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I like it for what it can do … to one … file … at … a … time.
But it’s missing critical usefulness functions, like an integrated on-screen file browser that lets me preview my DCIM folders and files while I see the file I’m working on still open, and see what’s before and after the current image so I can pick and choose in context, start with the best one, or fix the worst one, the one that need salvaging.
The tweaking features are nice, but endlessly disorganized across many settings so all settings controls can’t be seen at one all together, and they are imprecise, using a slider without numbers, so there’s no way to just type a preference or repeat a preference.
The tweaking features are flexible, beyond mere contrast, brightness, and saturation, going to luminance and vibrance so on.
There is an endless list of film type emulation, and that may be interesting to play with on occasion, especially if trying to match an existing old-time film scan.
Summary: capable tool, manually operated, one at a time, not a master program, not batchable ( as far as I could see ), and not easy to edit a group of images, or repeat settings again.
Compare to FREE Google Picasa and FREE IrfanView, which do include many features that I suggest Widsmob Retoucher is missing.
Perhaps like [ Franzis. de ], some programmers prefer to release one-trick programs rather than build an integrated suite, perhaps the one-tricks get better reviews, and suites get panned because, you know, Photoshop and Lightroom.
So find the FREE Adobe CS final license version that Adobe released before going to monthly subscription.
My problem is trying to remember what each one-trick program is good for that can’t be done anyway in FREE IrfanView, FREE Google Picasa, and or FREE Adobe Photoshop CS.
The competition is fierce, so programmers have to find niche marketing sideways, like SOS, and niche programs that folks don’t know are equal to the features already in the more complex suites ( Adobe’s been controlling vibrance and so on for a long time ).
Instead, I suggest that these programmers try to do BETTER than the existing suites, instead of less, but hey, it’s their decision on how they want to program, and market themselves.
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