Members Renfield Posted October 5, 2009 Members Share Posted October 5, 2009 A coworker who is FAR from computer literate needs a photo editing program at home to perform one simple task, I dare say only. He has and can use the "red-eye" software that came with his digital camera, but it saves the files in too large of a format for him to want to email them around and I want to help him find a jpg reducer that's simple to use. In proper terms he wants to take the 300dpi camera pics and export them at a web friendly 72dpi, and that's about it. I've used Gimp, and I know it would confuse the hell out of him, I need some simple application of some kind. Again, this is likely the only feature he'd ever use on it. Ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sonic1 Posted October 5, 2009 Members Share Posted October 5, 2009 Windows Live http://photos.live.com/ It has a red eye option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chugheshc2 Posted October 5, 2009 Members Share Posted October 5, 2009 tell him to get picasa and and use it - when he uploads it will resize them and then he can just email links.C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members absintheXIII Posted October 5, 2009 Members Share Posted October 5, 2009 Gimp was my option. Other than that....I have no ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Renfield Posted October 5, 2009 Author Members Share Posted October 5, 2009 Windows Live http://photos.live.com/ It has a red eye option. I'll play with it, but it makes me nervous already, knowing him. This is a guy that swears the internet is broken every time he "loses" the IE icon in his taskbar. In a perfect world there will be a one button application. You hit the Reduce button, choose your folder and automagically it is done. I'm not optimistic on finding that, but you never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members absintheXIII Posted October 5, 2009 Members Share Posted October 5, 2009 I'll play with it, but it makes me nervous already, knowing him. This is a guy that swears the internet is broken every time he "loses" the IE icon in his taskbar. Ohhhhhhh....That's who you are talking about. nevermind then. Good luck with that. :poke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Super Bass Posted October 5, 2009 Members Share Posted October 5, 2009 Picasa or Irfanview (sp?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members i_wanna_les_paul Posted October 5, 2009 Members Share Posted October 5, 2009 Would something like this work for him? I haven't used it, but I thought I'd throw it out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jazz Ad Posted October 5, 2009 Members Share Posted October 5, 2009 Irfanview all the way. The Gimp is way too complicated for simple editing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Funkee1 Posted October 5, 2009 Members Share Posted October 5, 2009 Picasa or Irfanview (sp?) +1 to Irfanview Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ModmanQ6 Posted October 5, 2009 Members Share Posted October 5, 2009 Another vote for Irfanview!! +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lokidecat Posted October 5, 2009 Members Share Posted October 5, 2009 irfanview probably good but you have GIMPand lately http://www.aviary.com/ has been getting a lot of press. It's a free web-based thing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chubrocker Posted October 5, 2009 Members Share Posted October 5, 2009 I use PhotoScape for a variety of things. I edit all the photos for the webpages I'm responsible for at work. It's not PhotoShop by any means, but for reducing pic size, file size, combining pics, animated .gifs, etc.---I use PhotoScape. It even has a crude screen capture so you can capture pics from the internet or documents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bluescout Posted October 5, 2009 Members Share Posted October 5, 2009 I have a utility here called photoresize. It's crazy easy. The utility is named photoresize###.exe. You set ### to correspond to the size you want the pics to end up. Then you drag and drop one or many pics onto the icon and it will resize them, saving them in the original folder with the number you chose appended to the name. So rename the app photoresize640.exe drag photo named "grand canyon 1.jpg" and drop it on the app. "grand canyon 1_640.jpg" appears in the same folder as the original and is 640 wide. PM me and I'll send it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members oldivor Posted October 5, 2009 Members Share Posted October 5, 2009 GIMP and RTFM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bassplayer7770 Posted October 5, 2009 Members Share Posted October 5, 2009 Yeah, I usually use Irfanview to resize pics quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Renfield Posted October 5, 2009 Author Members Share Posted October 5, 2009 I have a utility here called photoresize. It's crazy easy.The utility is named photoresize###.exe. You set ### to correspond to the size you want the pics to end up. Then you drag and drop one or many pics onto the icon and it will resize them, saving them in the original folder with the number you chose appended to the name.So rename the app photoresize640.exedrag photo named "grand canyon 1.jpg" and drop it on the app."grand canyon 1_640.jpg" appears in the same folder as the original and is 640 wide.PM me and I'll send it out. This sounds very promising. PM on the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rpsands Posted October 5, 2009 Members Share Posted October 5, 2009 Office picture manager thingy, comes with office which everyone should have pretty much. Super easy to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members t3ch Posted October 5, 2009 Members Share Posted October 5, 2009 paint.net or acdsee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Narcosynthesis Posted October 5, 2009 Members Share Posted October 5, 2009 If he is happy doing the red eye on the software he has, then there is a windows powertoy for resizing images that is fantastically easy to use, and which I have forgotten the name of. Nice and easy to use (right click on file, resize) and could be setup for web resolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Renfield Posted October 5, 2009 Author Members Share Posted October 5, 2009 If he is happy doing the red eye on the software he has, then there is a windows powertoy for resizing images that is fantastically easy to use, and which I have forgotten the name of. Nice and easy to use (right click on file, resize) and could be setup for web resolution. This is what I need. He's a 66 yr old stubborn mofo that freaks out in the face of change. If he says that he likes his red eye software, I don't want to suggest an alternative. If one piece of software does all 5 tasks he needs, but he only knows how to do one thing on 5 different pieces, he can use 5 pieces for all I care, as long as he leaves me alone in the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bluescout Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 This sounds very promising. PM on the way. Sorry, had to go out. E-mail on the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members HackedByChinese! Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 Paint.NET is one of the nicest freeware programs for Windows for image editing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Darkstorm Posted October 6, 2009 Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 Why doesnt he just resize the pic in paint after clicking on the pic? From within windows own software. Crazy easy with vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Renfield Posted October 6, 2009 Author Members Share Posted October 6, 2009 Why doesnt he just resize the pic in paint after clicking on the pic? From within windows own software. Crazy easy with vista. #1 he's on XP#2 he just cancelled his ISP "because of too many problems." The problem is him going senile and forgetting how to use a PC, then naturally blaming the PC itself, and switches ISP's as a "fix". He gets easily confused on the best of days. It took me 30 minutes to walk him through creating a desktop shortcut once, I'm not about to take on anything extraneous if can be avoided. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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