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This is a cure JPEG ‘editor’ to make equal or smaller copies, and could be quite popular for that.
Without the ability to read camera raw image files, it limits itself to JPEGging.
Their free version is almost equal to their premium version.
My notes during install:
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Well, my first impression of Photo Pos ( you KNOW what ‘pos’ means in common parlance, don’t you? Remember ‘Publish It!’ ? Names matter. ) is three more misses …
1 – you asked if I want 32 bit or 64 bit as if you did not know I am on a 32 bit operating system and machine — does the 64 bit work on 32 bit operating system and machine?
I suggest knowing your environment before you play.
2 — the opening screen shows two versions of a face, two versions that don’t look very different at all, does your software do something invisible before-and-after , like JPEGmini who brag that there are no visible differences, only the file size has shrunk?
If your goal is something other than comparing the two face images, then I suggest you get rid of the distracting face images.
3 — what do you say below the two pictures on the opening screen? The message falls below the frame and I have no way of scrolling to it.
I suggest always allowing us to scroll and resize the frame, and scroll and resize the contents of any frame, perhaps automatically knowing your environment and resizing yourself, especially if you want to show off the savvy of your programmers ( note: plan for a 640 x 480 screen for those of us who may want emergency access to your program features on a crashing computer that only boots in safe mode ).
…. now that I’m into the software …
4 — I clicked on ‘tutorial’ and you opened Microsoft Internet Explorer, rather than my default browser, Google Chrome.
I suggest honoring user defaults, or asking …
5 — without warning that you were going to the Internet.
I suggest warning, and offering to download any web-references for immediate access on the computer for those of us who may want to use your references when off line, say, when photographing for a week off line in a remote cottage in the woods with no Internet access.
6 — I notice hard to discern, low contrast lettering, for example, on your ‘thank you’ on the “thank you” screen, and also on the program under help > about where you hide your web address.
I suggest, again, knowing your environment and keeping all lettering readable in contrast and resolution.
7 — It locks up indefinitely without showing an hourglass while trying to browse my network looking for my image storage.
I suggest showing how hard your programmers are working all the time by using a progress indicator.
— It never unlocked, so I killed it using task manager.
Kudos for browsing my network at all, at least.
8 — You balked at opening a raw image file. I would never edit a presentation file like the JPEG format. A Google search of your site for the word ‘raw’ came up with no results — you can’t edit from raw camera capture?
I suggest that your next version should work on raw camera captures.
I’ll be clearing my computer of your program until I hear that you work from raw.
Thanks.
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