Bizarre - to say the least!

If you want to discuss individual effects, post here. Eventually the discussion of effects will be linked to the effects themselves.
Forum rules
You are viewing the Community Help Pages. They are on-line forums where people can come to ask questions about the Smart Photo Editor and all the replies and relevant information are kept in the same place.
Posts: 38
Joined: Fri Oct 22, 2010 3:31 pm

Bizarre - to say the least!

Postby MJP » Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:44 pm

As an example, take the Moonlight effects. There are only 8 in all. Only two are vaguely relevant and even then not very convincing. The remaining 6 are bizarre in the category. I've got a feeling that this kind of proportion of relevance to bizarreness applies to the other categories of effects. Why is this? The question puzzled me when I used this package during the beta testing phase. It puzzles me still as things don't seem to have improved.

Why use categories at all if a high proportion of the entries shouldn't be there?

Site Admin
Posts: 2477
Joined: Thu Feb 25, 2010 7:11 pm

Re: Bizarre - to say the least!

Postby admin » Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:06 pm

The effects that appear are down to the communities choices. When something turns up in the wrong category it is because someone has got confused as to which category it belongs to. For popular categories like black and white, you will already see that the first few pages don't contain anything strange. For "moonlight", it is less popular so less eyeballs have seen it so it is less well sorted. The software is only in its initial phase at the moment, so as more people use it the more the galleries will become sorted.

If you think something is wrongly appearing then give it the lowest star rating (0 stars) and it will eventually drop off the bottom of the search. If you think something should go higher up the list, give it a high rating.

Tony

Posts: 29
Joined: Sat Mar 31, 2012 6:13 pm

Re: Bizarre - to say the least!

Postby Sigh » Sat Mar 31, 2012 6:23 pm

It's 2012, now, and it appears pretty much the same.

Site Admin
Posts: 2477
Joined: Thu Feb 25, 2010 7:11 pm

Re: Bizarre - to say the least!

Postby admin » Sun Apr 01, 2012 8:08 pm

Fair point, I'll get someone to look at this.

Tony

Posts: 1
Joined: Wed May 30, 2012 10:47 pm

Re: Bizarre - to say the least!

Postby mistabumpy » Wed May 30, 2012 11:26 pm

I would say that this software is no different than any other program - word processor, desktop publisher, spreadsheet program, whatever - the average user will never in a hundred years utilize more than a fraction of all the features of the program, or even have any use for them, and may not even like them. This is the fallacy of "intuitive" programs generally. They're not, strictly speaking. This is true even of professionals. It's one reason why serious hobbyists and others use several programs to manipulate just one picture - IE - Portrait Professional, Photoshop, maybe another program or two, just to put the "right touch" on the picture. If you don't like a feature, don't use it. If you can't find enough features you like, don't buy it. That's why God made shareware.

Posts: 1
Joined: Thu Mar 29, 2012 11:09 pm

Re: Bizarre - to say the least!

Postby jon..ny » Thu Jun 07, 2012 4:29 pm

LOL...What??? Sounds like babble to me.....Don"t like, stay off it.......

Return to Effects

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 5 guests