At #2: Have you ever resized 50 photos before ?
If yes, why don't you use the same utility as before. If no, I should tell you about the existence of :
IrfanView
XnView
FastStone
and many other free perls which do that job like a breeze.
Not to mention many other features.
Just google for them, you won't regret it.

steve  –  12 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+172)

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This offering has a stunningly ridiculous interface, which makes it look like it was put together by a under-talented novice programmer and compiled hastily, never going through any testing or review. The so-called "wizards" make no sense whatsoever. For starters, the program description (here on GOTD) calls for a application that "can process and resize your entire photo collection"; Yet on starting the program the choices are "Send Photos," "Export Photos," "Create Slideshow," and "Create Photo Show." There's countless illogical choices and descriptions everywhere that are totally confusing. For instance, under the drop-down field "Name your project", there are two buttons: "Copy" and "Delete." Not only does it make no sense for this field to use a drop-down, but the buttons serve no purpose at all. The description of the "send photos" wizard itself: "Send more and high quality photos..." (!) is a strong indicator that the programmer's English writing skills are on par with his/her coding skills. I could go on and on.

Add to the above that the manufacturer's website has all the features that should raise half a dozen red flags pointing to a typical scamming site, and you will probably conclude that you should avoid downloading this offering altogether. Too bad: GOTD has some really nice offerings lately from companies that are well worth supporting. This one sure isn't one of them.

Lisa  –  12 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+106)

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IrfanView does a pretty good job at doing resizing and converting a batch of photos, and it's free: http://www.irfanview.com/

Nate  –  12 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+103)

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Annoying installation.

When you start Setup.exe, you are greeted with a serial dialogue.

For this serial, this is what you have to do:
1. Go to http://www.filestream.com/register/frameshop-gotd-register.php
2. Fill in the form. Product name should be automatically filled in
3. Go to you email program
4. Send an empty email to: ppfm@filestream.com
5. You will receive an email with your serial
6. Copy and Paste this serial to the setup and continue setup (serial can be pasted at once)

When you start the program, you will be greeted with a 6 step wizard.

Step 1: output requirements
Strange thing: max resolution is 1024x768!?? Luckily, keep original format will work too AND there is an option to set custom resolutions.
You can also put a max. limit for total photo size output AND/OR total amount of pictures. Strange options. If it were PER PHOTO, that would have been nice.

Step 2: select multiple photos. Folder selection is NOT possible. Missed chance! I really need my mass-tools to recursive search folders. Once the photos are added, you cannot use Ctrl-A in the program itself to select all photos. One needs to work with the mouse to select (after the initial Add photos).

Step 3 Layout and Style
Actually here are a few nice options. For layout: crop photos / best fit without cropping or picture frame. For frame you can select 9 patterns. I like "Bevel" - it looks like a 3D pop-out :) There's also an option Border. To me, it's just the same option as Frame. They work on top of each other, and I can't say it works really transparent :s
With Shadow you can add an extra border to give the effect of a shaduw. In practice, this looks ugly, unless you use a size of 1.

Step 6: Create and Fix photos
Options: Recreate / Auto Level / Auto Contrast / Auto Smooth / Auto Sharpen. I'm using the default Example Photos of Windows. I enabled all options (except Recreate). Again, photos have to be selected manually. Actions are applied immediately. Extra options: Auto Colour / Blur / Old Photo / Black & White / Negative / RED EYE CORRECTION / remove colour cast. These extra options need to be applied individually in "Edit"-mode. Too bad.

Step 5: Sequence: decide which order you need.

Step 6: Send Photos
THIS IS VERY STRANGE AND A REASON FOR UNINSTALLING!
You must SEND the photos to an email address!! The program uses Internet Explorer for this! It IGNORES my Chrome! To make matters even worst, all opened IE screens were EMPTY (Internet Explorer blows such big balls :0).
To complicate matters further, the program thinks it has sent the files successfully once IE is opened. Then it ONLY allows to send again (which fails) OR TO QUIT THE PROGRAM!

This means I give up. Too bad. I still wanted to give my Thumbs Up because of some features. Also I think I would have like the export to slideshow option.

For now, I'm done and really uninstalling.

I'll repost some alternatives maybe tonight - including collection of what's suggested here.

One I should mention before signing off: http://www.irfanview.com/

Peace!

Devvie


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devnullius  –  12 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+88)

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My thoughts on first use of Filestream Frameshop:

1) Ridiculous long-winded registration program for such cheapskate software. It isn’t as thought it competes with Microsoft or Photoshop!
2) Loaded 8 photo’s and selected ‘Send Photo’s. The program crashed!
3) Loaded 15 photo’s to create a slideshow.
4) Selected basic options, no borders, no shadows, just a simple slideshow
5) Program crashed.

Windows 7 64 Bit. 6 Gig RAM

If two attempts out of two give 100% failure then there is something seriously wrong with this software.

Uninstalling immediately.

Keith  –  12 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+84)

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