Zoner Photo Studio leads you step-by-step through the process of managing and working with your digital photos.Comments on:

By: Alernative

Alernative — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:05:12 +0000

This GoTd matches perfect together with:
-) GIMP:
http://www.pcfreunde.de/download/d8563/gimp/43638-Yk79J8nGn7/
An excellent free Software for editing photos or pictures :)

-) Fast Stone Imageviewer – the best Image Viewer I know – its free available too:
http://www.pcfreunde.de/download/d16686/faststone-image-viewer/43638-Y3UmsRA4JC/

Chears, and keep on going! =D

By: Johnny Salazar

Johnny Salazar — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:20:27 +0000

I never received the e-mail containing the activation code

By: Spiritwolf

Spiritwolf — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:48:41 +0000

There are a multitude of freeware image and graphics applications available on the net. Here are just a few resources.

Free Digital Camera Enhancer=quick and easy photo editor
Also several other nice quick and easy freeware photo editing apps available here
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/enhancer.htm

These two are complex editors with a multitude of features, add-ons etc….Gimp is often favorably compared to photoshop.
http://www.getpaint.net/
http://www.gimp.org/

Two links that have good lists of a wide variety of graphics & image freeware available
http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/imagephotoediting.shtml
http://www.photo-freeware.net/

By: Spiritwolf

Spiritwolf — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:58:51 +0000

I always hate it when giveaway program developers want you to give them your email address so they can bombard you with ads and other crap mail, sell your email to other advertisers, etc, and otherwise contribute to the already overwhelming load of junk mail that makes me hate even using email. If a giveaway is good, if it interests me enough, if the developer has good product info, help, tutorials, etc and if they also have a good active forum (styopkin is a good example, with a good giveaway and active forum that I joined because I was able to both give and get useful info on it) I’m likely to get involved anyway.
In other words, instead of using registration to force people to give their email addresses….make them WANT to become actively involved, make them WANT to keep coming back. The results of making people WANT to come back or get involved will be much more productive than the result of forcing ppl to give out their email addresses.

By: Ann J.

Ann J. — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:20:41 +0000

I installed this and have no idea what version it is. According to the help tab, it’s Zoner Photo Studio 11, but I have no idea if that’s “Pro,” “Home” “Xpress,” etc. Someone needs to get this straightened out!

Even as a backdoor sales gimmick using GAOTD to front it, how can anyone even tell what the deal is with this?

Thanks to Eirk at Zoner software for admitting in the comments above that this IS A SALES GIMMICK! However, no comments have been allowed posted for the past 12 hours, so who knows what was posted later today regarding this. I think someone fell asleep.

If GAOTD is now a DIRECT backdoor sales tool, I’ll BUZZ OFF. My understanding is the Giveaways are for us to evaluate and if we like them, we tell others and they buy what we get. I’ve already sent recommendations that resulted in many sales for past GAOTD offerings. But as I said, if this is the new strategy, I’m outahere.

By: 98bones

98bones — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:57:58 +0000

I have Photoshop and have used it quite extensively so the editing part of this is kind of useless for me but that’s not the point, I’m interested in the publishing side of things and that’s where I think this should be judged. People shooting it down because it doesn’t measure up to other editing programs aren’t thinking it through. I’ll decide whether it serves a purpose for me after playing with the publishing aspect for a while. Even if it isn’t right for me I appreciate the freebie. Cmon people, can’t you appreciate a free program as long as it’s not ripping your HD to shreds or leaving 10mb worth of malware behind? If it doesn’t work as you’d like don’t use it, easy as that. Thanks to Erik for standing by the product and writing responses and not artificially inflating the ‘thumbs ups’ as it seems a few companies have done recently (or maybe I’m paranoid). I also fully respect your decision to offer a limited version of the expanded program, a sound way to promote it. All in all looks like a pretty good prog for what it’s supposed to do.

By: Tina

Tina — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:41:34 +0000

I’m a *serious* Photoshop user, so I’m passing on this one. I just wanted to chime in to say that it’s awesome to see a response made here by the developer. That is something we don’t often see, and it’s something I’d like to see more of!

By: DDS

DDS — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:44:13 +0000

Really decent looking software. It’s nice to see decent software offered here, on GAOTD. Too bad that after trial period, this version will revert to a very limited version (more like a demo version without time limitation than a full version). I give it a thumbs down for that.

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:32:28 +0000

I would also like to add my thank’s to EriK for coming on the forum to answer questions.
I have been back and played more with the program and it is certainly fun and very quick to respond and I am sure that the more I play around with it the more I will be able to do with it.
I love the way you can adjust the perspective and also the morphing mesh features.
It is nothing like the Paintshop pro I use but in a way that is a good thing this is especially good for photo correction useful if you are an amateur photographer like me.
I would like to say one thing though….I thought this forum was to test the programs on offer and send our results and opinions through not constantly moan about the product and give lists of what is free.We are all going to have our favorites and what suits one will not be right for another and I find it annoying wading through tons of messages like this.
I just want to see testers results good or bad about the specific product on offer for that day

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:09:59 +0000

What is it with so many people. Complaining that after two months it changes into a lesser version. Two months gives you time to do a lot of photo work. What do you want for nothing.

GOTD is a site that many software builders use to help promote their products. Some are very good and some are very bad but most are just avorge.

I doubt if GOTD is paying these companies for the license to offer these programs. i would believe these soft ware companies are paying GOTD to offer them and also pays for the advertising they put on the site.

GOTD is not the only place these software builders use to promote their products. There are several other places that i know of and i do not go looking for them.