I had never heard of it and decided to give it a try.
I downloaded and installed both Lightbox (free) and Sagelight Pro
(30-day trial version)
I thought Lightbox "free" was sort of a bad joke. When you review the
feature list you find that most of the features are only in the pay
version which costs $20, not the free version. But I noted that it did
do raw file conversion so gave it a try. Raw conversion is pretty much
a nightmare. It apparently has no camera profiles and you start off
with a a very dark and low contrast image where you must first adjust
the gamma which still leaves something that doesn't look like the JPEG
of the photo you took... it still requires lots more work and then you
go to the second stage editor for more work. I found it confusing and
far too much work. When you load a raw file in ACR what you see looks
like the JPEG image from your camera and all other controls are very
intuitive by name.
So I decided to move on to Sagelight Pro. When I installed it I was
surprised to see that this 64-bit program wanted to install in "Program
Files (x86)" which is for 32-bit programs. But you can change the
installation directory so I changed it to "Program Files". After
starting up and pressing a button to load a file I was greeted with "The
trial period has expired" and I couldn't do anything except display a
help file.
I thought there must have been some installation error possibly caused
by my changing the installation directory. So then came the next
surprise. When I tried to uninstall it I got an uninstall error and had
to try again to remove it. Then I reinstalled the same file and allowed
it to go to "Program Files (x86). That resulted in a Windows
installation and compatibility warning. I ignored it and tried to run
it again. Same thing... trial period expired.
Then I thought maybe there had been download data corruption so I
cleaned out the browser's cache and downloaded again. Then I installed
again in "Program Files" and ended up with the same "Trial period
expired" message. Then when I tried to uninstall it I got some bizarre
pop-up message that it was building a list of some tens of thousands of
files to be deleted from my C: drive. After some brief panic I closed
that pop-up which resulted in a Windows message that uninstall had not
completed successfully. I ran uninstall again which gave no more drama
except that nothing appeared to happen. I tried it again and was
greeted by a Windows message that said it appears the program has
already been uninstalled, do you want to remove the name. Yes, I did.
I hope you haven't also experienced such excitement and frustration.
Leave Sagelight and Lightbox alone.
Chuck Norcutt
On 9/25/2016 4:55 AM, bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
The thought crosses my mind;
What do the resident digital
manipulation wizards think of Sagelight?
Cheers,
Brian
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