Small-business owners can liberate themselves from the tyranny of graphic designers and create devastatingly cool images with PhotoSuite 4 Business Edition. Its slick, simple interface guides even visual-art novices through the process of collecting, altering, organizing, and publishing images with little to no hassle. Users can warp, crop, and rotate images, then create cool tapestries and panoramic shots until their eyes give out. Playing with photos can be addictive, whether adding a few inches to an annoying cousin's waistline or finding the perfect color balance for a tapestry of products. Though these effects are neat, there just aren't enough to compare to a powerhouse like Photoshop, but for the price--and ease of use--it's hard to beat.
Once the fiddling is done, PhotoSuite helps the user organize photo files in albums and projects, share them online or through a network, and print them on the desktop or via online services. Experienced graphics workers will be frustrated at PhotoSuite's limited scope, but this package is aimed at small-scale or beginning users. The wizards are all powerful here, and most people will be grateful for the guidance, though backing up out of processes can take a few steps. The context-sensitive help is smart and useful--this is one of the rare programs you can really use without consulting the manual (though, as always, it does help).
For less than the cost of an hour of a graphic designer's time, PhotoSuite 4 Business Edition will help personal and business users work magic on photos, Web sites, and advertisements. --Rob Lightner
