PictureTrail Photo Editor

CNET Editors' review

PictureTrail offers Photo Editor for free as a handy way to touch up digital photos before uploading or printing. Of course, it works hand-in-hand with PictureTrail's online photo-sharing service. Installation went smoothly, though the demo required an e-mail address and gave no explanation as to why. The interface resembles Windows Explorer; double-clicking an image in the file-tree window opens it in the main window. From there, you can perform basic editing tasks, including cropping, scrolling, resizing, rotating, adding text, watermarking, and removing red-eye. When saving a file, you may configure image quality, encoding, and sampling, and even save all those settings as defaults. The image can be saved as a JPEG, BMP, or PNG file. PictureTrail's online help, however, is substandard, so if you get stuck, you'll have to e-mail tech support. We enjoyed using this program and recommend it to casual photographers, although serious amateurs and professionals will demand more powerful filters and effects.

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    "Pretty fast to use"

    November 3, 2005  |   By valdsmt

    Version: PictureTrail Photo Editor 1.6

    Pros

    The thumbnails of the photos load pretty fast. Much faster than some of the other programs, especially for my 500K digicam photos. I find myself reaching for this app everytime I need to quickly look up some photos and do some basic cropping and resizing. The batch functions are pretty cool.

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    No layers support. I can add text to a photo but I can't manage layers of text or place other graphics on the photos.

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