Whats New in Funtastic Photos 1.0.6

Version 1.0.6; Released on the 16th of July, 2009

• Greetings Cards can be saved as images files again.
• Fun Card Maker on Mac OS X 10.4 should be able to choose the stamp image if it couldn't before.
• The strange iPhoto problem with some installs of iLife '09 should be fixed.
• Holding down the shift key while selecting copy will copy a full size rendered image.
• The help system should work on installations where it didn't.
• Added some community menus, which are available on the help menu and Ohanaware tool-button.
• The Save tool-button, now offers Save & Save As.
• Fixed a bug with the White Balance effect
• Closing the editor with cmd-w now returns you to the browser.
• 14 New 1-Click Styles.
• Fixed a bug with "Select All" and "Unselect All" in the print layouts.
• Fixed a bug with ImageLayoutObject and too small text.
• New Print Layout, "6 Vertical".
• 6 New Borders.

Version 1.0.5; Released on the 13th of May, 2009

• Optimized

  Optimizing to various areas has increased the performance of Funtastic Photos.

• Open Documents bug Fixed

  Fixed a bug that was stopping Funtastic Photos from opening documents when they were double click in the Finder.

• Preview Title Bug Fixed

  Fixed a bug that could occur when accidently clicking on the Preview Title

• Checks Documents Permissions

  The program will now check the Documents folder before trying to write their.

• Ability to re-locate Funtastic Photos Documents

  Holding down the option key while starting Funtastic Photos, allows you to set where the documents are stored.

• Exported Color Issue Fixed

  Fixed a bug where the color profile got duplicated and thus over saturated images were produced.

• No Movie Previews

  No longer tries to generate previews for movies.

Version 1.0.4; Released on the 11th of March, 2009

• New: InstallEasy

  InstallEasy makes it easier to install and update Funtastic Photos.

• New: Update System

  The totally new update system can automatically install newer versions.

• New: Red Eye Reduction

  Can now remove Red Eye from photos.

• New: Dynamic Sharpen

  A new sharpen routine that can dramatically sharpen images with a new dynamic routine.

• Other New

  2 new 1-Click Styles. Circular gradients in Overlays. Auto updates iPhoto library when it's changed.

• SaveAsCopy Changes

  Now works for all print layouts, percentage and scale proportionally works as expected, now obeys decimal places!

• Crop Tool

  Now has drag handles and cursor making it easier to see and fixed a bug with the bottom left hand corner.

• Fun Card Maker

  Can adjust the text color & size, the background color or add a background image.

• Help System

  We have simplified the help menu and now use the Apple Help for the help documentation.

• Other Bugs

  fixed an error in the iconview (press enter with no items selected), the layer blending now triggers the save button, fixed bug in Icon code that could make application crash. Fixed a bug in FullScreen where it might process the picture twice. Fixed a bug where canceling the save dialog on quitting would quit.

• Other Changes

  Buy Now button auto updates, improved thumbnail process, can change text color in Print & Layouts, Date Tool has better message and menu will use Photo Date if available. Dragging files out of the browser now works again, and can now drag files to the trash to delete them.

Version 1.0.3; Released December 17th 2008

• Important Fixes To Printing

  High resolution images are now always used when available. Printing portrait greeting cards no longer requires the image be rotated 180 before printing.

• Other fixes..

  Save dialog uses correct dimension for rotated images. Fixed some toolbar enabling issues in the editor.

Version 1.0.2; Released December 1st 2008

• Turbo Charged several 1-Click Styles and effects

  As we optimized and re-factored our Gaussian Blur to be 330% faster than before.

• Even More 1-Click Styles

  We've added A Fish Eye Lens, A Split ND Filter Prototype, Hand Tinted Photo simulator, Polaroid and Erratic Image. These new 1-Click Styles brings our total to over 50!

• New Date & Time stamp effect

  Stamps the date and time that the photo was taken, comes complete with retro style and customization features.

• More Fun Card Options

  Can now remove the postmark and change the image used for the stamp.

• Improved the iPhoto Support

  Funtastic Photos is now able to find iPhoto libraries when they are not in the default location.

• Added a flash to the built-in iSight camera grabber

  slightly improving the light when capturing photos.

• MobileMe fixes

  Fixed a couple of bugs, including a serious one that was preventing some MobileMe users from using the service.

• Browser Improvements

  We've made a number of modifications to the Browser, making the experience more pleasant and nailing a bug, caused by some movie files on Mac OS X 10.4

• Photo Cube Enhancements

  Photo Cubes now have assembly instructions printed in the white space making it easier for everyone to assemble photo cubes.

• Fixed a bunch of bugs in other places

  Such as the overlay effect, Print and Layouts, and amongst others the MotionBlur effect.

Version 1.0.1; Released October 15th 2008.

• Optimized a whole bunch of areas.

  Opening Funtastic Photos, loading images and some effects are now much faster than before.

• More 1-Click Styles.

  Pencil Effect, Soft HDR'ish, Blue Print, Memories, and Color Halftone are all new 1-Click Styles.

• Improved Some 1-Click Styles.

  We improved both the 1910s Early Color and the 1980s Lomography to give more realistic and satisfactory results.

• New Halftone Effect.

  Creates a really cool effect replicating an old printing technique.

• New Fun Card Options.

  Can now change the scaling mode, copy the Fun Card or Save it as an image.

• Can now use Fun Cards with Zimbra and Thunderbird.

  Utilizing the new features added to the Fun Card Maker, Fun Cards can now be sent through Zimbra, Thunderbird and other previously incompatible e-mail clients.

• Enhanced the sharing to photo sharing sites.

  We made the description field bigger, giving more room to type. The title, Description and tags are now stored with the Photo. Added an option to preserve or ignore the original meta data, plus a new option to embed your name, contact link and Copyright into the meta data. Lastly we added an option to auto hide the upload window when its finished uploading.

• Insert How This Effect Was Made.

  When sharing photos online, use this option to automatically type out in english how the photo was edited, enabling people seeing your photo to duplicate the effect (Right Click in the Description or Caption Field of the Uploader and select "Insert How This Effect Was Made").

• A couple of minor effect enhancements.

  We improved the performance of the levels effect, replaced the sliders with new double sliders. Added a new option to the interlace effect, Thin Lines. Renamed Text to Captions & Text. Added Waves to the Reflection and Diamonds to the Mosaic Effect.

• Fixed a whole bunch of mean old bugs.

  Funtastic Photos is now much more reliable than ever and we fixed some really evasive bugs too.