The user interface isn’t particularly intuitive and worse yet, HEIF images aren’t supported, so recent iPhone images can’t be imported without first saving as JPEG files. The app is super basic-import an existing photo, then step through a variety of different screens where you add different looks and styles, eventually transforming each picture into a work of art. Included in both versions of Toast 18, Akrilic feels more than a little like an aborted smartphone app ported to macOS.
The new kid on the block, Roxio Akrilic, transforms photos into art, but that’s nowhere near enough to justify a paid upgrade to Toast 18. It’s a curious addition, because at first glance the software appears to duplicate functionality found elsewhere in the bundle-specifically Painter Essentials, owned by parent company Corel. Sadly, Roxio has chosen to remove excellent slideshow app Boinx FotoMagico from the Toast 18 Pro lineup in favor of a new digital art tool called Akrilic. This trio alone would cost $120 separately, so the bundle is a decent value if you want/need them, but keep in mind WinZip and AfterShot are standard versions, not the more capable Pro editions available separately. In fact, the only new stuff in the entire Toast 18 Pro bundle are archival utility WinZip 7, Corel Painter Essentials 6 (for converting photos into painted artwork), and powerful RAW photo editor Corel AfterShot 3. Version 5 introduced support for Video CD and DVD authoring, which was improved in version 6 by addition of MPEG-2 encoding.You could mistake Toast 18 for its predecessor-it’s identical. Version 4 is the last release that can run on System 7 with a 68k CPU. In 1997, the product was purchased by Adaptec, and later transferred to Roxio (then a division of Adaptec). A powerful application to burn CDs, DVDs and BluRays, Roxio Toast Titanium 17.1 provides a professional solution with a variety of powerful tools. Roxio Toast Titanium 17.1 for Mac Review. Its packed with features which allow you not only. Roxio Toast Titanium 17.1 for Mac is a professional application to burn discs as well as extract the data from CDs and DVDs. Markus Fest and his company Miles Software GmbH and distributed by Astarte. Roxio Toast Titanium has long been the de facto standard when it comes to burning DVDs and CDs on a Mac. It also provides support for audio and video formats that Quicktime does not support, such as FLAC and Ogg. Its name is a play on the word burn, a term used for the writing of information onto a disc through the use of a laser.ĭiscs can be burned directly through Mac OS X, but Toast provides added control over the process as well as extra features, including file recovery for damaged discs, cataloging and tracking of files burned to disc. Roxio Toast is an optical disc authoring and media conversion software application for Mac OS X.
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