Picolay

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Glot
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Picolay

#1 Post by Glot » Sat Jul 10, 2021 8:46 am

Has anyone figured out why Picolay is free? Nothing on the internet is free.

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#2 Post by Gasman » Sat Jul 10, 2021 9:14 am

Have to disagree, many things are free on t'internet ;)

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#3 Post by MichaelG. » Sat Jul 10, 2021 9:59 am

Glot wrote:
Sat Jul 10, 2021 8:46 am
Has anyone figured out why Picolay is free?
There are still some decent, generous, people left in the world.

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Re: Picolay

#4 Post by MicroBob » Sat Jul 10, 2021 3:47 pm

Heribert Cypionka is a professor a a german university, Picolay started probably as a project related to one of his research topics. He has even held a few free workshops here in Germany, unfortunately I missed one here in Hamburg. In case you have a problem with the programm you can actually contact him and he will offer support. I use Picolay fairly successfully for years and haven't even read the manual so far....

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#5 Post by josmann » Mon Oct 18, 2021 7:08 pm

There's tons of free stuff on the internet! One trick if you haven't heard already is to append "open source" anytime you're searching for free software. That will filter out the "free but actually not really" stuff for the most part.

There's some really high quality free stuff out there. GIMP is a photoshop clone with all sorts of plugins and documentation available online. Davinci Resolve is the program I use to do all my video editing - it's insanely powerful and polished and, while there is a paid version, the free version has about 95% of the functionality with no limits on what most people are practically going to be doing.
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Re: Picolay

#6 Post by MichaelG. » Mon Oct 03, 2022 1:19 pm

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Regarding nothing being free on the internet … it’s a pity that wasters like this are free to interfere with our forum.

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