Rating: 4.5/5

General Info: Thinking of waiting a minute or so to start up Photoshop should make you cringe. Specifically, it should after using Picturesque. Now before I go on, realize that Photoshop is still the image editing app for complex edits that the small tools can’t handle. For one the of the newest “small tools”, Picturesque fares very well. Nearly every Mac guru needs to “beautify” images for avatars, print stuff, blogging, and general website production. Picturesque bills itself as the app to do the basic editing you do 90 percent of the time. Unsurprisingly, Picturesque knows how to do these tasks very well. It’s capable of applying shadows, glow, rounded corners, reflections, and much more. Another time saving aspect of Picturesque is automation that can handle large batches of images. Some more operations Picturesque can perform are: resizing with or without proper aspect ratio, convert common image formats, add borders, and fade borders. Whew, that’s a lot. Few trips to the slow and increasingly bloated Photoshop are welcome.
What isn’t great about Picturesque is the fact that it doesn’t show where the borders of the image are. This may not seem important until you add shadow, glow, or reflections. This is the only thing that I really disliked , which is really good for a 1.0 product. My advice on Picturesque is to see if it will save you enough time compared to Photoshop, and if it does, definitely check out it out.

Retail Price: $19.50

Site: http://www.acqualia.com/picturesque/index.html

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