Excellent, if mysterious looking , program, Chuck.
I'll try my hand at it later today...
Off to daughter Amy's house in Greenbelt for a free meal! 😋
On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> I recommend FastStone Image Viewer. <
> http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm> It started life as strictly
> an image browser/viewer modeled after (my favorite) the BreezeBrowser image
> viewer. As time went along it picked up some more of its own character and
> started adding basic editing functions. I still prefer BreeezeBrowser as an
> image viewer but BreezeBrowser is anything but free and does no editing at
> all... instead passing the image to an external editor such as Photoshop
> (or many others). Actually, FastStone can pass an image to an external
> editor also.
>
> FastStone is what I recommend to my kids because, although its editing
> capabilities are limited, it still has far more editing function than they
> will ever use.
>
> Perhaps its biggest drawback is that it's volunteer programmer/creator is
> like most of the programmers I've ever worked with... they like writing
> code but hate writing documentation on how to use stuff or how and why it
> works internally. This guy is no different but a volunteer writer stepped
> up and created some basic documentation on how to use it... available here.
> <http://www.faststone.org/FSIVTutorial.htm> But if you check the file
> dates you'll see that the app was updated last year but the documentation
> hasn't been updated in 5 years.
>
> Despite all that the documentation is good enough to get you started and
> after you get yourself familiar with it you'll probably be able to figure
> out the rest by playing with it.
>
> If you read the development version history on the first link above you'll
> see what function is in it.
>
> ps: One of it most useful functions, modeled after BreezeBrowser, is a 2,
> 3 or 4-up comparison. Very useful if you have a number of very similar
> images and are trying to compare and whittle down to the best. You can find
> it under the tools menu or the double pine trees icon. The scroll wheel
> will zoom the images. Tags for each allow you choose which to keep or
> discard as image selection can be controlled with the tags.
>
> Overall, excellent for a freebie.
>
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 4/9/2016 1:21 PM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
>
>> Seriously I'm learning the new Dell laptop youngest daughter gifted me
>> It's got Picasa... Need to find something better. (,Think maybe I had
>> photo-something
>> on the fried Toshiba.)
>> Open to any (free program) suggestions.
>> On Apr 9, 2016 1:15 PM, "Rick Beckrich" <rbeckrich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I know you're right, Jim... But. One step at a time.
>>> A few years ago I couldn't even spell dijotell. ;-)
>>> On Apr 9, 2016 1:03 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nice shot, Rick. If you could adjust the white balance to make the snow
>>>>
>>> white, it would be even better. Just a thought.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 4/9/2016 11:42 AM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hopefully, the last of Winter. (It was 80 degrees one week ago!)
>>>>>
>>>>> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=19860
>>>>>
>>>>> Tired of it, Rick.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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