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<title><![CDATA[By: CB]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/plato-portrait-maker/#comment-104039</link>
<description><![CDATA[I also got 

"Error code 14001.				
This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect.  Reinstalling the application may fix this problem."

Do meet the listed system requirements.  Uninstalled, re download and reinstall also gave the error

It intalls, goes into start menu
But WONT RUN]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:49:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: graylox]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/plato-portrait-maker/#comment-104038</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have to vent my anger :(
As I like graphical software, especially when it is fast and down-to-earth, I was glad to find one today as GOTD. But what a disappointment:
The product Plato presents here - or should I say: dares to present - is completely unacceptable.
There are too many bugs to list them here, lots are already specified by other users; and I'm quite sure that I would find several more if I got the chance to use this programme longer then some minutes until it crashes again.
Besides the malfunctions, the design elements seem to be picked up somewhere in the net, some have even watermarks.(Does Disney know that Plato is selling their images?)
The Help link and the FAQ are misleading. There is only the website with the blurb of this tool and reference to Plato's converter software.
Plato is not new in the international software business, but they still don't have the ability to create a half-decent, understandable and informative website.  

The idea for this programme is not bad (and not new). It could be a cute toy for kids and their childish grandma. There are several useful features - if they would work.
This product is in an early development stage. Trying to sell it... well if I had paid for it, I'd call it a rip-off.
graylox]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:58:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Webman]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/plato-portrait-maker/#comment-104037</link>
<description><![CDATA[I would suggest this free online photo framer from Loonapix instead, easy to use, real cool frames, text insertion, email to friends option and no loss of quality. The small save link is somewhere at middle-bottom. Enjoy it !

http://www.loonapix.com/framer]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:35:34 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: FlamingoNut]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/plato-portrait-maker/#comment-104036</link>
<description><![CDATA[Not very impressed with this software.  I love to make my own cutesy images and holiday cards or images, but the first wintery attempt came out blurry, which my image was not.  I saved it as a jpg.  Seems a bit too childish for my needs; the frames are too cartoony for my taste.  I did have trouble unzipping after downloading (kept getting no files found), but by the 4th download it finally worked, on XP SP3. Pretty much is user friendly,  I especially didn't like the McAfee Security Scan software that was installed without warning.  Uninstalling...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:44:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Gman]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/plato-portrait-maker/#comment-104035</link>
<description><![CDATA[#1 Thanks for the free alternative, a very nice program, also offers additional features such as making a calendar, collage, and greeting cards. A little bit of directions to follow, but I did it and you end up with a fully registered full version and your info is stored on the ashampoo site.

Thanks for the effort GAOTD, I usually like most of the give aways offered here, but today's just doesn't have the features or capabilities, especially for the price.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:43:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: rsmik]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/plato-portrait-maker/#comment-104034</link>
<description><![CDATA[#9, you can add a photo using the "add single photo" button on the main screen, but that just adds to your point about the program being less than intuitive. 

Plato Portrait Maker has a lot of nice options and effects, but it is too hard to work with and the interface is, as noted, unintuitive, as well as just plain ugly and too small. The "add decoration" page is pretty useless, since the decoration always is inserted on the lower left corner of the picture with no way to move it. I didn't even bother trying to print anything and saw no way to save the end result as anything useable. However, you can use any photo editing program to import the frame and effect graphics that come with this program.  

Bottom line, great idea, poor execution, needs a LOT more work before Plato can ask for a purchase price.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:37:54 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: diana]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/plato-portrait-maker/#comment-104033</link>
<description><![CDATA[Plato Portrait Maker is really not very useful at all to me. The output shown in their own screen shot demonstrates the poor quality, just look at the white jaggies in the anti-aliasing inside the frame.

If you let it down-size a large photo to use in a project, be prepared for a blurry photo in the final output.  I do not understand why it outputs two pages, numbered page 1 of 0, and page 2 of 0, for one project in either landscape or portrait mode when either way it will fit on one page.

The software has "Shotting-delaying" as an option.  Software developer, Shooting Delay is probably a better description for that option. If you are presenting software to an English audience, try hiring someone that reads and writes English AND has decent spelling skills to proof read your web site and your software interface.  I'm not saying I'm correct all the time, but then again I'm not trying to sell anything.

The images used to create a project are sized ok for ipod or small email attachments but print output is awful. At small sticker size, details in the photo, frames or background is lost. Printing those small size images used to create the project any larger is so blurry it is awful.

What you get with the software:
88 "BackGround" image files, all 320x240 pixels, includes hearts and flowers, lightning, landscapes &amp; buildings, animals, and a lot of cartoons or childish themes.

16 "BaseMap" image files, all 1024 x768 pixels, to use behind your project include landscape, foliage and floral subjects.  I don't know why it shows the tiny "BackGround" images to choose from by default instead of the larger BaseMap images when you choose to save your "portrait" as an image.

43 "Emotion" clipart type files, all 64 pixels square.

266 Frame files of various designs including holidays, all 320x240 pixels.

35 Mask files, all 320x 240 pixels.

16 Portrait files, all 320x240 sample images of actors, singers and so on.

If you change the path to a new folder via the configuration option or seek an image to use in a folder outside the default folders, it gets lost on where to get the files it normally uses. I was constantly having to drill back down to the software folder to get to these pre-configured locations for frames or backgrounds etc.  It failed to show me subfolders in the Windows standard "My Pictures" folder - showing only thumbnails in the root of this folder without any navigation buttons.  Really awful file handling.

I've spent too much time on this poorly written software already.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:06:06 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Kasish]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/plato-portrait-maker/#comment-104032</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ashampoo photo editor 6 outdoes this piec of junk by miles.Anybody who has ASH6, and downloaded this will know exately what i am talking about.ASH6 isfar more professional, its just all round far better value in all respects.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:46:10 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Donna]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/plato-portrait-maker/#comment-104031</link>
<description><![CDATA[Has anyone figured out how to get this to print? Or is there anyone that has been able to print? I got the same error that Ashraf did. Thanks for the great reviews Ashraf.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:28:34 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donna]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Clicky Girl]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/plato-portrait-maker/#comment-104028</link>
<description><![CDATA[this really looks like something developped in a former eastblock country like Roumania, Bulgary or so, seen those backward templates they offer...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:41:11 -0500</pubDate>
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