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FxFoto 3 is now available for
download.
This is a free upgrade.
If you have purchased previous version of
FxFoto Deluxe or Pro Media,
there is no charge for this upgrade. Simply
download
and install the latest version.
Your Registration Number is valid for version 3.0.
If you are using the FxFoto Standard Edition, the upgrade is still free.
Just
download
and install the latest version.
New Version 3.0 Features
In version 3.0.054 a new FxFoto "Creative Media Edition" replaces the former Pro Media Edition.
When installed from optional CD-ROM, FxFoto Creative includes a library of scrapbooking clipart and backgrounds.
Customers who purchased FxFoto Pro Media can upgrade to the new Creative Media Edition without charge.
Dozens of creative Filter Effects like Oil Painting,
Pen & Wash, Sketch, Embossed, Motion, Tilting, Sphere,
Swirl, Pixelize, Wash Out, Posterize, Tint, Sepia,
Defocus, Spotlighting, Despeckle and more.


Improved collage page guides with scales in inches or centimeters.
Layout collage pages for printing in inches or centimeters.
Adjustable print margins in inches or centimeters.
Improved high-resolution text printing.
Ready-to-use Collage Theme Layouts:
Add your own photos and text with a few clicks.


New Clipart support including WMF files and a new Draw Stamp tool.
Support for transparent and semi-transparent PNG embellishments.
Create semi-transparent shadows cast from opaque clipart and photo areas.
Cookie-cutter crop patterns like stars, spikes, bumps, petals
and saw teeth.


Improved facilities for moving and adjusting rope outlines for crop and elsewhere.
New special crop patterns include rectangles with rounded corners (as of version 3.0.054).
Plus zig-zag, wavy and even torn paper crop patterns (as of version 3.0.054).
Combine edge filter effects with special crop patterns for great looking borders.


A new Color Brush paints or tints any color with a feathered circle or square brush tool (as of version 3.0.054).
The Color Brush also draws transparency into isolated image areas so collage elements behind show through.
New Highlights and Shadows manual image balance slider controls.
Improved Red Eye removal helps dark eyes look more natural.
Realistic fixed-aspect frames and easy visible framed photo area adjustment.
Several new text effects including 3D or Outline with Shadowing.


A new Full Screen Photo command enlarges a single selected image.
The Hidden Folder Photos command allows you to show
or hide selected left-pane photos.
Improved navigation makes it easier to view the whole collage
or a single photo.
Improved EXIF support: Save modified JPEG files with camera information.
Set your Windows Wallpaper image using the Upload command.
Accumulate and burn CD-ROM images with the Deluxe Edition Upload command.
Upload can save images to USB key disks and memory cards for transporting photos (as of version 3.0.054).
New "Minimize All Left Folders on Startup" Options choice (as of version 3.0.054).
Rotate photos and clipart with partial transparency to any angle without loosing transparency (version 3.0.054).
The Open Multiple Images command can now open image files into separate slides (version 3.0.054).
The free Standard Edition now allows on-screen-only trial of many Deluxe Edition effects.
All Filter Effects including sharpen now require the Deluxe Edition.
All editions include an attractive new toolbar look with new 3D shaded buttons.
Version 2.1 Features
New Upload Wizard makes it easy to send photos to online services.
Automatically sends photos and annotated images for online printing and sharing.
Optionally de-resolves photos for faster uploading.
Contact Triscape to arrange for your web service to be added to our upload list!
Generic upload makes it easy to select photos for sending to any online service.
Generic upload is also useful for sending photos via browser-based Non-MAPI email.
Upload and EMail wizards now allow you to specify photo names.
The free Standard Edition requires online registration after about 30 days.
Improved slide thumbnails preview with easier slide reordering (as of version 2.1.046).
New Open Folder Photos command lets you open multiple photos at once (as of verison 2.1.046).
The FxFoto Viewer now supports MP3 background music (as of version 2.1.046).
Get a FREE copy of
FxFoto Portable Pictures when you purchase
FxFoto Deluxe or Creative Edition.
Slides shows can specify more than one piece of music.
Several new classical music files are included.
Switch to new music at any slide.
New helpful tips appear at startup.
Improved error messages for Import and elsewhere.
New repair option included in the setup.
Version 2.0 Slide Show Movies !
The Creative Media Edition of FxFoto 2.0 allows you to create movies.
Convert collage and slide show presentations to MPEG movie files.
New panning effects can move the camera slowly across photos.
Add background music or a sound track to your movie creations.
Burn movies to CD or DVD with separate software, not included.
Creates VCD/SVCD/DVD movies that can be viewed on most DVD players.
You may need to upgrade your CDR creator software to handle MPEG movies.
Version 2.0 Stitched Photo Panoramas
The Deluxe Edition of FxFoto 2.0 now includes Photo Stitching.
Combine horizontally overlapping photographs into stunning wide-angle panoramas.
FxFoto automatically finds the proper alignment and compensates for differences in exposure.
FxFoto handles cylindrical projections of shots from a single vantage point.
FxFoto can also stitch scanned images of documents and other objects.
Version 2.0 Clone Brush Improvements
FxFoto 2.0 features an faster, more capable Clone Brush in the Standard Edition.
Now you can quickly duplicate or brush out areas even huge 5+ megapixel photographs.
Feathering, transparency and even flood fill effect controls for professional effects.
Other Great FxFoto 2.0 Features
New Text All button allows you to automatically apply text templates to all collage photos.
FxFoto can now rename your photos to keep them even better organized and email named pictures.
The Search command can now find photos by name (as well as by folder, date and/or keywords).
3x5 or 4x6 snapshots can optionally print with frame and text annotations that you have added.
New automatic panning effects can apply slow random camera movement across presentation slides.
A new Folder Rescan command makes it easy to update FxFoto folders for new or modified photo files.
The ability to create Web Sites from collages and slides shows has been moved to the FxFoto Media Edition.
However customers who previously purchased FxFoto 1.1 or 1.2 can continue to use the Web Site command.
The Media Edition can publish limited-time collages and slide shows that expire on a given date.
A new Print Wizard choice now allows for 2x3 wallet-size snapshots.
A new Print "Center Image" option centers photos on the paper for printers with non-centered printable areas.
Faster popup photo and slide selector dialogs for various commands with large shows.
FxFoto now waits to create its own Favorites sub-folder until you specifically add FxFoto Favorites.
New detailed step-by-step instructions for creating slides shows and collages in FxFoto's Help documentation.
New optional fixed aspect ratio rope allows you to crop to desired proportions.
New "Random" choice allows you to quickly apply random entrance and exit effects to all slides.
Snapshot print sizes now include standard 4 x 6 and 3.5 x 5 inch choices.
The FxFoto Viewer can now blowup photos to cover the screen without extra margins.
The FxFoto Viewer now blanks the mouse cursor when it is not being used.
Folder Move Picture(s) now allows you to select multiple photos from the source folder to move or copy.
New detailed step-by-step instructions for importing, organizing, fixing and annotating photos.
Previously New in FxFoto 1.2
A Timeline now shows all your photo folders at a glance.
Click the Timeline for the photos nearest that creation date.
Folders show as blue lines on the Timeline.
Folders with more photos have wider blue lines.
The currently selected folder is shown in bright blue.

A new "Improve Image Area" tool is great for touching up photos.



Simply click the Circle Tool over photo areas that are too dark or light.
The tool lets you bring out hard to photograph features such as black dogs.



It can also help improve overexposed faces that were too close the flash.
In addition, the "Auto Improve" button is much faster in FxFoto 1.2.
FxFoto 1.2 added new capabilities to the Improve "Filter Image".
Lighten and Darken are like the "Improve Image Area" circle,
but can do an irregular area outlined with the rope.
Also available are new "Black and White" and "Sepia" photo effects.
"Faded Edge" and "Burnt Edge" work at the photo or rope outline borders.
FxFoto 1.2 included many minor improvements to Collage and Slide Show presentations.
You can now add Background Music to collages and slide shows.
Any standard MIDI music or WAV sound file can be used for Background Music.
Improvements to FxFoto's Web Site photo presentation authoring are demonstrated in our new
Gallery.
Organize your collage and slide show creations in your left-pane folders as of version 1.2.038.
Save FxFoto collages and slides shows as special folder thumbnails for easy access.
See photo name, date and description information when you hover the mouse over folder thumbnails.
Specify custom maximum sizes for printed and emailed photos.
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