Gold is the most comprehensive and advanced suite to create Digital Album. This powerful engine has the capacity to create beautiful albums in minutes and so is known for its maximum output. Gold is built up by adding advanced features to Classic version for complete image management. Tools like Levels, Curves and Histograms have been added that aid in color correction. Gold also has many image editing tools like the Cloning Tool and Magic Wand and also carries a bunch of newly added image enhancement tools like Glows, Outlines and X-Y rotation.

Useful plug-ins have also been added to give complete portfolios to Gold like

1. Flip Templates & Swap photos
2. Auto-contrast & Auto-color
3. Levels, Curves & Histograms
4. Cloning Tool & Magic wand
5. Glows, Outlines, X-Y Rotation
6. Add-on modules like
   • PXL FTP for uploading files
   • PXL Viewer for managing photos & album pages
   • PXL ThumPrint for index printing
   • PXL Converter, a file format converter
   • PXL Mailer, an emailing tool.

1. Makes Album Creation Fast and Easy: Using Dg Foto Art – Gold, Photographers can create Digital Albums in minutes. This is possible with a myriad range of 1700 ready-to-use templates and host of instant features. Photographers now do not require any artistic or computer skills to use Dg Foto Art – Gold as it is very simple to use and learn.
2. Improves Productivity: With Dg Foto Art – Gold, complete Albums can be created in less than a hour which otherwise would take a lot of time to design using other traditional imaging software, this results in more number of Albums to be created within the same time and with less efforts.
3. Provides Value-for-Money: Dg Foto Art – Gold has been designed for Photographers who wish to provide a creative touch to their album creations and want a fast & easy solution that can do so. The net Return on Investment is seen from the first couple of orders itself making it the only product doing so.

• Pentium 4, 1.50 GHz Processor and above
• 512 MB RAM (1GB Recommended)
• 10 GB free disk space (20GB Recommended)
• DVD-Rom drive
• Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP recommended with service pack 2 / Vista
• USB Port
• Default mail client configure (MAPI)

Universal Graphic Format support

Dg Foto Art - Gold supports all the standard file formats like TARGA, JPG, BMP, TIF and almost all the graphic formats except RAW and PSD.

Auto Resizing of Template Pages

Selected template of any size can be used to set up digital pages in user defined sizes, with automatic resizing of the template elements, without compromising the look and feel of the original template.

Auto Resize of Project

Auto Resize of project is a unique feature, where in you can automatically change the size of your current project maintaining the original look and feel of the original project.

Used Templates Indication

Templates already used in the album get marked distinctly with a red outline…a very useful feature for tracking usage of the Templates.

Instant Photo Resize and Rotation

Resize and rotate photos instantly with onboard control. While rotating, the angle of rotation is also displayed on board. You can also flip the images horizontally or vertically.

Replicate Photo Properties

Properties of a photo can be instantly applied over any other photos repeatedly. This feature is very useful for application of favorite tones, masks or filters to multiple photos. These properties include applied masks, borders, tones and almost all the special effects applied on the photo.

Favorite Templates and Photos

Favorite photos and templates frequently used in the album can be kept separately for quick access. Exploring through huge folders of images can be evaded.

Unique Color Picker Tool

In the Color selection dialog, a color picker tool enables selection of any color from the screen. The selected color can be applied to backgrounds, outlines, shadows, shapes and text. Flawless blending of colors using this feature makes the pictures look real.

Center lines and Ruler

Additional composing features like Center lines and Rulers are added assets to the software. While making a panoramic album reference of these guide lines can be taken to avoid misplacement of the objects on the template page. The guide lines intersect horizontally and vertically at the exact center of the current page. The rulers can be set to either centimeters, or inches as per requirements.

Instant Reordering of created template pages

Order of the created template pages can be rearranged by moving the thumbnail of the template pages with the page numbers automatically assigned after reordering thereby saving time.

Work on Multiple Pages simultaneously

Multiple pages can be viewed and worked on at the same time thus giving you the exact feel of the album that will be printed. It will also save a lot of time and gives more scope for systematic design planning.

Story Board

Story board enables viewing of the innumerable thumbnails of the created template pages for a project. Story board option gives a vivid idea about the templates already designed and also helps maintaining the story line of the album.

Smallest Project Size

The project files created in Dg Foto Art - Gold are small in size, thereby saving a lot of hard disk space. This also enables your projects to open and save very quickly. Project files are uncomplicatedly transferable to clients as it is easy to handle small files.

Auto Save

The Auto Save feature automatically saves the current page and updates its thumbnail in the story board, the moment a new page is opened. Thus, no worries about any unforeseen event. At regular intervals the work is saved and thus there is no risk of losing important data.

More than 1000 Ready to Use Templates

Dg Foto Art - Gold gives you an extensive collection of readymade templates of various sizes designed for different occasions. These templates can be used to make the page look more elaborate for the occasion.

Customizable Template Page Size

Templates can be customized to sizes in centimeters, inches or pixels and print resolution too. So depending on the size requirements of the customer the pages can be sized.

Create your own Templates

Design your own or modify existing templates with great ease quickly and store them for re-use. These templates give wider choice while making brochures, albums, calendars, etc.

On Board Thumbnail View and More

Thumbnail view of the Objects and Template pages is available. You can also view more than the normal number of thumbnails in the thumbnail gallery at a stretch for quick and easy access.

Guide Lines for accurate composing

Dg Foto Art - Gold offers innumerable guidelines for accurate composing. Guidelines can be made to appear universally across all of your template pages. This brings out fineness in your design work and avoids confusion. Designing gets simpler with guidelines and the designer can design comfortable and put less efforts.

Current Object Position

The selected object’s position on screen with respect to the Ruler is displayed on board. Hence more accuracy and precision in placing of your objects to give them a professional look. There is less difficulty in designing or modifying the object.

Flip Templates

Flip templates with a click of a button. A very useful feature while arranging your template pages in an album.

Multiple Alignment Options

Select pictures of multiple sizes at a single selection and make the photos align linearly or set them at equal spacing automatically and quickly. This is a useful feature while designing a multi-photo album page.

Huge Library of Clipart, Borders, Masks, Textures and Filters

Add eye-catching clip arts, borders, masks, textures and filters from its huge library. Use these existing elements in the library to spice up the album pages and minimize the efforts of designing or building new designs for specific themes.

Ready Shapes

Provide a decorative look with huge collection of ready shapes like rectangle, ellipse, rounded rectangle and lines to add creativity to your pages. Outlines can be added to define these shapes and colors to intensify them.

Instant SEPIA and Black & White Tones

Featuring 7 ready-to-use tones including B&W and SEPIA. Tones can be applied instantly on any photo at the click of a button. You can also create, save and reuse your own tones. This is an instant effect that can change the whole look of the photo without actually using any specific designs.

Cropping Photos

Dg Foto Art - Gold allows instant cropping of any picture with great ease, be it within a Frame or otherwise. This is done at just the click of the mouse.

Clone Stamp Tool

Remove your image imperfections with this clone stamp tool. Your image imperfections will easily blend against the cloned area and make it appear flawless.

PXL Editor

With innumerable edit options makes handling images easy, rectifying the minutest flaws and controlling photo exposure and factors like auto levels and auto contrasts too.

Levels

Adjust color tones of a photo by using the Levels feature. Correct the color intensity of the photos by altering the tonal range of the image.

Curves

Alter the color tones of an image by changing the shape of the curve in the Curves dialog box. Using this ready option you can quickly change the color tones of the image as per requirement.

Auto Color

Contrast and color of an image can be adjusted using the Auto Color command by searching the image to identify shadows, midtones, and highlights, thus making the image look more effective.

Auto Level

The Auto Level control automatically adjusts the black point and white point in an image. With Auto Level increase the contrast in an image with the pixel values being expanded especially in images with an average distribution of pixel values that need a simple increase in contrast.

Auto Contrast

The Auto Contrast control can be applied to adjust image contrast automatically. Auto Contrast improves the appearance of many photographic or continuous-tone images especially on an improperly scanned image.

Magic Wand

The Magic Wand tool lets you select a colored area without having to trace its outline. This is an extremely important tool for knocking off a chroma background from the photos

Lasso Tool with Auto Feather

The unique lasso tool removes unwanted portions of a photo for replacing the background. A feather is also applied automatically around the edges of the cutout portion.

Swap Photos

The positions of two selected photos or objects can be swapped at a single click. Efforts of dragging and dropping the images at respective places can be saved.

Text Editing

With a rich text editing tool you can instantly add texts to the template pages by using any true type fonts. Effects like drop shadows, outlines, textures, and thickness can also be applied on the text.

Photo Enhancement

Enhance selected portion of a photo and color-correct it instantly. Multiple selections can be made and manipulated independently.

Color correction

With complete in-built color correction capability, you can perform color correction with RGB and CMY tool.

X- Rotation & Y- Rotation

Now easily transform images with the X & Y Rotation feature

Glow effects

Add pizzazz to your creations by the Glow effects. Make a complete image transform by applying this feature.

Instant Drop Shadow

Apply drop shadows, set a shadow direction, shadow distance and add opacity to it with this feature. Try this option to give a different look to your images.

Instant Multiple Outlines

Add Inner, Outer and Center Outlines all together on photos instantly.

Set Photo as a Background instantly

Any photo selected in Dg Foto Art - Gold photo gallery can be set as the background. The Photo background can further be manipulated to suit requirements. Changing backgrounds can give an entirely new look to the image without having to alter designs.

PXL Viewer

PXL Viewer is your bundled organizer that helps you to view the exported pages in actual pixels. Quick fix the photos or exported pages here through PXL Editor.

Export Multiple Pages Simultaneous

Multiple pages of a project can be exported simultaneously, thus saving time. One can even select or deselect the pages to be exported with help of thumbnail. The instant action of exporting multiple pages makes the process simple and fast. Flat images in standard graphic formats like JPEG, TARGA, TIFF etc. can be exported without any difficulty. It also allows you to customize the export DPI as per choice for sharing these flat images with friends and relatives via internet.

PXL ThumPrint

Get an index print of the album pages created by you with the help of PXL ThumPrint …a module within the PXL viewer. This gives a guide list of all the available pages created. You don’t have to go through each page to get to the desired page.

PXL FTP

Send your creations to a desired ftp server to get the whole album printed without leaving your desk. This is a very useful feature when you have clients spread remotely all over.

PXL Mailer

Share template pages with your customers via e-mail by using the PXL Mailer. No need of an additional mailer software. Get it done all here! Design and instantly send your template pages to customers at a click.

Unique Slide Show

The unique slide show generator creates a self running file (EXE) containing slides of the template pages created. This file being small in size can be easily sent as e-mail for customer’s approval before printing. The need of personally visiting the customer and making presentations can be avoided.

PXL Converter

Converts files created in Dg Foto Art - Gold into standard print formats ready for printing. There is no need of intermediate softwares for conversion as Dg Foto Art - Gold has this feature.