DreamLight Photo Editor

CNET Editors' review

DreamLight Photo Editor is like many image-editing tools. It adds dreamlike effects to your photos: filters like Light, Star, Amazing, and so on, and backgrounds, borders, and print options. The translated English is quirky and the support is thin, but it does what it's supposed to and seems easy enough to use. We wish it had multiple undos, but you can only undo the most recent change.

If your PC is, say, less than five years old and came with a typical software bundle, you probably already have an image editor that can do most everything DreamLight does, though it may take you a couple of minutes to figure out how to do it and a couple of tries to get it right. And, while DreamLight is free to try for 30 days, it's $39.95 to buy, which is a lot, considering the competition.

Still, if you like the sort of effects DreamLight produces in your photos and you don't already have an image editor or are simply too intimidated by its complexity (there's a reason why "photoshop" is a verb), then DreamLight might be for you. And we like the developer's idea of giving it as a gift to someone who has a computer but can't and won't ever get past the most basic operations. Most of us know someone like that--Grandma, for instance--who'd love to be able to enhance and share family photos, if only she could get the darn machine to do it for her.

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  • All versions:

    3.8 stars

    out of 47 votes

    • 5 star: 20
    • 4 star: 12
    • 3 star: 7
    • 2 star: 1
    • 1 star: 7
  • Current version:

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    • 3 star: 1
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  • 5.0 stars

    "Easy to use, effective, great fun. I love it!"

    January 15, 2012  |   By LittleAnnieBirdy

    Version: DreamLight Photo Editor 4.2

    Pros

    So simple to use, and if you mess up, it's easy to undo/go back and try again. I havent found anything to match it yet for ease of use, or effects.
    At the end of the day, it's a free trial, so you have nothing to lose by giving it a go!

    Cons

    Let me think long and hard.....

    NONE!

    Summary

    A great tool for completely changing and enhancing your photos. Fun to use. It's quite easy to get carried away and go OTT with this neat little editor, but it's just as easy to undo it all as well, so you can be as silly or as serious as you like. I dont think it would be a professionals cup of tea, but as a simple tool for greatly enhancing basic photographs, having creative fun with, aaaand producing some lovely end results, it's top notch!

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  • 3.0 stars

    "Waooow Its amazing"

    October 6, 2011  |   By Talal_ashraf

    Version: DreamLight Photo Editor 4.2

    Pros

    I like this software very much

    Cons

    I hope that every one will try it.

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