Re: [LegacyUG] Picture handling/editing

2015-06-08 Thread Rune Mattsson
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

Re: [LegacyUG] Picture handling/editing

2015-06-08 Thread Pat Hickin
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

RE: [LegacyUG] Picture handling/editing

2015-06-08 Thread Michele/Support
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

Re: [LegacyUG] Picture handling/editing

2015-06-08 Thread Rune Mattsson
2015-06-08 13:44 GMT+02:00 Michele/Support mich...@legacyfamilytree.com: 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

[LegacyUG] Picture handling/editing

2015-06-07 Thread Rune Mattsson
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

Re: [LegacyUG] Picture handling/editing

2015-06-07 Thread 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