I was able to install & register. For those where the license key doesn’t work, what email address did you use? It needs to be “[email protected]” as stated in the instructions on the SOS “Success” page. Did you copy and paste the email address and license key, and remove any spaces from beginning or end?
The install took much longer than expected, but VirusTotal-dot-com found no baddies in the installer file.
I tried a few pics. On one, the sliders had almost no effect. On another, the Luminance slider seemed to soften the picture of a person in front of a brick wall. When I got rid of the grain on the person, the bricks looked like plastic. The sharpness and luminance sliders together gave me a wide range of adjustment on that pic, and I liked the results. It won’t help every picture, but may be very handy on some.
Program has a before/after option that shows original and changed picture. You can zoom in and pan and both images show the same section of the picture — very nice! There is no “apply” button so if you want to try to boost luminance and then boost it again, you’ll need to save the picture after the first boost and load in the saved picture to apply effects a second time. Would be great if you could paint to select what areas of the pic to change, like creating a mask layer in other programs. And the mask layer should have a “feather” slider that controls how sharply the mask fades from 100% to 0% effect. That would make the program a little more complex to use, but also more unique and useful.
Thanks SOS and WidsMob, this one’s a keeper!