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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
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If you are looking for full featured quick-fix software, PhotoPerfect is well worth
trying. It is the anglicized version of FotoFix, from Joachim Koopmann Software
(www.j-k-s.com). Its user interface has been thoughtfully laid out, with toolbars running
vertically at the left and horizontally at the top of the screen. You can rearrange the
layout, but it is feasible to have thumbnails at the bottom as a filmstrip (double-click
and it shrinks to a two-thumbnail display) and several other directories, histograms, and
floating windows open at the same time. Learning how to use all the features takes a
little while, but if you are familiar with other editing software it all makes sense.
However, the fundamental idea of combining quick-fix and fully-featured editing into
a single package may not make a lot of marketing sense, even though, from a technical
viewpoint, it is hard to fault.
Version: PhotoPerfect 2.90 (2008)
OS: Windows 2000, XP, and Vista
RAM: 512MB
Supported file formats: Major image formats
Price level: Approx. $60
Address: Arcadia Software AG, Hohenstaufenring 29-37, 50674 Cologne, Germany
www.arcadiasoftware.com
Figure 9.3
PhotoPerfect has one-step routines and a full image-editing toolkit besides.