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has anyone tried -- Smart Photo Editor -- advertised on this site?

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

No

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I tried it and bought it. I figured for $20, it was something else to manipulate a photo. If you're interested, try it. If you like it, buy it. As someone else suggested, check it out on youtube.

Archy Loc: Lake Hamilton, Florida

Works great..............

SENSORLOUPE

thanks

Victor S Loc: SouthCoast MA

I bought it. VERY interesting what you can do with your pics. 4-5 HDR variations at a click of a button too. I really like it. :thumbup:

randymoe

Often advertisements you see on any website are not placed there by the management.

Since this a free site, our usage is paid for with advertising just like a newspaper.

Buyer beware.

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

Yes I have. It's only $20 so it's well worth the price. Second, it does great stuff and does it easily. The SPE community can create and add "effects" to an online library and your software is updated after each use to include the new effects. I really enjoy a software that grows in capability from community-based quality user input.

SPE ALWAYS overdoes whatever the effect is but it is totally adjustable until the effect becomes subtle. Effects can be used for artistic exaggerations or realistic editing. It's mask painting brush is intelligent and utterly amazing. It somehow can detect where you want to paint compared to a nearby object or background and is VERY accurate. It's the best masking brush I've ever seen - bar none.

SPE only lacks two things that I need on a regular basis, as far as I can tell so far. Rulers for cropping and ability to resize to 72dpi resolution for Internet use. Of course there are other features such as being able to lasso something, cut it, and paste it in another composition and many other serious editing features like that. I can do those in PaintShop Pro X4. But if your main goal is just to change contrast, brightness, gamma, color saturation, shadow definition, dynamic range, sharpness, etc. and maybe add a sunlight glisten, or change a waterfall from high speed shutter to slow shutter milkiness, add a frame, add some other colors, or even create some sort of artistic endeavor just for fun, SPE is THE best $20 you could spend.

You can save your work as a "Session" so that you can go back and re-adjust (they don't call the effects "layers" but they act like PhotoShop layers that can be adjusted to your heart's content or deleted), and you can save your output as a TIFF or a JPG.

I've started putting my photos in SPE first, saving the edited version, and then reopening it in PaintShop Pro X4 (now $39.95 by the way) for cropping and resizing. If the subject is faces, I'm trying a series of SPE first, Portrait Professional 10 (same software company) for facial fix-ups second, and PaintShop Pro X4 for cropping and resizing third.

Yes, all of this can be done in PaintShop Pro X4, or PhotoShop, or GIMP alone but I enjoy messing around with the user interfaces and artificial intelligence of SPE and PP10.

SENSORLOUPE

thanks for the extensive info---helps a lot in choosing.

Can this program be purchased in store or only on line---
haven't checked stores yet

cony25

Does it work on a mac?

Wheezie

Yes, intel based Mac running 10.5 or later.

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

Only online. They download it to you instantly. I wouldn't waste $3.95+ worth of gas to go to a store for buying it anyway. That's adding 20%+ to the purchase price! They make and sell Portrait Professional 10 by the ton, so they're a solid company to download from.

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

But there is not a "Mac" version.

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

Which has absolutely nothing to do with the software itself. If you type the words PhotoShop CS5 into this forum you'll start getting banner ads from Adobe, so does that mean the buyer should be aware of Photoshop? I think not.