After trying this program I found it to be a fairly basic photo editing program. I can honestly say that Photoscape has all this plus more and it's for free.

Joey  –  14 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+71)

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A GENERAL WORD OF CAUTION:During the installation of today's GAOTD program, all of your "image-rights" configurations are over-written. . . . In other words, this program (without ANY permission or authorization from the individual installing it) sets itself as your DEFAULT program to open all image-type files and more.Photo-Lux sets itself as the "Default" for these file types:1. all General Image files (gif, jpeg, tiff . . . etc)2. all Raw image files (J2K, ERF, MFF, etc)3. all Photoshop files (PSD, PDD, etc.) 4. all Windows Cursor files (CUR)5. all Windows Icon files (ICO, etc)6. all Raster files (TGA, TARGA, etc.)The program changed the permissions of over 40 of my files types, including several customizations that had been created for special editing of professional photography.Thumbs-Down to ANY program which takes it upon itself to steal file-permissions (other than files which are exclusive to the program itself). To me, this indicates a complete and total disregard for the user. Come on developers! . . . Do you honestly think that your users will stand for such behavior in today’s software world? I feel like I'm back in the '90s. The "customer" should be the LAST person you wish to upset, and this type of behavior instantly causes the user to become suspicious (and this was merely during the installation process!). It's 2010 now . . . and this type of problem should never (ever) happen with software of any type.Because of this behavior, the program was immediately un-installed and thrown in the trash.

OutDesigns  –  14 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+56)

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Significantly inferior to Zoner Photo Studio, another recent GOTD giveaway.

richard  –  14 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+35)

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As of the time of this post, only three comments have cleared moderation, none helpful.

"Significantly inferior to Zoner Photo Studio, another recent GOTD giveaway."
ZPS is a photo studio, like it says, not an "extended image viewer", and costs much more.

"After trying this program I found it to be a fairly basic photo editing program. I can honestly say that Photoscape has all this plus more and it’s for free."
I can honestly say that you haven't compared the two at all.

"Can anyone elaborate what this can do that Fast Stone Image viewer cannot do?"

Image viewers/editors are all different, with different features. There's no harm in installing Photo-Lux, as long as you clear the file associations (you may need to right-click Photo-Lux and Run as Administrator), which it unfortunately appropriates at installation time, but it can restore them. While Photo-Lux has some interesting features, the UI is poor, and it's somewhat slow. You'll also need to test under what circumstances it modifies the original file. It does support a broad range of file types. ZPS supports a pretty broad range of file types. PhotoScape supports few file types, and is very slow. FastStone has a good UI, supports multiple monitors, and supports a fair number of file types, but not as many as Photo-Lux. IrfanView supports a large number of file types.

The question isn't which is "better", but which suits your needs at the moment. Would I pay for Photo-Lux? No, not considering all of the alternatives. Would I install it today? Yes, I did, because one of its features or file formats might be useful in the future.

Fubar  –  14 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+33)

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Can anyone elaborate what this can do that Fast Stone Image viewer cannot do?

Yes I know this post is not that helpful , but then again the program I mention is what I use, and the functions that the giveaway mentions are very similar to what I use alternatively.

Jason Carver  –  14 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+18)

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