Recommendation Wanted for Simple Graphics Ediitor

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:43:23 -0500, Bob Simon
wrote:

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 Cooper – Orlando, Florida

"Bob Simon" wrote in message

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.

windows Movie maker is free comes with Xp
if you have DVD burn software usually has a DVD slide show builder mine does (Roxio Ez CD or NERO)
you don’t have to PS your files first you can crop & rotate (pan & zoom too) each frame in the program
most vertical photos will need to crop

after you create the project you can output it as a DVD show

if you just want to show friends your pictures put pictures in a folder and hit slideshow
you can order images by time taken or date
or file name etc like all windows

if you have a good vid card it will have a TV out for you TV monitor you could do it with a laptop plugged to a TV

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:02:02 -0400, tony cooper
wrote:

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:43:23 -0500, Bob Simon
wrote:

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 importing all the files in a folder, how do I rearrange the display order?

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:43:14 -0400, "KatWoman" wrote:

"Bob Simon" wrote in message

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.

windows Movie maker is free comes with Xp
if you have DVD burn software usually has a DVD slide show builder mine does (Roxio Ez CD or NERO)
you don’t have to PS your files first you can crop & rotate (pan & zoom too) each frame in the program
most vertical photos will need to crop

after you create the project you can output it as a DVD show
if you just want to show friends your pictures put pictures in a folder and hit slideshow
you can order images by time taken or date
or file name etc like all windows

if you have a good vid card it will have a TV out for you TV monitor you could do it with a laptop plugged to a TV

Thanks for the tips about Movie Maker and Nero. Ordering the slide show is still a challenge — Powerpoint may be the best way I’ve found so far to handle this. My 50" plasma monitor has a 15 pin connector for PC RGB signals (1024×768).

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:09:54 -0500, Bob Simon
wrote:

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:02:02 -0400, tony cooper
wrote:

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:43:23 -0500, Bob Simon
wrote:

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 importing all the files in a folder, how do I rearrange the display order?

The way I do it is to set up a new file that will be used just for the photos in the slide show. I then drag and drop the images into the order that I want. Once they are in the right order, I use Tools>Rename Selected Image to number the images 0001, 0002, etc.

Then you sort by "Filename" (look up at the top right of the tool bar) and they will be in the order you’ve set up. FastStone has an annoying habit of opening the file in "Custom Sort" which seems to be some random order. If you click the red symbol to the right of the sort box, that will permanently close the "Custom Sort" for that folder (and only that folder). The default will then be "Filename".

If you don’t want to set up a separate folder, then numbering all the files in your image file by date works well. If you use the Tools>Rename function, enter 2008-06-18-#### (using the correct day’s date the photo was taken) and all of the images in the file will be in date order. The "-" marks are important. The "####" will renumber as "0001" and up for that day’s date. You can drag and drop images within a day’s group before doing this to put them in the order you want.

—
Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida

"Bob Simon" wrote in message

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:43:14 -0400, "KatWoman" wrote:

"Bob Simon" wrote in message

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.

windows Movie maker is free comes with Xp
if you have DVD burn software usually has a DVD slide show builder mine does
(Roxio Ez CD or NERO)
you don’t have to PS your files first you can crop & rotate (pan & zoom too)
each frame in the program
most vertical photos will need to crop

after you create the project you can output it as a DVD show
if you just want to show friends your pictures put pictures in a folder and
hit slideshow
you can order images by time taken or date
or file name etc like all windows

if you have a good vid card it will have a TV out for you TV monitor you could do it with a laptop plugged to a TV

Thanks for the tips about Movie Maker and Nero. Ordering the slide show is still a challenge — Powerpoint may be the best way I’ve found so far to handle this. My 50" plasma monitor has a 15 pin connector for PC RGB signals (1024×768).

IF you use those programs the order is very changeable WITHIN the program no need to rename or re-order the files before importing them

each photo will be it’s own frame
you can manipulate each one and the order by dragging the frames, and change transitions, add titles, music, narration, etc

here is an example of a vid I made from pictures from JJ’s party exported to DVD I have played in on a TV in the DVD machine LINK

when I upload it, to Photobucket changes the format so it looks a bit ugly in compression, on the TV no compression

"Bob Simon" wrote in message

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:43:14 -0400, "KatWoman" wrote:

"Bob Simon" wrote in message

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.

windows Movie maker is free comes with Xp
if you have DVD burn software usually has a DVD slide show builder mine does
(Roxio Ez CD or NERO)
you don’t have to PS your files first you can crop & rotate (pan & zoom too)
each frame in the program
most vertical photos will need to crop

after you create the project you can output it as a DVD show
if you just want to show friends your pictures put pictures in a folder and
hit slideshow
you can order images by time taken or date
or file name etc like all windows

if you have a good vid card it will have a TV out for you TV monitor you could do it with a laptop plugged to a TV

Thanks for the tips about Movie Maker and Nero. Ordering the slide show is still a challenge — Powerpoint may be the best way I’ve found so far to handle this. My 50" plasma monitor has a 15 pin connector for PC RGB signals (1024×768).

correct link here
LINK

"KatWoman" wrote in message

"Bob Simon" wrote in message

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:43:14 -0400, "KatWoman" wrote:

"Bob Simon" wrote in message

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.

windows Movie maker is free comes with Xp
if you have DVD burn software usually has a DVD slide show builder mine does
(Roxio Ez CD or NERO)
you don’t have to PS your files first you can crop & rotate (pan & zoom too)
each frame in the program
most vertical photos will need to crop

after you create the project you can output it as a DVD show
if you just want to show friends your pictures put pictures in a folder and
hit slideshow
you can order images by time taken or date
or file name etc like all windows

if you have a good vid card it will have a TV out for you TV monitor you could do it with a laptop plugged to a TV

Thanks for the tips about Movie Maker and Nero. Ordering the slide show is still a challenge — Powerpoint may be the best way I’ve found so far to handle this. My 50" plasma monitor has a 15 pin connector for PC RGB signals (1024×768).

correct link here
LINK

http://s210.photobucket.com/albums/bb1/JoliePrincessKatana/? action=view&current=JJisTen.flv

third time’s the charm??

look at Microsoft Photo Story 3 for this. It is free and I think does everything except burn the DVD.

And it can burn the DVD with a plug in you can buy for it — or else just save it’s output to a movie file and burn it to DVD with Nero or something like that.

"Bob Simon" wrote in message

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.