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This article is from January 20, 2005, and is no longer current.

Easily Add Animated Notes to Your Images with FotoBalloon

eSoft Imaging has released FotoBalloon 2.0, a user-friendly image editor that lets you add floating annotations to your pictures. Captions, notes, and comments are inserted in the form of info-balloons, without degradation of the quality of the original image and without any attached files. Once included invisibly in each image, you can easily display your comments in a variety of ways.
In Auto Mode, the program displays your information balloons sequentially. It delivers a slide show, and leaves each balloon on the screen for the appropriate length of time, depending upon the amount of information in the balloon.
Freeze Mode is ideal for displaying the names of people or items in a photograph. Business people can use it to provide additional product information on catalog pages. Genealogist can use it to display the names of people in photographs of family gatherings.
In Manual Mode, the user can press the arrow-keys to display the balloons one at a time. In Mute Mode, no balloons are displayed, and the program becomes a standard image viewer.
You can tailor the look and feel of the info balloons. The fonts, colors, transparency, borders, alignment, and placement of each balloon are easy to adjust. FotoBalloon also makes it easy to import, view, organize, edit, print, and share your images.
FotoBalloon can be used as a business training tool to acquaint new employees with your product line. As a sales tool, FotoBalloon gives customers a clever way to learn more about the products and services that you offer.
Whether you’re a business person who needs to provide prospects with photos that include professional annotations, or a home user who wants to add additional information to wedding, travel, and vacation pictures without damaging the original images, FotoBalloon has the tools that you need.
FotoBalloon 2.0 runs under Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP, costs $34.95(US), and may be purchased securely online at https://www.fotoballoon.com/. Multi-user and site licenses are available. You can download a free trial version of FotoBalloon from the same Internet address. A free FotoBalloon viewer is also available, allowing people who don’t have FotoBalloon installed to view the images and information balloons. For more information, visit https://www.fotoballoon.com/ or send an email to [email protected]
About eSoft Imaging
Since 2000, eSoft Imaging (formerly Jeronimo Software) has been developing and marketing a family of Windows graphics tools for professional photographers, as well as business and home users. In addition to FotoBalloon, eSoft Imaging also offers DIPTool PHOTOFX, an easy-to-use Windows photo editor that turns snapshots into stunning, eye-catching images.

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