Snapfish PhotoShow Express

Don t be deceived by the sleek looks of Snapfish PhotoShow Express. It performs like a whale, or maybe a flounder. Installation requires an online sign-up and an additional 9MB download. The basic image-editing tools include rotation, red-eye removal, cropping, and brightness adjustment. Photo-sharing features let you upload photos to Snapfish and e-mail links to your friends. After sifting through commercial offers, you ll discover that Snapfish PhotoShow Express also can organize your pictures into albums and slide shows, and turn them into calendars, screensavers, and desktop wallpaper. But it can t burn CDs, publish photos to your personal Web site, or create a packaged executable. For that and many other things, you need to upgrade to the $50 Deluxe version. Stability was another sore point. When asked to browse for images, Snapfish seized up in a fit of disk access. We suggest finding a photo application that s more concerned with organizing your pictures than selling you a mug.