Another excellent image "viewer" is FastStone Image Viewer 3.2 available for free at http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm.
The program supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG). It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, color adjustments, high quality magnifier, musical slideshow, lossless JPEG transitions, image annotation, scanner support, histogram, thumbnail browser, configurable batch processing to convert/rename images, and much more. I have used this "Swiss Army knife" image software for over a year and highly recommend it for handling pictures for Legacy use! Mark Wilson Oklahoma ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary Templeman To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, 21 Jul 2007 10:03 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF file is way too big I will whole heartedly endorse Irfanview also. I have used it for years and have it installed on all the computers at our Family History Center. It is a well respected piece of software and I would have no concerns about any risk from downloading it. Tucows and other sites host the download. The main page for more information is http://www.irfanview.com/ Gary Templeman ----- Original Message ----- From: Karl Plenge To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 7:47 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF file is way too big > Hi Ron, I have a quite a few pictures attached to my family tree and at > least 90% of them I have saved in the bmp format, I do not know a lot > about pictures. Is there an easy way to change my bmp format to the .jgp > format and by changing the format will this affect the quality of the > pictures. Leo There is a free program called IrfanView available at www.tucows.com. It is excellent for converting bmp's to jpg's because it offers a batch mode (under File on the menu). I have used this program for several years and have never noticed any visible image degradation, and I usually shrink my photos to 20% of their original size while I am converting them so I can email them to those on dial-up. However, as long as you keep your original bmp's (which I strongly recommend), if you did notice any degradation, you could just do the conversion again with different settings. If you are leery of downloaded software, you can always use Windows Paint (included with Windows under Accessories) to convert them one at a time - open the bmp, click File, then Save As, and in the file type select jpg. Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
