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Commercial image editing suite

There is a growing demand for a decent all-in-one digital imaging pack that covers everything from organising your photographs to editing your videos and eventually burning them onto DVD. Ulead has attempted to provide it by bundling four of its core programs into a single package and there are few more comprehensive digital imaging suites than StudioQuartet. While the price tag is out of the range of many home users, the enthusiast will save up for it and provide themselves with everything they need to create multimedia projects.

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Image & photo editing suite

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Major update to the image-editing suite

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Rich-Media Suite is a powerful, yet simple, solution for creating, editing and publishing your video...

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Suite of video editing tools