Hello. Hope someone can help and give me good news! I scanned about 60
photographs for my daughter. The program that scanned these photos was
Microsoft Picture It! . These photos have a .png extension. I need to, if
possible, convert these photos to .jpg. Is there some way I can do this?
These photos are being e-mailed to an internet site that copies the sent
photos into nice printed photographs, but any photos that have the .png
format cannot be printed. I don't know why this is the case. I'm currently
using Windows XP Home edition. Thanks for any help, it is greatly
appreciated!

tinsin54 wrote:
> Hello. Hope someone can help and give me good news! I scanned about
> 60 photographs for my daughter. The program that scanned these
> photos was Microsoft Picture It! . These photos have a .png
> extension. I need to, if possible, convert these photos to .jpg. Is
> there some way I can do this? These photos are being e-mailed to an
> internet site that copies the sent photos into nice printed
> photographs, but any photos that have the .png format cannot be
> printed. I don't know why this is the case. I'm currently using
> Windows XP Home edition. Thanks for any help, it is greatly
> appreciated!
==============================
Do you still have the version of Picture It!
that created the .png files? If you do...you
can re-open them and save in a different
format...File / Save As...

If your version has the following option you
may be able to convert them in a batch:
Touchup / Batch Edit In Mini Lab / Save As.

HINT: The number of files you can batch
convert at one time will be limited by your
system resources....I would suggest that you
try 25 or maybe even 50 at once but too
many will probably freeze/crash your
program.

If you no longer have Picture It!...you could
download the following 60 day trial version
of Digital Image and use it. It does include:
....Touchup / Batch Edit In Mini Lab / Save As...

Microsoft Digital Image
Starter Edition 2006
http://tinyurl.com/28loxr
(this product line has been
discontinued but you can still
download the Starter Version
and run it for 60 days)

Caution...there are other programs that can
convert the files to different formats but the
..png-plus files created in Picture It! are not
fully compatible with other programs so your
converted files may not be of the same quality
they would be if converted in MS Picture It! or
MS Digital Image.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://support.microsoft.com/ph/695

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

"John Inzer" wrote:

> tinsin54 wrote:
> > Hello. Hope someone can help and give me good news! I scanned about
> > 60 photographs for my daughter. The program that scanned these
> > photos was Microsoft Picture It! . These photos have a .png
> > extension. I need to, if possible, convert these photos to .jpg. Is
> > there some way I can do this? These photos are being e-mailed to an
> > internet site that copies the sent photos into nice printed
> > photographs, but any photos that have the .png format cannot be
> > printed. I don't know why this is the case. I'm currently using
> > Windows XP Home edition. Thanks for any help, it is greatly
> > appreciated!
> ==============================
> Do you still have the version of Picture It!
> that created the .png files? If you do...you
> can re-open them and save in a different
> format...File / Save As...
>
> If your version has the following option you
> may be able to convert them in a batch:
> Touchup / Batch Edit In Mini Lab / Save As.
>
> HINT: The number of files you can batch
> convert at one time will be limited by your
> system resources....I would suggest that you
> try 25 or maybe even 50 at once but too
> many will probably freeze/crash your
> program.
>
> If you no longer have Picture It!...you could
> download the following 60 day trial version
> of Digital Image and use it. It does include:
> ....Touchup / Batch Edit In Mini Lab / Save As...
>
> Microsoft Digital Image
> Starter Edition 2006
> http://tinyurl.com/28loxr
> (this product line has been
> discontinued but you can still
> download the Starter Version
> and run it for 60 days)
>
> Caution...there are other programs that can
> convert the files to different formats but the
> ..png-plus files created in Picture It! are not
> fully compatible with other programs so your
> converted files may not be of the same quality
> they would be if converted in MS Picture It! or
> MS Digital Image.
>
> --
>
> John Inzer
> MS Picture It! -
> Digital Image MVP
>
> Digital Image
> Highlights and FAQs
> http://support.microsoft.com/ph/695
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk
>
>
>

"John Inzer" wrote:

> tinsin54 wrote:
> > Hello. Hope someone can help and give me good news! I scanned about
> > 60 photographs for my daughter. The program that scanned these
> > photos was Microsoft Picture It! . These photos have a .png
> > extension. I need to, if possible, convert these photos to .jpg. Is
> > there some way I can do this? These photos are being e-mailed to an
> > internet site that copies the sent photos into nice printed
> > photographs, but any photos that have the .png format cannot be
> > printed. I don't know why this is the case. I'm currently using
> > Windows XP Home edition. Thanks for any help, it is greatly
> > appreciated!
> ==============================
> Do you still have the version of Picture It!
> that created the .png files? If you do...you
> can re-open them and save in a different
> format...File / Save As...
>
> If your version has the following option you
> may be able to convert them in a batch:
> Touchup / Batch Edit In Mini Lab / Save As.
>
> HINT: The number of files you can batch
> convert at one time will be limited by your
> system resources....I would suggest that you
> try 25 or maybe even 50 at once but too
> many will probably freeze/crash your
> program.
>
> If you no longer have Picture It!...you could
> download the following 60 day trial version
> of Digital Image and use it. It does include:
> ....Touchup / Batch Edit In Mini Lab / Save As...
>
> Microsoft Digital Image
> Starter Edition 2006
> http://tinyurl.com/28loxr
> (this product line has been
> discontinued but you can still
> download the Starter Version
> and run it for 60 days)
>
> Caution...there are other programs that can
> convert the files to different formats but the
> ..png-plus files created in Picture It! are not
> fully compatible with other programs so your
> converted files may not be of the same quality
> they would be if converted in MS Picture It! or
> MS Digital Image.
>
> --
>
> John Inzer
> MS Picture It! -
> Digital Image MVP
>
> Digital Image
> Highlights and FAQs
> http://support.microsoft.com/ph/695
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk
>
>
> John,
Thank you for the reply in very quick order. Your solution worked
well. Although my version of Picture It didn't allow me to Batch convert,
I'm still able to convert them to .jpg none the less, albeit one at a time.
Thank you again for being there for the Windows community.
regards. Tony

tinsin54 wrote:
>> John,
> Thank you for the reply in very quick order. Your solution
> worked well. Although my version of Picture It didn't allow me to
> Batch convert, I'm still able to convert them to .jpg none the less,
> albeit one at a time. Thank you again for being there for the Windows
> community.
> regards. Tony
===========================================
You're welcome.

Thanks for the update.

BTW...if you have lots of images to convert...
it may be worth the time to download and install
the 60 day trial version of DIS2006...it has the
batch option.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://support.microsoft.com/ph/695

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

"John Inzer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> tinsin54 wrote:
>>> John,
>> Thank you for the reply in very quick order. Your solution
>> worked well. Although my version of Picture It didn't allow me to
>> Batch convert, I'm still able to convert them to .jpg none the less,
>> albeit one at a time. Thank you again for being there for the Windows
>> community.
>> regards. Tony
> ===========================================
> You're welcome.
>
> Thanks for the update.
>
> BTW...if you have lots of images to convert...
> it may be worth the time to download and install
> the 60 day trial version of DIS2006...it has the
> batch option.
>
> --
>
> John Inzer
> MS Picture It! -
> Digital Image MVP
>
> Digital Image
> Highlights and FAQs
> http://support.microsoft.com/ph/695
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk
>
Or get a free copy of XnView at http://www.xnview.com. It includes Nconvert
which can open 400 graphics formats and export to 40. It can do batch
convert.

LJB

LJB wrote:
> Or get a free copy of XnView at http://www.xnview.com. It includes
> Nconvert which can open 400 graphics formats and export to 40. It can
> do batch convert.
>
> LJB
=====================================
XnView is great but not a good idea in this case.
Reason being...Digital Image Suite uses a special
version of .png that they call .png-plus. It is not fully
compatible with other software and the converted
images may not be the same quality they would be
if converted in the MS Digital Image software.

The tricky thing about .png-plus is that the files have
the .png extension so they cannot be distinguished
from regular Portable Network Graphics .png files.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://support.microsoft.com/ph/695

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

What version of Picture It are you using? I am still using Picture It 2001
(thought I was the only one left in the whole world). Until recently I
thought that I could not convert more than one at a time but I accidently
figured out how. If you are interested, I can post the instructions. It
isn't as intutive as most things on Picture It 2001 are.
Shirley


"tinsin54" wrote:

> Hello. Hope someone can help and give me good news! I scanned about 60
> photographs for my daughter. The program that scanned these photos was
> Microsoft Picture It! . These photos have a .png extension. I need to, if
> possible, convert these photos to .jpg. Is there some way I can do this?
> These photos are being e-mailed to an internet site that copies the sent
> photos into nice printed photographs, but any photos that have the .png
> format cannot be printed. I don't know why this is the case. I'm currently
> using Windows XP Home edition. Thanks for any help, it is greatly
> appreciated!

sahogan1 wrote:
> What version of Picture It are you using? I am still using Picture
> It 2001 (thought I was the only one left in the whole world). Until
> recently I thought that I could not convert more than one at a time
> but I accidently figured out how. If you are interested, I can post
> the instructions. It isn't as intutive as most things on Picture It
> 2001 are.
> Shirley
=================================
Yes...please post instructions that explain
how to do a batch reformat in Picture It! 2001.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://support.microsoft.com/ph/695

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

"John Inzer" wrote:

> sahogan1 wrote:
> > What version of Picture It are you using? I am still using Picture
> > It 2001 (thought I was the only one left in the whole world). Until
> > recently I thought that I could not convert more than one at a time
> > but I accidently figured out how. If you are interested, I can post
> > the instructions. It isn't as intutive as most things on Picture It
> > 2001 are.
> > Shirley
> =================================
> Yes...please post instructions that explain
> how to do a batch reformat in Picture It! 2001.
>
> --
>
> John Inzer
> MS Picture It! -
> Digital Image MVP
>
> Digital Image
> Highlights and FAQs
> http://support.microsoft.com/ph/695
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk
>
>
>
Here are the instructions for using Mini Lab in Picture It 2001 to convert
file types. I don't believe you can save them under the same name so if that
is an issue, this isn't the solution you need.

Open Picture It

File > Open

(Open "Pictures or Projects Screen" appears)
Scroll to pictures you wish to convert.

Hold the Control Key down and highlight each picture.

Press the "Open" button in Picture It

Press the "Touch Up" Button under "Picture Options"

(Options under "Touch Up" appear)
Click on "Mini Lab" Button

(Mini Lab Screen appears)
Click "Select All Pictures"

Click "Save"

("Mini Lab - Batch Save" Screen appears)

1. Click on Destination Folder

2. From the Drop Down Menu change the File Type to JPEG

3. Change the base (File) name * see note 1 and note 2

Click Save


*1) On certain type files (specifically .mix & .png you must also delete the
extension name)

* 2) Unfortunately, it saves each picture with the name you changed it
to followed by space 1, space 2, space 3, etc.