On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 06:45, John Richard Smith wrote: > Todd Slater wrote: > >On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 15:05:54 +0000 > > > >John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I am currently scanning many old colour photo's on my new epsom scanner > >>These produce .pnm files which I covert in gimp to .jpeg files and write > >> > >>to cd. > >> > >>Everything works fine except that these converted jpeg files will not > >>display > >>in konqueror , the sliderbar gets about 65% of the way through the > >>process and hangs. These files have no problem being displayed in gimp, > >>and indeed konq has no problem with my digital camera produced jpeg > >>files, only gimp converted from .pnm files are the problem. > >> > >>Anyone got any ideas as to why ? > >> > >>John > > > >Can't help with regards to Konq, but do you do editing in Gimp? If not, > >convert en masse could save you a lot of clicks. > > > >Todd > > Yes, maybe I ought to. I use gimp mainly because these old photos need a > lot of repair work, If scanning from a colour negative, the scanner > automatically > converts the image from the colour negative to a colour positive. Fine. > but in so doing you soon take a look at the result and notice straight away > how the dyes have faded over the years, the yellow pigment goes first, > then red , and the images is week and positively blue hued. Not to worry > gimp has the right handy dandy device , in image - colour - auto - > equalise, and hey presto thecolours are all back, not perfectly balanced > but darn near there, and with the other colour manipulation devices you put > the finishing touches, to the colour balance , hue, saturation and size of > image. Great. > > So you see I need to work on the images a lot. Standardised commands > are fine with new colour photos where everything is just so. > > John
What purpose are you using the output for John. If it is for the web then 1MB jpeg pics are too large. Try a little more compression at save time, or scaling the image. Lastly i always save in a lossless format as well especially when there may be more changes to make. If it is not for the web then PNG may be a good midway choice. Better for printing, more compression than TIFF's, but less than JPG. -- Michael
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