Hi everyone, Thanks for your replies, I have downloaded the IrfanView
program. I hope that I'm not getting to far off the Legacy etiquitte
guidelines as this pertains to the best way to store our picture files that
are attached to our Legacy program and I know that IrfanView is not a Legacy
add-on program.
Could someone please walk me through the process of changing my stored BMP
files using the IrfanView program converting them into a .JPG file while
reducing the size.
What I have tried to do myself is as follows: I opened the IrfanView
program; went to File>Open; In the next screen: look in C drive>Legacy>Data;
in the files type, I selected Common Graphic Files then scrolled to the file
that I wanted to change>open; In the next screen I went to
Image>Resize/Resample; In the next screen I just selected, Set new size as
percentage of original> 80%>Preserve aspec ratio is checked>PDI is set at
200> resample (Better Quality) is selected> OK: this screen vanishes and I
select File>Save: the next screen comes up and I select the same person's
name, file type is JPG and I click save.
Is this the correct process, should I be changing some of the other setting
to product a better quality picture file.
Can I select more then one file at a time to change using the above process?
I noticed that the origional BMP file is still there in the Legacy Data File
and it is still attached to the person, this process just produces a new,
smaller JPG file which is also stored in the Legacy Data File. I then have
to go to each person and each event, manually remove the attached picture,
re-attach each of the new JPG pictures and re-enter the caption information,
date and desription information.
If I were to change all my BMP's to JPG files, re-attached all the files,
now I would have twice as many photo's in my Legacy Data File. I have added
a D: Drive to my computer, should I now move all the unattached BMP files to
the D: Drive on my computer as I do not have an external Drive?
Sorry for the long email.
Leo
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