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Picturesque

Picturesque - 2.1

Beautify images with 3D perspective, reflections & more.

All Time: (3.8)
Version 2.1: (1.0)
Selected Version: 2.1
Release Date: 2009-01-21
License: Shareware
Downloads (version 2.1): 576
Downloads (all versions): 15,782
Price: $34.95

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Product Description:

2007 Apple Design Award winner *

Picturesque is an application designed to make images look gorgeous for the web.

With an animated "drag and drop" style interface, Picturesque makes images gorgeous with tasteful effects like 3D perspective, reflection, glow, shadow, curve, and stroke in less time than it takes to open Photoshop.

Picturesque can also beautify images in batch, and with the ability to resize and apply effects on a whole folder of images, Picturesque is an an easy way to make sophisticated thumbnails and refined full sized images.

Picturesque is the final touch to make your images perfect.

What's new in this version:

  • Added "Overwrite image" & "Save to Desktop" a menus items, so you can quickly resize or crop your original image without needing to go through the save dialog.
  • Added reveal in finder after saving preference.
  • Added "open files in application" after saving preference.
  • Added effects menu with keystrokes to enable/disable effects quickly.
  • Improved image browser so you can now scroll using buttons, or the scroll wheel.
  • Improved presets drawer, so it animates out of the side of the window
  • Improved crop mode
  • Improved inspector
  • Added image size text to main window
  • Image now displays actual size in the window (if it can fit, otherwise it scales down).
  • Can now use arrow keys to increment or decrement value in a text field.
  • Improved saving dialogs
  • Moved single image resizing to it's own panel
  • More accurate curves & stroke preview to final output
  • Fixed blurry output with a centered stroke bug
  • Fixed bug that resulted in excess transparent pixels in some images
  • Much faster when loading large images
  • Added Spanish localisation
  • Many other misc changes & bug fixes.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 or later

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Feedback Summary:

Version 2.1:
Overall Rating: (1.0) Features: (1.0) Support: (2.0)
Ease of Use: (4.0) Quality / Stability: (1.0) Price: (1.0)
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Picturesque CommentaryShoot, I'll win in the end - Version: 2.1.4, 5/22/2009 12:05AM PST

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duckhue1
You forgot to mention that this update knocks out the cracked serial numbers of version 2.1.3, which is the real reason why developers update their apps., Well, so I'm told by the kids.

Great application though, way too costly to justify what it does. I can't afford it, as most people can't. Your denying yourself money in the name of greed. Sell cheap, and you sell a lot.

Try to get rich overnight by over charging and everyone will have the app, but no one will pay.

When will developers ever learn good business sense.
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Picturesque CommentaryExpensive, yes, but not bad at all - Version: 2.1.1, 2/8/2009 10:24AM PST

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Jeronimo2000
I agree, it is a bit pricey for what it does ($19 seems more appropriate), but it does have a very nice interface, which allows you to do some quick effects to an image (like giving it rounded corners, reflection, frame, all with a bunch of options). Nothing you couldn't do with Photoshop as well, but much quicker and more streamlined.

Maybe not for everyone, but it certainly is a nice piece of software. And now please go and cut the price in half.
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Picturesque ReviewWay too expensive. And that's hjust the start! - Version: 2.1, 1/21/2009 08:25PM PST

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grh-svo
The implementation of this tool is more or less ok and it does what it does with ease. However, what it does is almost useless for any serious image editing person.

Rotate and elevate can be used to fix some unintended distortions introduced by, say, using a wide-angle lens for a portrait (an unforgivable sin in my book) but those corrections are better made in Photoshop with its greater control over things. But the other effects are trivial and a waste of anyone's time and money.

And guess what, folks. Use the rotate and elevate controls on an image, quit the application, re-launch it a while later and...those controls are completely gone. Vanished. As if they never existed.

This utility was a waste of my time. Make sure it doesn't waste yours. Avoid it like the plague. It's unnecessary, bug-ridden and way too expensive ($5 is more like it).
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