplying turn the ReserveSpaceForReflections property off.

You can designate custom styles that will be applied to carousel panel items, allowing you to set interactive effects (with style triggers) as users move through the items contained by the panel.  In this example, a box has been added around each object, embellished with an indigo gradient.

Create a new sense of perspective for users by adjusting the opacity (transparency) of carousel objects at any points along their path that you like.  Opacity effects can be used to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the items you are presenting, because nearby items maintain a muted appearance making them less distractive.  Items about to transition out of view can simply fade away, as if the ends of your path were the vanishing point on the horizon.

Condense or spread out carousel objects along your prescribed path with two properties that allow you to specify the offset from the start and end points of your path where objects come into view.  The ItemPathPrefixPercent and ItemPathSuffixPercent properties give you another styling point (when combined with the number of items shown per page, and the path length itself) to control the layout of carousel objects your users see.

Bringing attention to the prescribed path your carousel objects will follow (such as a circular, V-shaped, or zig-zag path) can be easily done by using the ItemPathRenderPen and ItemPathRenderBrush properties.

Modify the scaling factor (size) applied to objects at any points along their path.  This lets the user's sense of scale adjust to focus on those foreground objects in the carousel that deserve attention,.  It also implicitly creates a relationship in the user's mind that background objects (shown at a smaller scale) are more remote.

 

Skewing produces a shearing effect on carousel objects at any points along their path you choose.  You can set the skew amount (as an angle in degrees of arc) along the X-axis or Y-axis independently.  This can be used to emphasize the effect of motion as an object goes on a tear off of the screen, to effectively flatten an object as if it were drawn from or returning to a deck of cards, or to rotate an object into view.