Reviews on JASC Paint Shop Photo Album 4 Home and Lifestyle Applications

The top-level view is browse mode, where you see the file structure of your computer down the left-hand pane and thumbnails of the images in any open album on the right. A menu bar across the top offers album-level functions. To fill a new album you can download images directly from a camera or import them from any folder on your PC, simply by opening it.

One Click Removal gives you a crosshair cursor that you can zero in on the irises of anyone in your picture showing the dreaded red-eye. It works reasonably well, but there's a red-eye brush too, if you want to take a more hands-on approach.

Once you've assembled an album, you can prepare a Video CD, complete with menus and background music and burn it using any CD recorder for viewing on other PCs or standalone CD players.

If you prefer to put your photos onto paper, the program has a wide variety of different templates to maximise the number of images you can squeeze onto each sheet. While these are very useful, it would be even better to be able to specify the combination of shots and sizes you want and get the software to calculate the optimum layout.