JohnDK

This x 100

If there's no reset on the trial perion is there any reason you can't just sign up for a new trial using a different email address?

This is very sad but also very true. I really liked V1 and thought there was great potential, but V2 of Photo is such a let down. There were so many basic things that needed tidying up in V1 but they have just been ignored for V2. Seems to me that pretty much everything new is graphic based and of little use in photography work. I've decided not to buy V2 and will stick with V1 altough these days I pretty much just use it from my old copy of lightroom for cloning and the inpainting brush. I was really hoping V2 would have a new app to replace Lightroom. Sadly not the case

I can understand why you are frustrated. It seems odd behaviour by Serif since (obviously) knew they were going to be releasing V2! In the run up period why didn't they just offer V1 for whatever price with "Free upgrade to V2 when it launches". That seems to be quite a common approach.

Yes, that seems to work - I downloaded the MSIX file, changed the extension to .zip, opened it in Windows explorer and copied the contents to a folder of my choosing. Double clicking photo.exe runs OK, entered my username and password and it activated my trial version without issue. Appears to be working properly at the moment.

Couldn't agree more. I am so disappointed that there has been no effort to address this in V2. The most annoying for me is crop always going to "unconstrained" when 99% of the time I want "Original Ratio". I also almost always want Clone, Healing brush et al to default to "current layer & below" not "current layer".

Very disappointed that the release of V2 hasn't done anything to address these basic niggles. Although it's a fantastic program in many ways having to make the same adjusts to tools time after time is just ridiculous!

+1 for this and also for the crop tool to be able to default to "original ratio" rather than "unconstrained". Having to reset these every time is irritating to say the least!