On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:02:02 -0400, tony cooper
<tony_cooper213@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:43:23 -0500, Bob Simon <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>wrote:
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>>I have little experience with graphics apps and Photoshop seems like
>>one of the most popular programs so I figured I might get a variety of
>>good opinions here. If there's a more appropriate newsgroup for my
>>questions, please let me know.
>>
>>My wife and I just got back from two weeks in Europe and we want to
>>make a slide show from our jpg files. Our editing requirements are
>>simple: Rotate, crop, enlarge, and save the resulting file. We also
>>want to rearrange the display order for the slide show. I have to
>>wonder if Photoshop isn't way more program that we need for this.
>>
>>I can connect my computer to my big plasma screen for the slide show.
>>I have ACDC, which does a pretty good job but I don't know how to
>>reorder the slides without going through the hassle of rerumbering the
>>files. Another possibility I am aware of is to use Powerpoint to make
>>the slideshow and burn it onto a DVD with a runtime engine.
>>
>>Should I buy Photoshop (Elements?) for my editing or is there
>>something free that has a pretty good user interface? Please advise a
>>newbie on some good options.
>
>For what you want to do there are free programs. You can download the
>FastStone Image Viewer 3.5 at http://www.faststone.org/
to view,
>rotate, crop, edit, and place your images in a different order.
>Renumbering them so they will always appear that order is very simple.
>You just drag the images to the right order and use Tools>Rename to
>assign new names/numbers to the images. You can view them as a
>slideshow in FastStone. It's a very simple program to get to know.
>
>Some will recommend Irfanview (also free), but FastStone does more in
>my opinion.
>
>If you want to put the images up on the web for other family members
>to view, look into JAlbum. (free)
Tony,
Thanks for the pointer to faststone. I downloaded it and it seems to
meet my needs quite well.
One question about this program: after I create a slide show by
im****ting all the files in a folder, how do I rearrange the display
order?
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