Both Sherry and David have valid points. I save my original photos and scans as TIF files with fairly high resolutions. I use the highest resolutions for reasons too lengthy to go into here. Those originals are saved outside of the Legacy photos folder. To avoid accidentally copying over them, they can be "Read-Only" protected using the Properties function in Windows. I use a photo editing program to modify the originals to reduce file size by Web-optimizing them and reducing their resolution and size. Those reduced files are saved into my Legacy photo folder. There are some decent free photo-editing programs that will certainly allow you to do all of that.
IMHO it is pointless to have a photo in Legacy at a resolution higher than your printer will support. Even Web photos at 72 dpi look good on a computer screen. You just can't drill into them for fine detail. I you have a late-model laser printer, you may be printing at 300 or even 600 dpi, depending on your settings. Some can print at even higher resolutions, but I doubt that anything you'd be doing with Legacy would justify those very high resolutions. In my admittedly limited imagination, the only exception I can see to that would be if you sent a Legacy chart out to a print shop to have a large wall chart made up. On , JT <[email protected]> wrote: > I've converted all of my document pictures, and pictures that link from > legacy from JPEG to tiffs. Of course Legacy cannot find any of the > pictures or documents that I had link to because of the change in the > file extension. Does anyone know of any way for legacy to automatically > go through all of my document pictures, and pictures and change the > extension only so that legacy can find the file names? In case you're > wondering why did this is that I have already had several pictures drop > out their colors in the JPEG format due to the characteristics of JPEG. I > didn't want to use PNG because there was no place within a PNG file to > keep the comments that I had in the JPEG file, the same goes for gif > file. I have plenty of room on my hard drive so I'm not concerned with > the increase in size than a TIF creates. The only downside to the TIF > file besides its size is that the web doesn't recognize it, but I don't > plan on creating a webpage, at least not in the near future. There may be > a better way of using the JPEG format without it dropping out pixels > every time you mess with it, but I'd don't know how to do it if there is. > I'd rather use the JPEG if anybody's got any good suggestions as how I > can do this and avoid the flaws in its retention of pixels. Thanks in > advance to anyone that has any suggestions, as how to automatically > change the JPEG extensions to tiffs extensions in legacy without losing > the file name other than the extension, or any tricks I could do with the > JPEG and have the file remain as stable as a tiff or a PNG formatted > file. JT > 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 > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
