Photo Impact Pro 13

I found this software difficult to use and I am sorry I bought it.

Upgraded from the Photo Impact Pro 11 version. Still love it! Easy to use and great results. Tried other programs. None compare for quality and (important for me) ease of use.

Really nice features.Takes a while to learn how to manipulate it however.

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The program would not load onto my Toshiba laptop.

Love it it is very easy to use .however it seems to slow down my computer that is why Ionly gave it 4 stars

While I am using this software for many years (the first free version came with my first digital camera), I would never ever recommend anybody to purchase it now. What was okey and relatively user friendly a decade ago makes no sense now when you can subscribe and use Photoshop and Gimp for practically nothing. My biggest issue with the program is horrible memory management. Its is incapable of opening and editing multiple images (I do a lot of scrapbooking) and having a text added to an image makes it practically dead. Just go for more powerful and decent editors. There are enough tutorials online to have anybody started with Photoshop even if you have a zero technical background.

This is use on projects at work. I use to make list of hardware, take their photo and name its part numbers. this project is use to identify parts and used it as list of references.

Let me start by saying I typically love PhotoImpact. I have used it since version 7 and have upgraded it over the years. I started out photo editing using PhotoShop and found that I liked everything about PhotoImpact better. However, I can not recommend version 13. I am so disappointed it in and I am trying to return it (yea right?!). It installed fine after removing my version 11 and I was up and running. I spent a lot of time getting my desktop exactly how I like it, adding and deleting toolbars that I use often and customizing them. After I finished I closed PhotoImpact. When I came back to it later that night ALL of my customization had defaulted back to its original settings. I thought I had done something wrong so I spent time re-doing it. Same thing happened. Also, the text description of the various tools is not there. There is just a blank grey space where it should be and you have to drag your mouse over the tool to actually see what the tool does. I contacted their customer service and this is their exact answer Unfortunately, that option is a part of the code. Im not sure why it was modified so drastically, but there is no way to reset that to the old style. Hmmm . . Based on that answer I am assuming there is no way to customize your work space unless you do it every time you open PhotoImpact. Personally I find this unacceptable. I also find it unacceptable to have an empty grey space where the text description of the toolbar should be. Their tech support has been very slow to respond to my emails and they do not have a toll-free number that you can call and talk to them. I do not recommend you buy version 13. I would recommend that you find Version 11 that works great!

I have Lightroom and Photoshop, but bought this as well for the simplicity of it all. Very easy to use and gets the job done! This is a very underrated product I wish were more popular.