Face Transformer

Face Transformer is a desktop gadget created to offer you what can now be named a digital frame for your photos.

With it you can load a number of images and create a slideshow from them. The photos are loaded from your computer and uploaded to a website for processing. By this, it means that you are offered a number of tools which you can use to edit the photos.

The online application, enables you to distort the faces of the people that are found in the photos and you can animate the pictures. Moreover, you can remove the red eye effect, crop an image and even add frames to them.

Once the photos look the way you want them to, you are able to download them in the form of a ZIP file. Afterwards you unzip them to a custom folder and make that folder the source for the Face Transformer gadget. With all that taken care of, you are can set the the frame count for the slideshow and enjoy the images.

The gadget sounds like a keeper but its functionality depends on the availability of the website. If the site is offline, you can’t do anything except play images that are already on your computer, but that doesn't seem to work either.

Face Transformer also allows you to choose between two user interface types, HTML and Silverlight, each with its advantages and properties. This option though makes no real difference since the website that offers the editing and zipping function is unavailable.

In closing, Face Transformer was a nice gadget to have on your desktop while the online service was active. Now, with no support, it simply waits to become extinct along with the Windows Vista and 7 versions on which it runs.