
In the old days the equipment processing your negatives performed the same sort of automatic adjusting lots of apps do today with digital photos. So, everything's altered just to get you minimally close to what you saw when you took the picture. The best lenses are close, but none are 100% distortion free in all circumstances. By their physical nature both film & sensors are limited in the amount of data they can capture, and the raw data in a negative or from a sensor has to be massaged a bit on the way to becoming the picture you see. The truth is there is no perfect way to capture an image, using film or digital gear, using cheap plastic or the most expensive lens. In fact a Big difference between camera A & a more expensive camera B is that the more expensive camera does more to alter the image it captured before it's recorded to storage. Very, very few photos that are sold have not been altered, either in the darkroom or in software or in both. This is NOT a critique, moriss2, but rather just info that hopefully someone might find of interest. If you like to play with it, it is fine, but a professional photo loses all the value when re-colored or re-tinted, unless of course you wanted to fool someone into thinking that you are a “real” photographer." All those changes are not making it better, they are exaggerating the shadows, blending of the colors and the ambient to something else. #6: "In other words, make the picture artificial and not real. If the same happens again (and I'm beginning to belive it will.) - this time it goes straight to the bin, please note Developer! One of the reasons giving it away to be tested is surely good enough to grant that GOTD reg key to Users without 'taking it away' to promote buying 'Unlimited home license (with support and updates) at 70% discount'.? No, I'm not ungrateful, I just dislike tricks of that nature. Can anyone understand HOW? I'm on Win7 and this Software was each time registered on this OS. Hi, I didn't bother (at first) installing this Software having already two versions of it on my laptop (v.1.1 and 1.2) - both giveaways and both registered, but when I looked them up today - BOTH 'became' unregistered to my surprise! When? I didn't have any crash of my System, nor virus issues, so why? In the end being puzzled by this I installed today's Giveaway to a different location (drive), register it, AND - hey presto, ALL versions (well, 2 really, since I already had 1.2, now in duplicate) - became 'magically' registered. With a virtual machine, TimeFreeze and Cameyo, I can emulate the three functions (developing, testing, running) on the same hardware without extra software cost. Professionals have at least three machines: one for developing, one fort testing and one for using the software. If I am really 100% satisfied with the software, I will buy a licence. Some applications I want to run for a longer period I install in a dedicated sandbox. You will need a licence if you need more sandboxes. It is a pity SandboxIE has changed it licence policy. SandboxIE can even run on the virtual XP. When the Cameyo fails on the real PC, I "install" the software there in SandboxIE. I also use SandboxIE to test software on the real PC.

In this way I can test every giveaway and keep my production PC as clean as possible.

Only after testing I find real use for the giveaway on that laptop, I install it. The Cameyo can then be tested on my real W8.1 64 machine. And I always delete the %Profile% folder. Take care to use the Disk format instead of the default RAM format. I reboot the virtual XP and install the giveaway once more, while capturing the installation with the free Cameyo.

If the software runs fine on the virtual machine. It is essential to keep the virtual XP as lean as possible. It can be downloaded by itself, so you do not need the whole ToolBox. And I protect that virtual XP by using the free Toolwiz Time Freeze. If you have a legimate Win 8 licence, you can get a free virtual XP from Microsoft that runs under the free VirtualBox.
