PhotoMix Reviewer's Comments
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PhotoMix from fCoder Group, Inc. is extremely easy to use, due in large part to lack of features. With more features—such as the ability to import from a scanner, more photo editing tools, and more clipart, borders and backgrounds, PhotoMix would have earned a higher ranking.
PhotoMix works with Windows Vista.
Ease of Use:
PhotoMix’s strong suit is that it’s so easy to use, especially once you’ve gone through the Getting Started tutorial. The program’s main screen and tools are well designed and intuitive. Also, most feature icons have brief descriptions that appear if you hold your mouse pointer over them. We feel PhotoMix should be easy for a novice to master.
Feature Set:
PhotoMix offers most of the basic photo editing tools we feel scrapbooking software should offer, but the program lacks a few vital tools, namely—image cropping and red eye removal.
Importing:
We gave PhotoMix a low score for Importing because this software can’t import pictures directly from a scanner. Instead, you must capture the image from a scanner, save it to your computer as a digital picture, then open the file in the program. We felt this was inconvenient.
Sharing:
PhotoMix lets you send finished layouts to friends and relatives by email, and fCoder also provides a website photo gallery where you can upload finished projects for others to see. You can save your finished layouts in multiple formats, including JPEG, GIF and BMP. You can also pack several images together and send them as a ZIP file.
Organizing:
PhotoMix offers limited file saving methods. Although you can save a project as a single layout, you must separate completed projects by subject (i.e. by name or by year), create individual folders, then save the files in the correct folder.
Help/Support:
fCoder Group Inc. equips PhotoMix with a brief, but well done Getting Started tutorial. The program also offers a limited index search and a help section. Most of the text in the help section was useful and easy to understand, but we had a problem with the help instructions for the collage feature; the instructions were confusing and may have been from an earlier version of PhotoMix.
PhotoMixâs online support is limited to email; a response is supposed to come within two business days.
Summary:
PhotoMix by fCoder Group Inc. is a good fit for someone who wants a scrapbooking program that trades simplicity for feature power and variety. For those serious about scrapbooking, we suggest our 2nd or 3rd ranked products, which offer far more for about the same price.
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