for just plain rotation, the Pentax software should do it for you with no losses at all. if you want to do a little bit more, then you may want to consider Ulead Photo Explorer. it is one of many programs to look at thumbnails and do simple manipulations on images. IMatch has its own quirks and is really mean to be a cataloging and publication software system.
Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "alex wetmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 4:07 PM Subject: Re: Photo manipulation software recommendations? (long) > I recently started using IMatch from photools (http://www.photools.com) and > it does the rotating just fine. It also has great cataloging features and > a script language which would probably let you do your thumbnailing. > > If you are comfortable with perl you might find my gallery generation > script a good starting point for doing your thumbnail stuff. It generates > webpages with thumbnails and reduced size images. > http://www.phred.org/~alex/htmlthumbnail.pl is the script, > http://www.phred.org/~alex/pictures/hiking/snow-10-5-03 is a page that > it produced. It also takes template files that allow you to generate > a lot of text around your images, making webpages like > http://www.phred.org/~alex/pictures/bikes/commute

