Appeal & Flexibility:  

PhotoOne Print is simple to use, but the opening screen is cold and not very intuitive. Once you locate and view the Quick Start Guide on the Best IT Solutions website, you’ll find PhotoOne well organized and a cinch to use. The editing screen, where you can flip, rotate, crop and remove red eye from images, is particularly well designed.

Importing:  

There are 40 different file formats that can be imported into PhotoOne Print. This is an impressive number, but you can’t import images directly from a scanner. Most people will need to convert traditional photos to digital using a scanner, so the exclusion of this importing feature makes the program far less convenient.

Design Features:  

PhotoOne provides users with a few basic editing features, such as brightness, sharpen, cropping and red eye removal, but lacks other useful features such as layers, snap-to guides and color management.

Output Options:  

PhotoOne Print doesn’t allow you to do anything more than save your completed project as a JPEG or print it directly from the program, which limits your sharing options.

Ease of Use:  

PhotoOne Print is fairly easy to use. The tools, settings and templates could use some work, but with so few exporting and publishing options available, frustration is inevitable.

Help & Support:  

Best IT Solutions offers help for PhotoOne through their online Quick Start Guide and email support. There’s also a help section with a contents search and index section built directly into the program which offers brief but adequate instructions.

PhotoOne Print by Best IT Solutions is a solid program with a lot of potential, but we felt that the program’s most disappointing aspects were its limited clip art selection, the sterile uninviting opening screen and the task–heavy process of importing images from a scanner. With improvements in these areas, PhotoOne Print could be a powerful contender in the scrapbooking software arena, but for now, PhotoOne is only a featherweight. For better features and options, check out MemoryMixer or Polaroid My Memories Suite.