That looks like a great program. I will look into it more. Thanks for the advice.
Lana -------------------------------------------------- From: "JLB" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 11:26 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Introduction and a Picture/Source Question > You've certainly got a point and it's interesting to hear from a newer > user what you're looking for. I found the photo situation in Legacy > frustrating (a long time ago) and mostly gave up trying to use it. I do > still attach images to source detail under the Multimedia tab. And > individual pictures in the individual galleries but only one each. I > remember when I started out I put a lot more. > > What slowed me down there was realizing how photos do, and mostly don't, > print out in reports. Even if you have several pictures of your Dad, for > instance, what are you going to do with them in Legacy? Have you tried > printing an 'album' with them? It doesn't go well, IMO. Source > documents, in particular, need to be blown up to about 300% to even be > read and that's at one photo per page. Pictures attached to Events will > show up in some reports as small thumbnails. Printing a list of Source > documents will give you pages of little thumbnails of census records, etc. > > You can attach lots of pictures into Legacy 'just for company' but test > the output options if that's what you're after instead. There are some > reports where a small thumbnail works pretty well, so I'm not saying > it's totally useless but have a look around before you go gung-ho into > attaching images. > > I annotate (source if you will) all my photos in great detail using > software called Photo Mechanic. These annotations show up in other > 'IPTC' software like XnView (free), Adobe, ACDSee, iTag (free version > available) .... and there are all kinds of printing options such as pdf > 'albums', web albums, etc that come out looking *way* better than from > Legacy. AND any annotations added to the photos stay with them. If you > spend your time in Legacy adding descriptions, dates, captions, etc you > are going to lose this information when you're dealing with these photos > outside of Legacy. When you have hundreds, and even thousands of photos, > you're /really/ going to find out what 'doing it twice' is. > > Just trying to give you a head's up and some perspective. > ----- > JL > JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists > http://www.jgen.ws/jlog > > On 6/1/2010 11:06 PM, Bain Family wrote: >> Not all and certainly not duplicates (such as if I obtained both birth >> and >> death information from a the same picture of a headstone), but a few >> pictures of Dad in his Navy uniform, his ship, a baby picture, a couple >> as >> he was growing up, etc... would be nice. And I do like having a scan of >> strategic documents (birth, marriage, and death certificates) show up in >> the >> gallery as well. >> >> Lana >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "JLB"<[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 10:21 PM >> To:<[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Introduction and a Picture/Source Question >> >>> Why do you think you need all your pictures in the individual picture >>> galleries? >>> ----- >>> JL >>> JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists >>> http://www.jgen.ws/jlog >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> Legacy User Group guidelines: >> >> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >> >> Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp >> >> To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp >> >> >> >> > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
