Image Mender 1.1Comments on:

By: Joan

Joan — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:20:29 +0000

I own this program and have been amazed with how well it works–on relatively small photos. However, any time I’ve tried it on large photos (more than about 800X600), it takes a long time and does not succeed in getting rid of the part I was trying to make disappear. So I VERY HIGHLY RECOMMEND it, but not for large photos.

By: zinderneuf

zinderneuf — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:22:34 +0000

Ciao, ragazzi! After having trouble registering the program, I just kept running the activation program — with the program running, without the program running — well, somehow, one of the activations stuck, and now I can save the fixed images. Hope this helps.

By: Oldphart

Oldphart — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:27:50 +0000

To those of you that also asked the question about whether the program was registered or not since the registration fields were still open…..this might help. I wish someone at GOTD would have answered the question early on, but to confirm registration is recorded and correctly changed the settings so it is no longer on trial, if you click on “help” and then click on “about” you will see the product as being registered to GOTD there. Good luck with this neat utility.

By: tlvp

tlvp — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:01:31 +0000

Downloaded, unzipped, activated (as Admin, on Vista Home Premium), without a hitch.

Installing proved a bit awkward: I always have sysinternals’ Process Explorer (PE) running, and the installer here wouldn’t begin, even though run as Admin — made PE freeze, in fact — so I shut down PE, upon which the installer’s first “I agree” window finally appeared.

I decided to back out for the nonce, and to run the installer (as Admin) afresh. Very quick install. Opted not to let it start Image Mender immediately, but found it myself in ProgramFiles and ran it as Administrator. Started right up. Checking Help | About showed Image Mender correctly registered to GaOTD. Tried it on a smallish jpg — a cartoon, actually, with a tiny blob of speck on a bedroom wall — xartoonist’s blunder, I suspect. Removed that speck quite effortlessly, very quickly (three seconds, tops), and with very good approximation of the existing wall background.

Verdict (based on one very simple test, admittedly): a keeper.
But: don’t have sysinternals’ Process Explorer running during install.

By: Keter

Keter — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:42:39 +0000

Works well for removing small blemishes. Not so great for removing large areas or items on complex backgrounds – in those cases it looks more like the result of using the smudge tool in Photoshop. It may be possible to get better results when removing large objects by removing them in sections.

One concern: after activation, there remains a “enter registration key” item in the Help menu, which makes me think this is going to expire.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:14:07 +0000

I do not understand why so many think this is a great program.It is good at what it does while only doing one thing.

Very old tech and should be updated.

Good at one thing is not the way to go

By: Aj

Aj — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:12:45 +0000

An excellent program. I downloaded it on the previous hosting which was the same version and it is great if you want to remove watermarks o black dots due to dirt on your cameras cmos sensor and if basically have something not too big to get rid off…..a building on the horizon no prob a building being the only thing in the photo may be a prob…. though i suggest you select small areas at a time or it was lag like crazy but it does a great job…..double thumbs up on here and one on the prev upload

By: w2wScribe

w2wScribe — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:09:41 +0000

My friend Billie Jean takes a lot of pics and is learning how to compose them. I use a good bit of “fix-it” software to edit unwanted parts of otherwise good shots. Image Mender is one of those I downloaded from here to her PC and she found it both easy to use and instructive, as she is becoming more aware of the initial image composition process. It works fine on XP and Vista. The “repair process take a while on large areas but, it can be easily manipulated into doing what you need done. It’s not yet perfect. Anybody know of a software offering that is? All are works in progress. Thanks Phibit and Team GOTD!

By: w2wScribe

w2wScribe — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:59:44 +0000

#14 Portable HDD installs. Having an external HDD attached by USB to your full laptop will allow a registered GAOT program to run just as if it was on the internal drive. The same could be said for a dedicated flash drive. It may not be “portable” as the registry entries will be for the laptop to which the download is registered but, the local machine will always have the correct values.

By: David

David — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:58:11 +0000

I try to edit a single jpeg (1900 * 1200) to remove a few words in the corner, and it take 3 minutes, for to not even get it right. leaving bits of words in place of others (it now had 4 ™ icons). A second attempt, took only two minutes, but was still messy. Photoshop 7.0, 30 seconds with the clone stamp, cleaner.

xp pro sp3, 1gb ram, dual 1.66 ghz processor. time taken for this program = insane.