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Review by Carol Clasen
I haven’t finished my taxes with this software yet. I know it works though. I switched to H&R Block last year when Turbo Tax got so many bad reviews. I love H&R Block. It will be so easy to do taxes again this year. You can ask advice for free from H & R Block professionals by e chatn.It has 5 Federal e file returns free. Also H&R Block guarantees the best tax refund.
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Review by carol irvin
Update to below review: I did promise to come back if I found any problems with this product. Some users have experienced reduced battery power (drains faster) after installing it. I have experienced that but my husband did not. We are both on macbooks. My macbook is a year old and his is three years old. I ended up taking my machine into the genius bar. Apple said iM was not snow leopard.
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Review by carol irvin
I’ve used extensively Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and Gimp. They all have their pluses and their minuses. Yes, Photoshop does everything but it is also an enormous systems hog and has a huge learning curve. It also does nothing simply and many times I LIKE taking the easiest course to get from point A to point B.
I devised a test for how well this new program does against the others. I took the image of a lily which I had photographed.
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Review by carol irvin
I’m an artist so although I used this product extensively for a year or more, the day dawned where I needed to upgrade to the industry powerhouse of graphics’ programs, Photoshop. Photoshop is a very difficult, expensive and challenging program though and unless you are a photographer or an artist, you can probably do as well or better with Paint Shop Pro 7. It is easier to learn and operate and does an enormous range of image editing tasks.
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Review by carol irvin
I must say that Front Page 2002 is a dream program compared to the 2000 version. I had some very weird things happen with 2000 such as its not publishing to the web on the index page unless I also saved it in Notepad. All the bugs are gone in 2002 plus it is much easier to use. I use it for everything, rarely using Word, Office and so forth. My two major tools for editing and writing are Front Page and super Notepad instead.
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Review by carol irvin
This may well be a five star product for many users. My problem is that I only use iPhoto and it is likely that I will continue to use only iphoto. iphoto is a great product. It is a wonderful way to store your photos and to show them to others. It is always enhanced in each update and continues to star. iphoto is worth all 5 stars. However, you also end up with all of these other programs, which I almost never use.
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Review by carol irvin
I’ve used Windows 95, 98 and 2000. I’ve also used an OS 9 and 10 Mac. None of them matches Windows XP. It is simply the best, hands down. I even like it better for using Photoshop and Illustrator than a Mac and that statement is virtually heresy in the art world! First, it is not buggy and not crash prone. It reliably works all of the time. Windows 2000 was very good in that regard and XP is even better.
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Review by Carol T.
Wow. This software - Corel Video Studio Ultimate X6 - is pretty powerful and yet intuitive enough to use without too much of a learning curve, particularly if you’ve never used any of the previous versions.
The price is reasonable for what you get which is the Video Studio program and all of its special effect features, stop motion capabilities, subtitles, HD video support, animation, screen capture and on and on.
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Review by Carol T.
Very economical photo editing program at about $50 on Amazon and, for non-professionals, just as good as Photoshop for a fraction of the price. Photoshop will always be the standard for professionals but this is great for people who want to work on their own images for personal use and don’t need professional software.
I’ve used Corel products for video projects and really like them, overall. Printshop Pro is my first photo editing program from Corel.