Jenny - you could use a photo editing piece of software and 'crop' the person, or persons, wanted and then save it to your Legacy photo folder. This is a compromise, because sometimes the 'cropping' leaves the photo somewhat less satisfactory than desired. I have used this method and seems to work pretty well, but it is a very tedious operation when there may 10-15 people in a photo. Sort of like a 'court of last resort' if you can't get individual photos.
Bob ---- JLB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jenny M Benson wrote: > > But what do you do about photographs which have up to 20 or more family > members on them or photographs which include members of more than one > family line (eg both sets of grandparents)? > -------------- > Well, now you're just being difficult. As I said somewhere else, I > don't use pictures in Legacy much. Having to create separate events > just to have pictures print out where you want them, which I've read > alot about here is too much noodling around. I only use single > portraits for the occasional descendants chart or something and I file > them by surname, name so they match up in the Picture Center. > > In my general filing, I file by familyname-year-0001, etc. If there's > no date, I appoximate one (preferably) or put 0000. If I put the date > first in that string it causes a problem of there being too many photos > starting with 0000 which helps nothing. I'm talking about 'old' photos > of which they're are relatively few, not the gazillions of the more > recent digitals. Of course "family name" is not an exact science > because of mixed photos as you mention above. In this case, it helps to > have a convention and it doesn't matter what. I put mine under either > the oldest person in the group, or which family comes first > alphabetically. If it's primarily a Beeken/Liles group I'll file it > under Beeken. I would say just make something up that makes sense to > you that you can remember and do consistently. I embed all the detailed > information using IPTC, but that's another story. > JL > JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists > http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/jlog.html > > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
