Hi,
My girlfriend installed this software and she found it’s amazing…she suggest me to use it though I already have Photoshop I tried it out for her sake. I found it cool too…best for beginners…

Followed install directions in ReadMe file. Unzipped to a directory (didn't run from zip file as mentioned by @Moe's reply to @lofty above). Ran Setup, then opened PTPE, noting Trial version. Closed the program and ran Activate.reg, message saying it had been successfully entered into the registry.

Opened program and every attempt to load a supported file resulted in a popup-window "Unknown Error." Retried activate file several times, with success msg. repeated, failure and popup.

Running Windows XP, SP2. Any ideas Gurus, GAOD, or Photo Toolbox?

Installed, selected a pic, it displayed. But everything froze on my Win 7 Ultimate x64 & HAD to 3 fingers salute to get it removed - I tried {TWICE} ---> then I gave up.

Installed and Checked it out, looks like decent program, but in 2014, could not find any Batch Edit functions. Wow, so much for really standing out from the crowd of photo editors etc out there.

@#6 Giovanni

Web Of Trust has no problems with the company's web site and neither does Kaspersky. I regard Webroot as one of the poorer AVs and so do the AV test sites, but thanks for your usual list of valuable links.

I had trouble activating the software.

For some reason the reg file did not put the key in the right registry folder.
It put it in the
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\PT Photo Editor]
folder not where it should have been in the:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PT Photo Editor]
folder.

I exported the key .... edited it to remove Wow6432Node and reapplied.
Works now.
I like it.

My system is Windows 8.1 64 bit.

Harold

Too bad it won't register in Windows 7 Professional.
I've tried on 2 different computers, same sad result.
Still says Trial Version after running the registry file and re-starting the computer.
I even ran regedit to check for the key, and it's there alright.
The software just won't accept/find it.

Installed and registered without problems on Windows 7, i7, 64 bit.

This is the program I've been looking for for years! I use Photoshop and I've bought and often use Zoner for simple adjustments but there are times when I just need to make the usual adjustments (exposure, black/white points, color adjustments, etc.) along with some simple editing (noise reduction, sharpening, cloning out phone lines, etc.) without having to wrestle with the complications of Photoshop or Zoner.

PT Photo Editor is responsive and the sliders work smoothly. (With Zoner, there's a lag between moving the sliders and seeing the result in the photo which often causes me to over-adjust and have to back up the adjustment.) This program is solid and obviously well-tested. Everything is accessible on the interface. I love being able with one click to instantly see Before and After views side by side. I accidentally clicked to the side of the adjustment tools area and it disappeared but discovered the little triangles along the side which toggle the visibility on and off.

PT Photo Editor displayed, opened and had no problems with my Panasonic RAW files.

Most importantly, the program comes with an understandable and helpful Users Guide and a bunch of really nice tutorials.
http://www.photo-toolbox.com/product/photo-editor/user-guide/#TAB

Thank you GOTD and Photo-Toolbox for the wonderfully useful and well constructed program! I'll be using this program a lot.

"Full-time 16-bit processing and ...."

This is what sold me. My go-to quick editor is now FS but with 16-bit I may now switch to PT. A big difference.

I do not comment on programs here very often but felt that today's offering really needs to be 'tried' out by all you photographers out there! A wonderful little program that does a whole lot of 'stuff' very easily. I have Lightroom, Zoner 16, PSP 17 and of course my favourite of all time, Faststone Image Viewer (use it on almost every photo that I edit) but will be using PT Photo Editor a lot in the future. It REALLY does what it sets out to do very well. Go on you Pros and Amateurs alike, try it out. Most of you will keep it in your Editing Box, I know I will. Excellent program may have to buy this one.

I have been using photo imaging software before digital was popular. When I download a picture into the software it is really small. When it is enlarged it is very blurry. The are photos i have already edited and they are not blurry in the least. Whats the deal?

Before anyone seeks to draw my attention to Zoner, Photoscape, GIMP and Paintnet:

Today's software is an astonishingly good program with far, far more under the hood than seems apparent from a cursory look or quick run-through. Trashing many a rival commercial offering from mid-range producers like Ashampoo and Engelmann Media, PT Photo Editor 2.1.2 has a depth and a competence that out-does Zoner, a range of facilities that out-strips Photoscape, an ease of use that GIMP cannot match and a calibre of image management the equal of Paintnet.

Image editors are a hobby of mine so yes: I am indeed A Sad Geek. However: seeing as this computer is currently home to over $1,000sworth of Adobe CS, I do have a passing familiarity with stuff like Curves and Layers and all the other arcane words in the lexicon of this type of software application.

Today's developer really does seem to know what it's doing: an entry-level program that's perfect for novice users yet deceptively big enough to take 'em out into the far reaches of post-processing like individual RGB spectrum manipulation. Yes, there are some well-implemented friendly gimmicks of the sort found in mid-to-low cost and freeware editors -- 'Red Eye' removal being one -- but equally, there are some very powerful tools here which in performance collectively exceed by some margin the freewares mentioned at the top of this post.

So impressed have I been with PT Photo Editor 2.2 that I've actually just run it back to back with Photoshop CS, one helluva compliment to pay to the developer because comparing the donkey that is most image management software to the thoroughbred that is Photoshop CS is idiotically unfair.

But not here. PT Photo Editor 2.2 is emphatically not Adobe: it doesn't set out to be and it isn't, therefore, targeted at the graphics design section of an advertising agency's art department staffed by folks who actually had to spend at least 2 years learning how to use it. Instead, it's targeted at home users, and targeted so accurately that I'm astonished that even one thumbs down has been given against it, never mind the total of witless 'user votes' that have cropped up so far.

Verdict: this has to be one of the very best offers Giveawayoftheday has facilitated in 2014. A seemingly simple little toolbox, PT Photo Editor 2.2 actually punches far, far above its weight (and its size). A novice user who requires only an intuitive click-and-go (for example, the Image Rotate and auto-crop facility) has it instantly to hand, whilst tools of considerably greater sophistication are there aplenty for users who wish to explore a little further. What's especially commendable about Photo-Toolbox's work here is the tailoring of a succinct yet informative help page:

http://www.photo-toolbox.com/product/photo-editor/user-guide/#TAB

to the software's controls: it's the quickest and easiest journey into Adobe Land anyone will ever make, seeing as how what is under discussion there isn't the cheapo gimmickry of many another image editor but concepts and controls that are fundamental to any understanding of Photoshop and, therefore, digital image post-processing.

At a mere 6.20Mb, PT Photo Editor is as scientifically elegant a rebuttal as any I've yet seen of all the bloatware out there churned out by lazy coders in software companies large and small; at $30, a 'Best Buy' by any criteria. Offered entirely free of charge today, it has to be one of 2014's most unmissable bargains -- as indeed does the half-price offer of a mere $15 which the developer is making available until the end of this month.

Well done, Photo-Toolbox, and well done, Giveawayofheday: Christmas just came early for those quick enough to accept this gift with both hands.

@23 Ioannis "Help! Please"

Maybe this will help:
* Delete the zip from GOTD
* Clean the temp-folders etc from Windows; maybe use cCleaner
* Restart Windows
* Download the GOTD-zip again
* And then try it again.
I did not notice any contact with the Internet.

When Activate.reg is not successful applied, it is visible in the title of the program:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10366431/_GOTD/PTPhotoEditor212_20141124/NotActivated.png

Also is the activation visible by About:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10366431/_GOTD/PTPhotoEditor212_20141124/About.png

On trying to activate, I get a registry warning question "Do you really want to enter ... to the registry?" It's the first time I see such a thing.

It nevertheless activates, opens, a photo is loaded, but when I try to do anything to it, the program crashes.

Uninstalled via Revo. Note that its own uninstaller leaves some debris behind in the registry.

Help! Please... — Karl, XP-Man, Giovanni, Photo-Toolbox support, or ANY knowledgeable PC user:

Nothing else happens when I click on the Setup.exe file (unzipped, indeed) – except the hourglass, for a few seconds.

I do have some understanding of the Windows OS, and I've tried any trick on the book to get it going:
Run it as Administrator (even with elevated rights) / Turning off both (Oh, no!) Bitdefender anti-virus and firewall.

Still, no happy results. :-(
This has occurred only 2 or 3 times before in my long GOTD profitable visits, but cared less than for today's offer.

Note: Installing the Trial version it's no way to go. GOTD's "Activate.reg" hasn't had any positive influence on that one.

Please, any advanced ideas? Thanks for any deviate suggestion.

Fabulous tool, very light weight and tons of features. Supports layers ("regions"), geometric lens distortion, individually targeted color hue/saturation/luminance controls a la Lightroom, (multiple simultaneous) gradient adjustments, has an excellent noise reduction algorithm, and on and on. Its effects are subtle and extremely "fine". The development team doesn't respond directly, but your suggestions likely appear in future versions (mine did!).

Don't be deceived, as many commenters above have been. This is a very powerful, subtle tool with a very direct (=simple to use) UI that reveals more functionality the more you pay attention.

Very highly recommended, very fairly priced. I paid immediately the last time this tool was offered.

Is the discount applicable to all versions?

Hmm... nice... kinda.... However!

When you start the program the first thing it does is trying to make contact with the internet, which I thoroughly detest as being extremely unwell-behaved of any software and which I ALWAYS disallow making it necessary to unblock it later when I decide to allow such connections.

So after that the first thing I do is look for the "Settings" or "Options" menu where I expect to uncheck some 'Automatically check for updates' setting. But there do not seem to be ANY user modifiable settings in this piece of software that I can find. Really? Not even a default folder to open? Look at all the options there are in for instance Irfanview. None of those would be of use here? And it also always seems to open full-screen, which I also don't like. It can't even remember its window size and position?

Frankly with such omissions I hardly care about the other qualities this software might or might not have.

- Ben -

Hi, It's rather difficult to define this Program.. It's different. My first impression when entering into it could easily be described as that of feeling slightly.. claustrophobic, getting into something too 'boothy' for my liking (like darkroom where one has restricted movements, or.. cannot swing a proverbial cat!:), but only because it's dark and crammed with features that all require manual adjustments..So we have - slides and bars on the right, history and other things - on the left, and 'before and after' - in the middle. Traffic jam, or what!? Yes, it all has to be operated within ONE window - hence the result! That explains why it's so light in size? Perhaps.

So it might be a good little (and quite ambitious for that matter) Tool, that has not only basic photo adjustment features, but other useful (if not random) 'items' added to improve/manipulate images. I don't dispute that, BUT - it's better imho to use it for fine tuning that require time, effort, and learning curve! (in shape of help tutorials online) - rather than to expect quick, 'dramatic' results in a hurry. It has only one modest effect - vignette. In these circumstances - just as well!:)

Thanks GOTD and PT Photo Editor for this Giveaway. My only reservation regarding this Software is it's unfortunate design, sorry.

It's hard to beat Zoner Photo Studio, particularly since they have been giving away v16 Pro now that v17 has been released. And that comes with a bevy of tutorial support and a great user community.

It took me some time to embrace Zoner, and now that I have, I can't imagine using anything else apart from some of the Teorx editing tools.

Installed, a little thrown by the way this program "registered" itself & just a curiousity, are we done with the "unwrapping GCD" files or what?; anyway, This program has a very nice "drop down" from the top of the window menu, & if you can do that, why couldn't you go just ONE STEP further & include "WORDS" (or at least an OPTIONS place for us - the ones who have weak eyes & have worked with computers for 3 or more decades & would really to see something FAMILIAR, as well as, NEW. Grey-out pics, I almost didn't see them! Where is the Options Button anyways, can someone tell me please? Thanks, as before I have done a couple of pictures with the last offering & it is just coming into that time of years (colder than you what outside & you just want to sit by the fire and do things for mem'ries' sake. Anyways, Thank you for today's offering GOTD & Photo Toolbox.com B|

PhotoFiltre 7 is a complete image retouching program. It allows you to do simple or advanced
adjustments to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it.
Free, portable, small. Decription & download here : http://www.photofiltre-studio.com/pf7-en.htm

Danke für Ihre Bemühungen,Karl! I always learn with you and upvote. You are a precious guide to all softwares and appreciated by many of us here!

What can this SW do better than IrfanView or Picassa, may I ask? Thanks for replies!

Not to repeat what has already been said, this is a decent lightweight Lightroom clone. "Developing" some CR2 photos I was mostly able to do, what I wanted. Colour controls, sharpening, manual lens correction, gradient tool etc. work well. Noise reduction is quite OK even with high ISO photos. What I was missing most, was a tool to reduce chromatic aberration. Perhaps I didn't find it.

Editors and viewers like Photoscape, IrfanView, Faststone, Hornil, Paint.net and Gimp have been mentioned here. None of them offers 16-bit support, and, for example, the free version of Zoner also doesn't. (Beta Gimp 2.9 does, but it is still quite slow and clumsy, and Gimp is a different kind of program anyway. 16-bit capable open source photo editors are, for instance, LightZone, Raw Therapee and Photivo). So this is quite an important feature of this PT Editor, that wants to work "like professional", whatever that means.

This is not a photo organizer, but it should still be able to show, if not edit, the metadata, and the browser has a lot of space for improvements.

PT Photo Editor by photo-toolbox offered today and, in a previous version, on March 14th, seems to be an upgrade of Photo Toolbox by LifeSniffer offered on January 23rd, 2013 (the link there takes us now on PT Photo Editor page). Once again the mysteries of how software companies work…

It is not a basic as it might seem at first glance. With its very comprehensive set of tools, it is actually pretty good for such a light program. I especially like the well designed “regional edit “part, with which anyone with very little knowledge can process an image selectively.

I too will make this one part of my portfolio of graphics programs.

Unusual installation and registration in that it came with a REG file, so ran setup without letting it launch and then ran the Activate.reg, now I let it launch which it did as a registered program.

Opened up to one of these dreadful mud coloured interfaces so unsuitable for old eyes, but thankfully this was the only aspect of the program that I didn't like.

A pretty unique interface that takes a minute or two to get used to, but once you do it is very easy and effective in helping you manipulate your images, also any changes you make appear immediately.

The lens correction tool is really effective and allows for manipulation in a way I have not seen before, full of possibilities.

The range of changes each of the controls allows has been well thought out, for instance I could not get the sharpness tool to overdo it, little things like that that show the care taken in the programs design.

A very good piece of software for any aspiring photographers, one they should have in their toolkit, certainly going to stay in mine, but please developers create an alternative to the mud coloured interface.

This is much better than the previous version uninstalled because it didn"t support .png files. Now, it does.

This is the first GOTD I'll keep in several weeks, if not months. Kudos (and thanks) to the publisher.

Hi,
I think MOST of us on here are aware of the other well known software available but I guess for the newbies it might be useful but it would also be useful to study this software a bit more before assuming that just ANY photo software will replace it because they dont!

That is why I, and several others on here, have such offerings as Gimp, Photoscape, Faststone VIEWER, and irfanview and perhaps a few more that suit their differing needs.

This is a very nice bit of software and has many abilities (Though the latest Photoscape has included SOME of them now). Well worth downloading and trying out to see if any part of it suits you.

Mention:- If you try to upgrade your existing version you will still need to download this version from GAOTD, for the key or the new download will not be registered.

Lightweight and easy-to-use photo editor today: it has any option a good photo editor shoud have.
So you can crop and/or straighten pictures quickly, enhance their colors, modify the saturation, contrast and brightness etc...
It's even able to create a GRADIENT AREA in the pic, to apply effects gradually across the region.
Supports all popular image formats out there plus Camera RAW and Adobe DNG photos!!

The only CONS is that my terrific and almost infallible AV (Weebroot) blocked their homepage warning me that there is a high risk to be infected by a virus.

Anyway installed upon reboot (guess that the THUMBS UP will now go UP immediately....LOL!)!! ^_^


BEST FREE ALTERNATIVES

http://micranes.weebly.com/photosun-14.html
http://www.photopos.com/Photo-Pos-Pro_Photo-Editor-Key-Features.asp (AD Supported app)
http://www.pomelo.com/windows (Windows, IOS, Android)
http://hornil.com/en/products/stylepix
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pixelitor
http://www.getpaint.net
http://www.highmotionsoftware.com/products/imbatch


Merry Christmas!! ^_^

Fails to activate. Win 7, installed program, ran activate, get confirmation values were added to registry, opened program, still trial version asking for activate key. Tried restart,still trial.

In case anyone thinks I was being unfair, in my previous comment, I did download PT photo editor 2.1.2 and found it to be a very basic editor. Uninstalled it.

Considering the size and mentioned features of this program I can imagine it as a basic level photo editing tool.
All those features and much more can be obtained from a number of popular freeware photo-editing tools.

1) PHOTOSCAPE

2) FastStone Image Viewer

3) Irfanview

4) Hornil - StylePix - Free Image Editor

5) GIMP - TheGNU Image Manipulation Program ( An alternative to Adobe Photoshop claimed by some users )
and many others.

All these programs are also available as Portable version.

Installed and registered without problems on a Win 8.1.3 Pro 64 bit system.

In my case it installs a 64bit version in the program folder.

A company without name and address, we had had version 1.0.1 on March 14th of this year. Here are the old reviews:
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pt-photo-editor-1-0-1/

A really lightweight photo tool, occupies 39 MB of memory.

A dark lightroom style interface opens. A lot of options and some very good ones, not found in many other photo tools.

Have a look at the save options! You can remove some or all of your metadata (exif) including GPS info, you can change the color space and the saved picture gets automatically a new name. The program is worth only the save dialog. No external exif remover any more. But, what a pity, it does not SHOW metadata. The removal works, as I could test.

Positive to mention the lens correction tool, you have to do it manually, it does not take the lens info from the metadata (this really would be professional... think of DXO Optics), a good solution the straighten tool with autocrop on/off. Simple undo/redo. A simple to use clone tool.

It does not automatically load the last picture locations.

This is a software worth downloading and keeping. Makes a very good impression. I'll replace my former version and repeat my first impression:

If you’ll have already a dozen programs to boost your photos to “professional”, this would be number thirteen with the advantage to be a small and fast program.

No uninstall...

I suggest you get Photoscape instead. Photoscape is robust, the interface is extremely well thought out. here is a link to a playlist of tutorials on youtube. http://youtu.be/TqSNkPgGjv4?list=PL1A3459C0FF6F5763

And here is a list to a sight where you can download the program.

http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php