I just wanted to tell you how pleased I am with Essentia
FotoArt. I have put a wedding album together for my partner's
daughter as a trial - 300 images into 110 pages. Lovely.
I had been using Photoshop for putting together
photobooks, from holidays, birthdays, etc, and, in general, it was taking about
10 pages an hour.
I was able to do 100 pages in 4 hours yesterday,
including some false starts, and a couple of support 'calls' to PXLSoft.
They phoned me back within about 10 minutes, and answered my query fully.
I did discover a 'bug', but I found a workaround, so that was great. (For your
interest, with a second monitor, the full selection of editing tools is not
displayed (eg the black/white conversion icons). But if you start it on
the laptop screen, use it in editing mode, and then move it to the second
monitor, it's quite happy. It must be something to do with the way/timing
that it picks up the screen resolution.)
I've now submitted the draft to Blurb for printing, but
have no doubt that it will be more professional than I could have achieved with
just CS4. The built in masks are excellent, and once the PXLSoft chap
told me how to convert the backgrounds into images that I could modify, I was a
happy bunny. I didn't use the templates much, as I found them a bit
limiting. I had more landscape shots than portrait, and a lot of the
templates seem to have portrait frames.
Thanks again for the excellent service.
Kind Regards
Marilyn
My Reply:
Marilyn - Thanks for a great review. I think all your limitations would be overcome by upgrading to Gold. Best wishes - Daniel.
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-"Other photographer's albums are all dull compared to what I present customers using dg Foto Art - that the pictures in my album just come alive. As an artist and photographer, your album design program offers me everything I had ever hoped for in the new world of digital photography."
-"As a professional photographer, you know that great images aren't just about capturing the right moment in time. They're about passion, patience, creativity, skill, hard work, and the right tools. From raw-image handling to production, dg Foto Art Gold is at the heart of my digital photography workflow."
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Stand-alone Software
Easy Drag & Drop for faster Album Creation
Create your own Album Page Size
250 Ready-to-use Templates along with Library of Décor
Dg Foto Art – Essentia, is a Fast & Easy software tool to create Digital Albums. It can compose stunning Albums in minutes with ease using blend of easy-to-use tools, ready-to-use Templates and huge library of added décor. Being stand-alone Dg Foto Art – Essentia is independent of any third party tools or plug-ins.
Highlight Features
Stand-alone Software
Easy Drag & Drop for faster Album Creation
Create your own Album Page Size
250 Ready-to-use Templates along with Library of Décor
Lasso, Auto Feather and other Enhancement tools
Work on Multiple Pages Simultaneously
Slide Show Generator for Proofing
Very Easy to Use & Learn
Available in multiple languages
SYSTEM REQUIREMENT
Pentium IV, 1.50 GHz Processor
Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP with SP2, 32Bit
512 MB RAM (1GB Recommended)
20 GB hard disk drive
VGA card
CD-Rom drive
EXCLUSIVE FEATURES
Universal Graphic Format support:
Essentia supports all standard file formats like JPG, BMP, GIF, TIF, TARGA.
Used Photo Indication:
This feature helps mark photos distinctly with a red outline. This is a very useful feature for tracking usage of photos.
Story Board:
It enables viewing of the innumerable thumbnails of the created Template pages. It gives a vivid idea about the templates already designed and also helps maintain the story line of the album.
Unique Color Picker Tool:
This tool enables selection of any color from the screen. The selected color can be applied to backgrounds, outlines, shadows, shapes and text.
Instant Reordering of created template pages:
Instant Reordering can be made by moving the thumbnail of Template pages with the page numbers automatically assigned after reordering thereby saving time.
Work on Multiple Pages Simultaneously:
Essentia gives you the exact feel of the album that will be printed.
Replicate Photo Properties:
Photos can be replicated over any other photos repeatedly. This feature is very useful for application of favorite Tones, Masks or Filters to multiple photos.
Smallest Project size:
Essentia saves a lot of hard disk space. This also enables your projects to open and save very quickly.
Auto Save:
Current pages are automatically saved and thumbnails are updated in the story board, the moment a new page is opened. Also at regular intervals the work is saved thus there is no risk of losing important data.
COMPOSE FEATURES
250 Ready-to-use Templates:
A pool of ready-to-design templates of various sizes are designed and made available for different occasions.
Customizable Template Page Size
Templates can be customized to individual requirements be it in centimeters, inches, pixels or print resolution too.
Multiple Alignment Options
This feature helps align multiple pictures at equal spacing automatically and quickly.
Flip Templates
Flip templates with a click of a button. A very useful feature while arranging your template pages in an album.
DECORATE FEATURES
Huge Library of Clipart, Borders, Masks, Textures and Filters:
A huge library of ready -to-use features is provided for giving exclusive looks to your Album pages.
Instant SEPIA and Black & White Tones
Images or Templates can be given 7 ready-to-use tones including B&W and SEPIA. Tones can be applied on any photo at the click of a button.
EDIT FEATURES
Lasso Tool with Auto Feather
Lasso Tool helps remove unwanted portions of a photo for replacing the background. A Feather is also applied automatically around the edges of the cutout portion.
Cropping Photos
Images can be cut short and cropped instantly with great ease, be it within a Frame or otherwise
Text Editing
Templates can be added with text using any True Type fonts. Drop Shadows, Outline, Textures,and Thickness can also be applied.
ENHANCE FEATURES
Photo Enhancement
Images can be color-correction on selected portions of a photo. Multiple selections can be made and manipulated independently.
Drop Shadow
Images can be given different look with instant shadows. Shadow distance, opacity and softness can also be added at click of buttons.
Instant Outlines
Add instant outlines to photos in the Template pages.
Set any Photo as Background instantly
Essentia allows to place images as background which helps give it a different look and feel.
EXPORT/PRINT FEATURES
Unique Slide Show
Self running files (EXE) containing slides of the Template pages are made with ease. This file being small in size can be easily sent as e-mail for customer’s approval before printing.
Export Multiple Pages simultaneously
Multiple pages can be exported simultaneously thus saving time. One can even select or deselect the pages to be exported with the help of thumbnail.
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