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From: Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: irfanview is good at... extracting a page (as Jpg, Png) from a PDF file.
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 21:54:42 -0400
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On Sat, 27 Jul 2024 23:27:30 -0000 (UTC), 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). 
>
I did not scan my slides.  I bought a used Nikon Coolscan and later
sold it for the same price I paid for it.


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