12-17-2016 , 06:56 PM
Thanks for posting tarekma7,
You can download the 250 MB .zip file directly from develop https://macdaddy.io/style and the use the key provided by SOS, if you don't want to download the SOS installer.
I am always look forward to trying new photo editing related software, so I was kind of excited to download this Style software.
I have never come across or seen an installer that acts like this did before, and I have installed a lot of software. First the publisher could not be verified, Second the setup has absolutely no mention of where the installation will go. This is a big no-no for me.
But after some digging around, I finally located the Style.exe which gets installed to very odd location...
C:\Users\YOUR_NAME_GOES_HERE\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\46Q7QMC1.BB9\45DHRMWY.8HE\styl..tion_e5b4db6cf33f744b_0002.0001_1188b41344c3bd7f
I tried to create a 1920x1920 square image, using the drip painting effect. Style used a tremendous amount of Memory and I could not do anything for about 6 or so minutes, then it just kept crashing, I would always get the error message "There was an error processing this image..." So I tried again, and again, finally with a reduced output size to 1024, finally I got an rendered image.
Just for fun, I decided to try my all-time favorite and always free FotoSketcher from David Thoiron. FotoSketcher is available as portable, it weighs in at 8.20 MB and the end results are amazing.
Style created a watercolor effect end result (Image has been reduced to 900x for uploading)
![[Image: hzIoCl2.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/hzIoCl2.jpg)
Note - Even when selecting "None" in the image size options of Style, I just assumed that it would render the effect at the default size of the image. Well it did not, it rendered at 1440x957 instead of 3000x2000. So after 5 attempts, and 4 crashes, it could not render the image in it's default size. I had to select 1024x1024 size for it to render, keep in mind that it took almost 6 minutes for it to render/save at 1024x1024. Very disappointing.
Memory Usage - Style (generate.exe) used 3,858.5 MB of memory. It literally froze the laptop. Kept crashing with the error message "There was an error processing this image..."
FotoSketcher created a watercolor effect #1 end result (Image has been reduced to 900x for uploading)
![[Image: brdqLJd.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/brdqLJd.jpg)
Note - Selected watercolor effect #1. It took about a minute and a half for FotoSketcher to render/save the image at 3000x2000.
Memory Usage - PortableFotoSketcher_3.20.exe used 250.9 MB of memory.
My 2 cents - While the end results from Style were not terrible, the large file size, the consistent crashing, the high memory usage and the fact that i can't choose where to install it, and not being able to render images full size, unfortunately has made me uninstall Style.
You can download the 250 MB .zip file directly from develop https://macdaddy.io/style and the use the key provided by SOS, if you don't want to download the SOS installer.
I am always look forward to trying new photo editing related software, so I was kind of excited to download this Style software.
I have never come across or seen an installer that acts like this did before, and I have installed a lot of software. First the publisher could not be verified, Second the setup has absolutely no mention of where the installation will go. This is a big no-no for me.
But after some digging around, I finally located the Style.exe which gets installed to very odd location...
C:\Users\YOUR_NAME_GOES_HERE\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\46Q7QMC1.BB9\45DHRMWY.8HE\styl..tion_e5b4db6cf33f744b_0002.0001_1188b41344c3bd7f
I tried to create a 1920x1920 square image, using the drip painting effect. Style used a tremendous amount of Memory and I could not do anything for about 6 or so minutes, then it just kept crashing, I would always get the error message "There was an error processing this image..." So I tried again, and again, finally with a reduced output size to 1024, finally I got an rendered image.
Just for fun, I decided to try my all-time favorite and always free FotoSketcher from David Thoiron. FotoSketcher is available as portable, it weighs in at 8.20 MB and the end results are amazing.
Style created a watercolor effect end result (Image has been reduced to 900x for uploading)
Note - Even when selecting "None" in the image size options of Style, I just assumed that it would render the effect at the default size of the image. Well it did not, it rendered at 1440x957 instead of 3000x2000. So after 5 attempts, and 4 crashes, it could not render the image in it's default size. I had to select 1024x1024 size for it to render, keep in mind that it took almost 6 minutes for it to render/save at 1024x1024. Very disappointing.
Memory Usage - Style (generate.exe) used 3,858.5 MB of memory. It literally froze the laptop. Kept crashing with the error message "There was an error processing this image..."
FotoSketcher created a watercolor effect #1 end result (Image has been reduced to 900x for uploading)
Note - Selected watercolor effect #1. It took about a minute and a half for FotoSketcher to render/save the image at 3000x2000.
Memory Usage - PortableFotoSketcher_3.20.exe used 250.9 MB of memory.
My 2 cents - While the end results from Style were not terrible, the large file size, the consistent crashing, the high memory usage and the fact that i can't choose where to install it, and not being able to render images full size, unfortunately has made me uninstall Style.