[@Gary] “… To my surprise, the result was that the left side of the image was repeated on the right side of the preview …”
Yeah, I noticed this, too ( rolled my eyes, and moved on, I got better programs to use ).
Your review echos my experience and preferences/criticisms exactly – what, no precision adjustments as a script?
I think there may be a whole bunch of programmer’s tool kits floating around China, and programmers just throw in whatever is hot on the current trade-for-trade on thumb drives at the local noodle place or programming school – where did they get settings for a gazillion films, like Ilford black and white, and in so many different versions?!?
These script kiddies never used Ilford black-and-white film, or a darkroom, or an enlarger, or a print dryer.
Or Photoshop, or Lightroom, or DxO, or … I don’t want to date myself, but remember Paintshop Pro by Jasc Software in the 1990s?
The programmers are definitely myopic, in their own little world, and have no idea what we do, and what we want, and what the competition does, out here in the real world.
Notice their energetic participation in this discussion thread?
Me neither.
On the one hand, I’m amazed when ANY programs works AT ALL, considering how complex they are.
On the other hand, other vendors seem to do it.
The “Wisdom of the Mob” at “WidsMob” apparently … means … nope, I have absolutely no idea.
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For Mac users … can you help each other out? I don’t even let my iPhone update it’s OS, so how do you all keep track of what works where? I’m in Windows 7-64 Pro myself, so, I got nuthin’.
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[@jajk] – THANKS! I LOVE this stuff, and I’m happy to share, as I learn most when trying to format my experiences for others to take advantage of.
[@Bob] – no plugins, stand alone only ( as I say, the programmers probably never used a real image editor on their own images, this is not the brainchild of a photography-addicted-hobbyist, but the product of corporate marketplace scheme assigned to work-to-death young programmers fresh out of training ).
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