PhotoOne Print Reviewer's Comments
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PhotoOne Print by Best IT Solutions is a good program that’s easy to use, but lacks an inviting opening screen and many useful features. With more clip art options, greater importing capabilities and a wider variety of sharing methods, PhotoOne would have ranked much higher.
Ease of Use:
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.
Feature Set:
PhotoOne provides users with a few basic editing features, such as brightness, sharpen and (as mentioned previously) cropping and red eye removal, but lacks other useful features such as layers, snap to guides and color management.
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.
Sharing:
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.
Organizing:
If you’ve created several different layouts of the same subject with PhotoOne Print, you can export just one or all the pages to a folder easily.
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 offered brief, but adequate instructions.
Summary:
PhotoOne Print by Best IT Solutions is a solid program with a lot of potential. 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.
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