I have less hair this afternoon than I did this morning. I've been working on Christmas presents that involve photos and I've pulled a load of my hair out. Some of my photos were just so darn big and I couldn't or didn't know how, to reduce them. Those were the ones from my camera---I need a new camera before we go back to Japan next year. The ones from Mac's camera we put on a disc, connected the disc reader to my computer, looked at previews, reduced the size, saved, uploaded to the project I was working on and dragged the pictures in. Those I couldn't reduce took forever to upload, so instead of sitting here staring at the screen I went out played a couple of pages of piano music, came back and dragged the photo (I had to do them one at a time) into my project. When I got tired of playing piano I cross-stitched in between photos.
I finally got two projects done and I have one more to do, hope I have enough hair left to get it done.
wahahahahah..... having same problems today !
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I don't know (or remember) whether you use a Windows or a Mac computer, but on my present laptop with Windows 10 I use Paint.net to reduce the size of images when I need to (like if I want to send them to someone by email). It's a time-consuming nuisance to have to go through the extra process if one needs to do it with more than a few, though. Sometimes I use another "shortcut": I upload the photos to a Facebook album, then download them again from there.
ReplyDeleteThere doesn't seem to be a good image manager out there. I feel the pain.
ReplyDeleteI use Picasa to unload my pics to my pc and have never had the problem you are describing. I hope you can get if figured out. Thanks for stopping by to read my hodgepodge...and to answer your question, yes, that is our plan to build on our son's land. It is a beautiful area! I hope you get the photo situation worked out!
ReplyDeleteTakes a lot of patience, doesn't it? At least you know what you are doing. I would be totally lost. The list of followers has disappeared from my blog. Totally disappeared! ??
ReplyDeleteyou need loads of patience dear.. :) hugs..
ReplyDeleteHow neat you play the piano!!
ReplyDeletebetty
Technology can be frustrating at times.
ReplyDeleteI gave up on photography some time ago. Actually found the camera the other day and wondered what to do with it - use it or lose it. Good luck with your Christmas present project.
ReplyDeleteSome of these projects which appear simple are indeed head bangers/hair pullers when attempted. That said, my piano playing would benefit from more practice.
ReplyDeleteTechnology really tries the patience at times!
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
Years ago, the Microsoft Office Suite had a simple program with it that I used for simple editing and resizing my photos. When I upgraded to a newer Microsoft Office version, the photos program no longer was part of it. Grrrr. I ended up getting PaintShop Pro, since I do quite a bit of post-processing. I know IrfanView is a free and very popular program for working with photos, but I believe it's only for Windows, not Macs.
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