AutoImager Review

Imager Auto-Installs Filters

Submitted by KCMorgan on Thu, 2006-06-15 19:46.
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The lowest price: 54$
You can buy it at RegNow for that price.
Pros:
AutoImager is very user-friendly, easy to use, and fun to play around with.
Cons:
This software does very little but add filters to your pics – despite the hype.
Review:

Made by Mystik, AutoImager carries the claim: “full-featured batch image converter and editor software application.” The fifteen-day trial is free to use, and those thinking of picking up an image conversion program can use as much AutoImager as they please during this test period. However, users may be surprised at how limited the options with this program are. Despite its claim of being an editor software application, the files and folders that you can convert using this program are few and far between.

Forget the software editing – if you’re trying to do some serious software editing, AutoImager just isn’t for you. Let’s stick to the image conversion features, which are also a little lacking. Any picture file in your current library can, indeed, be modified using this program. A number of filters including brightness, crop, resize, shear, and border remove can be applied to any image in your gallery. However, the crop and resize tools are essentially useless as you do not determine the new size of your picture. The limited view and small preview window that AutoImager gives you makes it almost impossible to discern the changes you’ve made to any image that you’re working with. The resize tools on this program are almost nonexistent, as they not user-controlled.

Other image options and filters do work quite successfully. So if you’d like to add brightness, bend, flip, mirror, skew, or take borders from an image, then this program is for you. You can also convert any picture file into any other type of file that you can think of – and even save this new file in the same directory to re-write over the old. AutoImager will raise a prompt, ensuring you want to write over your old file, before this happens.

The program is very easy to use and even those who aren’t very software literate won’t have too much trouble figuring this one out. For the price, however, AutoImager may not be worth it. The image conversion and image options are limited at best. Filters are great, but what good does this software do me if I can’t re-size and re-crop my pictures according to my own specifications? There are too many software packages that can be downloaded online, for free, to pay fifty dollars for a program that adds filters to images.

Conclusion:

A decent enough program, AutoImager isn’t worth the asking price unless you really LOVE adding filters to your images.