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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)
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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 11:34:18 +0200
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Anonymous <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 27 Jul 2024 13:22:59 -0400, Rich Ulrich
> > <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 18:02:15 -0400, Tony Cooper
> >> <tonycooper214@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:39:09 -0700, HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb>
> >>> 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