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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 24, 2018 - 09:19am PT
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One of my older computers has Windows Live Photo Gallery pre-installed. It works GREAT for what I do: Crop and straighten photo images.
That's ALL I ever do, crop and/or straighten.
I like Windows Live Photo Gallery because it is SIMPLE and QUICK. My photography technique is to snap hundreds of photos - maybe 1,000+ (using a camera hanging from a flying kite) and fix every one salvageable, then choose the best three or four as "keepers". Windows Live Photo Gallery makes this process fast and straightforward. Just a few clicks, in just a few seconds.
I've tried other programs, Paint, Picasa, Photoshop, Windows Media Center, Windows Photo Viewer, and none of them are an efficient tool for editing mass quantities of photos.
I tried downloading Windows Photo Gallery onto this computer, but it won't take.
Is there something out there that works that I'm missing?
(I know, you're supposed to do your cropping and straightening through the viewfinder before hitting the shutter, but I'm a long ways from the viewfinder when the camera's up in the air)
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silverplume
Trad climber
Boulder
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Jun 24, 2018 - 01:49pm PT
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I think for sheer speed and simplicity in working with large numbers of images you can't really do better than Photo Mechanic. It was designed by and for photojournalists to browse, cull, and lightly edit photos quickly (crop, resize, edit metadata, etc). I haven't used it for a few years, but people still rave about it. Available for MacOS and Windows:
http://www.camerabits.com/tour-v5/
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Jun 24, 2018 - 03:45pm PT
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I also use IrfanView to crop and straighten.
(I also use it adjust colors, reduce/enlarge, and append an image to the right or bottom).
It's free and quite good.
To select from a large group of photos,
when looking at a folder in Windows you could right-click and select
View / Extra large icons?
(I normally use View / Large icons).
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 25, 2018 - 12:12pm PT
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Excellent! Supertopo comes through once again where the others fell short.
I'll give all these a try.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Jun 25, 2018 - 12:50pm PT
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I've always used Picassa. Crop, straighten simple color fixes, way easy and it's free.
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Jun 26, 2018 - 12:27am PT
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you mentioned everything but lightroom...
it is incredibly powerful if you ever wanted to do more
wonderful for organization...
and for your desired edit, it might be the fastest as there is an auto straighten option.
Open a photo, click the crop tool, click auto straighten. done.
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10b4me
Social climber
Lida Junction
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Jun 26, 2018 - 08:29am PT
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for batch editing, try Photoscape.
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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Jun 26, 2018 - 09:44am PT
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Interesting. So, a photographer recently shot a bunch of photos at an event and we purchased the ones we were in. When we got them home we couldn't open them because they were shot in a Nikon Format that our program wouldn't open. I checked on line and found tons of sites that offer the conversion but just about everyone had some kind of dupe like having to pay for it!! Question, does ifranview offer this in their program? I see some here who's photos I have liked have the program. If not have any suggestions?? Thanks Ahead!
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jun 26, 2018 - 10:19am PT
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Try GIMP
https://www.gimp.org/
The price is right.
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DWB
climber
Madison
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Jun 26, 2018 - 11:07am PT
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"Do any of the above provide batch-edit capabilities, along the lines of saving some specific photo correction settings and then mass-apply to a whole bunch of selected photos at once?
Thanks!
DMT"
Irfanview does. Been using it for years as well. Love it. Lightroom is much better at night photo noise-reduction but for everything but that, Irfanview is great (and free), including batch conversion/edit.
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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Jun 26, 2018 - 03:00pm PT
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Thanks Clint, Will check that out when I get home from work.
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