During a recent beta test period over 300 photographers downloaded pre-release versions of Picture Window 2.0. Here is a sampling of just some of the many positive comments we received from our beta testers:
"Thank you for making an excellent piece of software available. It has given me much pleasure. It's so much easier to use than Adobe Photoshop. Let me know when I can buy the CD-ROM version."
"Your illustration of the correction of perspective on the historic house is precisely what is of great interest to us. We have recently obtained a digital camera for use in real estate promotional material."
"You guys work all the time. No matter when I send a note someone always answers. We enjoy PW and have recently started to use it for retouching and sepia toning. Customers like it because their photos never leave our hands. I print on my ink jet printer and they look great . . . "
"I am impressed. After downloading your trial version of "Picture Windows" and playing with it for only a few days, I'm hooked! I have been primarily using Photoshop 4 and have tried just about every other imaging editor available. Always went back to Photoshop .... until NOW."
"I don't understand why I had never heard of your program before a good friend importuned me to get a copy, claiming that it outperformed all other photo editors. Do you advertise? And if so, where?"
"Picture Window is nearly a match for PhotoShop (for photographers at least) at a fraction of the cost. I'm using your trial version 2.0 but anxious for the final version when it comes out."
"I like your program very much! I have tried a number other software and always come back to Picture Window. Photo repair and ease of printer options help me quickly finish an image."
"Great job! It's VERY intuitive. Nicely laid out. Does everything from soup to nuts! (and easier and better in most cases than 90 percent of other so-called photo editing software) I LOVE the "multiple" windowing (multiple undo's) Finally!! Someone got it right!! Congrats on a FINE product."
"I plan to keep only two graphic programs on my computer; Picture Window and Photoshop 4."
"In the Astro-Photography Mailing List I read about "Picture Window", which enables accurate alignment to composite negatives (i.e. for Tricolor-Imaging)."
"I miss some things that Photoshop can do, but I am amazed at how fast Picture Window is for most tasks when I am working on, say, compositing two 18mb files."
"Please send me notification when the final copy of Picture Window is available. I am very impressed by the ease of use and elegance of your program; especially compared to using Photoshop."
"I also subscribe to PC photo and various other photomags. I never see your product evaluated. However I own or have used other imaging software packages and feel that you have the best one out there. What's going on?"
"Thanks again for a wonderful product. I would like to see you market it more extensively to owners of "good" digital cameras, it is really the best out there for people who want "control" and hate those stupid templates and wizards."