Hi Cathy, Not a waste of time in my opinion.
I have tons of pictures; there are scanned documents, camera photos, scanned photos, downloaded photos (I don’t trust the Internet to be static so when I find something interesting, I download it) I am handling all my pictures in Windows photo gallery where they are tagged and commented so I can find the correct picture in a few seconds, double-click and open it in IrfanView. And, in IrfanView, I first copy the filename, then I choose “F8” (Copy to) ->”1” (my Legacy Media folder which is the first of 14 user defined “copy to” folders) And, if I want a picture from the Internet: I download it to my download folder, open it, copy the name, choose “F7” (move to) -> “1” (my Legacy Media folder) After that I link the file in Lecgacy (I am pasting the filename) Then, I open the picture (now in the media folder) in IrfanView, I edit it by cropping (Ctrl Y) or resizing (Ctrl R), convert to greyscale (Ctrl G) and much more if required (often with one but newer with more than two keyboard / mouse clicks) I maybe want to make annotation on it by highlighting persons in group photos or rows in census and I choose F12 (show paint dialog) and can then write, draw arrows and circles. If I edit the photo I will save it under another name and link also the new name, I keep the old link but uncheck the tickbox “Tag / Untag for Printing." My experience is that I will need the same photo more than once (for other persons) and if so I pick it again, edit is and save it with a new name. And as I wrote, isn’t IrfanView enough, i can from the menu choose open with external editor and choose Photoshop (one of three user defined programs) I Will make a suggestion to make it possible to edit the picture in external editor and maybe replace the button “Set as Desktop Wallpaper”, it happened once that I selected it by mistake and got the wedding photo of my great grand parents all over my desktop: D If i want to change my desktop i will do it in Windows! 2015-06-08 4:43 GMT+02:00 Cathy Pinner <genea...@gmail.com>: > Hi Rune, > > A better solution would be to ask for an enhancement to Legacy to allow > use of an external image editor. > > But how often do you want to edit images? I do my editing before attaching > to Legacy. I edit a copy of my archived image and then usually resize so > Legacy doesn't have to work so hard resizing images for reports and charts. > > Attaching every image twice on the off chance you may want to edit it > seems a waste of time since you can more quickly find and edit an image > anyway in Irfanview or another image editor. So long as you don't change > the name, it's still attached. > > Cathy > > Rune Mattsson wrote: > > > > I have a problem and (perhaps) a solution to this, and I am now > wondering if anyone sees any drawback or problem in my solution: > > Image management in Legacy is not the best but you can’t de mand so > much, it's a genealogy program. > > I generally use IrfanView as the first option for pictures and I have > it associated with all pictures in Windows. Inside IrfanView I can > among many other things crop, resample, draw arrows, edit metadata and > make notes on pictures and save them back, all with a few mouse clicks. > > And if that's not enough, I have the choice to open it in external > editor, such as Photoshop and continue to edit. > > If I in Legacy double-click on a PDF it will open in my PDF reader, if > I click on a DOC opens Word, if it is a URL my browser opens, but if I > click a JPG it opens in Legacy zoom where I can’t do anything, not > even copy the file name / path. > > And, if I choose 'edit' I will come to a very simple editor, I can > crop, add caption and not so much more, Even there I can’t copy the > file name / path. > > I have now discovered that if I in "Add Multimedia" choose to add a > JPG as a document file will get a document icon, but if I click on the > icon it will open in IrfanView! > > Therefore, I have decided to in Legacy always link to the images > twice, first as a picture and then as a document. > > I have more than 1,000 linked images, can anyone see a risk in this, > for example with future updates? > > > Best Regards > -- > Rune > > > > > 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/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > -- Rune Mattsson Sjödalstorget 9 12 tr SE-141 47 HUDDINGE Sweden Phone + 46 (0) 8 608 16 84 Mobile + 46 (0) 73 600 20 54 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/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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