Firstly; for Chris B, I'm not clear in my mind between the Canary Islands and
the Azores ... I'll get an atlas out some time..
It seems to me that there are several purchasing options and results
available.
As I recall it now, this is what I did. At the time I had no access to Broad-
band so I used dial-up in the very early morning when the house was quiet
and no incoming phone calls were expected.
The 2.1MB took 3 hours to download.
I then went to the Corel site ( I abbreviated Chuck's URL - my normal
method of investigating sites with long URLs - progressively cut them back
from the right to see what the place looks like .. :-) )
Their site has a high overhead and it took what seemed like forever to load -
in fact it was probably only 20 minutes.
Eventually I got to where it displayed the special offer for Sagelight, and
clicked on that. Their page correctly identified what country I was in, but I
clicked on the USA English icon, and the price miraculously dropped to
USD20. I had no trouble paying with Mastercard, but had to register, which I
did truthfully.
I saved the electronic invoice.
I received by e-mail both the electronic invoice / receipt and a "Welcome to
Corel" message.
Registration. My version (which now seems to be a trial version with 29 days
to go) does NOT have an option in Help to "unlock Sagelight".
However, under "Sagelight" the third from right of the menu links at the top
of the program page, is a link to "Enter registration code"
This will not accept pasted data; the letters/numbers have to be entered
manually.. All of the serial number would not fit in, then going back I saw
that the online instruction was to enter the Paypal transaction number or
some such equivalent number. So I entered my invoice/receipt number.
I had to connect to the 'net again and it seems that the program mailed it off.
Then I went and slept until the late morning.
It warned me that it would take 2 - 3 days before I had a reply. Such has not
arrived yet.
While I have not tested it on ORF files, I have fiddled with a couple of jpg
files and found that it improved images with little colour and contrast much
better than FastStone. I think it was one of the series from which I took the
one in my 'Zuikoholics' page which shows Clyde in a vast empty land. It was
better than the Faststone version (which is the one on the web)..
Brian Swale.
--
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/
|