Thanks Sigrid and Happy Holidays!

It needs a 64-bit Windows

walt, if you request a new password then you are already in trouble, because it will never work with your Creative account, that is registered to your serial number. Password changes are for people who don't have live subscriptions. If you got the Creative license offered here, you have.

Log out of whatever account you invented for yourself, and log in with your billing email / serial number as login / password.

hamstergirl4444, Okay, now it's even worse - I can't even uninstall this thing. It's not listed on the Control Panel, and when I go to the folder where the app is installed, and click on "Uninstall PhotoDonut", I get a "not here, want to browse for it" msg. *sigh*...why do I do this to myself, lol.

hamstergirl4444,
I used Iobit Uninstaller. The program was in its list and I uninstalled it easily.

Wings, you can get your Mac installer from here:

http://photodonut.com/free-download/

Jack Kerr, looks like this comment section has a few glitches ... Your comments are timestamped with "6 hours ago" and they just arrived here.

consuella, you compare oranges to apples. Paint.net is a paint program and PhotoDonut is an effect program. I would be seriously surprised if Paint.net had more features in that department :)

Bela Biro,

Wroooooong.

Paint.Net has a plethora of effects and terrific free plugins, developed by the members of their team.

No rentalware.

mikeyc, actually it's www.getpaint.net

walt, Thank you so much :)

Not really because Creative is not for sale normally, but it is simple.

PD Free: use the free styles (and buy paid packs if you want)
PD Premium: use all styles for free (including paid stuff)
PD Creative: use the pro features (create styles, paint by hand, batch processing), but no free access to the paid content
PD Pro: pro features + all content

Jack, that has nothing to do with your machine. Just follow the instructions. You are not supposed to create an ad-hoc account and the enter your serial. Your account is already created for you and it can be entered by using your email and serial number as login/password. So just log out of whatever account you invented and log in with the proper credentials that are tied to your Creative account.

beans, go to Settings (cogwheel icon), select Plugin Installer, select your Photoshop installation, then click Install plugin into the selected application.

noniboy, if you have another video card in your machine, try to launch the program with that. A user successfully did it, scroll down for his comment.

If it is the only chip in your machine and Intel does not have a new driver for that, then PhotoDonut is unfortunately not compatible with your machine.

JMJ,

Premium is for free shop access, Creative is for advanced program features. They just happen to have the same price.

The Pro subscription has both: advanced features + free shop access.

The Creative subscription is a promo license type, normally not sold as an in-app purchase.

We offer the Premium subscription at a discounted price today because it complements Creative nicely. The two together will give you the same advantages as a Pro subscription!

The Premium cart link contains a pre-configured coupon, as displayed in the price column ($59 - $41.30). You will see the final, discounted price at checkout (when you can still decide to cancel your purchase).

Paul, this was probably just a delay in your license registration. It should work now.

(Sorry for the late response if you really sent it 8 hours ago, as the timestamp shows. It just popped up among the messages.)

Larry,

As described in the readme file (and also on the login screen of PhotoDonut), please LOG IN with your billing email and serial number as login/password. Your account already exists, you just have to log in.

If you created an ad-hoc account for yourself, please log-out from that. The above-mentioned email+serial makes your account a valid Creative license.

phil, the cart page DOES NOT ask for credit card details, unless you messed up something, e.g. removed the coupon or added another product to the cart. Your order total must be $0.0, so no need to pay anything.

Or maybe you clicked the PREMIUM button, wich is not in giveaway, the CREATIVE license is.

You should try to update your video driver. If it still won't work, then, unfortunately, PhotoDonut is not compatible with your video card.

Bela Biro, yeah, but i have the latest Intel HD Graphics 3000 version.
I found that right click run with NVIDIA processor works. Thanks!

ew, very useful info, thanks :)

adif, "64 bit only" was clearly mentioned in the upper right corner of this page, under System Requirements.

Dear adif and all our daily users,
we would kindly ask you to read the provided program description!

This includes system requirements (to make sure the program really runs on your computer), the whole program description (to see the last line that always tells if there is a 1 year or some other license kind) and follow the steps provided in readme file (it is placed there for you and prepared by us manually every time).

Following these simple rules would eliminate a huge amount of the problems, misunderstanding and complaints. You'll have the idea what you install and how it is supposed to be registered right and won't find any unpleasant surprise at the end! You'll be ready to provide the developer and others with your ideas as to the program functions and usefulness as your experience won't be spoiled by other things.

Every day we try our best to prepare the offers for you and all we ask is just read before you act (well, maybe be a little kinder to other users also, but that's another story :)

Let's enjoy using this site together and have the great time getting ready for Christmas!
GOTD team

Bela Biro, You are surly correct but a clever installation check OS before hand. and part of this GOTD reviews are such comments.

adif, thanks, we will check the install builder whether there is such a pre-check-OS option. Honestly, I thought is was something by default.

No, we never tested it on 32-bit machines, because the requirements state that it needs a 64-bit machine :)

Helen, After all these years, finally, a name of a member of the GOTD team! My suggestion re activating products, is simply provide a license/key/serial up-front rather than using wrappers and other means employed. Other giveaway sites do that, or just email the info.

And @Bela Biro, I can appreciate some vendors wanting an intervening step to ensure we visit their site. Yet despite very clear install instructions (kudos), Xycod messes things up with a silly, "After checkout, please give it 10-15 minutes to propagate your license..."

Well, it's been ~45 minutes for me, nearing 3am EST. I'm canceling the Login and expect it'll be okay to login much later on the 23rd and have it accept my email and serial???

And to all a goodnight...