Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed4-a.proxad.net!nnrp2-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: irfanview is good at... extracting a page (as Jpg, Png) from a PDF file. From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) Reply-To: jjlxa31@xs4all.nl (J. J. Lodder) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 11:34:18 +0200 References: <5oaaajd5jbe26vo1p13kdo9tiirg36l2ne@4ax.com> <2snaajlruphh3uu757m15gjldhah2m2lin@4ax.com> Organization: De Ster Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.8.5 (ea919cf118) (Mac OS 10.12.6) Lines: 63 Message-ID: <66a61099$2$18441$426a74cc@news.free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Jul 2024 11:34:17 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.10.137.58 X-Trace: 1722159257 news-3.free.fr 18441 213.10.137.58:55642 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Bytes: 3898 Anonymous wrote: > Tony Cooper wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Jul 2024 13:22:59 -0400, Rich Ulrich > > wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 18:02:15 -0400, Tony Cooper > >> wrote: > >> > >>> On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:39:09 -0700, HenHanna > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>>>>> I have thousands of images from .jpgs to .pngs on my computer. I use > >>>>>>> the (free) FastStone Photo Viewer. It's not only a great image > >>>>>>> viewer, but offers many other options from selecting by tagged images > >>>>>>> to bulk re-naming. It's set as my default viewer. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> bulk re-naming ---- i've never wanted to do this. > >>> > >>> That's up to your own system. Images come out of the camera with > >>> descriptors determined by the camera. In my case, my Nikon names an > >>> image something like _DNC4911.dng. I re-name the image > >>> 2024-07-26-1.dng or whatever the date is. The image is then adjusted > >>> in Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop and saved or exported as a .tif, .psd, > >>> .png, or .jpg depending on the intended use. > >>> > >>> If I link to one of my images, the file name in that format tells you > >>> when that image was taken. Associating the date-taken with the image > >>> by making it the file name has many advantages. > >> > >> I found the date-as-name extremely useful when I set about > >> organizing the files I obtained when I had 10,000 slides scanned. > >> They had been shot by my dad, featuring celebrations, vacations > >> (people and viewss) and special events. This was about 30 years > >> after he died, after my mom moved and was sorting things out, > >> so discoloration was the problem that was more time-consuming > >> than figuring the actual, original dates. > > > > I have been an avid photographer since high school. Back when I > > started to put all my photographs on the computer using Adobe's > > Lightroom, the problem was dating all those slides and prints I had. > > > > It was like detective work. If I could find a photograph where I > > could pinpoint the date, I'd look for others where the clothing or > > scene was the same. By "pinpoint", I mean at least knowing the year. > > > > I've become proficient in Adobe Photoshop, so I can pretty closely > > restore the original colors to faded scanned prints, refresh black and > > white prints, and restore damaged prints. Some stored prints became > > stuck together and damaged when pulled apart. > > Scanning negatives will give you much more detail than you ever saw in > prints. But it's a world unto itself and unfortunately the best negative > scanners (Nikon Coolscan) are no longer made, even (for many years now). Yes, even with contact prints. Our grandparents never knew what they had, Jan