On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 08:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I used a Nikon Coolscan 5000 to batchscan > several thousands of EOS slides.. > Most of them happen to have black borders at least on one side. > > Now I look for a cropping tool that idealy would > - do lossless (no recompression) JPEG cropping > - keep EXIF tags intact > - have an easy GUI (overwriting files WITHOUT asking) > > Or is there something that crops automatically? > > > > Lossless cropping is most important for me. > I know that this is possible when the size of the JPG > is a multiple of 16. > Since the scans are somewhere around 19 MP I can easily > sacrifise up to 15 pixels. > > > > > Is there a tool that would tell me which qulity level, > compression ratio and so on was used with a given JPG?
First of all I would have saved them as compressed tif myself then there is no problem with this. Anyway, try Qimage http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage , they even have a 30 day free trial. If you are printing there is no loss on any filters including crop. Just keep the original the way they are and setup crop filters for each or all photos and print. If you are going to the web, the loss of resolution should eliminate jpg artifacts. Qimage is great for that also. Just setup filters to crop, reduce resolution and convert to srgb, your done. -jim James Arnott Photography showmephoto.com let there be light * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
