When installing, uncheck the "Run Program" in the final installation window. Then exit the installation without starting up Photo Toolbox. Then run the Activate file.
It gave me a trial version when I ran the Activate file when Photo Toolbox was opened, but Activated properly when Photo Toolbox was closed.

Sol  –  12 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+125)

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Photo Toolbox installed cleanly. Always extract the files from the GOTD zip archive before installing, and never let the installer launch the application. Simple activation. Photo Toolbox always requests Internet access, even if you turn off update checking in the options.

Photo Toolbox is a curious mix of modern (e.g., supports Aero glass) and old-school UI. Since this is obviously a very simple and very limited image editor, I expected it to be easy to use for beginners. It's curious because it has very basic tools, and then a few more advanced tools, like color curves. However, I found the online Help to be inadequate, and many things downright hard to use and not at all obvious. Right-clicking on the image will get you more options. I found it very hard to figure out what it was doing. For example, Dodge and Burn seemed pretty obvious from the Help, although difficult to use without a sample brush to visually indicate settings. However, it used a previous Magic Wand color selection to limit the Dodge (unexpected), but not the Burn. I didn't have any luck with the operations required for complex selections. A simple Intersect worked (I didn't have any problems with the Lasso tool), but not more complex selections using the Magic Wand. Maybe it will be obvious to someone else. Saving JPEGs does give you a quality option when you actually perform the save.

There is the obvious question of why a developer would even enter this space. There are so many freeware alternatives with many features, such as Windows Live Essentials Photo Gallery 2011 (I noticed that MS has recently dropped the year, no doubt in anticipation of 2012, but I'm leaving it to distinguish from earlier versions), paint.net, PixBuilder Studio, Chasys Draw IES, Raw Therapee, FastStone Image Viewer, IrfanView, XnView, etc.

Fubar  –  12 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+86)

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Merry Christmas everyone and thanks GOTD for all your hard work.

Rich M  –  12 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+82)

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hi gotd people
i was very eager to install and use the program but after installing i found out that the lasso tool is not working and i found a great difficulty in using the program.
more over, the program practically has no advantage over similar free programs.
thanx anyway gotd.

yasser  –  12 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+44)

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MERRY CHRISTMAS to all GOTD'ers... staff and testers alike!

Sooks  –  12 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+35)

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