Photo Image Editing Software Group Test Photo Image Editing Software Comparative Review PhotoDeluxe 2.0 PC Magazine Editors' Choice Pros Powerful features, and lots of assistance to new users.
Cons Can run slowly on less powerful machines.
The best of the current crop of editing programs. It's based on the same graphics engine as the high-end Photoshop, so there's no shortage of powerful editing tools. But it was the program's interface design that won top honours in all our usability tests. PhotoDeluxe abandons the standard menus and toolbars of the Windows interface and groups all its tools within a series of tabs across the top of the workspace. In the top left-hand corner of the screen is a small group of buttons that allow you to select a range of activities, and clicking on any of these causes the tabs at the top of the screen to change so that they offer features relevant to that activity.