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Photo Finesse for Windows

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Key Details of Photo Finesse

  • Crop, zoom, create borders, and add special effects.
  • Last updated on July 11, 2011
  • There have been 9 updates
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    Clean (it's extremely likely that this software program is clean)

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Editors' Review

Download.com staff

Some photo-editing programs are meant to make serious improvements to images, while others handle the finishing touches. Photo Finesse is made for the latter, letting users add borders and effects to images that are otherwise ready to go. It's far from being a full-featured editing suite, but the features that it does offer can add attractive polish to your images.

Photo Finesse's interface is intuitive and easy to navigate, making it appropriate even for inexperienced photo editors. The program's features are arranged in tabs. Users can first crop or zoom in on their image. The next step is selecting a border, a feature that we thought was pretty cool. Users can choose the color, width, curvature, and fade of the border, and can even use a second image as the border, merging two images into one. This feature was a lot of fun to play around with and can lead to some really interesting results. The program also has adjustments for brightness and contrast, and a trio of effects: sepia, cartoon, and canvas. A built-in Help file gives a brief overview of the program's features, although it lacks actual instructions for using them. Our main complaint about Photo Finesse is that there doesn't seem to be a way to start a new project without shutting the program down completely, a process that takes longer than you'd expect (and that displays advertising while you're waiting). On the whole, we thought that Photo Finesse was fun to use and that it produced some pretty nice-looking results. It can let even novice users create artistic effects with their images.

Photo Finesse installs and uninstalls without issues. We recommend this program to all users.

What's new in version 2.04

Version 2.04 shuts down quick with no advertising
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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
July 11, 2011
Latest update
July 11, 2011
Version
2.04
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 7
  • Windows XP
Additional Requirements
None
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Developer's Description

By Golden Apple Software
Crop, zoom, create borders, and add special effects.
Create stunning photographs with ease. Photo Finesse allows photographs to be cropped to standard sizes, and any area can be zoomed. Once cropped or zoomed, the image can be "dragged" to show the desired area. Borders can be added with a single click. The border size, curvature and fade can easily be adjusted. Borders can be plain (any color), or preset images can be used to create effective graphical borders. Custom borders can also be used to blend two images. Photo Finesse has three main effects. Sepia adds a warm reddish brown tint to create antique looking pictures, Canvas adds a textured look to images. Cartoon converts photographs to cartoon images. Brightness and Contrast can be adjusted. Unlike traditional graphics editors, any change applied to a photograph can be modified or removed at any time. Photo Finesse ensures that your photograph will look great when framed. It prints photographs at exactly the required size, and also allows images to be saved at the correct aspect ratio for professional printing or displaying in digital photo frames.