Review by Grits

My wife will be the primary user of this program. She has limited but nicely improving computer skills and has found many graphics programs to be wholly unsatisfactory. At first, she didn’t like this either. But with more use, she found it to be fairly easy to use and she was able to get better results than previous programs. Her primary use is for scrap booking projects.

Having gotten fairly proficient with Photoshop Elements 8 (and improving on 9), she doesn’t use this for significant manipulation of photographs. But for someone who still finds PSE (let along full Photoshop) intimidating, this is a reasonable place to start.

With reference to the tutorials, she moved from not liking the program at all, to one she started to learn on, and expects to use in the future. There are some easier programs, and there are more complex ones. This seems to be about in the middle in terms of complexity, and documentation doesn’t help things a lot.

Given some of the other very poor choices in relatively entry-level software of this type, this isn’t bad. If you can find a trial version (don’t know if they make one), I’d spend some time with it during a trial period first before committing money. And regardless of how you do get it, expect to take some time learning from the documentation and tutorials (a pet peeve of mine - mediocre documentation).