Hi, towards the end of debating about faults and uses of this Program: Forgetting the whole unfortunate chapter of 'inpaint' feature (failing on expectations, AND especially Users not being able to achieve 'magic' results portrayed in, for example 'Houses of Parliament'! - here, ONLY video how it was DONE could save the bacon of Developer!?), or forgetting this feature altogether (not in paid Software thou!), and not using it in this Giveaway ----- Very useful aspect of this Program, not found in many Photo Managers(!) is - ability to DRAG image in into it's Console 'as is' straight from folders without searching for them, and couple of other useful buttons for 'instant' improvement, that is 'brightness' and 'noise remover' (making image mellow, or 'liquidised', especially when dealing with artwork/paintings), sharpening tool has (my) mixed expectations, it can add more grain and spoil photo, so only use on badly blurred pics. These could well be the modest reasons for classing this Software as handy Tool.

Thanks GOTD and Photoupz, I personally would not purchase this Software, much has to be done to persuade people otherwise and hopefully we gave this Developer enough constructive clues for 'ground improvement'?

As often as I installed the program, when I used it on a photo it left a "Photupz" watermark. In the corner it said "Buy it" I activated it in the time frame but nothing worked!

Call me paranoid, but personally, I would stay away from Photoscape because, according to the Virus Total, it contains malware.

Yea, yea, "false positives", some may say.

But I'd rather be careful, and use today's offering rather than expose myself to malware.

To me, if a program is not clean, I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole, even if it were better than all other programs.

An activation key(provided)...to a Neo icon that open to a simple interface.Made us updated our Adobe Reader/Thanks...A very nice little tool photoUpZ is,to along the sides of our other PROs photographs enhancers.ThKs... GAOTD/Team well done.

Thank you "redirecting" me to Chasys. The webpage looks professional, well arranged, decent and promising. Is the software so, as well?

The probram downloaded and I was able to run setup, but the activate did not work. This overwrote my previous version of Photoupz.

#7 Jahid I totally agree that PhotoFiltre is an awesome program with so many features.With more add-on features to download. There is a free version which you can download templates and more features for.

PhotoFiltre Studio X : The most complete with layers, animated gif, 8BF, vectorial path
http://www.photofiltre-studio.com/download-en.htm

PhotoFiltre 7 : Version (freeware) with layers but more limited than the Studio X version
http://www.photofiltre-studio.com/pf7-en.htm

PhotoFiltre 6 : Basic version (freeware) without layers
http://photofiltre.free.fr/

When mentioning alternate free software for photo editing, I'm always surprised that Chasys Draw IES is not listed. Is there a reason for that?

Can't register! activate.exe-it opens page activated successfully-even copy and paste the registry info and still "buy now" and "enter the license.
Help.

I can't see how to register it. In its Help it simply says to go to the website and click on Buy Now. Am I missing something?

Easy install and uninstall. Giovanni, are you still with us?

Show everyone the after shots at the top where the before shots are.

Uninstalled Version 1.6.3 and installed this Version 1.7.1

For the purpose of object masking and removal, GOTD can giveaway either Topaz Remask or Perfect Layers 9. Both are very high end masking software.

I would really prefer to use a program that works with science based algorithms rather than "magically" enhancing an image. All the chanting of spells gives me a headache, and sacrificing chickens, goats, etc. gets very messy and expensive; and the outcome is never as good as you'd hoped for (perhaps that explains the Windows OS issues though, there was certainly a lot of "magical" thinking for the 8.X releases as far as business' are concerned).

Science based algorithms would at least let the user decide if the technology is suitable for their application and when to use the tool for best effect. The reliability is far superior, and much less messy.

:)

PhotoScape...always free, easy for the novice, or you can do many other interesting/complex photo retouches as you delve into the program. Obviously the PhotoScape cloning tool does a far superior job than this Giveaway. The retouching I do makes this GAOTD laughable. InPaint is NOT free ($19.95) only free to try/not save. Gimp is free but the learning curve is too much for the novice who just wants a quick fix.
If you are paranoid like me...I never download from CNET or Softonic...too much malware from their sites. Try these sites for great feebies: http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/photoscape.html or http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/the_gimp.html or http://www.filehippo.com/download_photoscape/tech/ or http://www.filehippo.com/download_the_gimp/
Cheers all ;-)

Interesting little (very little!) image manipulation app that's best considered as a work-in-progress rather than a finished product. Installs oddly, doesn't automatically provide a QL or desktop shortcut. Opens with page 9 of the pdf Help document which isn't actually that helpful because the software itself doesn't perform as indicated: drawing the key-lines is a disappointingly clunky and time consuming affair where double clicking doesn't always work.

It's that clunkiness which makes Photoupz a non-contender: the developer's keyline implementation is nothing like as good as other freeware and commercialware based on the Open Source "seam painting" algorithm and is light years behind the kind of cloning tools to be found in simple versions of Photoshop.

That's a pity, because Photoupz clearly has aspirations to be more than an also-ran. There's evidence of thought and some decent engineering -- the de-noise facility, for example, is very good indeed and the sharpening tool sensibly non-aggressive -- but it's that buggy time-consuming "Inpaint guiding lines" facility which undermines everything.

Simply put: for software like this to succeed, it needs to make the defining of pixel capture areas as easy to do as the defining of an object for removal. Photoupz certainly manages the latter easily enough -- a quick swirl with the re-sizable painting brush and that's it, job done. If only the task of marking out the pixel capture area were as easily achievable.

Thanks, then, GOTD and Photoupz. Though quite promising, this software won't be ready for battle in this particular software sector until the developer abandons the current "Inpaint guiding lines" control and substitutes it with something quicker, easier, and more dependable in operation. Nice try, but in current form, sadly not a keeper.

Hi, judging by their: 'What's new in v1.7? [13/Apr/2013] - Up to 20-40% speedup for inpainting algorithm' ----- looks like they've been trying to improve that particular feature (inpainting) quite a lot, in previous few versions too. Seeing what Karl managed to achieve testing this last version - one can only conclude that the process of inpainting - even being 20-40% faster than before(?) - leaves the same old rather crude traces of objects in need of removing?? What happened to the latest Software trend of nicking that formula from someone else?..Only joking!!:) Over all doesn't encourage (me) to download, hmm.

When previous version of Photoupz was given away (March 2013) I don't remember being that massively keen on Photoupz then (although have it on my PC), folks were even joking Software's own inpaint sample photos of 'before and after' could had easily be named 'after and before' (in that order:), as it didn't seem plausible to achieve such perfect results using Photoupz alone.. I wouldn't like to dampen enthusiasm of anyone who might want to download and keep this Software, but as usual proof is in the pudding, eh?

version 1.63 was given away here 10/03/2013 and uses the same Registration info for this copy. As far as differences I could not really see any so there's no point to upgrade. This program is fairly basic but does the job. I think for a beginner it is an ideal program

Photoupz 1.7.1 the GCD file is not good, not working, so i cannot enter license key

can this be used to isolate the main image and put it on a white background ? like for product photography

The Houses of Parliament before and after example is surprisingly good! How does the program know to complete the rectangle of the lamp-post base, or the style of join between the bottom of the Big Ben tower and the rest of the building when it has so little evidence (or is it that the program is also able to copy from another photo where these aren't obscured?)

VV


So
far I have used 3 different object removal tools , I can conclude
Inpaint does this task more precisely though to make the output more
accurate I take the the assistance of some other tools.
And
for other purposes ( noise-removal,sharpening,brightening and all
other fixing ) I will always stick with the following FREEWARE
and some other LISCENSED programs
Photoscape
 ,  Hornil StylePix and
IrfanView are well known to all.  
PhotoDemon
- It's really an awsome Photo Manipulation Program (Freeware Obviously)
Apart
from these freeware I 'll take the name of two other programs which are
not freeware
 PhotoFiltre
Studio  and  Braindistrict PaintSupreme

I download this software to try it out...it's works really slow and have very limited features..Inpaint is far better then it...

Installed and registered without problems on Win7-64bit.

An intuitive interface came out with a simple tutorial. It's clear at a glance that you can understand functions for each buttons like Rotate, zoom-in, zoom-out, denoise, sharpen, etc.

So I just made an easy test with giveaway version of photo watermark software http://watermark-software.com/

You can check out the result and give me your comment.
http://www0.xup.to/exec/ximg.php?fid=21427670
http://www0.xup.to/exec/ximg.php?fid=49120513
http://www0.xup.to/exec/ximg.php?fid=33094164

To be honest, it's acceptable since there has complicated color pixel where I put the watermark on. However, I prefer to Inpaint as it has better performance.

All in all, Photoupz does what it says and is easy to use. You can choose it if you don't need more requirements.

Installed and registered without problems on a Win 8.1.3 Pro 64 bit system. The software requires .NET.

A company without name and address.
We love photos.
At Photoupz.com, we make software for easy photo improvement.
We want Photoupz to be powerful, easy to use and fun.

Well, I love photos, too. Let's see, if I have some fun.

An amazingly small program! The software has 736 KB, yes Kilo, not MEGA, the good PDF help file is 733 kb, the whole installations takes 1,69 MB. The program itself is from April 2013. After start the program takes 93 MB from my memory.

A resizable window in dark colors opens with a small tutor. There are no options to set or change. Take it as it is...

YOu load a picture, you can rotate left or right, but no fine rotate, you can denoise or sharpen the photo, but no finetuning, brighten or darken in fixed steps and the real gimmick:

get rid of tourists from your holiday images using our powerful multi-segment guiding line tool.

Believe me. On nearly all places I would like to get rid of tourists. Does this little program help me?

It depends. It depends as always from the original photo. You define an area to cut out (the unwanted tourist or mother-in-law) This is done with a marker & selectable size. You cannot define the area from which the parts to fill in are taken. This leads to unpredictable results.

Two examples:
A famous color photo from old Russia.
http://www0.xup.to/exec/ximg.php?fid=20128992
http://www0.xup.to/exec/ximg.php?fid=12648425

A not so famous test photo of a supermarket parking place. No I didn't want to get rid of a pizza, but of a car...
http://www0.xup.to/exec/ximg.php?fid=10009330
http://www0.xup.to/exec/ximg.php?fid=13060317

You can achieve better results by testing&testing&testing&testing&testing&testing&testing&testing

Hmmm, the really small .exe is the only good point.

Uninstalled via reboot.

Not to bad for the novice, although getting the subjects marked correctly takes a bit of practice. Like most of these programs, taking out to much leaves the picture looking odd. Tried removing a line of people in the background of a couple pictures and it left the bushes and trees "jumping" and repeating several times. But to get rid of smaller things like an annoying telephone pole or a couple people it works out great. Nice little add on if you don't have something like this

It doesn’t leave any traces in the Windows Registry.
Can copy it on any USB flash drive or other devices
A clean feature lineup where most of the operations can be carried out with minimal effort.
Photos can be uploaded into the working environment using the built-in browse button or “drag and drop” operations.
Remove undesired objects from images by following only two steps. Select the area that want to crop and connect the edges of objects behind the marked area for filling it in.
Zoom in out, switch to a full screen mode it a better focus, delete the current image, undo or redo your actions, as well as resize the picture.
The program comes packed with several handy parameters designed to apply denoising and sharpening effects, as well as brighten or darken the images. I noticed that Photoupz carries out a task pretty quickly and without errors.
It is quite friendly with system resources, so the overall performance of the computer is not hampered.
Sum things up, it offers a handy set of features for helping remove objects from images and apply several editing operations. The easy-to-configure parameters make it an ideal app for rookies and professionals alike.

Alternative Solutions:
Fotor Photo Retoucing
Photoshop Tutorial

Takes longer than inpaint.

If you have inpaint then keep it as this is a long winded copy.

3/10