I certainly won’t argue that DropBox needs considerable code improvement, as I mentioned in comment #17. If artifacts are present in any output format, then there must be a problem with the way DropBox renders the original image. Huffman compression is lossless; I assume you meant JPEG. Compression involves modeling and coding; it’s JPEG’s modeling which is lossy and introduces artifacts, its Huffman encoding is lossless.

Downside Up (#52) – You don’t have to keep it resident – it’s just an option to.

Hempman (#53) – Sadly, most of your post is nulled by the fact that digital watermarking is not promised. Watermarking is promised, not specifically digital; Therefore, there is no false advertising or anything of the sort.
Sure, what they provide is pretty basic “watermarking”, but it’s still valid enough for it to be considered that. Sorry.
Anyway, digital watermarking lasts a lot less than visual watermarking as one regular processing is all it takes: most programs don’t even keep EXIF tags, nevermind watermarking information (Well, depending on the nature of the watermark – for some that doesn’t matter, but resaving usually does remove it).
And slightly off-topic: Wow, 13 MP… that must have cost a pretty penny.

Undo is absolutely necessary for real photo editing. Only a fool would edit thier photos without an undo option. An undo feature would automatically save a temporary version of the altered pic which, when used with a full sized (not thumbnail) preview, can then simply be undone if the results are unacceptable. It is the antithesis of “easy” and “simple” if one has to argue with a file system that wants to avoid overwriting the original (that is what it is, overwritng, when you redo an action and save the file to the same location as last time, even if that location is different than the actual original). Perhaps if the programmers spoke with actual photographers to know how they want these things to work? Something clearly not done here with Dropbox.

Huffman compression is very lossy and introduces unacceptable color mangling. Changing compression level does nothing to eliminate poorly constructed programming. The artifacts are still there for any file format.

I repeat, Nufsoft is a screensaver company (no surprise there) and they should stick to what they know. Photography is not one of thier better points.

As a gimick toy, Dropbox should be on a CD with a dozen other widgets for $10.00 (after the problems are fixed), not offered as a standalone for just about $20. As it stands, it is not much more than an interesting gadget toy, nothing a serious photographer would even download for free.

Hempman, since DropBox has the ability to preview results and save them to other locations without overwriting the originals, there’s not much need for an “undo” feature.

To those complaining about DropBox being resident, simply uncheck “Run on Startup” in the File menu, and run it when you need it (Start, All Programs, DropBox Image Processor).

~ Swan, I sent an e-mail to your contact address. The listed e-mail address may have a typo, so if I don’t receive an acknowledgment, I’ll send one to what I think may be the correct address.

Microsoft also offer a Free XP powertoy “imagesizer” for image resizing which uses no system resources while it’s running.

Great for free, I wouldn’t buy it for $20 though.

Also, This is a “keeper” you can run the activate (today though!) and just save the serial number it generates and the program Setup.exe together if you ever need to install it later. ;-)