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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 00:04:27 EST
In a message dated 2/25/02 9:43:15 AM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
> There are several utilities you can use to compress the images down to a
> more manageable size
Thanks for the response.
I have found an excellent photo managing program called Image Walker,
downloadable from imagewalker.com. It is fully functional and the author
asks only $20 to register. I had already tried six or seven other programs
that were useless and was delighted to stumble across this one on a disk
bundled with a magazine.
It continues to amaze me. It will do several bulk jobs, such as resizing and
changing format at the same time. I have shrunk directories full of scanned
images from 3-5K pixels per side to fit on a 1600 x 1200 pixel UXGA screen
and at the same time converted them from JPG to TIF format.
You can annotate each photo with three different fields (but not in BPM yet)
and do searches on each of them. There is a good slide show feature and some
basic editing functions.
The author, Zac Walker, and Aussie living in London, is quite communicative,
always answering my email within one business day. He has promised to make
numerous changes to the program that will make it more polished but I have no
idea how long this will take. He does have a day job.
For those looking for a great image managing program, download Image Walker
and see for yourself.
On the advice of several experienced people, and my own observations, I have
decided to go with the TIF format for my photos. It's lossless, like BMP,
but supports written descriptions like JPG. Each photo takes up about 3 to 6
MB so with a CD burner I can put 100 to 200 high resolution (1200x1600 pixels
to accommodate a UXGA screen) photos on a CD.
Norm
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