You know what else I find troubling? That with all the problems you were having with Shade there is not one message posted from you on the Shade forum. And that is from when the forum first opened up to the present -- nothing.

On the other hand there was another person who was just as radical about Shade not working either and he posted a thread on the Shade forum warning would be customers not to purchase the bug riddle program as it just doesn't work. This of course brought on a long discussion as others didn't have the same results. Well to make a long story short, here is what he has to say about Shade now:

On 04/14/05 D64Day wrote the following:

Greetings Shade 7 artists and soon to be artists,

In the past I have spoken against the Shade due to problems I was experiencing with my copy. Now that I have received and installed a replacement through the software vendor, there are no further problems. All runs well. It appears my anger and frustration with the creators of the Shade 7 program were misplaced. I see now that I chose to allow my ignorance and anger to lead me into writing and posting a very negative "review" of this program. For those who may recall my rantings I would ask this opportunity to recant my statements. My statments were harsh and made in haste. Even though I had spent nearly one month researching and attempting to remedy the problem, all that was needed was replacement of the disc. Now without any changes to my system Shade 7 functions correctly and beautifully. It has become a very necessary part of my photographic ventures and I look forward to exploring all of its capabilities.
Please accept my apologies for the rash behavior which I have displayed. I would like to return to the Shade community and hope to someday contribute something worthy of posting.

D. Day
aka: Ink Slinger