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Curt:
Today's offer at Bits du Jour is Serif PhotoPlus X2 for $50 against the normal $80. It can however NOT be downloaded and tested before purchase, and I am totally not going to purchase it unless I know a lot more about it! So I was hoping some of you guys and dolls will tell what you know about & think of PhotoPlus X2, please.
 :tellme:


Maybe I should add that I have a license for the older PhotoPlus 11, but never cared to install that version on my Vista (if it even can?). But of course I expect X2 to be a lot better.

http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/photoplus/

Edited:
My original question was too easy to ask and too difficult to answer. I have watched the video about X2 (on http://www.serif.com/photoplus/) and am of course impressed with the features. My question is more if you think it is easy to use, and worth the money. Does it have a context menu in Explorer? Can I easily batch resize a folder of images? Stuff like that, etc.

Edit2:
Hmm... I finally found what Bits du Jour should have offered: a link to the manual! http://www.serif.com/community/pdfs/PhotoPlusx2.pdf  I expect it will answer my questions. 
 :-[

Lutz_:
I do not remember details about photoplus - other than  that I did like the documentation very much; certainly great for beginners.  The accompanying book is very good.  I believe that Paintshop Pro and PhotoLine are in the end the more powerful image editors in the same price range.

Curt:
...; certainly great for beginners.  ...-Lutz_ (April 02, 2009, 03:40 PM)
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- I think you're right. The company seems to offer easy operations of many lite features, but I prefer a master of specialized features.

Lutz_:
Hi Curt,

I believe PhotoPlus is not a highlight in image editing power, but very good regarding the UI and documentation. As mentioned above, I believe it is great for beginners.  However, I can recommend two other Serif programs without any reservations:  DrawPlus and PagePlus, both offer some outstanding features while still being very user friendly -definitely for both beginners and ambitious experienced users.

Curt:
- thanks for the recommendations, Lutz_. At a total of £222 I would expect DrawPlus and PagePlus to be user-friendly, first class programs, £60 of that price being the manuals!!! Well, it is good that the company is making thorough manuals at all. And still, £222 is merely a fraction of the price for the "comparable" specialists programs from, say, Adobe CS4.

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