I have been using Win7 Photo Gallery 2012 and is OK for now and I'm making some progress and really don't need to much in the way of editing photos for now. I'm using a service to scan the bulk of these printed photos, but have done several thousand so I could come up with a plan on tags, captions, geo, date taken, etc. No problem with scanning and have done at 300 dpi for most part and jpeg format. I too, like 'Granny', have a large family photo scan project with probably 10k+ photos that I need to get catalogued. However,it might be better persevering with Elements, which is highly regarded. Something simpler would be 'FastStone ' image viewer/editor, which has a good range of adjustments, including effective resizing for printing, and is freeware. Windows Live Gallery does have some basic editing facilities.Īs other people have suggested, Gimp is pretty good. My brother in law was trying to send me some family pictures and they kept arriving at very low res.Īs a way to avoid any risk to your original files just copy them to another folder and work on the copies.

That said, I know that some software, perhaps including more recent versions of PM, has default settings for JPEGs with low res and low 'quality' settings. I have never had an original changed other than by deliberately using 'Save' rather than 'Save as'. I use Picture Manager (Office 2003 version!) quite a bit for quick & dirty edits when I want to put a picture on the Web. Suggestions? (I know it’s probably “user error”.)

I can't seem to stop that from happening - have not found any 'default' settings that would allow me to stop it.Ĭan I edit if I download the Windows Live Gallery, or is that more of an organizer? I have my Vue-Scan set to use Adobe Photoshop Elements as my photo viewer, (although I know very little about using that yet), but everytime I click a photo in a canned photo file, it opens in Microsoft Office Picture Manager. Because of that, I've lost a couple of irreplacable photos that I had planned to enlarge.Īre there any solutions to this issue - or, what am I misunderstanding/doing incorrectly? If I send the 'save as' 4圆 in for a print, it sometimes it even lacks resolution for a good print! And always, when I open up the original, 'changes unsaved' file, it, too, has been reduced way down in kb, so that a future enlargement print is no longer possible. When I close it, I don't save changes for the original. I've had some great jpeg photos ,over 1 mb in size, that I've opened in that program, cropped them to, say, a 4圆, color corrected, and did a 'Save as' so as not to change original file. The MS Office Picture Manager is easy to use, but it seems that it always greatly reduces the size of the images I edit - even if I don't crop or resize it.

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