Editing Features:  

PhotoImpact Pro offers the standard editing features available in most image editing software programs, including basic image enhancement and improvement features like red-eye removal and a blemish-reduction tools (the program can never quite remove blemishes outright, it seems). The program does have a wide variety of filters and effects, but these seem more oriented towards scrapbook design and lean heavily on the hobbyist/amateur side than the professional side.

As mentioned before, the editing features do, in fact, stand to improve greatly, with the exception of the SmartRemove feature, which does a fairly decent job of extracting and removing unwanted objects. Nevertheless, it seems PhotoImpact Pro is far more concerned with design features, which have seen more development than its editing features.

Design Features:  

Though it has paint-like tools and features involving layering, color, text, etc, PhotoImpact Pro seems more oriented towards other design ends. It offers an expansive library of embellishments, graphics and other visual add-ons for scrapbook page creation and other design projects like greeting cards, et al. It is here that PhotoImpact Pro actually stands out among its image editing software program peers. But, much of the attention is deserved more for its versatility than the actual quality that its multi-functionality renders.

Ease of Use:  

The interface has been improved from previous versions, which should be commended. Nevertheless, many of the same issues with sub-bar navigation remain, making program navigation stodgy and difficult at times. The tools and features themselves are fairly straightforward and easy to execute in their own right, but, as with the interface, the icons and workflow could use another, well-needed overhaul.