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Too old, too many computers.

I cannot remember the name of an app that I used to adjust photos.

It had one great feature that no one else seems to have.
This was not one of the big apps like Photoshop etc.

The "effect" is 'Darken Background'.

Does anyone know what app I am referring to?

Thanks!
 
Too old, too many computers.

I cannot remember the name of an app that I used to adjust photos.

It had one great feature that no one else seems to have.
This was not one of the big apps like Photoshop etc.

The "effect" is 'Darken Background'.

Does anyone know what app I am referring to?

Thanks!



Don't know what you had but IrFanview is a good, free photo editor
 
I use Xnview http://www.xnview.com/. It has many capabilities.


That web site says it's "an efficient multimedia viewer, browser and
converter." It doesn't sound at all like an editor, but if it is,
please enlighten us with some details of what it can do.

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP
 
BeeJ said:
Too old, too many computers.

I cannot remember the name of an app that I used to adjust photos.

It had one great feature that no one else seems to have.
This was not one of the big apps like Photoshop etc.

The "effect" is 'Darken Background'.

Does anyone know what app I am referring to?

Thanks!

Microsoft Picture It!
 
Many people recommend GIMP.



GIMP is an excellent bit of software
but it's not what I'd refer to as basic.

I use it but have only touched on a few of it's features
 
Hot-Text said:
Microsoft Picture It!


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That web site says it's "an efficient multimedia viewer, browser
and converter." It doesn't sound at all like an editor, but if it
is, please enlighten us with some details of what it can do.

Irfanview is mainly a viewer with some editing and conversion features.
Many of those features are described on their web site. If that's not
enough information for you, try it out for yourself. I don't think it's
necessary for anyone here to "enlighten us" when we can easily
enlighten ourselves.
 
Irfanview is mainly a viewer with some editing and conversion features.
Many of those features are described on their web site. If that's not
enough information for you, try it out for yourself. I don't think it's
necessary for anyone here to "enlighten us" when we can easily
enlighten ourselves.


Thank you, but I've been using IrfanView for several years and I know
what it is.

My question was in reply to the statement "I use Xnview
http://www.xnview.com/. It has many capabilities." I'm not interested
in trying it out without more information about what those "many
capabilities" are.


Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP
 
Too old, too many computers.

I cannot remember the name of an app that I used to adjust photos.

It had one great feature that no one else seems to have.
This was not one of the big apps like Photoshop etc.

The "effect" is 'Darken Background'.

Does anyone know what app I am referring to?

Thanks!

I use free IrfanView, ver 4..25 for doing just that. I don't care
about putting the pictures together, but the control of contrast,
gamma, and brightness are awesome. Often, by adjusting gamma, the
background comes into complete view! For example, a photo of an
object taken inside a dark closet, barely shows the item, but after
gamma, brightness correction; the picture looks like it was almost
taken in daylight. The information in the dark regions started showing
'digitization' yet, the images were still very visible.

I also use it to losslessly compress an image from .bmp 4MB to .jpg
125K to email to people. where their systems won't accept a .zip file.
 
Thank you, but I've been using IrfanView for several years and I
know what it is.

My question was in reply to the statement "I use Xnview
http://www.xnview.com/. It has many capabilities." I'm not
interested in trying it out without more information about what
those "many capabilities" are.

Ah - I misread that and thought you were referring to Irfanview. Sorry.
 
I use free IrfanView, ver 4..25 for doing just that. I don't care
about putting the pictures together, but the control of contrast,
gamma, and brightness are awesome. Often, by adjusting gamma, the
background comes into complete view! For example, a photo of an
object taken inside a dark closet, barely shows the item, but after
gamma, brightness correction; the picture looks like it was almost
taken in daylight. The information in the dark regions started showing
'digitization' yet, the images were still very visible.

I also use it to losslessly compress an image from .bmp 4MB to .jpg
125K to email to people. where their systems won't accept a .zip file.

..jpg is a lossy format.
 
.jpg is a lossy format.

Not necessarily - they extended the jpg standard in the early 90's to
include a lossless mode. That said, I don't know if it is capable of
compressing a 4MB bit mapped image down to 125KB...
 
Not necessarily - they extended the jpg standard in the early 90's to
include a lossless mode. That said, I don't know if it is capable of
compressing a 4MB bit mapped image down to 125KB...

Actually, that's what caught my eye. Going from 4MB to 125KB is what,
about a 32:1 compression ratio? That's not likely to be lossless, but
your point is taken. Thanks.
 
.jpg is a lossy format.

I thought so too, but I seem to be able to go back and forth without
losing any pixels in the bitmap.
Lossy compression would destroy a schematics and drawings - I think.
 
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Not necessarily - they extended the jpg standard in the early 90's to
include a lossless mode.  That said, I don't know if it is capable of
compressing a 4MB bit mapped image down to 125KB...

thank you. thought so. actually down below 25kB sometimes, depends
try it on a 4MB .bmp white screen and it reallly reduces.
 
Actually, that's what caught my eye. Going from 4MB to 125KB is what,
about a 32:1 compression ratio? That's not likely to be lossless, but
your point is taken. Thanks.

yeah, just got a lossless from 4.1MB down to 23kB using IrfanView 4.25
operating on a simple .bmp
 
.jpg is a lossy format.


The "lossless conversion" in IrfanView he is on about is for rotating
the image from an upright position to a bedding position...
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