Digital Photographer's Software Guide - Bertemes - Net

■ FotoFinish STUDIO, which adds editing facilities such as crop, resize, and rotate;
plus borders, floating text, and special effects
■ FotoFinish SUITE, not only printing and editing, but also design and layout
The top edition of FotoFinish, which offers facilities for designing cards, invitations,
even business brochures, is especially popular with users who create collages and scrapbooks.
Both the Studio and Suite editions have extensive editing capabilities, with color
control, exposure adjustment, and retouching tools. Everything is implemented in an
easy-to-use way.
Comments
FotoFinish comes from a top vendor of business graphics software, a company that
deliberately applies a “keep-it-simple” philosophy to its products. Of the three editions,
FotoFinish SUITE is surely the best value with its layout facilities, professionally
designed templates and royalty-free graphics. Reviewers have given it full marks for its
photo-sharing options, but have found the editing facilities somewhat limited. This is
true, but it has enough tools for its intended market, and, by all accounts, the help and
support are terrific. The vendor offers discounts to students and academic institutions.
Versions: FotoFinish1.0 (2008)
OS: Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP
Supported file formats: SPH (FotoFinish), JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PNG, and PSD
Price level: Basic edition $70, Studio edition $ 100, Suite $130
Address: SmartDraw.com, 9909 Mira Mesa Blvd., Suite 300, San Diego, CA 92131, United
States
www.fotofinish.com
LumaPix FotoFusion
Vendor: LumaPix
Purpose: Collage creation, with automatic layout and fine-tuning
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Description
LumaPix FotoFusion is a fast tool that lets you create collages in any style rather than
constraining you with templates, although templates are available if you need them. It
comes in three variants—Essentials, Enhanced, and Extreme (formerly called Standard,
Pro, and Studio)—with significantly different levels of functionality from one to the other.
Only the Extreme edition offers multi-page support for composition and printing.
FotoFusion has useful photo organizing and grouping facilities that allow you to prepare
a selection of pictures for your project. Autocollaging has been improved in version
4.0, with ordering (arranging) by filename, file date, Exif date, or in random order.