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Make the most of your digital fotos with Bosco’s Foto Trimmer.

Buy Now for just $9.95!!
An eternal license for Foto Trimmer is just $9.95.

Foto Trimmer is...
Foto Trimmer is the easiest way to trim, resize, color, frame, e-mail, and print your digital photographs. It is ideal for people who don’t need the expense or the headache of using Photoshop. Start downloading, then scroll down to learn about its innovative features!

Download Foto Trimmer 2.3:
Uploaded January 12, 2004, 6:00 am PDT
Visit the download page for other options, especially if you are having trouble downloading.

Try Foto Trimmer for free!!
You can try all of the features of Foto Trimmer on your own fotos without purchasing a license. A watermark indicating that you are using the Foto Trimmer Trial will be superimposed on fotos you edit with Foto Trimmer.

Works great on Tiger!!
Foto Trimmer already works on Mac OS X 10.4 (aka “Tiger”). Enjoy!!

I. Overview

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Bosco’s Foto Trimmer (“Foto Trimmer” for short) scales, stretches, squishes, rotates, flips, and trims digital images. It adjusts the brightness, contrast, and color level of your image. With its Fixed Size feature, Foto Trimmer can automatically scale and trim images to common sizes, such as banner ads, greetings cards, or a standard size you use for photographs on a web page.

Built for speed, but still comfortable
All of your tools are in a simple tab panel to the left of the image. There are no menus and dialogs to wade through for common image editing tasks. Additionally, there are simple single key shortcuts for each tool, so you can set down your mouse and edit your image quickly.

Consider the Size panel, for example. It has sliders for scaling, stretching, squishing, rotating (in 1° increments), flipping, and constraining the size of your image.

The triangle controls above each slider move the slider to common settings and nudge them up 1% or 1°.

Scale, stretch, and squish range from 1% to 200%. Rotation ranges from 0° to 359°, and wraps around as you rotate.

Scaling is very fast with single key keyboard shortcuts. Hit the - (minus) key to scale down and the = (equals) key to scale up. Or hit the , (comma) key to rotate counter-clockwise and the . (period) key to rotate clockwise.

Notice that the key pairs are next to each other (on a U.S. keyboard). Editing your image with Foto Trimmer is designed to feel just like playing a video game using keyboard controls. It may not look as pretty as mice and joysticks, but it is efficient and effective.

Unique editing paradigm
While other photo editors use the standard approach of undoable commands that change your image at each step, Foto Trimmer uses the concept of a filter. You set the parameters of a complex filter, and Foto Trimmer continually recalculates the resulting image starting from your original.


The competition
(simulated by Foto Trimmer)

Try this test in your favorite image editing application (well, your favorite before you started using Foto Trimmer). Scale your image down to 50% of original size. Rotate 45°. Now scale up 200%, back to original size and trim to original dimensions.


Foto Trimmer

With Foto Trimmer, you always have all of your original image to work with until you save your changes.

II. Feature List

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Qualitative features (things Bosco’s grandmother cares about):
  • Fast: Accelerated for G4 with AltiVec by Component X Graphics.
  • Forgiving: None of your original image is lost until you save.
  • Responsive: Edited image changes instantly as you adjust controls.
  • Efficient: Single key keyboard shortcuts are available for most operations. Trimming feels like playing a video game.
  • Easy: All controls are in the tab panel. No menus or dialogs to wade through for common editing tasks.
  • Clean: In full screen mode, more than 3/4 of the screen is your image. No floating windows or dialogs are in the way.
  • High quality: Component X Graphics ensures high fidelity of edited images to originals and consistent results on all platforms.
  • Cooperative: Works with other popular applications like iPhoto and iTunes.

Size and Trim features:

  • Scale, stretch, and squish from 1% to 200%.
  • Rotate 360° in 0.1° increments.
  • Flip horizontal and vertical.
  • Automatically scale to user programmable sizes.
  • Constrain to fixed sizes.
  • Trim, expand, and move image from any edge.
  • Expand and contract trim area.
  • Use units that make sense to you: inches, centimeters, or pixels.

Color features:

  • Adjust brightness and color level (saturation) from 0% to 200%.
  • Rotate color angle 360° in 1° increments.
  • Adjust contrast from 0% to 200%, relative to center color of original image.
  • Photographic negative image.
  • Solid color for frame and free rotation fill.


Why so negative Bosco?

Framing features:

  • Add solid, gradient, and double gradient frame segmentsto inside or outside of frame.
  • Save and use predefined frames.
  • Preview frame changes.
  • Frame wizard window.
E-mail and Printing:
  • Send e-mails directly from Foto Trimmer with appropriately sized JPEG attachments that most popular e-mail clients can view.
  • Built-in address book holds your favorite recipients.
  • Advanced printing window lets you print your foto at any size.
  • Multiple prints on same page with adjustable margins and spacing.
Screen widgets and system technologies:
  • Original and edited thumbnails.
  • Full screen or multi-window operation.
  • E-mail and web indicators tell you when you have scaled down enough.
  • Drag and drop, copy and paste.
  • Skins and selection methods contrast the window and tools from images being edited.
  • AutoZoom keeps your whole image visible as your edit.
Additional benefits:
  • Try all features for free with your own fotos!
  • Free upgrades to future versions via download from website.
  • In many cultures, Bosco is considered good luck.