Thanks everyone, very much appreciated. I will give both programs a try It's great to have so much help on this form
Ron Ottawa -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Bigley Sent: June 9, 2017 18:04 To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] FW: Resizing photos the Geoff way Yep, fotosizer.com. They have a free version, which meets my needs, and a souped-up pay version. On 6/9/2017 3:43 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I found a free software app that will resize photos. It will even to an entire folder at a time. I use it for when I create web pages from legacy - I make a copy of my images folder, then run the re-sizer on the whole folder. I then use the re-sized ones as thumbnails on my web page, linking to the full-sized picture when the user clicks on it. That makes the web pages load WAY faster. > > When I get home tonight I'll try and remember to post the name of the package. I want to say "foto-sizer" or something like that. > > ---- Brian Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: >> If you mean a way to do it within Legacy then that is not possible. >> >> There are however a number of software products that can probably do >> what you want. Once the images are re-sized then you can link the newly >> resized images to your Legacy file date. >> >> I suggest you Google for image resizing and see what you can find, maybe >> one of them will be a free program. >> >> Reading Jenny's post she seems to be asking why she was having a problem >> with Photoshop Elements and a technique demonstrated in one of the >> webinars for resizing images in that software. That is not really a >> topic for this list. She should probably posted it to a forum or list >> about Photoshop Elements. >> >> Brian Kelly >> >> On 09-Jun-17 2:41 PM, Goodwin Genealogy wrote: >>> I came across the message below for Jenny M Benson regarding Resizing >>> photos, but haven't found any replies to her request. >>> Does anyone have a way of doing this for Legacy? >>> >>> Thanks >>> Ron >>> Ottawa >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On >>> Behalf Of Jenny M Benson >>> Sent: May 3, 2017 14:51 >>> To: Legacy User Group >>> Subject: [LegacyUG] Resizing photos the Geoff way >>> >>> Some time ago in a webinar Geoff showed us how to resize photos to a uniform >>> size by using Photoshop Elements and dropping one correctly-sized photo onto >>> a larger one in the Project Bin. >>> >>> I have performed this manoeuvre many times and successfully produced a nice >>> set of matching-size pictures to use in Legacy. I have also ATTEMPTED to do >>> it several times and not succeeded. What happens sometimes is that I do >>> Ctrl-A then try to slide the pic from the main window to the one in the Bin >>> and instead of this working as it should, the main window photo appears to >>> slide off it's canvas, leaving a white space on the screen. >>> >>> I cannot for the life of me work out what I am doing wrong because I think I >>> am following the same process every time. Any suggestions? >>> -- >>> Jenny M Benson >>> http://jennygenes.blogspot.co.uk/ >>> >> --- >> This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. >> http://www.avg.com >> >> >> -- >> >> LegacyUserGroup mailing list >> [email protected] >> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com >> Archives at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
