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Magic Photo Editor is a shareware digital image editor optimized for creating photo collages, frames, and portraits using a variety of template masks, objects, and borders. It's free to try with a 30-use limit. But it has some serious issues, starting with a clunky, unattractive interface that lacks common features. More serious is a lack of basic functionality, though.
Magic Photo Editor's user interface was the first hurdle: it's colorful but too simple by half, with nothing but a sidebar listing basic controls and features. Amazingly, we could not resize the interface -- not by clicking and dragging the corner, like nearly every modern Windows-compatible app, nor by clicking the full window control because there isn't one, just Minimize and Exit buttons. Magic Photo Editor's title bar doesn't even have a program title, but it does have confusing decorative elements at either end that are clearly meant to resemble controls yet perform no function and open no menus or options, either by clicking them directly or right-clicking them. Following the Help file's instructions, we clicked New to start a new project. A pop-up asked us if we wanted to save our changes to our current image. That's the background image that comes with the program, so we clicked No. Nothing happened. We went through this process four or five times before we realized Magic Photo Editor wasn't going to remove the background image and let us proceed that way, so we clicked Yes and saved the picture to our system. We clicked New again but were stymied by the same runaround.
With so many capable image editors available, Magic Photo Editor faced a high hurdle to begin with in justifying a purchase price just under $40. But given its pitiful performance, unattractive and primitive interface, and lack of basic amenities, we don't see how it can compete. Vastly superior tools that actually work (and do much more) are freely available. This program is free to try, so you can certainly see for yourself if it's worth its hefty price tag. But we can tell you right now it's not.
Editors' note: This is a review of the trial version of Magic Photo Editor 6.1.
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Magic Photo Editor easily blends your digital photo onto another picture (a landscape picture). You can also add some pretty frames, flowers, cartoon pictures, or write your comments on the photo to make it more beautiful and attractive. 180 masks, 100 cliparts, 180 cartoon pictures, 60 shining outlines, 100 frames for you to add to your photo.
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"Works great, but watch out."
Version: Magic Photo Editor 6.1
Pros
Easy to use. Creates nice montages.
Cons
None as far as use of the product.
Summary
This product is free to try for 30 uses. But once you reach 30 you'll have to pay. EVERY time you use it 30 times. I have already purchased the product TWICE and now it's asking me to buy it again. I tried to contact the developer but have not received a response. Very frustrating!!!
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"Brings your creativity & photos together!!!"
Version: Magic Photo Editor 6.1
Pros
If you want a super-user friendly photo editor that can help either a novice or an advanced computer-user create great looking collages and or photos using any type of wallpaper images you can find under Google images for example, than this is it! The paid S/W brings more balloons, effects, clip art than the trial version. It's not quite PicSay Photo (Android s/w), but for Windows it's not too shabby.
Cons
It would be great if one could add more fonts, balloons, clip-art etc. or one's own personal shapes. This is one of the few limitations that irks the user.
Summary
Try it out if you want to get creative with your pics, but don't want to edit the actual images, for that look elsewhere, edit photos (e.g. crop, lighten, sharpen, fix colors, etc.).
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