FxFoto v 4.0 is here!!!

Yes, indeed, v 4.0 of FxFoto is up and running and ready for you to download. Yeah!!

This is a big upgrade which was months in the making for our programming department and it has loads of new stuff.  If you are already a customer, then you are, as always, entitled to a free upgrade for your FxFoto. Really! Enjoy! And pass the word on to your friends, co-workers, relatives and the new neighbors next door. And feel to post on message boards, blogs and websites!   You get the picture - we love your support. 

How do you get v 4.0 ?  The new version will install over your old version so do not un-install your FxFoto. Go to FxFoto Download and click on the download button. Now click on Run when the first dialog box comes up and just follow the instructions. 

Whats new?  Well there is a long list of all the new features on our website under News but here is a brief list with highlights:

Lots of new filter effects -

• "Duotone" uses 2 or 3 ink colors for more precise monochrome prints
• "Soft Posterize" and "Saturate" effects
• "Skinny" makes selected vertical section thinner ( you need to see the cop photo - just scroll down a bit - LOL)
• 3D effects - "Colored 3D", "Metallic 3D", "Translucent 3D" and "Image 3D Shading"
• Colored filter effects - "Bleach", "Winter Dull", "Spring Greens", "Summer Blues" and "Autumn Reds"
• Filter Effects toolbar is improved with more sliders and better grouping of effects choices
• "Snapshot" frame effect shows a white border and shadow

Text

• Spelling check is now available in Creative and Media Edition - British or American English
• FxFoto now includes Unicode support for non-Latin characters and dingbats
• right to left text option for Middle Eastern languages

Especially for digital scrapbookers

• You can install an unzipped digital kit directly into FxFoto without unzipping it
• adding shadows can now be done with a right click command
• Shadows can now be feathered to give a realistic shadow for soft or hard objects
• Additional crop shapes - "Stamp", "Sailboat", "Porpoise", "Music Note" and "Tabbed File Cards"
• New Matte files can save Glue Groups and add them back to collages as one step.  And you can save as a Transparent PNG file to make your own tags and elements.
• Color brush now has a "Get Color at Picture Click Point"
• Brand new feature - Glue.  Glue groups of images and text together so you can move, resize and rotate them together.  Great for making tags

Stamps and Brushes

• New Stamp Brush tool
• with Stutter stokes and optional offset and angle Jitter
• easier selection of stamp image from a left pane folders with "Use as Stamp Image" command
• Translucent Brush tool allows partial transparency
• Smudge Brush adds fuzziness
• Templates and Grid collages
• Grid Custom Template creator to make drag and crop templates with photos and text
  you control the number of columns and rows as well as photo frames 

So that's a bit of a summary....