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    Best way to crop and save photos

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by hehe299792458, Mar 17, 2010.

  1. hehe299792458

    hehe299792458 Notebook Deity

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    I have a lot of scanned jpeg files with several pictures in each. I need to find a way to separate them and save them as individual files. The software included with the scanner does this, but extremely poorly. Is there a better software out there to do this? Thanks!
     
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    If where you want cropped is the same in each image, XNView has a nifty batch cropping feature. Just specify the dimensions, load in the pictures, and it does the rest.
     
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    If you have Office 2007 you have Microsoft Office Picture Manager on your system. It's a GREAT photo editing app. If you use an older version of Office, you probably have Microsoft's Photo Editor on your system --- it's the predecessor to Picture Manager and is also great.
     
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    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    In my experience IrfanView ruins your image Quality... ideally Photoshop is best but overkill and expensive...

    Easiest to use would possibly be paint.net
    http://www.getpaint.net/

    Maybe learn Gimp but its slower to start and looked messy to me when I once looked at it... Photoshop for me :)
     
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    newsposter Notebook Virtuoso

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    Vuescan is the best scanner siftware available. Reasonably priced too.

    Irfanview (and ALL imaging software) will only screw up bitmap images (joeg, etc) if the user isn't smart enough to double check the save defaults and make sure that images are NOT being compressed and being saved in best possible 'quality'.

    Irfanview is default set to save at around 80% 'quality'. In real terms this means that approx 20% of your mage data is being discarded. Every time you open and save an image.

    Photoshop until recently had the same defaults set as did The Gimp.

    It really is up to the USER to understand enough about their files, workflow, and software to make effective use of them. Blindly spending $$ or blindly using free software without being competent in their use is a recipe for disappointment.
     
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    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    The good thing in Photoshop is that it remembers ;) and also wants to generally save a .psd filed file and not a JPEG.

    And doesn't it start off at 10 out of 12 for quality when you first install it? :)
     
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    Well, I've been using IrfanView ever since I have been working with images, pictures (both personal as well as scientific) and I've never had any problems. As another posted mentioned above, once you make sure the settings are at the max quality settings, I think IrfanView is pretty good and easy to use. Anyway, choices differ :)

    PS., having said that, I love photoshop too, but it' way too expensive :(
     
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  9. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Can you get academic or charity pricing? :)
     
    DetlevCM, Mar 18, 2010
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    I guess I can, but I haven't bothered to check it out because they said I can't get the english language. :( So, I kinda stopped thinking about it, deciding to get one when I move to a place where I can find a english language version of PS. :)
     
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  11. DetlevCM

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    You can select the language you want when you order it from Adobe :)

    My version is in German even though I ordered from the UK.
     
    DetlevCM, Mar 18, 2010
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