Free Lightroom copy cat program

[stingOM]

http://www.cyberlink.com/stat/events/enu/2011/Q2/photodirector2011/index.jsp?affid=2581_943_508_15497_0_ENU&utm_source=CLHP_Promotion&utm_medium=CLHP_Promotion_15497_photodirector&utm_campaign=CL_Homepage

[LucisPictor]

Thanks. I will give it a try.

[cooltouch]

I'm installing it right now. Have you tried it yet, Sting?

[indianadinos]

Thanks, just downloaded the loader ...
Will test during this weekend ...

[LucisPictor]

[nemesis101]

Many programs do this..

Mozilla, Internet Explorer, and countless others...


Doug

Some because they allow one to re-commence interrupted download attempts, others as they search your drives for versions. necessary dll files, and others just because they do! lol

[LucisPictor]

Mostly they do that to show advertisements during the download!

BTW, I have installed the program and the Beta version only runs for 90 days. Well, there once was a time when a Beta version really was free, forever!

[stingOM]

[LucisPictor]

Compared to LR 3.3:

- Some presets are nice, but buggy!
- Import seems to be faster with PhotoDirector
- Adjustments run at about the same speed
- The levers need to be used carefully, the effects quickly get extreme
- Denoising has a bug!! Image is destroyed!
- Export is (much) faster with LR ... correction: DOESN'T WORK PROPERLY! If it works, it is pretty fast.

What is this?


Come on! That's an alpha version, not beta!

This software will be de-installed immediately!

[LucisPictor]

It's a shame! A faster and cheaper alternative to LR would have been very nice. But not like that.

BTW, there is no de-installation routine. You need to employ the Windows de-installation feature.

[cooltouch]

I played around with it a bit this morning and while trying to save an image I had been working on, it suddenly closed, generating that annoying pop up saying that it had encountered a problem and had to close. If this becomes a common occurrence, it will not last long on my hard drive.

[LucisPictor]

[stingOM]

Well, with a bit more patient, I am sure they fix the bugs! But I must admit, when LR3 beta came out it is nothing like this one.

[Attila]

Take a look on Acdsee pro 4.0, it is not free , works well.

[LucisPictor]

[nemesis101]

Ha ha

The 'production' version of Vista has so many that every week a new one rears its ugly head! lol

I am so fed up with all applications suddenly 'not responding' and even examining core dumps exhaustively yields no clear reason for this behaviour..

I think that this O/S should have come with a health warning 'Caution, Microsoft product, be prepared to lose all your work at any moment, for no good reason' ?

Doug

[LucisPictor]

I tried Vista and while being fascinated in the first weeks, I got annoyed pretty soon.
Now we use Win XP on three and Win 7 on three other computers, old MacOS on one and Ubuntu on a 8th and Macbuntu on a 9th computer.

My desktop: Win XP
My notebook: Win XP
My netbook: Win 7
My wife's dekstop: Win XP
My wife's old desktop: MacOS 9.2
My wife's notebook: Win 7
My wife's netbook: Win 7
My wife's old notebook: Ubuntu
Our kids desktop: Macbuntu

And there are some old ones with DOS, Win ME etc.

OMG, we do have many computers at home!

[cooltouch]

Geez, and I thought we had a lot. Five active, and another two runable but inactive.

3 on Win7
1 dualboots between XP and Win7
2 run Linux -- one Ubunto, one Suze
1 runs XP

[LucisPictor]

[Tom in Delaware]

This may not be helpful but if you are running a Mac with the latest version of OS X (Snow Leopard, 10.6.6) you can get Aperture 3 as a download from the Mac App store for $79.

[cooltouch]