Re: irfanview is good at... extracting a page (as Jpg, Png) from a PDF file.

Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, 27 Jul 2024 13:22:59 -0400, Rich Ulrich
<rich.ulrich@comcast.net> wrote:
 

On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 18:02:15 -0400, Tony Cooper
<tonycooper214@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:39:09 -0700, HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb>
wrote:
 

 

I have thousands of images from .jpgs to .pngs on my computer.  I use
the (free) FastStone Photo Viewer.  It's not only a great image
viewer, but offers many other options from selecting by tagged images
to bulk re-naming.  It's set as my default viewer.

 
 
bulk re-naming ---- i've never wanted to do this.

 
That's up to your own system.  Images come out of the camera with
descriptors determined by the camera.  In my case, my Nikon names an
image something like _DNC4911.dng.  I re-name the image
2024-07-26-1.dng or whatever the date is.   The image is then adjusted
in Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop and saved or exported as a .tif, .psd,
.png, or .jpg depending on the intended use.
 
If I link to one of my images, the file name in that format tells you
when that image was taken.  Associating the date-taken with the image
by making it the file name has many advantages.

 
I found the date-as-name extremely useful when I set about
organizing the files I obtained when I had 10,000 slides scanned.
They had been shot by my dad, featuring celebrations, vacations
(people and viewss) and special events. This was about 30 years
after he died, after my mom moved and was sorting things out,
so discoloration was the problem that was more time-consuming
than figuring the actual, original dates.

 
I have been an avid photographer since high school.  Back when I
started to put all my photographs on the computer using Adobe's
Lightroom, the problem was dating all those slides and prints I had.
 
It was like detective work.  If I could find a photograph where I
could pinpoint the date, I'd look for others where the clothing or
scene was the same.  By "pinpoint", I mean at least knowing the year.
 
I've become proficient in Adobe Photoshop, so I can pretty closely
restore the original colors to faded scanned prints, refresh black and
white prints,  and restore damaged prints.   Some stored prints became
stuck together and damaged when pulled apart.

Scanning negatives will give you much more detail than you ever saw in
prints. But it’s a world unto itself and unfortunately the best negative
scanners (Nikon Coolscan) are no longer made, even (for many years now).

 
My paternal grandparents provided a lot of photographs, but my
maternal grandparents were evidently not picture takers.  In the
earliest photograph I have of my mother, she's married and pregnant
(with me). 

 
I have also found useful a free program called Bulk Rename Utility,
which gives great flexibility in re-defining names.
 

 
Using the camera-assigned file name, the date-taken can be determined
in Irfanview or other viewers, but it's an extra step. 
 
I do follow the US custom of month/day in numbers, but FastStone would
accept 2024-JULY-26.01 if I choose to do so.