[TheForge] OT Question on Photo-Display Software

[Ries Niemi]

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ries

On Aug 7, 2006, at 5:35 AM, Bruce Freeman wrote:

> Somehow I've managed to get stuck with writing up my second article in 
> a
> couple months on a blacksmithing-related event.  The writing is no
> problem. But it seems there's always someone around with a digital
> camera snapping pictures.  I used to be able to handle pictures, but 
> now
> the damned things are about 2 MB apiece! and It is not only exceedingly
> slow to load each one (5-10  sec each, maybe) but I can't display more
> than a few at a time.  What this means is that I can't "riffle through
> the stack" of photos and pick out those I want to use.  This may sound
> trivial, but it's a real headache.
>
> I think the best "fix" would be some software that would pick up a
> directory of photos (.jpg) and reduce each one to no more than web-page
> quality.  (I don't NEED to see the reflection of the photographer off 
> my
> bald head!)  Once this small, software I have would handle a lot of
> them, pretty easily.
>
> I could make this conversion one-by-one.  What I was wondering is
> whether there's any software that could do it automatically?  Or,
> perhaps, there's a better way that I haven't thougth about.  
> Suggestions
> welcome.
>
> As it stands, I'm likely to submit an article completely without photos
> because my life is too short to deal with the frustration of handling
> these enormous photos.
>
> Bruce
> NJ
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