In one of my many news email lists this morning was a link to an article reviewing a new photo resizer that is supposed to allow you to make a small photo bigger without all the pixellation and noise. Ohh, that could be very handy, it’s a pain to try to get results in photoshop with this kind of stuff. So I figured I’d give it a whirl, despite the lazy and annoying chatroom spelled name they gave it– rsizr.

How annoying. The person who wrote the review could not have touched this tool. If they did, their review would not have been so glowing. I swear it must have been written by the tool author and copied by the review author, probably from a press release. The review is pretty glowing, complete with a before and after image done using the tool. Unfortunately there’s a lot that is NOT in that article. Those omissions left me frustrated after pounding away at trying to get it to work and not succeeding at even a minimal level after almost 20 minutes.

Yeah, there’s a lot left out. Like how unintuitive the interface is. Like how there are no instructions unless you read the help files. Like there might be a certain order things need to be done in to work properly, but that’s not really stated anywhere. Like how the help files don’t really tell you how to DO anything.

So whether this tool works or not, if people who are using it can’t make it work with the interface and instructions that are given, then it’s not a very good tool, is it?

I hope they fix this. It’s really needed. There needs to be a clear path to follow or people will just end up frustrated and annoyed, like I did.

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