Photo Art Studio

CNET Editors' review

by: CNET staff on October 05, 2009

Photo Art Studio offers several tools for altering photographs while remaining friendly to all users. The program's impressive collection of tools was matched by its impressively easy navigation.

We loved the program's interface because it was professionally designed and offered intuitive onscreen insight that kept us from needing to visit the instructional Help file. The program featured a stunning amount of editing choices for our photo, all easily accessible via a single menu complete with thumbnail examples. Ranging from standard editing and cropping tools to applying masks and filters, which drastically altered the photo's makeup, to designing a greeting card or slapping on a watermark, all the choices performed very well and were instantly understandable. This was quite a feat, since we've tested many editing programs with fewer options that took a lot of work to use. The program offered a feature to change up the layout's skin, which worked well and had many options, but didn't feel like a necessity. By including every editing option we could think of and making each easy to use, this program was a success.

Photo Art Studio has a 30-use trial. It comes as a compressed file, and offers a lot of options, making each of them simple enough for novices. We recommend this program.