Photo programs.

I tried the IrfanView and when I couldn't even find my previous photos much less a test one I took fresh it hit the trash can. Next tried Picassa and was able to immediately start using it. One more step in the process than the old software in that I'm still having to use Windows to get it off the camera but it immediately gets picked up in the Picassa and I figured out how to crop and and adjust exposure settings very quickly. The other thing I find is that the Picassa is very compatible with the Windows components and seems to work hand and hand with Windows with no conflicts. And having anything that works fairly well with Mr. Gate's products is in itself a minor miracle. So for now it seems that this is get the photos off the camera for dummies software that I may have been looking for.

 

Picassa also has a fairly useful feature to automatically save a backup copy of the original image with no needed intervention from you. There are two different ways to save, Google has it pretty well documented here:

http://support.google.com/picasa/answer/11021?hl=en

 

I finally figured out how to download the photos from the camera direct into Picassa so I basically have the same process I had with the old EasyShare and am back to a one step. Probably in a week or so I'll figure out the other options beside the edit functions and be sailing along fine. I for the life of me cannot figure out the reason that Kodak dropped the EasyShare other than corporate (upper level) stupidity which seems to run rampant these days. They have had some fine cameras, I have two, which I'm perfectly happy with, and the software worked fine for this low tech guy.

 

Hey John, can you give us a quick rundown of how to load direct to Picassa. Hadn't thought of that before, but it would sure be eaiser......Mike

 

Now this is sorta like asking the blind guy (me) what time it is and me not even having a braile watch. However I simply hooked the camera up to the puter and the normal command box to open or play with the chosen program didn't open like windows usually does. I decide to open Picassa and saw the import command on the upper left toolbar. Opened it and saw that it had my camera listed among the other devices, clicked on that, and basically followed instructions from there to simply download direct from the device (camera) and bingo it recognized one photo and removed same from camera plus deleted the picture off the camera for me. Basically speaking I just blundered into it.

 

for the use in the none MS-world I use a xterm and gphoto2 to get the pictures and for editing gimp or imagemagick.

 

Thanks John ! I hadn't thought of that ....Mike

 

Here's an example of what can be done with gimp.

First we have an image of an E8 that I borrowed from Spookshow's website:


Then we have one in sepia tone with a fuzzy border:


I think it took longer for the program to load than it did to make the alterations to the image.

 

Actually have Photoshop, but I'm self teaching (aka, ooh! Shiny button! What's this button do?) and haave been for six years. Still learning the tricks.

Sepia's always good for old phots or photos from "old" cameras, but asyou say, itis abit aged for 50s era. There is color in them, but they tend to be less crisp and lighted off, and I've not found the butterzone playing with sliders in Photoshop yet. I had a program a long time ago that could do it with a simple two clicks, but i don't remember what it was called and who knows if it still runs on windows7

 

On a hunch, it may have had something to do with their whole filing for bankruptcy thing. No one uses film anymore, (now watch, three people will crop up and say I still use film!) and their line of inexpensive, loveable digital cameras (of which I had one until it turned itself on in my pocket, got whacked into a 73 year old doorframe built by BUDD by said coatpocket because I was loading a trainfull of kiddies going OOH! Santa! ((Least it died in the line of duty...)) and jammed the motor lens) wasn't enough to carry the company. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2012/12/23/kodak-reinvention-survival/1787759/

 

I use Paint.Net. There are tons of plug-ins available, some good online tutorials and scales from easy editing to advanced features found in Photoshop. And it is FREE. My wife does professional photo and graphic editing for web developers and it is her program of choice. It also can save in just about any format, so if you have a friend using Photoshop, you can send them pics with all of the layers and other features included. It will also open and edit raw files from pro caliber digital cameras. You can get it here: http://www.getpaint.net/download.html#download

 

took me 2 minutes in gimp
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