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FotoFinish Features and Specifications
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| Ease of Use |
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Photo Wizard. Edit your photos with the easy-to-use Photo Wizard.
Let the wizard guide you through the otherwise complicated touch up and printing
process in just ten easy steps:
1) Rotate
2) Crop
Standard Print Sizes (4"x6", 5"x7", etc.)
Shapes and Borders *STUDIO and SUITE Only
3) Exposure
4) Color
5) Layers *STUDIO and SUITE Only
6) Touch Up
7) Red-eye
8) Effects
9) Borders *STUDIO and SUITE Only
10) Print
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Previews. Adjust your photos with the help of previews
Previews help you fix color balance, exposure, and more
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Drag-and-Drop Interface. Intuitive interface makes organizing and working with digital images a breeze:
dock image albums for easy access, drag and drop images, access tools in just a few, quick clicks, and much more
Drag and drop images from Albums and the Image Explorer tree
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Extensive Help
-Navigate the software with the help of Tool Tips and Hints
-Get a free, easy-to-read electronic user's guide free online
-Visit our free digital photography resources for a glossary,
quick lessons, in-depth tutorials, and more
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| Print and Share Your Photos |
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Easy-to-Use Wizards. Let FotoFinish's easy-to-use wizards guide you through printing, e-mailing,
and publishing your photos to the web
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Standard Print Sizes. Crop any image to standard print sizes or use the print wizard
to print images using standard photo layouts: 2"x3", 3"x5", 4"x6", 5"x7", and 8"x10"
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Simple Print Layouts. Print multiple images on one page or create a
sheet of thumbnails with the help of predefined print layouts.
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Fun Print Layouts. Merge images with fun printing templates for special occasions, holidays, greetings, and more.
SUITE Only*
Predefined layouts help you print and publish your images
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Print Albums and Images. Print a single image, a group of selected images, a whole album, or all open images.
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Descriptions and Footers. Print image descriptions and footers with your images.
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Optimize. Optimize images by changing color depth and image size.
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Slide Show. View any album as a slide show.
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Screensaver. Set any album as your screensaver.
Create your own screensaver
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Free Web Sharing. Publish images to your free FotoFinish Net account
in just a few, easy clicks then invite
friends and family to view your albums
Share images on your free FotoFinish Net account
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| Edit Digital Photographs |
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Photo Wizard. Touch up your photos using FotoFinish's intuitive Photo Wizard as your guide.
Complete Photo Wizard available in STUDIO & SUITE Only*
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Resize. Resize a selection or your entire image.
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Rotate. Rotate your photos using intuitive knob controls or precise
degree commands.
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Lossless Rotation. Rotate your images as thumbnails in album windows without having to re-save lossy image file formats like JPGs.
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Crop Photos. Crop your photos to standard print sizes or freeform rectangles.
Crop an image
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Special Crop Shapes. Crop photos to special shapes (hearts, stars, and more). STUDIO & SUITE Only*
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Wide Range of Selection Tools. Select any portion of an image using five different selection tools:
oval, rectangle, polygon, lasso, and magic wand. STUDIO & SUITE Only*
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Intuitive Resizing of Selections. Use adjustment and rotation handles to resize and adjust your selections.
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Adjust Exposure. Adjust exposure, saturation, hue, brightness, contrast, and color balance with the help
of previews.
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Remove red-eye. Remove red-eye with a single click.
Remove red-eye
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Retouch Photos. Fix scratches and dust with the Touch Up Tool.
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Sepia and B&W. Convert photos to sepia or black and white.
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Floating Borders. Add a border around any image.STUDIO & SUITE Only*
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Special Effects. Choose from eleven different special effects including: blur, sharpen, colorize, emboss,
mosaic, posterize, sepia, solarize, speckle, texturize (with 15 different textures),
and vignette
Apply special effects
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Layers. Use layers to experiment while preserving the integrity of your original image. Quickly go back and adjust your
photo in different states without having to modify or recreate the entire project.
STUDIO & SUITE Only*
Create digital watermarks, experiment with special effects, and combine multiple images into artistic collages, desktop wallpapers, and more
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Layer Controls. Rearrange, move, and merge layers as your project requires. Adjust the
opacity of your layer to create subtle, artistic effects.
STUDIO & SUITE Only*
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Painting and Drawing Tools. Choose between the pencil, paintbrush, and spray can tools to paint
and draw freehand
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Paint and draw freehand lines and shapes
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Shape Tools. Draw shapes easily with predefined shape tools including a rectangle,
oval, and polygon tool
STUDIO & SUITE Only*
Draw with the help of predefined shapes
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Line Tool. Draw straight lines more easily with the Line Tool
STUDIO & SUITE Only*
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Tool Settings Panel. Use the Tool Settings Panel to set fill, border, and background color, and to
manipulate selections: rotate, flip, and apply transparency and other special effects.
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Opacity. Adjust the opacity of selections and painting tools.
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Brush and Fill Color Settings. Paint with the standard palette of solid colors, customize your own colors
from the 16.7 million colors available, create a gradient, or choose a texture.
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Customizable Color Settings. Customize your color menu to your favorite palette.
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Recently Used Settings. Turn to the recently used color menu for quick access.
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Drop Shadows and Smoothing. Apply shadows and edge blending (smoothing) to any selection.
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Eraser Tool. Use the eraser tool to paint with a selected background color or erase pixels when working
with layers.
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Floating Text. Add smooth (anti-aliased) text you can edit again and again.
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Connect Floating Objects. Easily connect two floating objects with a line.
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| Create and Design Digital Photo Projects |
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Customizable Photo Layouts. Get hundreds of professionally-designed photo layouts you can customize. Create:
-Greeting Cards
-Album Pages and Collages
-Scrapbook Pages
-Photo Frames
-Photo Calendars
-Business Flyers and Brochures
and much more!
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Drag-and-Drop Clip Art. Decorate any photo layout with hundreds of graphics including borders and special occasion clip art.
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Insert Photos into Layouts. Insert photos inside specialized photo frames by double-clicking on the specially marked placeholders in your layouts.
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Edit Photos from inside FotoFinish Designer. Double-click any photo or bitmap in Designer to launch FotoFinish Designer.
SUITE Only*
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Design Your Own Layout. Start from scratch and design your own photo layout. Create dazzling album and scrapbook pages,
collages, greeting cards, invitations, announcements, business flyers, brochures, and more.
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Create Printing Templates for FotoFinish. Save any layout as a printing template to be used in FotoFinish.
SUITE Only*
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Stock Clip Art. Choose from professionally-designed buttons, bars, clip art, textures, backgrounds, and more.
Click here to see a sample of graphics that come with FotoFinish BASIC
Click here to see a sample of graphics that come with FotoFinish STUDIO
Click here to see a sample of graphics and photos that come with FotoFinish SUITE
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| Supported File Formats |
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BMP - Uncompressed bitmap
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GIF - Optimized palette with optional transparency
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JPEG - Three levels of compression: compact, normal, and fine
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PSD - Open and save Photoshop documents. All visible layers will be merged into one.
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TIFF - Choose between four compression types: LZW, JPEG, Packbits, and None.
Select one of two color profiles: RGB or CMYK.
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| Transfer and Organize Photos |
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Transfer Photos. Transfer pictures from digital cameras or scanners with TWAIN drivers
and from devices that register as removable drives such as CD-ROMs, memory sticks, and flash card readers
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Scan for Photos. Search your computer for images based on file type, directory, and keywords.
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Albums. Folders that contain images are automatically handled as Albums.
Albums open in a separate window that floats above the work area and show thumbnails,
image names, and image descriptions. (Note: For easy identification, albums are marked with a blue FotoFinish icon)
Albums provide an easy way to view and annotate your images
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Annotate Images. Add descriptions and comments to any image. You can even print
and publish these annotations later.
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Organize Albums. Rearrange images within an album by dragging-and-dropping
them into place. You can also copy or move images between albums using drag-and-drop.
Copy and move images using drag-and-drop
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Image Explorer. Use the Image Explorer to browse for images on your computer using the familiar
Windows tree format
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Album Previews. Mouse over a folder to see a thumbnail preview of the entire album.
Previews help you browse through your entire image collection
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Image Previews. Mouse over an image to see a thumbnail preview of the image with
information about its size and type.
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My Albums. Add any folder to My Albums for quick and easy access.
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Create Albums. Create new albums to help manage your images.
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Rename Images and Albums. Rename images and albums just as you would using Windows Explorer.
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STUDIO & SUITE Only* - Indicates features found only in STUDIO and SUITE versions
SUITE Only* - Indicates features found only in the SUITE version |
