I've used this program, and it works well enough for me- better than some other free programs that I've wasted a lot of time on. I did have to go through and resize my pictures, which was a pain. I've no issues with the black & white output. Sometimes it doesn't write to DVD correctly, but yesterday I burned five in a row that were fine. I wish it had a way to make chapters that you could have a menu to go to.
The more I work with the program, the more I like it.