Software designed to make it easier for people to rip off other people's photographs, remove their watermarks/copyright info & infringe their copyright. Great.

When i click on the "Get free activation key" nothing happens...

I'm hoping that this software can remove reflections in a photo. I was taking some photos from a tourist coach and got reflections in the window at the time. If it does then It might be another use for this program.

Tried two different places in the same photo. Worked very well in one (object removed was surrounded by a single similar background), not good in the other (object removed covered 2 different kinds of backgrounds).

For the removal that worked well, the background was a rough, random texture (blue). It was "re-built" to cover the area I removed (bright pink), and the final picture would not look odd or retouched unless you know exactly what used to be there. I'm impressed! Thanks SoftOrbits and GOTD. And contrary to a lot of the comments, my GOTD version of another SoftOrbits product (Sketch Drawer) is still registered and works fine.

Not sure why people are reporting problems about download and activation.
Downloaded in seconds - activation key within seconds.

It is also possible to highlight the area to remove unwanted items by various methods - works quite well.

Kernel32.dll error.....it failed to complete

This software over-promises and under-delivers... by a huge margin. I've tried several versions, including 9.1, and they all are extremely difficult to use, offer very limited control of areas to be removed or "cloned", and do a poor job of matching unless the subject areas are neatly separated and extremely high in contrast, like a bright blue sky and a distant horizon. If you use a mouse, as opposed to a pen, the selection process and the results are even worse. Additionally, the rendering times are super slow.

What makes downloading and installing this software WORSE than just a total waste of time is the fact that, when it mysteriously "unregisters" itself... which every version I've tried eventually does... the developer, EUGENE USTINENKOV, pretends not to know that is a recurring problem with his products and basically tells you to 'get stuffed'.

There are many, better performing and better supported applications than this.

Software makes poor selection of areas from which to clone. You cannot control the area from which it is cloning. The results are a bizarre looking "correction". It is also very slow. Really is useless unless the developer will provide the user with control over the area from which it will clone to cover up the undesirable object. Thanks, but no thanks. Will uninstall the program.

Well, getting license was a flop:

"This page isn’t working
www.softorbits.com is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500"

The only reason to remove a watermark is to steal an image and claim it as your own. Because of that, I believe software of this type should be illegal! Watermarks are there for a reason and meant to protect the integrity of the image for both the user and the artist. It is so disheartening how easily ethics get perverted on the internet when people are sitting behind a screen thinking no one is watching.

I'll stop now.

As a photographer myself I object to these types of programs which can be used to breach the copyright of my images.....but at least this free offering gives me the chance to test & choose the watermarking options which are most likely to be impossible to remove using this program without making the images commercially useless to otgers

Can this software remove emoji image or animal mark from a photo?

Getting damm fed up with waiting for a solution to my problem here. How many more street signs must i click on

I've used this software a few times in the past to remove water marks and such. It worked quite good.

Never mind about activation codes which are a matter of common sense is the software any good or not?

when i click on the "Get free activation key" the page opens and it says Offer is expired on the SoftOrbits page

Tried the programme. I was not impressed by the results.

You mark the item you want removed - then you have 4 different ways of removing it. None of them gave me results that I'd be happy with at all - you could clearly see where the item was removed. If there were geometric shapes for example the results were horrible as it would then distort those shapes. There is nothing built-in to the software that can recognise a shape and attempt to keep the shape intact.

There are additional tools - a smudge brush, a concealer brush, an undo brush. You would be able to fix the results to some extent using these tools. The smudge brush would be useful if you want to touch-up photos the way they do in magazines - to look like a plastic doll rather than a person - but it will do that well.
The undo brush would allow you to restore the photo, however, on areas where I'd use several brushes all the undo brush could do was restore to the original image rather than strip off the layers.

In theory this software works, but for me the amount of work involved in getting a good result afterwards would be more trouble than it's worth. Even on their website there was an example posted where they removed the people but failed to remove the people's shadows which just gave me an odd-looking result - and I'd question why they would neglect to remove the shadows. Was it lack of attention to detail? Or because the results of removing them didn't look good?


(There is more than 1 person currently using the JJ screen name here.)

OK, so how well does this program do what it claims to do ??

I had a problem with previous activation emails not being sent or so I thought, in my own stupidity I had never checked the SPAM folder, the email was there!

I have ver 9.0 and am happy with it. What's in 9.1 that isn't in 9.0 --- wondering if it's worth downloading newer version???

SoftOrbis, hummmm! pass. Any of their software sends and communicate with home base in the background and they use the win registry as a scratch pad.

When you click on the button "get free activation code" during the setup process - a new web page pops up where you enter your email address (step 1), first and last name, and location (Step 2) - then the activation code shows up ON SCREEN (step 3) where you COPY & PASTE the code from the WEB PAGE to the Key Input Window - then press Activate to continue the installation process.

NOTE - when there is NO REGISTRATION / ACTIVATION CODE in the Read-me file and you have to go to a web-page to access and retrieve it and the code shows up on the web-page / I like to COPY & PASTE the code to a Seperate WORD Document listing GAOTD Programs and their respective key codes.

Is this program portable ?

I had the same problem with not having an activation code sent. Then I noticed that there was a dot at the end om my email address, and when I sent again without the dot I got the code.
Perhaps this will help you getting your code?

A lot of comments here about not receiving the email. I got mine instantly so its working for some of us. Just a FYI

Thanks for the software!

When I clicked in get a license, SoftOrbits's link sais that an email was sent, but I never received the email. I tried 3 times and no email in my account with the serial code.

How long do I need to be leaving this thing hang on for download before you send the activation code? I've tried 3 different emails, checked spam folders, etc. If I don't get it within the hour, DELETE

I cannot download the activation code