69% THUMB UP but only negative comments so far...funny forum!

It's OK as GAOTD or for noobs.

But there are so many free alternatives out there...

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Editors/Photo-Pos-Pro.shtml
http://hornil.com/en/products/stylepix/Features.html
http://tintguide.com/beauty.html
http://www.rawtherapee.com
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Digital-Photo-Tools/PixLane-Express.shtml
http://www.magix.com/us/free-download/photo-designer/functions

Giovanni  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+167)

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Opss... I forgot to mention probably the BEST ONE, almost anybody out there is still aware of (it'a a brand new product...).

http://www.pomelo.com/windows

Just give it a try and let me know what you think about it!

Giovanni  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+110)

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Installed and registered without problems on a Win 8.1 Pro 64 bit system.

The registration thanks in the name of “Sketch Drawer”.

A Russian company with address&phone. We had had several software from this company.

This software is a combination of removing unwanted objects, a "portrait retoucher", a sketch drawer and a remover of scratches. My short test concentrates on the latter, because all of the other functions we have had in the previous months.

Upon start a resizable window opens, you can change language from finnish to farsi or kurdi.


I loaded the first demo "old" photo and selected the scratch remover. The automatic mode "find scratches" finds in any case from "scratch size" 1 to 20 too many scratches. A scratch is in my (own) definition a long thin straight line (mostly horizontal or vertical - film transport)- the scratch size should in my eyes define the minimus length of straight lines. Here it works completely different. Test it yourself with the first old photo and scratch size 3 and then 15. Larger "scratch size" remove nearly the whole photo. This is not the way it should work.

And a serious flaw, the program does not reset the picture, if you select different scratch sizes, you have to reload again.

Well, one of the many photo enhancers - may work on some photos, on others not. The company should rethink the program strategy to find scratches. Keep it, if you don't have a similar software - or if you want the working photo sketcher...

Uninstalled via reboot.

Karl  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+101)

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Installed and registered without any problems, this time I tried a temporary e-mail address by using:-
http://10minutemail.com
It worked very well, but remember to keep a copy of the e-mail address you are given.

On opening a rather uninspired interface was presented, did a quick test by removing some lampposts with a background of the sky and clouds from a photograph, it worked okay.
It claims to remove film grain, I have yet to have film grain on a digital photograph nor have I ever seen it on a scanned photograph.
Having said that it is hardly a $50 program, I'd want more for my money.

XP-Man  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+60)

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Giovanni & others here...

I tried today's GAOTD, was not impressed, especially for the constant retouching and saving, for the amount $$ for the program. I have vintage photos to be set up for my ancestry files, and these were accomplished just okay, very long process. Always have a master file for photos just in case of errors. "Free" helps for noobs, but there are better out there:

www.irfanview.com (menu driven editing which is a little cumbersome, but a great selection of editing possibilities once you get the hang of it)

www.xnview.com (nice toolbar editing tools, user able to minutely select edits along a progress bar imbedded in a dialog box that unfortunately covers where one edits, pre/post edit review box. Many tools, great program)

www.pomelo.com (editing tools are alongside the selected picture--where they should be to see immediate effect; slight number of better tools--"slimming" really??--than either of other two programs mentioned above. However, Pomelo does not have a graduated progress bar like XnView for gradual edit changes; changes are their subjective viewpoint, and are immediate)

What is needed is a graphics viewer for GIFs that allows one to stop the GIF and take a snapshot of internal images. VLC movie viewer can do this with movie downloads, say, from YouTube, but can't handle GIFs.

Doc  –  9 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+42)

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