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PhotoPlus 11 (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: Serif
Category: Software
List Price: £59.99
Buy New: £18.50
You Save: £41.49 (69%)
New (4) Used (2) from £18.50
Rating:  1 reviews
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 98
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.8 x 0.6
UPC: 703115681446
EAN: 0703115681446
ASIN: B000Q3098O
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: includes Studioextras for photoplus 11 plus user guide book never been used or registered includes 1st class post
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A pretty good image editor for your photos and scanned film October 16, 2007
Keith Joseph (West Berkshire, England)
30 out of 30 found this review helpful
This program is a great alternative to Adobe Elements 6, and although not quite as polished it's strength is it's price. Serif rarely sell via stores, and rely on word of mouth and cheap upgrade offers to get new users. The fact they have reached version 11 in PhotoPlus shows they must certainly be doing a lot right. Until the release of Elements 5 this would probably be my preferred photo editor software - I always used Serif software (DrawPlus, PagePlus) until I got free licences of Adobe Creative Suite and MS Office Pro from work (which would cost me a few grand to buy myself). Even now, if I had to pay with my own money for image editing software, I would probably choose PhotoPlus over Elements just because of price as I'm less fussed about image databases and PhotoPlus does everything essential I need to do - I am a professional optical microscopy imaging/analysis specialist by trade and a keen digital/film SLR photographer and slide scanning enthusiast. It does lack a few powerful applications like Element 6's 'PhotoMerge' though. I am very computer and Photoshop literate, so PhotoPlus v11 seems a doddle to me - I think those few with limited PC skills wouldn't find using PhotoPlus a problem though, but it is a bit less consumer cuddly than Adobe Elements 6.0. However Elements 6 needs Vista/XP and a 1.3GHz+ PC, whereas PhotoPlus 11 runs on just about anything Pentium PC wise, from Windows 98SE/ME to XP/2000 (but it's not quoted as Vista friendly). The newly released Serif PhotoPlus version 12, called X2, is certified for Vista and it has a few useful improvements, but it can only run on XP or Vista PCs. You could save a bit of money getting Elements 5 second-hand though (Elements 6 isn't a massive improvement over 5).
PhotoPlus undercut Photoshop by a significant margin years ago but with the release of Adobe Elements real competition arrived, so PhotoPlus has dropped its price further. Rather than go into details, I would say Elements 6.0 has moved ahead of PhotoPlus 11 but it is nearly twice the price and far more expensive to upgrade. PhotoPlus has just about all the editing power and flexibility of Elements, there's QuickFix Studio for novices and a lot of editing tools for intermediate users. It hasn't got the full database capabilities of Elements though (which I wouldn't miss). However PhotoPlus does have the equivalent of Photoshops shadow/Highlight (as does Elements 6), an essential tool for those scanning film as it brings out detail in dark shadows.
Advanced users will still head to Adobe, particularly PhotoShop Extended (at 500+). PhotoPlus is never quite as slick and user friendly as some other editors though (it feels rather like old PhotoShop v7.0 to use), particularly when compared to Elements 6 and Corel's Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 (both worth a look). This is a decent buy though, with all the required editing tools and scanner twain support, it will even accept Photoshop plug-ins. Check it out at serif.com - there's often on-line offers and Serif's upgrade prices get very cheap as the latest version nears the end of it's life. Once you register PhotoPlus, and you can't actually avoid this or the software won't run, expect a yearly phone-call and emails from Serif (UK) offering the cheap upgrade, and a deal on other Serif Software.
So recommended for those on a very tight budget - once you get past the learning curve the software isn't bad at all, and is a steal when occasionally offered for under 30. Plus when a newer version is about to be replaced Serif often offer it to you for under 15 as an upgrade [Adobe want nearer 60 for Element's upgrades - just 10 off the full 70 licence]. You can even buy the virtually identical Serif PhotoPlus v10.0 from Amazon resellers if you really need to save the pennies (and upgrade cheaply later). Plus there's now the newly released version twelve (X2) of PhotoPlus to consider at similar Serif prices, but it seems to be XP and Vista only, and it's reported to offer more than Elements 6, but far more sluggish when editing.
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