I’m not quite sure of some of the terminology that Leon used but I believe what he is saying is correct. What is missing is the fact that any picture added to a Vital Event (Birth, Death, Marriage) in Legacy is normally never included in any report generated by Legacy. So anytime you add a picture to that little PLUS sign on the Individual Information window, those pictures are in a virtual black hole….never to be seen again in any report and visible only to those running the Legacy program on your computer.
If you carefully read the parameters of what can be included on the various reports you will find there are only 3 types of pictures that can be included: (1) an individual picture of the person; (2) an event detail picture; and (3) an event master source picture. What is lacking is the ability to print pictures attached about the birth, the death, or any other vital event. If the original poster of the question were to add his family group picture by clicking on the “Marriage Media Files” icon in the marriage field for the husband and wife, it brings up the same add media window as the large plus sign for the other vital events. The problem is that the picture would then never be printed in a report. There is one exception and that occurs when using the Publishing Center, and adding a Picture Scrapbook in which case the marriage pictures can be magically added. Don’t ask me why they can be included here but not in any other type of report. I’ll leave the decision to use the Publishing Center up to each person because the learning curve to get it all appearing right can take some time. I believe what Leon was talking about was to create a new marriage event and calling it “Family Picture”. Then the date and location can be added just as any other event and the picture attached to that event. Now whenever a report is generated that is set to include source detail pictures, that family photo would be printed. There is another downside to all this. Normally, the pictures printed on a report are of a very small size, selected as either Small, Medium, or Large in the Pictures Tab of the Report Options. If it is indeed a group photo which I presume includes multiple persons at some sort of a family reunion type event, then picking out a single face on even the Large size photo becomes problematic. There is another option for photo size instead of Small, Medium, or Large, and that is to select “Custom Picture Area”….. try experimenting with 2”, 3” or 4” to see how that turns out. But there is a downside to that. The selection of a Custom Picture Area just so you can see the individual faces in a group photo also means that every other photo in the report gets printed out in that super-sized image. It’s all or nothing. It all depends on the clarity of the photograph, how many people are in it, and hopefully you DID NOT save that photo in a low resolution to be used by Legacy as suggested by some forum users and support people (hard drive space is sooooo cheap, why economize on photo quality? ---this is another discussion that has already been addressed over and over so it’s an individual choice.) I might suggest to just print your normal report in Legacy and then print out a full size image of the group photo on a single sheet of paper using a different program or directly from Windows and then staple it to the report. The learning curve for this operation is a flat line. Brian in California Close to Canada but then so is Alaska From: Leon Chapman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 6:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Family Photos I normally add them as a marriage event -- Family Picture. That picture would then be printed as part of the Husband & Wife Reports and would have the other family (children) members. You could add an event to each person, but the family marriage event, in my opinion, works the best. Otherwise, you will have repeating pictures in reports if you add the same event & picture for each person. Chap ___ Leon Chapman [email protected] ----- On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Robert Pettit <[email protected]> wrote: What do you recommend as the best way to add a family group photo to legacy? I'm debating adding them to marriage gallery or add a copy to each person in photo. 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
