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Features include: Automatic import from digital cameras; Organize
photos into scrollable folders chronologically or alphabetically;
Click on folder photos to add into collage or slide show;
Drag photos to other folders or onto a collage or slide show;
Search for folders or photos by name, date or keywords;
Blemish remover; Red-Eye correction; Clone Brush;
Color Balance correction (automatic or manual);
Spot Improvement Tool; Gamma correction;
Contrast correction; Brightness correction;
Shadows and Highlights adjustments; HLS adjustment;
Flood photo region with color or transparency;
Sharpen, Blur, Lighten, Darken, Faded Edge, Burnt Edge,
Black & White, Sepia, Faded, Faded Edge, Burnt Edge, Colored Edge,
Oil Painting Effects, Watercolor Painting Effects,
Pen and Wash Painting Effects, Monochrome Sketch Effects,
Tilt and Spherical distortions,
Pixelize, Posterize, Solarize, and various Texture Effects.
De-resolve photos; Crop images; Cutout images; Feather images.
Text with anti-alias, shadow, cutout, outline and other effects;
Text titles, captions, overlays and dialog balloons for your photos;
Realistic framing effects including 3D, Matt, Oval and a library
of custom stretched frame images; Rotate photos and text to any angle;
Link photos to each other or to web browser pages;
Create collages with text and photos pasted anywhere;
Create slide shows with collages for each slide; Draw over and around
photos with various pens and effects including Gyro Draw (tm) smoothing;
Create 3D animated scrolls similar to Star WarsŪ introductions;
Fade in and out, bounce in, zoom in or pan camera transitions between
presentation slides; Automatically create high-quality push buttons
and mouse over effects; Add background music to collages and shows;
Automatically join photos into stitched panoramas;
Drop photos and text into pre-build theme collages;
Layout collages for fixed-size printing using guides
and scales in inches or centimeters;
Or allow collages to grow or shrink to fill the printed page.
E-Mail and save JPEG photos or entire collages
of photos and effects; Print individual photos or multi-photo views;
Upload JPEG photos or entire collages automatically to selected web services;
Generic Upload writes selected photos and images to an easy-to-find
disk folder allowing easy access from any printing, sharing or web-based
e-mail service;
Save collages and slide show presentations direct to recordable CD-ROM;
Create VCD/SVCD/DVD compatible movie files with the Creative Media Edition;
Archive photo folders to CD; Database tracks photos even if archived to CD;
Create photo web sites;
Favorites allow you to categorize and save your photographs and collages;
Image preview selector and folder thumbnails make it easy to find photos;
Easy navigation controls allow you to fly over photos and collages
and zoom to any magnification; Add HTML-formatted pages and input forms;
Import formatted text from other application via HTML copy and paste;
Special compression for faster access over the Internet;
Simple wizards and dialogs; Unlimited Undo and Redo.
Reads DCF, WIA, TWAIN and EXIF standards for digital cameras;
Reads and writes JPEG, TIFF, PNG, BMP and VIB images;
Reads animated GIF images and WMF metafile images and clipart;
Handles HTML formating of text annotations and collage pages;
Supports MAPI-compliant e-mail clients;
Reads MP3, MIDI, and WAV music or sound;
Creative Media Edition also handles OGG sound
and creates MPEG I and MPEG II movie files.
Standard Edition Features
The FxFoto Standard Edition cannot save collage documents files.
Thus it cannot create or publish collage and slide show
presentations. Also, it cannot set the Collage Add Mode to place more
than one photo on the same slide and so cannot create multi-photo collages.
It cannot Burn CD-ROM collage and slide show presentations.
Only the Creative Media Edition can transfer presentations to movies.
And only the Creative Media Edition can create Web Site photo presentations.
Also, Photo Stitching is not available in the Standard Edition.
Finally the Open Multiple Images command for adding many photos to a collage
is disabled in the Standard Edition.
All other FxFoto features are enabled in the Standard Edition,
including importing, organizing, fixing, annotating, e-mailing and printing
your digital photographs. All features listed above are included in the
FxFoto Deluxe and/or Creative Editions.
System Requirements
Minimum system requirements are Windows 98 and a Pentium PC or the equivalent
with 128MB memory and a 800x600 full or high color display.
FxFoto requires Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000,
Windows XP, Windows XP Home, or Windows 2003.
FxFoto does not support older versions of Windows including Windows 95 and NT.
FxFoto supports MMX for faster display and so at least a Pentium II
or equivalent is recommended. 512MB of memory or more is also recommended.
FxFoto can record photos and presentations directly to CD-ROM using Windows XP.
Separate CD recording software my be needed with older versions of Windows.
While the FxFoto Creative Media Edition can create VCD/SVCD/DVD movies,
separate CD/DVD recording software is required to record MPEG movies to disc
and is not included with FxFoto.
The software bundled with many CDR drives must be upgraded to record MPEG movies.
A DVD player compatible with VCD/SVCD and recorded CDR/DVD discs is required.
FxFoto uploading to some online printing and sharing services may require
that that you upgrade Microsoft's Internet Explorer to Version 6 or better
if you are using a version of Windows prior to XP.
Windows 2000 may need Service Pack 4 with 128 bit
SSL encryption to support uploading to some online services.
FxFoto Portable Pictures requires a USB flash key disk or camera memory
card that appears as a removable disk drive when plugged into Windows.
Portable Pictures requires that camera memory cards be DCF compatible.
Some cameras including many Canon models are not DCF compatible until their
memory card is removed and plugged into a separate card reader attached to
the PC.
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