Crescendo Software has announced the release of Picture Play 1.7.1, a minor update to the company’s shareware image composition tool. Picture Play allows users to combine digital photos, scanned images, or any other graphics to create diverse compositions with editable text content, backgrounds, and stylish effects including translucency, transparency, rotation and more. Version 1.7 offers numerous feature enhancements and fixes. Picture Play is priced at US$14.95 and requires Mac OS 8.6 or later, including Mac OS X.