Magic Photo Editor and Frame maker
Magic Photo Editor is a shareware digital image editor optimized for creating photo collages, frames, and portraits using a variety of template masks, objects, and borders. It's free to try with a 30-use limit. But it has some serious issues, starting with a clunky, unattractive interface that lacks common features. More serious is a lack of basic functionality, though.
Magic Photo Editor's user interface was the first hurdle: it's colorful but too simple by half, with nothing but a sidebar listing basic controls and features. Amazingly, we could not resize the interface -- not by clicking and dragging the corner, like nearly every modern Windows-compatible app, nor by clicking the full window control because there isn't one, just Minimize and Exit buttons. Magic Photo Editor's title bar doesn't even have a program title, but it does have confusing decorative elements at either end that are clearly meant to resemble controls yet perform no function and open no menus or options, either by clicking them directly or right-clicking them. Following the Help file's instructions, we clicked New to start a new project. A pop-up asked us if we wanted to save our changes to our current image. That's the background image that comes with the program, so we clicked No. Nothing happened. We went through this process four or five times before we realized Magic Photo Editor wasn't going to remove the background image and let us proceed that way, so we clicked Yes and saved the picture to our system. We clicked New again but were stymied by the same runaround.
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