Crescendo Software today announced the release of Picture Play 1.7, a major 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 features a new graphics engine, as well as numerous other feature enhancements. Picture Play is priced at US$14.95 and requires Mac OS 8.6 or later, including Mac OS X.