Mgi Photosuite 8.1 [VERIFIED]

7.5/10 Score (Current): 2/10 (Only for nostalgia in a VM)

PhotoSuite was prettier than Microsoft Picture It! but less stable. It was easier than Paint Shop Pro but far less powerful. Absolutely not.

PhotoSuite saved native projects as .MGI or .PSP files. If you didn't "Export" your project as a JPG or BMP, your work was locked inside the software. Lose the software? Lose your project.

The "Album" feature was meant to replace Windows Explorer, but it was buggy. It frequently lost thumbnails and crashed if you tried to browse a folder with more than 100 high-resolution images from your 3.2-megapixel Sony Mavica.

But unless you are building a retro Windows XP gaming PC, let PhotoSuite 8.1 remain a happy memory. Open Canva or GIMP instead. Your photos (and your sanity) will thank you.

Incredibly easy for beginners, great templates, fantastic clip art library, best red-eye tool of its era. Cons: Destructive editing, slow performance, proprietary file format, totally obsolete today.

For those of us who learned to clone dust, remove red-eye, and make terrible birthday collages on this program, it holds a special place in our hearts. It was the training wheels before Photoshop.