Re: [LegacyUG] Picture handling/editing
Am I missing something? I don't understand the problem. The image is only linked to Legacy. You can use any image editor on the image, edit away, when you get what you want, save it to the original name, and voila the newly-edited image will appear in Legacy. Pat On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Rune Mattsson wrote: > > 2015-06-08 13:44 GMT+02:00 Michele/Support : > >> Michele > > > Thanks Michele, it will be a welcome improvement! > Meanwhile, I continue to link images twice, as image and as document in > order to have access to my external editor from within Legacy. > > > -- > 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). > 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/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
Re: [LegacyUG] Picture handling/editing
2015-06-08 13:44 GMT+02:00 Michele/Support : > Michele Thanks Michele, it will be a welcome improvement! Meanwhile, I continue to link images twice, as image and as document in order to have access to my external editor from within Legacy. -- 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). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Picture handling/editing
We already have a suggestion in our suggestions queue for the programmers to consider to be able to access an external image editor from within the Legacy program. Michele Technical Support <mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com> mich...@legacyfamilytree.com <http://www.legacyfamilytree.com> www.legacyfamilytree.com From: Cathy Pinner [mailto:genea...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2015 10:43 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Picture handling/editing 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 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Picture handling/editing
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 : > 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
Re: [LegacyUG] Picture handling/editing
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 demand 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
[LegacyUG] Picture handling/editing
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 demand 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
