You've certainly got a point and it's interesting to hear from a newer user what you're looking for. I found the photo situation in Legacy frustrating (a long time ago) and mostly gave up trying to use it. I do still attach images to source detail under the Multimedia tab. And individual pictures in the individual galleries but only one each. I remember when I started out I put a lot more.
What slowed me down there was realizing how photos do, and mostly don't, print out in reports. Even if you have several pictures of your Dad, for instance, what are you going to do with them in Legacy? Have you tried printing an 'album' with them? It doesn't go well, IMO. Source documents, in particular, need to be blown up to about 300% to even be read and that's at one photo per page. Pictures attached to Events will show up in some reports as small thumbnails. Printing a list of Source documents will give you pages of little thumbnails of census records, etc. You can attach lots of pictures into Legacy 'just for company' but test the output options if that's what you're after instead. There are some reports where a small thumbnail works pretty well, so I'm not saying it's totally useless but have a look around before you go gung-ho into attaching images. I annotate (source if you will) all my photos in great detail using software called Photo Mechanic. These annotations show up in other 'IPTC' software like XnView (free), Adobe, ACDSee, iTag (free version available) .... and there are all kinds of printing options such as pdf 'albums', web albums, etc that come out looking *way* better than from Legacy. AND any annotations added to the photos stay with them. If you spend your time in Legacy adding descriptions, dates, captions, etc you are going to lose this information when you're dealing with these photos outside of Legacy. When you have hundreds, and even thousands of photos, you're /really/ going to find out what 'doing it twice' is. Just trying to give you a head's up and some perspective. ----- JL JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog On 6/1/2010 11:06 PM, Bain Family wrote: > Not all and certainly not duplicates (such as if I obtained both birth and > death information from a the same picture of a headstone), but a few > pictures of Dad in his Navy uniform, his ship, a baby picture, a couple as > he was growing up, etc... would be nice. And I do like having a scan of > strategic documents (birth, marriage, and death certificates) show up in the > gallery as well. > > Lana > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "JLB"<j...@jgen.ws> > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 10:21 PM > To:<LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Introduction and a Picture/Source Question > >> Why do you think you need all your pictures in the individual picture >> galleries? >> ----- >> JL >> JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists >> http://www.jgen.ws/jlog >> > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@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 after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
