Images in frames cannot be edited at the pixel level, but global effects can be applied to improve their quality. This process is always non-destructive: your original files are never touched.
 
For example, you cannot remove wrinkles or blemishes to a portrait in FotoFusion, but you can increase the overall contrast of an image. The exception: the red-eye removal tool will correct redness to the selected image, but only within FotoFusion.
 
 

To adjust images, you can work directly in the Image Toolbox or in the Image Editor.

Image Toolbox
The Image control in the Image Toolbox can be dragged to edit the most important image effects for the selected frame(s):

Image Editor
Select one of more frames on the Canvas to reveal the Image Toolbox. Click on the Image control to open the Image Editor:
 

The Image Editor contains controls for: • Opacity • Angle • Brightness • Contrast • Gamma • Blur • Black & White and Sepiatone • RGB   It also contains Background Fill options, which overlays color and texture on your frame. Learn more about this feature in the background color and pattern section of this manual.   If you change the attributes assigned to an image within a frame, the image will carry the attributes. This means if you swap an image to a different frame, it will keep the attributes assigned to it (eg. a sepia-toned image will stay sepia-toned). If the attributes are assigned to an empty frame (eg. a template design), then the image dropped into that frame will take on the attributes.

Photo by David Ziser

Opacity
"Alpha" is the correct term for transparency; an image is completely opaque when it has an alpha of one and completely transparent when it has an alpha of zero. In practical terms, reducing the alpha of an image will reveal the background color for a frame, and if that background color is itself transparent the frames and canvas behind that.

Angle
Images can be rotated inside their frames, for example to correct for a tilted camera or reorienting an image within a gradient matte. Drag this control left and right to adjust the image; you may need to crop the image when you are done. This effect can also be accomplished directly on the frame by spinning the image via the frame rotation handles while simultaneously holding the Ctrl key.

Brightness
Brightness is a measure of the overall level of intensity in an image. Increasing image brightness shifts the intensity of all pixels higher: black pixels eventually become white, and white pixels are clamped at white.

Contrast
Contrast is a measure of the range between black and white occupied by an image. Increasing contrast stretches the gamut of the image, making dark pixels darker and light pixels lighter.

Gamma
Gamma provides a means to distort of the middle range of intensities in an image without affecting the darkest or lightest portions. Increasing Gamma will bring out details in shadows while decreasing it will bring out details in washed-out areas.

Blur
Blurriness can be used to create a sensation of depth of field: making a background image blurry will give the viewer the impression that a foreground image is floating in front of it.

Black & White and Sepiatone
Move the Black & White and Sepiatone sliders to adjust the amount of these two effects; your pictures will desaturate (and look older) as you bring these controls to the right.

Red, Green and Blue Values
The R, G and B sliders give you direct control over the color of your image. For the technically minded, these controls are offsetting the red, green and blue color curves for the image.