The normal Windows menus are at the top of the screen and everything can be done from there if you wish but surely when Windows first came out the object was that you touched the mouse over an icon and it did that thing. Of course you have layers, brushes, effects and gallery again all under tabs to the right of the screen. Other products make a big deal out of opacity when you want something from behind to shine through click the slider to the right of the screen and it’s done. No brain surgery just ideas that are logically formed by the icons.

Highlight a letter and change its colour, click the arrange tool to the right of the screen and you can flip, reverse or turn (default 30 degrees) your words. I am a great believer in ‘suck it and see’ and surely the best way to start a review is with that theory to test ease of use. The opening screen has offers to show you videos etc but clicking past that gives you an A4 page and if you click the ‘A’ Artistic Text Tool from the iconised menu on the left of the page you can simply start imputing text.

This requires 1190MB of hard disc space and only a 25 key serial number. Having recently spent 55 minutes installing one such program it’s nice too when another program that does a lot of the same things takes 8 minutes to install.

Serif drawplus x4