very good , really like this for fixing messed up pics

my image mender quit working was there a time limit on its use ???

I have miss this one, can you please re-run this softwear one more time. So that way people who would like to get it including my self can download it...........Thanks a lot.

I Dl & it installed fine on my older XP OS.
Used it on a B&W business logo that had been scanned somewhat dirty and had some smears in the white spaces, but otherwise a good scan of the original artwork. I found IM worked well, altho a bit tedious for large areas. Either wait forever for the entire area to be 'cleaned' or do it in smaller sections for faster results. I admit that I'm a bit short on RAM, so it may work faster for others. IM cleaned it up very nicely. Thanks GOTD, for a usable and user friendly product.

# 240 Fubar, My Icon was Irfan view, and it somehow came back again the next day by itself!

Thanks Gerry and Fubar for your help. However, I had already given up and gone to bed, so I didn't get the benefit of your advice and solutions until today. Sure worked well as a program. Too bad I didn't try it on my XP Laptop....it might have worked. I just uninstalled it before reading your comments. MAybe they will fix it to overcome Vista Home problems and offer it again. (all other downloads have worked fine for me in the past)

it's easy to use and stabilization very better.

I wonder if this is the most thumbs up ever received for a giveaway.

#201, Tom, #237, Habina, quit blaming Microsoft's inability to write a single line of functioning code on applications. Microsoft was founded by a drop-out who apparently never completed CompSci 101 and it shows in everything they produce. Every single version of Windows preceding Vista (at least, I haven't seen the problem in Vista yet) has a problem with various icon caches getting corrupted. Delete them and let Windows rebuild them (look it up on the Internet).

I love it, i'm addicted to it. Its excellent, and so simple.

Quote: #201,

Final note, I like the program but do not like that they STOLE their icon from Microsoft InfoPath 2007. If you don’t believe me, take a look…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infopath.

#201:
Tom, I know what you are getting at, because the first thing I noticed after installing the program was that the Icon for my IrfanView Thumbnails had disappeared, not the description, just the Icon.


Quote: #210,
@Tom:

You seriously must be on some drug of some sort. That article shows a different icon than this one. Also, if you are talking about the save and open icons, I’ve seem them before as released in public domain. I don’t see any stolen icons.
Comment by MASA — May 17th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
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To Masa; I think accusations are uncalled for, there is no doubt # 201 - Tom is right, why else would Icons disappear when no other action has been taken between installing the program and the Icon disappearing?


To All;

I am aware this is "the day after the event", but I would like to know if anyone else has noticed anything changing on their PC? Personally, I feel uneasy with things like this, because you don't feel in control over your own PC when things happen without ones consent, although I suppose thats a risk that comes with downloading beta? - freeware!!!

Damn,
First day I miss and I miss this little ripper. Can we please repeat this one day soon???????

I'm simply amazed by the examples given !

Thanks GAOTD :)

This program cannot open large JPEG resolution file, when I try to open such file, = blank empty page is what I get. Anybody know why.

Solid program i tried removing a watermark from an istock photo it worked well nothing thats immediately noticeable you would never know its been changed i tried removing the "iron" from an iron maiden background it did an ok job thogh i did it at a place where the colour of the pic suddenly changed so the program went and leaked a bit of the green onto the blue but not too bad but noticeable though if i was more careful i could have avoided it i think good program..

Note to Phibit Software: the Image Mender algorithms seem pretty good, but there are very serious code quality issues. Of course, computers have neither intelligence nor common sense, so there will be cases where Image Mender performs poorly, but clearly it's also capable of pretty good results. I get the impression that you're a single-person business. That's OK, but being good at algorithms and being a good coder aren't the same thing. The Internet makes it possible to collaborate with others anywhere in the world, so perhaps you could look into a business relationship with a good coder.

Here are some of the issues, which I and others have observed and mentioned (I don't have time to dig back through a couple of hundred comments to post the comment numbers and names). There are performance and UI issues while the program is active, even when it isn't doing anything. Some people have noted UI and program crashes. If I had any kind of decent digital camera, it would be useless, because it can't open typical digital photos, whether it's because of their dimensions or file size. And scanned images would be hopeless (when scanned at high resolution). The number of windows which can be open is severely limited by the total memory required by all the windows (i.e., you can have a few windows for low-resolution images, and very few for high-resolution). The code should check for and report exceptions which it can't handle. The massive compute required for large changes needs to be analyzed to determine whether a change in coding or algorithms would improve the performance.

If the code issues were fixed, the single-user price is reasonable. The commercial license is significantly over-priced. If people could use your software to perform a service, and that caused you lost sales of licensed copies to individuals, then a high commercial license cost would make sense. Neither the speed of the application nor the quality of the algorithms relative to other solutions would make it useful for those wanting to provide an image touch-up service, and other solutions are available for reasonable prices, therefor your commercial license price is much too high.

#204, Bill, I doubt this comment will clear moderation in time to be useful for today's offering, but it may help you in the future. First, check Help, About. If it doesn't indicate that the product is registered, then there was an installation issue. Incredibly bad decisions were made in the design of Vista. Vista likes to virtualize things, theoretically to prevent problems, but in practice it just creates all sorts of problems. If you have an OEM installation, there's no telling how they configured Vista. Try running Activate as an administrator. If that doesn't work, try running Setup as an administrator. You can also try setting the compatibility mode for Image Mender to run as an administrator. I didn't have to do any of those things, but my OEM may have configured Vista differently from yours.

Statistics indicate that the vast majority of GOTD users are new, with almost no "regulars". Therefor, GOTD should provide a link to the forum thread which discusses installation and registration issues at the top of each day's offering. For now, anyone having installation or registration issues should search the forum.

@204

I had the same problem, so I read the readme text:

Activate first, then run setup, not the other way round!

Response to #204: I run Vista Home too and was having the same trouble. Tried to activate and setup a dozen times, uninstalling sometimes, deleting folders sometimes, etc. The first time I ran it, Activate wouldn't connect to the web but since I've seen similar issues before I temporarily turned off my firewall (Norton) and Activate did run. But I still couldn't save files in ImageMender. Finally got it to register by running Activate, running Setup, but note that Help...About still showed it unregistered, THEN I went into my firewall configuration and rather than turning off the firewall, I added Activate.exe to the list of trusted programs and ran Activate again (i.e., after ImageMender was ALREADY installed), but now it shows registered to GiveAwayOfTheDay and lets me SAVE files! Hooray. Nice program.

This is one of the best giveaways GAOTD has offered since I've been coming here. Ease of use is a 10 out of 10. Perfect results -- an 11 out of 10 ... because I never expected the depth of detail it would CREATE, with ZERO prompting, from the job.

The following are before and after photos, and took me 8 seconds to produce (8 seconds -- wow!), from
START
http://img604.imageshack.us/content.php?page=blogpost&files=img255/4110/startkz2.jpg
to
FINISH
http://img604.imageshack.us/content.php?page=blogpost&files=img207/61/finishuv8.jpg

Click on the thumbnails to see the "depth of detail" I mentioned.

I have already bookmarked the company's URL so I can check future products. I would DEFINITELY purchase software from this company.

Sincerely,
TWNG (yeah, maybe I sound like a shill - check my comment history to see that I'm not: I am just a regular GAOTD user, bowled over by today's offer)

Thank you Tony. Yes, that did it. Should be in the instructions, though.

Wow - I have photoshop..., but this is soooooo easy to use, and an excellent job! I'm keeping this one! Thanks, GAOTD!

i mean the the fact that this program is getting rid of the crease is whats impressive lol

I have a photo of my parents taken 30 yrs ago and was stored folded.It had the film flaking off the surface and this program fixed it and im working on the big crease along the middle which is very impressive.

Great program, I usually use Paint Shop Pro for all photo correction. However, this super program is great for correcting small problems. I am impressed! Thanks for yet another great free program GOTD. I always read the comments of other people before downloading a freebie, and find they are very useful.

I'm a big photoshop user (CS3) and this little program here is a real winner. I must say. Better than the healing tool, personally.

This worked fine on my vista.
Took some embroidery patterns, some beadwork patterns, and some plastic canvas patterns and made some basic changes to them.
Nice little program for a hobbyist.

Seemed it's delightful on smaller format pics unfortunately I have waited pass 30+ mins for it to open up a 3264x2448 pic but evenually gave it up and I never did find out how that would have been >> It's a great stuff as many would like .. but it's needs more work on larger format picture.

Yes, it does work...s-l-o-w-l-y...and perhaps only on smaller images (with nothing else using much of the CPU, an AMD 4400 dual core, 2.2GHz, 3GB RAM; Image Mender was the main process keeping it near 100% busy).

But considering that this was fully automatic it wasn't too bad a result when I trid it on a small picture, although in the 25 minutes or so it took I think I could have manually used the clone tool in PaintShop Pro perhaps somewhat better.

However, when I tried it on a couple of the sample images that comes with Windows (in Sample Pictures) that were about 3262 x 2134 (e.g., the removing the sailboat in the sailboat-at-sunset picture) I waited... and waited... while other applications got very slow... and waited some more...

Finally, with the progress bar still less than 50%, after 1.5 hours, and my system barely responding (I had to wait about 5 minutes to get responses to button clicks when trying to exit Internet Explorer) I decided to give up and simply restart the machine. Even logging out of that account took a while while I waited for the system to offer to terminate other processes it thought were taking too long to unload.

As an automated solution Image Mender has promise, but I think it needs more work to be useful for the larger images that most cameras of today are likely to create.

Installed without a hitch on both WinXP Home and Vista Business.
Does a great job, takes less time than in P/shop, but but it's not a miracle worker. Faster results are obtained if photos are resized before being worked on. Bugs need ironing out..it froze a couple of times.

Here are some before and after shots:
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk147/JackieD_016/DSC_1660.jpg
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk147/JackieD_016/DSC_1660_IM.jpg

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk147/JackieD_016/DSC_3802.jpg
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk147/JackieD_016/DSC_3802IM.jpg

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk147/JackieD_016/P1100875.jpg
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk147/JackieD_016/P1100875IM.jpg

All in all very happy with today offer. Thanks!

No problem downloading, or opening. It was so easy to use I ended up doing more than just a few to test it out. Thanks!

HELP for some:
As #203 said, if you ran activation properly, you don't need a code or registration key. You can check by opening the program, select HELP and then select ABOUT. If registered it will say, "Registered to GiveawayoftheDay."

Also, if you close a photo and then later try re-mending and it doesn't work, try opening a different, exact copy of the original photo. (You did make an exact copy before you started, DIDN'T YOU???) ALWAYS have an exact copy of the original photo in reserve...this may mean that you end up making several, exact copies, if needed.

after open a bmp or jpeg or others picture,all can't select or highlight anything.just copy copy copy.

#203, what do you have against us cavemen?

Og mend! Og smile! Og like!

It's not perfect, but neither is Photoshop! Amazing how well it does it's job.

It's a keeper.

#26 Doesn’t work on Mac. Two thumbs down!

Comment by Eve — May 17th, 2008 at 4:46 am /snip


Wasnt aware it was supposed to. I thought Mac had everything already for this kind of software...

Great software! It did a very good job on most of the challenges I presented it. One thing I seem to be missing - is there any way to remove only a portion of the selected area with an eraser tool? Also, an xor filter would be very handy for seeing edges when you overlap them too far.

Thanks for the great GAOTD!

Pros
*Works with Vista Ultimate.
*Easy to install & activate.
*Very easy to use.

Cons:
*Doesn't let you pick the color you want to replace with. So at times it puts the wrong color in.

I found it works best if you pick small areas at a time. If you don't like what you see just close that window. Below it is the picture you started with.

I think it works easier than the Clone Tool in Photoshop. Though it is limited because Image Mender is automated. You pick the area you want to fix, but it picks the area it clones from.

Nice little tool. I would like to see the ability to pick where the repair color comes from.

Thanks GOTD & Phibit.

@Tom:

You seriously must be on some drug of some sort. That article shows a different icon than this one. Also, if you are talking about the save and open icons, I've seem them before as released in public domain. I don't see any stolen icons.

Best giveaway ever!!! Thank you thank thank you!!! And thanks to those of you who gave freeware alternatives, because I may need them someday.

Appending to my comment, this software edited in incredible detail. I used it on an image from Halo 3 and it was able to edit out the object I didn't want almost perfectly (the first result put a pillar in the wrong spot, but a re-edit fixed everything)

This software is awesome! It works so well and saves so much time compared to editing in Photoshop!

I do have to say that it can work really slow on some images, but that's normal for an application that takes one image (applications that do this sort of thing normally require 2 images of the subject).

It goes over my expectation of the result. I congratulate the programmer on this software. Great job!

#204- I think you may be right. I have Vista Home Premium and exactly the same things happened to me happened to you. I've been reading all the comments and it seems that whoever had XP had no problems at all with a registration key. But those with Vista Home either didn't mention anything about registration keys or did have problems. I notified Phibit about the registration key problem when I unstalled it. A popup from them came up asking me why I unstalled it. Also, please see my comment #184.

Nice, and fun! But it doesn't work well in many cases. Also, the program has crashed once. And it is missing an undo for the mend operation.
Thumb up anyway, for the idea and the ease of use.

I am running Vista Home. I downloaded the program and received 3 files. First, /I read the readme file, so I ran Activate first. IT appeared to activate fine. Then I ran install. It appeared to install fine. Then, I tried to do a little editing to an old photo to see how it works. It seemed to work fine, until I tried to save the file. It said only "REGISTERED" programs can save files. So, I clicked on "Help", and it had a link to register online and another to enter a registration key. I first clicked on register online, but it only had links to purchase or download a "TRIAL" copy. So, I went back to the Help menu and tried the link to "enter the Registration Key". It asked for a name and a registration key(which was not provided). So-o, I went back and re-read the readme file. Nothing about the registration key that it asks for was in that file. So, I deleted the directory and tried to download and install again thinking maybe I got only a partial readme file. Downloaded, Activated, ran Setup in that order. Loaded the program, opened a photo, highlighted a few spots to mend and pressed the mend arrow. All commands at the top greyed out and the program locked up. Can someone advise how to get this program to work? Has anyone with Vista Home been successful in getting it to work? Seems like a nice program if I can get it to work.
Anyone at the vendor have any ideas on why it won't work?

Cripe, people! You dont need a registration number! Just follow the instructions in the "readme.txt" file. aka...Just click the "activate.exe" file tnen "setup.exe. It works great on my XP. It removed powerlines from one picture and cracks in the road in another one. So easy, a caveman could do it!

Correction to my last comment, Inpaint [ http://teorex.com/inpaint.html ] costs $39.99, not $49.99, which is still more than this product, so my point is still the same. Sorry for the typo.

The app installed fine and works as its suppose to. It works very similar to Inpaint [ http://teorex.com/inpaint.html ], which is an app I tried before that costs $49.99, compared to this one at $19.95, so this its a pretty good deal even when its not free.

As expected, I found many images are far from seamless in their mending, especially at high resolutions. Mend at a high resolution and resize to smaller to make the image mend appear best.

Adobe Photoshop is definitely much better with its touchup tool since you can select the source of whats mended and use a soft brush, etc. But photoshop will take more time to do a good job and has a much bigger pricetag.

Final note, I like the program but do not like that they STOLE their icon from Microsoft InfoPath 2007. If you don't believe me, take a look...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infopath

I do not like thieves so I would never by this program. Sorry Phibit Software.

"It can’t magically remove stuff (in a nice way)..."


Maybe for you it wouldn't . . . for me, it did a great job. At
times, that is.

I had a photo of 16 spectators on a ledge viewing the Grand Canyon.
I wanted to remove 5 of them. So I encircled the ones I wanted
removed, and they were gone in about 6 seconds each. And the
amazing part was, you couldn't see any sign they'd ever been there.
And though the spectators were only an inch or so high, this was
accomplished on a Full-Screen (1024 X 768) photo.

On the other hand, with other photos, I sometimes had to "keep
removing" the part I wanted removed, because only a half-arse
job had been done. But in time, things got removed.

It does work more quickly with smaller photos.

I think this one's a winner. Thanks, GOTD.

To those that have d/l and activated the installed... If you're not sure if you have the registered version just go to the programs top menu open the help tab then click on "About Image Mender and on the box that opens should have the words Registered to: Giveawayoftheday...... If it does you should be fine. Ignore the buy button there. I'm thinking that's there in case you need to purchase your own license

It has been over two hours since a comment made it through moderation! How can I ever expect to get an answer to my program?

#49 I misunderstood how to use this program. I thought the selection tool works like lasso but then I was given a hint that the changes are made under the colored area. Now it works good.