Post by: Gregg on April 06, 2003, 06:53:00 PM
Thanks!
Post by: kps on April 06, 2003, 07:04:00 PM
Post by: gmann on April 06, 2003, 08:25:00 PM
Post by: sluggo on April 06, 2003, 10:25:00 PM
Post by: kps on April 06, 2003, 10:28:00 PM
NOTE: Be aware of the fact that Thorsen Lemke has changed GC's licensing. As of version 4.5 all previous registration codes have ceased to work. A new license is required.
Post by: Thomas S. England on April 07, 2003, 05:56:00 AM
http://www.caffeinesoft.com/
You can download for free the latest version of a suite of image processing & archiving softwares. While I have never used these myself, I have read elsewhere that people like them. Included are:
Curator, TIFFany, PixelNhance along with users guides.
I downloaded & tucked away just to have to make available for friends who might not want to spend $$ on Photoshop Elements, etc.
Post by: jepinto on April 07, 2003, 06:22:00 AM
It's easy, intuitive, i.e., under Image>Scale you get a choice of inches, centimeters, pixels, picas, points. You can do it by percentage, or pick the size you'd like. Default is "Keep aspect ratio". The Filters menu offers 9 options, Sharpen offers Unsharp Maks, Sharpen 1 or Sharpen 2. IT OFFERS 16 LEVELS OF UNDO!! as the default. (Naw, I never make a mistake! )
I don't see where Microfrontier has updated for X, but I use it 9.1 most everyday, on the iMac 333 and a Performa 6400/G3-400-136 ram sure does make Photoshop a "stand alone" program
One complaint-it don't do text worth a flip. Needing to add captions, I usually save the jpg and open in AW, add the text, save as jpg and reopen in CI then print. AW is often "too blue" for my tastes.
Yes, it opens digital camera card formats, it has a catalog function, it does "change resolution", also with "keep aspect ratio", the manual is pdf, and there is a demo download.
Post by: Paddy on April 07, 2003, 11:34:00 PM
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/imag...ixelnhance.html
PixelInhance doesn't seem to allow resizing (from my brief look at it) but this shareware program, Photologist does, and gets high ratings at VersionTracker. It's $19.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/imag...hotologist.html
For resizing and quick conversions, here's another nifty $15 shareware program, HBImage Processor:
http://www.aquafiles.com/cgi-bin/aquafiles...ump.cgi?ID=1253
Again - OS X only. Every time I look, there's more stuff out there for OS X. I could spend my entire life trying things out!
Post by: Gregg on April 07, 2003, 12:36:00 PM
Just in case, I've already bookmarked the link for Graphic Converter. Thanks kps.
Post by: Gregg on April 07, 2003, 05:52:00 PM
Now, I should have said that I'm looking for something that will work in OS9. Paddy, are there older versions of the ones you mentioned? kps, is that GC thing for OS9 or X? (haven't checked - gotta run)
Jennie, your suggestion is the most expensive of the bunch, but might be the only option for me so far.
[ 04-07-2003, 06:56 PM: Message edited by: Gregg ]
Post by: LR827 on April 07, 2003, 06:14:00 PM
Post by: Paddy on April 07, 2003, 09:34:00 PM
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/9359
Goldberg 2.3 for Mac OS 9 - and it's free. It also gets good reviews at VersionTracker.
Post by: kps on April 07, 2003, 09:38:00 PM
Post by: krissel on April 07, 2003, 09:47:00 PM
Colorit! was my old standby before I got Photoshop and found it very capable in many ways. Prior to upgrading my processor I would use it when I was in a hurry cause I didn't want to wait for Photoshop to startup.
One good thing about GC is the batch conversion which would allow you to process a folder full of pictures if you needed them all a particular size.
Post by: Bill on April 07, 2003, 09:50:00 PM
Post by: Gregg on April 08, 2003, 07:44:00 AM
quote:I have an Epson 740. I'll have to pull out the CD and see what's on it. Thanks for the tip.
Originally posted by LR827:
Well, gregg, if you can afford an Epson printer, that's where I got my Photoshop LE 4.0, for free. It still suits my needs best, and can do just about anything. The neat thing is, you'll discover all kinds of things to do to photos that you "never thought you'd use" but will! It is virtually addicting.
Paddy, I'm going to give your suggestion a try. I hope the download works better than that Caffeine thing did.
Post by: Gregg on April 08, 2003, 06:01:00 PM
Post by: Xairbusdriver on April 08, 2003, 06:54:00 PM
Doesn't sound like you really care (nor do I!), but ColorIt! is being re-built for X, at least it was when I talked to somebody at MicroFrontier several months ago. I don't use it as much as I used to, for the same price, it's hard to beat Elements 2! But it is still a quite capable pixel (non-vector) graphics editor 'for the rest of us!' And it will open and display an image before Elements is even loaded.
Some one mentioned saving as a jpeg, opening in AW, saving as jpeg again. Just remember that a jpeg will lose some pixels/info with every save. No matter what quality you use. Probably better to save an original in another format (tiff, psd, etc.) make changes in that format, then save a copy as a jpeg to reduce the file size.
Jim C.
Post by: Gregg on April 09, 2003, 07:56:00 AM
PhotoMAX won.
Post by: Gregg on April 10, 2003, 07:43:00 AM
Post by: zodraz on April 10, 2003, 02:46:00 PM
The downside is that it's for JPEGS only. BUT that's fine if you have a batch of digital camera shots you want to size up (or down). Oh, it's FAST too. It works fine in nine, not sure if it does X though.
Post by: Gregg on April 10, 2003, 02:55:00 PM
http://mapage.noos.fr/cedricdj/re.html
It says there are versions for Classic, OS X and Windows.
Post by: jepinto on July 22, 2003, 05:53:36 AM
QUOTE(zodraz @ Apr 10 2003, 3:46 PM)
I forget where I downloaded this, but Resize! is a little freeware app that will re-size (duh) a whole folder of files. It has a number of parameters, so even if the files are of different sizes, you can "unify" them.
zodraz and Gregg
Thank YOU!! Thank you, thank you! You have saved me endless hours, on just one of my pages. I had 20 shots of one house, fired up ResizeIt and made the thumbnails for the page, then made the 430s! So much easier than the way I was doing it!
Post by: Thomas S. England on July 22, 2003, 07:44:51 AM
http://homepage.mac.com/mdewalt/
Post by: Gregg on July 22, 2003, 08:00:18 AM
