Dg Foto Art Gold is a software that gives you access to professional tools, in order to create a great-looking digital album.

The program is easy to install and it loads up extremely fast.

The GUI might be difficult to comprehend by first-time users. Unfortunately, there are no tutorials to welcome you, and the help file refused to load, in our case.

You have to start a new album or project, configure its settings (size, description, page style, border size and color, margins), then add your pictures, and play with them.

You can crop images, add text (including outline, shadow, rotation and color) or shapes, explore clipart (default options include bouquets, hearts, nature and strips), borders (artistic, standard), masks (artistic, bottom, circular, elliptical), background pictures, and others.

In addition, you can add outlines to photographs, glow, filters and shadows, but you can also rotate them. All these options are completely customizable.

Once you're done editing your album, save it (as a Dg Foto Art Gold file, to further edit it), or export it (formats include JPG, BMP and PNG).

The worst part about Dg Foto Art Gold is the fact that it becomes very annoying and time-consuming to navigate through the layout, since window maximization and minimization is not done the traditional way (by clicking the icons in the upper right cornet), but by using a hotkey (luckily, this software has hotkeys for most of its functions).

Maximization changes the layout, but minimization doesn't allow you to see the entire window. So, you're damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Unfortunately, converting to other types of image formats is not possible in the trial version. CPU and memory resources are fairly used when Dg Foto Art Gold is running.

All in all, Dg Foto Art Gold is a pretty good tool to create a digital album with, but it still needs some work. And the price for the full version can seem much too high for some users.