Hello Wags,
I'm not Karin, but perhaps I can help with your question. The overall layout of the program hasn't changed (where things are located) since I started using it 4 years ago. However, it updates with new material and effects everytime you open and use it. In my opinion, it's easy to use and has many different effects available to embellish any photo. Along with effects, it has a wide varity of frames for use, you can change backgrounds, enhance or defocus your current background, crop, composite, include text and many other effects. If you're interested in the program, I suggest trying the 30 day free trial. Afterward the one time cost appears to currently be $29.95 US dollars. I personally use this edit extensively and really like what it has to offer.
The photos below are a work in progress using Smart Photo Editor. So far, I've used the eraser tool, crop tool, the special effects tool, the composite tool. Who knows where I'll go from here, but I'm sure Smart Photo Editor will be used for the final edit.

Thanks, Sunny. Great work. I like the idea of the 30-day trial. Gonna give it a try.

Hope this helps,

Sunny