One of the most interesting aspects of PhotoSuite 7 is its price. It's always been a widely-bundled product, but to get a suite of graphics tools of this calibre for under £20 has to be a bargain. And with a few exceptions, the feature set is not that different from those of the more expensive products.

PhotoSuite 7 starts with a panel offering a series of different tasks, from editing photos to setting up slide shows to designing CD labels. Make your choice and the associated component is loaded. The main one is the photo editor itself and this is designed so categories like Overall Quality, Facial Flaws and Damaged Photos are on buttons down the left-hand side. Each of these buttons leads to new panels for tools like the red-eye fixer, blemish remover and dust and speckle erasers.

These tools are easy to apply and generally pretty effective, though the blemish tool is better on single spots than on a rash. The blemish and wrinkle removal tools and the ones for despeckling old photos are all based on combinations of clone and Gaussian blur, painting over the flaws with copies of material from close around them and blending in the colours so you can't see the joins.

Roxio includes more creative tools for doing things with your photos than several of the other products. For example, you can create a VideoCD, complete with front-end menu, and design your own CD label to stick on it. If you like to file your photos or short video clips on CDs, PhotoSuite 7 provides all the tools to do a neat job.

While not having the depth of adjustment of some tools in the more expensive photo editors, many people will find the range and quality here more than enough for their needs.