I used this program a long time ago and it's changed considerably, albeit not sure all for the better.
The good news is, there are a lot of tweaks for rain,snow,puddles, etc... and it saves as .avi, .gif and has ability to open and work with .avi. It's easy to select an area and apply the effect to that area, although the smoothing didn't work quite so well.
On the flip side, it seems extremely doggy compared to what it was, save times seem to have increased for a few second gif or .avi. Waiting to see the animation on a 200x125 image took far too long and can't imagine if it was a standard image size like 800X600.
The final render wasn't what I expected, even after setting higher render options. Tried to scale the image in main window to view what it would look like at original size, would not allow me to. So when you have a smaller image, you really can't preview what it looks like when blown up so large. Unless it simply wouldn't rescale for me but I'm fairly sure I tried everything.
For a free program, it has a lot to offer and again, it's free. I think with some work it will improve, mainly in render times and preview hopefully. Great stuff!
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- Ease of use
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- Recommend to a friend? Yes
- Posted Jul 27, 2011 for v2.6