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BenVista PhotoMagic

Version: 1.2.8

Downloads Count: 5,232

License Type: Shareware

Price: $49

Date Added: Nov 12, 2007

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Vista

File Size: 17725 KB

Author: BenVista

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Editorial Review of BenVista PhotoMagic

PhotoMagic bundles five programs: PhotoZoom, PhotoClean Express, PhotoArtist Express, PhotoEffect Express, and PhotoPrint. You select one to use when you launch the program. Although the Welcome screen remains available via a taskbar icon, and you can launch more than one program at a time, the programs do not work together.

PhotoZoom (dubbed "Enlarge Photos" in the Welcome screen) works well and is easy to use. It offers ten resize methods, including bell, bilinear, S-spline and more. In my test it upconverted a tiny 2-by-1.5-inch image to a 6-by-4-inch snapshot with only minimal blurring.

PhotoClean Express ("Repair Photos") lets you choose from ten filters that affect the entire image at once, including Color Correction, Gamma, Sharpen, and so on. Some of the filters allow very basic customization. Nonetheless, PhotoClean Express did improve the blurred and underexposed images I threw at it.

PhotoArtist Express ("Artistic Photos") is a slimmed-down version of the stand-alone
BenVista PhotoArtist. It's missing the more wild effects like metal surface, and the interface is more difficult to use since some functions are relegated to tiny buttons. You can apply effects to the entire image, or selectively using a customizable brush.

PhotoEffect Express ("Creative Photos") is home to the filters that weren't included in PhotoArtist Express. Its interface is very limited, but not as difficult to use as its sibling. And unlike PhotoArtist, PhotoEffect applies its filters to the entire image only.

PhotoPrint ("Print photos") lets you put together "albums" and print them in full-page, two-up, or four-up formats.

The PhotoMagic suite is clearly designed for those who are new to photo editing. Home users may find it useful, but professionals should look elsewhere.

The program is free to try, but it adds watermarks to the edited photos until you pay the $49 license fee.

--Kim Saccio-Kent

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