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<title><![CDATA[By: Digital Dig]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zoner-photo-studio-14/#comment-154996</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have been using free and paid for software for semi-pro editing for years. It is now apparent that Zoner will become my main option (except for the work needed with layers and a few other specialty items. Nothing was adequate to replace Picasa for management till now - with Zoner. My work flow is now fast and adequate. Thanks Zoner and GAOTD.

I attempted to register for Zonearama but did not take. Shall I assume that to be available only for the paid version?

If my present success continues I intend to purchase Pro at some point.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:23:57 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: skippy]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zoner-photo-studio-14/#comment-154995</link>
<description><![CDATA[I've been playing with this for only about 24 hours now, but so far, I think this is a GREAT piece of software.
I tried Lightroom, but it was more powerful - and too expensive - for what I need.  Zoner Photo Studio fills in the spot right below Lightroom.  It does what I need, and it does it fast.
Thanks for offering this on GAOTD, Zoner!  I'll make sure to tell my friends about Zoner software.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:43:37 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: compu2]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zoner-photo-studio-14/#comment-154994</link>
<description><![CDATA[After the event, I know, but I feel I have to put on record my appreciation of the input throughout the giveaway by Zoner Software support. Contrary to the comment of one person about feeling "stalked", it is nice to see a software developer giving timely and informative replies and suggestions.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:36:16 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Zoner Software Support 2]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zoner-photo-studio-14/#comment-154993</link>
<description><![CDATA[<B> Hi Carol (#145)</B>

I remember you from yesterday if you are the same Carol.:-)  Of the more than 1400 people to download and install the software yesterday only four (4) have reported this problem. It leads me to believe there is a setting or program within your system which is causing this error code. So you know what that means...

Yup, We are going to do our best to get it working for you but I will need a little more information. Please go to http://www.zoner.com and use our support tab to submit a trouble ticket. Just cut and paste your message into the body and I will get the ticket. This method allows us to get the basics of your machine (Nothing Private) just processor, memory, OS, etc.

You are covered as far as getting a working copy of Zoner Photo Studio because you have friends in high places...Okay, okay, well I may not be in a high place but I do work at Zoner so we will take care of you and the three others with your error code.

Troy]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:18:23 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: dbur]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zoner-photo-studio-14/#comment-154992</link>
<description><![CDATA[After using it a bit two more comments:  one plus, one minus.

Plus,  as a viewer it's way faster than PSE.  I like that.

Minus, installing it did not give me the option to have it hijack all my file types or not.  It just went ahead and did it.  I don't like that.

Thanks to Zoner for watching and responding so well to the questions.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:35:35 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Carol]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zoner-photo-studio-14/#comment-154991</link>
<description><![CDATA[Downloaded and installed this yesterday. I made it the default app for viewing photos, but when I click on a photo (or try to open the app from the start menu or desktop shortcut) I receive the following message: Zps.exe Application Error: The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000022). Click "OK" to terminate." I tried rebooting the computer with the same results. I was considering uninstalling and re-installing but was afraid to do so since the 24 hours for the giveaway has passed. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, and looking forward to checking out this app!]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:34:58 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: cryptq1]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zoner-photo-studio-14/#comment-154990</link>
<description><![CDATA[Thank you to Zoner support for the reply to my query. I downloaded this version and I must say that I like it very much. The one 'feature' from the previous versions that irritated me endlessly and prevented me from considering purchasing this seems to have been rectified. My settings, on WinXP, is to auto hide the taskbar. With previous versions I had to minimize Zoner to be able to get access to the taskbar, with this version it works as expected and I don't have to minimize to get to the taskbar. Perhaps there is/was a setting in the previous versions to override the default but I eventually gave up trying to find it. This small change has now made Zoner my number one choice when I eventually decide to buy proper photo editing software. First have to improve my photography skills to warrant the expense :-)]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:40:54 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Zoner Software Support]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zoner-photo-studio-14/#comment-154989</link>
<description><![CDATA[OK! I'm happy to give answers to the last round of questions:

hipockets (#133): See the reply to compu2 and similar queries in my last post for some clarification on this.

debbygray (#136) and Howard (#148): Definitely come to us with this on our support line — zonercom’s support@ address. We want to help you out!

Alok (#139):  (1) This normally works exactly as you expected of the program. The one common exception we’ve run into is when people using a NAS router, which is something that we want to solve but haven’t found a way yet. But perhaps you’ve uncovered a different kind of problem then the NAS one — we can explore this in Support if you’d like. (2) For good or ill, we designed it to work as you described. I’ll add though that besides using the Rating command in the Information menu, you can also batch-rate using the CTRL+SHIFT+(number) shortcut key. (3) You can use something strongly resembling a calendar view at present! Switch the Navigator pane to “Catalog” for this. (4) This should normally be instant just as you expect, except in the case of unusually large files or disks with slow access speeds. Or a bug, which we can, once again, try to find together.


We will be watching this page for about a half-day more. After that (and of course before it too), please write our support line and we will be very happy to help you out!]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:24:23 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Zoner Software Support]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zoner-photo-studio-14/#comment-154988</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hi all! 

Whew, I wish we had somebody sitting in the Japan time zone last night to catch all your evening questions! I hope that all the people addressed below do come back to catch these replies, and thank you for your patience with them.

To the numerous people who have given reviews, positive and negative: we appreciate the discussion and commentary! (Yes, even the negative commentary — there can’t be an honest discussion without it, and a dishonest discussion isn’t worth having.) The only reason we’re not responding to reviews, outside of questions/problem reports they contain, is that we’re already being spammy enough as it is without that. I will make one exception though and point out that, while this edition is lighter than PRO, it is also a lot beefier than our real light edition, Zoner Photo Studio FREE. On to the replies:

dbur (#99), RichU(#105), GretaG (#119): Because 64-bit technology is still rather new, a few features cannot be supported in a 64-bit system. (Probably the most-relevant feature is integration with Google Earth.) While we automatically install the 64-bit version on 64-bit systems, the 32-bit version is also provided so that there is still a way for you to use those 32-bit-only features.

dbur (#100): I believe you mean 16-bit pictures? The HOME edition doesn’t support 16-bit; it does open 16-bit pictures, but at 8-bit depth. The PRO edition does support 16-bit, and this support reaches out to practically all “corners” of the program.

dbur (#101): Licenses are for one computer only, but can be extended to a household with the license extension pack. However, this pack isn’t offerred alongside the Giveaway’s 50% off offer. Maybe it should have been (but I’m overstepping my bounds here), but it is not — I regret that we cannot help out here.

RichU (#105): You are free to use version 13 and 14 alongside each other with no problems of any kind. However, outside of the fact that you may be more familiar with the layout of a few dialogs that have changed, there is no special reason to keep on using version 13. 

compu2 (#110), RuthMarie (#111), JRose (#124): In the license dialog you CAN enter a license code (to upgrade to PRO), but as a user of the Giveaway you do not NEED to enter a license code. If Zoner Photo Studo required a license code from you it would warn you on startup and block you out without a code after the trial period — that’s what the 30-day trial version does. 

The short answer: YES, this is the HOME Edition. It is pre-activated to HOME when you install the Giveaway, and you don’t need to take any special steps.

All that said, we’ll take a look at handling license texts and dialogs for key-free editions (actually I think Giveaway is our only one for now!) for version 15, as you and many people above you have made it clear we can communicate this better — thank you!

gerry (#115), tritsch (#117), bri (#120), xxooss(#130): Let’s take a closer look at this via our helpdesk — please write in to zoner dot com’s “support@” with what you wrote above.

Jonvier (#123): The “Log In” button is for login to Zoner Software’s web photo gallery service, Zonerama. You should be able to create an account from inside the program; in other words, it should not be acting up like that. But if it doesn’t work and if you don’t want to delve together with us into trying to pinpoint the bug (which we would prefer but we understand is not your responsibility), you can start an account directly through the Zonerama website — www.zonerama.com.

Vishwanath (#124): You are not alone in wanting a lighter interface. However, back when we had a lighter interface, which we did for years, there were constant calls for a more professional, darker interface. (A lot of pros tend to like a dark interface so that their eyes fall first on the photos, not the controls.) In any case, we do offer a couple of other color schemes — check out comment #19.

Weexie (#126): The installer is about 90 MB in size, after installation to disk Zoner Photo Studio takes up 330 MB. We’re not sure what is meant here by leftover files; our uninstallers delete everything that was put on your computer by Zoner Photo Studio as long as you use the appropriate options during uninstall. (We give the option to not delete things like albums from our Albums feature since people may want to uninstall an old version, install a new version, and keep their Albums from the old version.)

ejs (#129): Just tested this on Vista. Windows’ Recent Items didn’t record the folders I visited, but if I opened pictures by double-clicking them in Windows Explorer, they were added to Recent Items. The program itself always opens back up to the last folder you visited unless you have turned on the fnord “Always Start the Browser in this Folder:” option in the Preferences. The Catalog feature, if you turn it on, will catalog any locations you visit unless you add them to “Don’t include these folders” in the Catalog section of the Preferences.

Another round of answers coming up in a second post... don’t want to keep people waiting for these answers while I fire off the rest.

Cheers to all,

Erik (Zoner Tech Support 1)]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:55:56 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: howard]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zoner-photo-studio-14/#comment-154987</link>
<description><![CDATA[Very Bad....  

I tried to install this yesterday afternoon and it did not seem to run the installer, but I get the activate window and Success tab in my browser.

Like 115, I had an error message after about 5 min saying a file was already in use by another process.   

After a few times, I decided to stop running it "As Admin" and switched user.  Same thing.

So I did a full reboot. Same problem.   

And I rebooted again, this time removing my Zoner 12 installation.
Same problem.  

I don't usually have problems with GAOTD downloads and activation, but this one just doesn't work.   

Since I actually uninstall a working copy of Zoner 12, I feel a little bit ripped off....  Can anyone help??]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:19:39 -0500</pubDate>
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