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 Easy to use, makes your photo e-mails look SO good!, 2007-12-31
I've used SendPhotos for several years now and have found it the easiest program to use if you want to jazz up your e-mails. I was disappointed when I bought the first version of it because there were so few stationery choices, even on the Novatix web site where, at that time, you could download more stationery at no cost. Then I upgraded to the Gold version, which did get me a few more stationery choices, but still a limited number (in my opinion)--but at that time, I think I paid only $9.95 for the upgrade, a fair price for what I got. The free stationery offer for SendPhoto users has disappeared; now you have to upgrade to get more stationery ($29.95, I think). Even so, if you want a good selection of themes, etc., you need the additional "Theme Pack" CD which has another 100 stationery choices. Here's where my only complaint comes in: I didn't spring for the Theme Pack because I'm happy with what the stationery I have, but my daughter, also a SendPhotos user, did buy the expansion pack CD for an additional $9.95. It has never worked, even after she spent hours with tech help. The CD has the Theme Pack logo on it, but when you insert it into a CD drive, it does two things--freezes your computer first, and then, if you finally get the CD to load without that freeze, you'll see a couple of SendPhoto icons. Normally, you'd double-click on them to open and install what's there. Nothing happens when you click on any of the 3 icons on the CD, except that you have a 50-50 chance of having your computer freeze again. My daughter has 2 computers, a desktop and a laptop, and the same thing happens on both of them. My daughter is returning the Theme Pack CD for a replacement. It the new CD works, that will be the ticket to making SendPhotos a 5-star software package!
 Most recipients don't get the pictures, 2004-11-02
I was very disappointed in this product because, althought it does create beautiful email, less than half of the people I email it to can receive the pictures from this software. It basically renders the software useless for me. The manufacturer states on their website that this is a "very common situation." I quote from Novatix website:
"My emails don't have pictures. Is SendPhotos at fault?
This is a very common situation. You use SendPhotos to compose and send some emails, but one or more of your recipients receive emails that have no pictures in them. The area where the picture should be is either an empty box, a box with a red X, a blank space, a space with a text placeholder like [IMAGE], or just an empty area. This is not due to SendPhotos. It is due to the recipient's email viewer. There are several reason behind this problem.
The recipient's email reader doesn't know how to display HTML email. This is common in email readers published prior to 2000. The only two solutions are to replace the email reader with an newer one, or set up a free email account on Hotmail or Yahoo where the recipient can receive HTML emails.
The recipient's email reader is set to suppress the pictures in HTML email. This is a common feature in modern email readers, but is usually off by default. People use this feature to avoid seeing spam advertising, to protect themselves from porn spam, and to speed up the viewing of email. The only solution is for them to change the setting to show pictures. In most, if not all cases, once the setting is changed, when the email is reviewed it shows the pictures. In other words the setting doesn't affect the email, just how it is viewed.
The recipient's email reader takes a while to download and display the pictures. Emails with pictures are larger than normal emails and on a dialup connection it can take a while for the whole email to be downloaded. Some readers will start to display the email message and fill in the photos as they arrive.
Web based email readers sometimes reformat the email message. This is a variation on the problem. SendPhotos makes an HTML email which looks like a web page might look because it is using the same technology as browsers use to display web pages. However, when the recipient is viewing the email via a web-based email service, there is a conflict between the email content and the web page. To resolve this, all web-based email services reformat the email to display within their web page. In the process of reformatting, the email's appearance can change and the pictures can even be moved. In most cases, the pictures do show up. "
3 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
send photos, 2004-01-24
i ordered this software and installation went every smooth. I selected a photo to send by msn mail. after pressing the send button, absolutely nothing happen. you have to start send emails back and forth or try getting someone on the phone. this software is too much trouble. i am sending it back to the company for free......
2 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Sendphotos/novatix, 2003-11-04
It's a Great program but 3 days after I downloaded it , it has disapeared from my hard drive. How do I download it again. I paid for it with Visa card. Who do I contact to get some help.Please E MAIL TO
11 of 11 customers found the following review helpful:
Very Impressive!, 2003-07-25
I was looking for some software to help a friend who is not a PC expert send photos by email. I found a review in the Wall Street Journal by Walter Mossberg that demonstrated this Send Photos could do the job.I checked and found the original version on sale. However, I checked the Novatix web site and found a free download trial version and also an update: Send Photos Gold, for sale. I tried the evaluation version - an 18MB download. Only try this if you have a broadband Internet connection! I installed it and it worked very well. I tried it first using Microsoft Outlook 2000 as my mail program. Configuring that led me to an process of installing Microsoft Collaboration Data Objects (CDO). I could not be bothered to find my MS Office CD so I took ther risk and installed it from the Novatix web site. I am always nervous about this kind of thing because Microsoft software is so complex and brittle, but so far it works and nothing else seems to have broken. The warnings about "do this at your own risk" gave me pause however. The main point of the program is to enable "the rest of us" to email pictures easily. I was impressed that I could mail multiple high resolution photos from my digital camera and the software built a page containing compressed but still high quality images. Their compression algorithms are excellent and completely invisible. I invited my non-expert friend to try the evaluation version. She installed it and used it with Outlook Express. Her first messages had the text but no photos which confused us. The problem was solved by closing and restarting Outlook Express and since then everything has been fine. We tried some simple photo editing: cropping, adjusting brightness and so on. That is no problem and probably fixes 99% of all amateur photos. What a contrast in simplicity from, say, Adobe Photoshop Elements. A fine program in its way, but so complex! And this is the "simplified" version... The other major feature is the stationery. I am old fashioned and go for the plain and simple look, but I am sure many will enjoy all the options. Lastly we tried using it with Yahoo and Hotmail. Here Send Photos uses its own mail server to send the photos, but with a "sender" field that makes the message look like it comes from me. That's a clever solution to allow Send Photos to work with any email system, even if they are web based and use proprietary protocols. I have two concerns about this: 1. If Novatix goes out of business, their mail server will go away and that use of the program won't work any more. You'd still be able to use it with Outlook (Express) because there it uses your own mail server. 2. It seems to be possible to send photos on behalf of any user. This is because Novatix can't check the validity of an email address, nor whether I have the password for it. This seems to be dangerous and I did not see anything about it in the Send Mail otherwise excellent online help. I heartily recommend this program for non-expert users.
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