Fine Arts Toolbox

Photo Collage

You can make rich photo collage art quickly and easily. Make custom clips from your photos, stack them up, add text and graphics, and you are ready to print or publish your design.

Insert & Clip

Open a photo in a preview window and scale, mirror, flip or rotate the picture. Then click on the clip tool icon and outline one or more clips by clicking on the picture. After the first click, a dotted rectangle or circle follows the movement of your mouse, so that you can see the boundary of the clipping area. Repeat the action to make another clip - there is no limit on the number of clips that you can outline. When done, insert the clips as separate pictures into your design. The clips are separate views of the original picture, so they do not consume any more of your computer resources than the single original picture.

Adjust & Retouch

You can adjust the colors in each clip separately, stretch, flip, mirror and rotate each clip without affecting the original picture. You can double-click on a clip to return to the preview window and change the clip outline.

Shadows & Frames New!

You can specify the color and weight of each frame around your clips. You can also lift the clips, text or graphics from the surface of your canvas simply by selecting a shadow type. The software makes a realistic shadow under the object. You can design your own shadow types by specifying the elevation, fade and lightness.

Graphics & Effects

Insert any kind of shape and any size of text, and scale, flip, mirror or rotate the object. You can draw squares, rectangles, triangles, circles, ellipses, arcs, pies, polygons or stars with the ease of just a few mouse clicks. You can adjust the outline and fill colors separately.

Undo & Redo

Step back through your design, and undo any changes that you made, all the way to the beginning of your work. Then, step forward to redo all the undone work all the way to the last edit.

Grid & Snap

Turn on a background grid to aid in positioning objects. Set your own grid density for each drawing separately. Insert, move and delete the individual grid lines to further customize the grid. Undo and redo the changes to the grid using the Undo and Redo functions. You can even turn the horizontal and vertical grid lines on and off separately.

Turn on snap and the clips, text and graphics snap to the nearest grid line. You can turn the horizontal and vertical snap on and off separately. And, when you move a grid line, the objects that are snapped to it, move with the grid line.

Join & Split

Select two or more items in your drawing and click on the Join icon - the selected objects are joined together. From now on, the group behaves like a single object: select all the group items at once by clicking on any of the group members and change color, line weight, or any other qualities that affect the individual items. Move rotate, flip and mirror the entire group at once.

Select one or more groups and click on the Split icon and the group is dissolved into the individual objects.

Open your favorite photos in a preview window and outline one or more clips - just select the best parts from your pictures or exclude the parts you don’t want to show. Of course, you can also insert the whole photo.

Stack them up on your canvas. Each clip or photo remains an individual item that you can move, rotate, stack up and down relative to other clips, and adjust the color saturation, contrast and lightness in each clip individually.

Add text in any size, color or angle, anywhere on your canvas, even inside your clips and photos.

Select from many drawing tools to add lines, circles, stars and many other shapes into your design. For instance, in the sample design above, the artist uses a rectangle with a clear fill color and a thick red outline color to make a frame for the collage. The artist can quickly change the frame color to white to have clean edges on a print, or to any other color to have a high contrast frame when the collage is used in a Web design.