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PhotoFiltre from Antonio Da Cruz (FreeWare)
By admin | May 30, 2007
Although it’s fairly limited in features, PhotoFiltre offers a simple, but elegant user interface and a lot of one-click image adjustments, filters, and effects. There is a built in image explorer panel for visually navigating your file system, basic drawing, painting, retouching and selection tools, and batch processing capabilities.
PhotoFiltre is a complete image retouching program. It allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it. It is simple and intuitive to use, and has an easy learning curve.
Downloading of the application is avaliable at the Download page on the developer’s site Photofiltre.free.fr (this hyperlink is for the english version of the site).
Basically. there are four language versions of the utility for download including English and French. But at the download page there are a number of additional language packs for downloading including German (Deutsch), Russian as well as other languages.
A strong side of the application is a lot of available predefined selections and photo masks donating for public use by devoted customers 
and available for download. Every PhotoFiltre customer can upload on the site his selections and masks.
The Main menu of the application has ten options: File, Edit, Image, Selection, Adjust, Filter, View, Tools, Window and ?.
Under the Main menu there are two taskbars of the program; there is a graphic toolbar at the right edge of the Main window, too.
The option File opens a File Dialog popup. It has standard options for creating new image (New…) and opening an existing image (Open…); the option Recent files supports a list of recently opened files for re-opening; by the option Revert you can substitute the content of the current image with the last saved version of the image. There are standard options for saving images Save and Save as… as well as closing images Close and Close All. PhotoFiltre supports a number of standard graphic formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, RLE, Targa, TIFF.
There are also options for printing the current image Print and acquiring an image from TWAIN-source (Import TWAIN). The option Image properties opens the window which displays information about the current image; The option Exit serves for cancelling program execution and application quitting.
The option Edit unites editing options. There are standard editing options such as: Undo and Redo changes, Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear, Paste as new image; there is a Paste special option allowing masking for pastes. There are options for clipping selections, rotating and flipping, as well as defining and handling patterns. With the option Purge you can clear the Clipboard and/or histories of editing process.
The option Image handles the image as a whole. You can change color Mode of the image, Flip vertical and horizontal, Rotate and Skew…, change Image size… and Canvas size…, as well as Fit image… and Duplicate it. There are options for image cropping, too (Crop and Automatic crop). The option Text allows text insertion. There are options for setting transparency to the selected color.
The option Selection handles selections in the image.
The option Adjustment of the Main menu deals with adjustments of color balance, hue, shades, contrast and so on.
The option Filters serves for applying filters to the image. With the Filters popup you can apply predefined filters as well as use custom filters developed by you or some other person (the option PhotoMasque).
The option View of the Main menu allows zooming in and out, show grid and snap to grid and so on; it enables/disables Filter bar and Tools palette, and Show bounds and shadow.
The option Tools allows to select a needed tool for work. The Tools popup has also Image manager allowing file copying, moving, renaming and deleting. The option Export as icon… allows saving the image as an icon-file. The option Preferences allows to set preferences to work with the application.
The option Window contains standard window handling options.
The option ? stands for Help. The actual on-line help is called with the option Information. The ?-popup has also web-links to the official web-site of the program and the customers forum, as well as standard option About.
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