FxFoto 2.1.046

Triscape FxFoto provides a single tool for automatically organizing, enhancing, annotating, e-mailing, printing, uploading, and archiving your digital photos. A unique animated navigator frame displays photo thumbnails of all your pictures by topic, and photos can be organized and searched for by user-specified keywords. FxFoto Standard Edition is freeware and includes red-eye correction, lighting and image enhancement, blemish removal, and a clone brush. The Deluxe Edition upgrade also creates animated slide shows, collages, and stitched multiphoto panoramas with the same download. FxFoto was designed to give novices as well as advanced amateurs an easy-to-use package to address all common photo-software needs, as well as to offer unique features that help you publish and preserve your photographic memories with style. Version 2.1 adds a new Upload command for automatically or manually sending photos to online-sharing and printing sites. Also new are helpful tips on start-up and a command to open multiple photos from the same folder.

This powerful image editor earns our kudos due to its impressive feature set. Before it launches, FxFoto offers to scan your PC for images and gives you the option to view a detailed tutorial. When we first saw the cluttered interface, we were wary, but we figured out how to perform all actions in no time. This program has just about every image-editing tool most folks will need. You can automatically or manually improve shots, remove red-eye and blemishes, apply a number of effects, add frames and borders, correct colors, and alter white balance. FxFoto's zoom tool is handy and allows for a great deal of control when viewing images. The program provides a standard set of drawing tools, and you can add captions to any of your shots. Once you've tweaked pictures to your liking, you can create a slide show with transitions, though you can't add your own music for a soundtrack. You also can design a photo collage and share it via e-mail, burn it to CD, or upload to one of several sharing sites. Best of all, FxFoto is totally free, making it a fine pick for just about anyone.