iColorama

I bought iColorama a few years ago, and now I can’t use what I paid for unless I subscribe to iColorama Pro >:

I can understand upgrading a freeware app and offering the new version for a price. But to present an “update” to existing freeware that disables the user’s existing freeware to coerce a purchase? That is hardly a practise that merits rewarding. I’m done. I’d put no stars if I could.

Recently, the new developer of this program decided to turn the program into a subscription service. I am not sure what happened, as “iColorama Pro” (the program you were supposed to upgrade to) didn’t actually exist. As a consequence, hundreds, perhaps thousands of users were locked out of their program with no information about how to access it. Some bright lights managed to figure it out, and I were able to gain partial access to the program, but there were still bugs and parts of it that no longer worked. Eventually, it would not even load pictures at all. As of today, there are still users out there who cannot access features they have successfully used for years. I could not find anyone to report this to, so the only way I managed to get a response was to write a bad review. The new developer, Enrique Garcia, got back to me with practical instructions, which did not help, since I had already tried his suggestions several times. Finally, I erased and reloaded iColorama for the third time (losing all my signatures again in the process), did the reset, and finally I was able to use the program—at least so far. This is what I think happened. Whoever Enrique Garcia is, he has decided to try to turn iColorama into a subscription service, probably offering a free version of “iColorama Light” in order to get people to sign in and then an “iColrama Pro” to which one has to subscribe. There are two problems with this. First of all, the original creator of the program, Teresita (who has always been there up till now to answer our questions and provide new features), has always said she did not want to do this. Secondly, the reason iColorama is so great is that it is an intuitive art program designed by an artist for other artists. A lot of the features are integrated to work together across categories and functions because Teresita designed it to work laterally (for lack of a better descriptor) rather than the way programmers usually build these things. So, whoever the brain-child behind this scheme was, tried to isolate certain features to build the free-version of iColorama, only to discover that this has catastrophic consequences on other parts of the programming which are connected to them. I don’t know where Teresita is. She had to escape Ukraine when the war started and no one seems to be able to contact her to tell her someone is messing with her amazing, brilliant program. But wherever you are, Teresita, if you need money, many of us have ex

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