Lost a silly software!!! Cannot remember...

BeemerChef · October 11, 2011

All day this has been bugging me!!!
I crop my banner photos to exactly 701 x 411, rotating photos, and now I am drawing a blank since I have not done it a bit and just cannot find the software that will

crop + window with pixel sizes hor. and vert.

Anyone knows? It is pretty basic... (of course nothing is basic for me it seems like!!!)

I don't use Photoshop and I am on a PC.

Thanks... Ara & Spirit

angevin1 · October 11, 2011

Smart Crop?

ziggy53 · October 11, 2011

Check the EXIF information of some of your banner-sized images, There's a good chance that whatever you used placed its name in the EXIF. Since you use a PC, more than likely that means Windows, and IrfanView is Windows freeware that can read the EXIF data.

http://www.irfanview.com/

Just download and install IrfanView on your computer and use it to open one of your banner-sized images. Then tap the "i" key on the keyboard to bring up the image information screen. Look at the bottom of that screen for an "EXIF info" button, if it exists. If the EXIF displays, look at the "Software" field of the EXIF data to see what you might have used.

For instance, I loaded this image into IrfanView:

Tapping the "i" key brings up:

Clicking on the "EXIF info" button at the bottom brings up:

Looking at the Software field I see that I used Photoshop CS4 as the last software to write that file.

The same IrfanView freeware will work to scale images to pretty much any size. So will Faststone for that matter. Do either of those names ring a bell?

ziggy53 · October 11, 2011

Maybe this thread will help. Was it "GIMP" that you were using?

http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=109615

I believe that you are on a Windows 7 machine nowdays. This should work:

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

BeemerChef · October 11, 2011

angevin1 wrote: »

Smart Crop?

ziggy53 wrote: »

Check the EXIF information of some of your banner-sized images, There's a good chance that whatever you used placed its name in the EXIF. Since you use a PC, more than likely that means Windows, and IrfanView is Windows freeware that can read the EXIF data.

http://www.irfanview.com/

Just download and install IrfanView on your computer and use it to open one of your banner-sized images. Then tap the "i" key on the keyboard to bring up the image information screen. Look at the bottom of that screen for an "EXIF info" button, if it exists. If the EXIF displays, look at the "Software" field of the EXIF data to see what you might have used.

For instance, I loaded this image into IrfanView:

Tapping the "i" key brings up:

Clicking on the "EXIF info" button at the bottom brings up:

Looking at the Software field I see that I used Photoshop CS4 as the last software to write that file.

The same IrfanView freeware will work to scale images to pretty much any size. So will Faststone for that matter. Do either of those names ring a bell?

Thank for taking the time. Smart Crop does not tell me the pixels I need...

I tried IrfanView but no go, I even downloaded the add ons...

I will try GIMP. Which Adobe Lightroom did that!
I have done it a hundred times... I must have lost the software somehow!
Will keep trying... Thanks, Ara & Spirit

BeemerChef · October 12, 2011

ziggy53 wrote: »

Maybe this thread will help. Was it "GIMP" that you were using?

http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=109615

I believe that you are on a Windows 7 machine nowdays. This should work:

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

WOW!!! I am deeply... very impressed!!! Very smart thinking... I am on a Windows 7 now... tail between my legs I go on and progess!
Thank you again... very kind.
Ara & Spirit

ablichter · October 13, 2011

BeemerChef wrote: »

WOW!!! I am deeply... very impressed!!! Very smart thinking... I am on a Windows 7 now... tail between my legs I go on and progess!
Thank you again... very kind.
Ara & Spirit

Seems that you have used ACD for processing your head shot there

Check out his nice online tool for reading metadata from uploaded or online images. (search for "software" in the results)

BeemerChef · October 14, 2011

ablichter wrote: »

Seems that you have used ACD for processing your head shot there

Check out his nice online tool for reading metadata from uploaded or online images. (search for "software" in the results)

That is what it was!!! GIMP did not do it as I need a separate window to see the pixles hor.vert.
It was not ACD neither. I remember for that head shot using simply "Paint".
Now I remember a sofware I had, came with a Minolta camera. The search continues! Amazing how much time we can spend searching for "stuff"!!!

Thanks... I will let you know when I find it. Ara & Spirit

ziggy53 · October 14, 2011

In your original post, you mention rotate, and crop to size. IrfanView can do this pretty easily.

To rotate in 90 degree increments, like to make a landscape into a portrait orientation, you just use the "r" and "l" keys on the keyboard. (Short for left and right.)

To crop to a size, it's best to scale first, using Ctrl-R, and entering your desired width or height. Then use the mouse and left-click-hold on the staring point and draw a rectangle out to the end point. At the top of the screen, in the blue bar, is a readout, and I think the right-most parentheses contain the rectangular dimensions. Let up the left-mouse-button when you have the desired dimensions displayed.

Ctrl-Y crops to your selection.

Now you just Save-As to properly name your output file and storage location.

Here are some videos which also cover the basics:

http://youtu.be/0CdGo-aFr8s

http://youtu.be/yGNpiUUMjtk

http://youtu.be/9lir4MCRyDc

BeemerChef · October 14, 2011

ablichter wrote: »

Seems that you have used ACD for processing your head shot there

Check out his nice online tool for reading metadata from uploaded or online images. (search for "software" in the results)

ziggy53 wrote: »

In your original post, you mention rotate, and crop to size. IrfanView can do this pretty easily.

To rotate in 90 degree increments, like to make a landscape into a portrait orientation, you just use the "r" and "l" keys on the keyboard. (Short for left and right.)

To crop to a size, it's best to scale first, using Ctrl-R, and entering your desired width or height. Then use the mouse and left-click-hold on the staring point and draw a rectangle out to the end point. At the top of the screen, in the blue bar, is a readout, and I think the right-most parentheses contain the rectangular dimensions. Let up the left-mouse-button when you have the desired dimensions displayed.

Ctrl-Y crops to your selection.

Now you just Save-As to properly name your output file and storage location.

Here are some videos which also cover the basics:

http://youtu.be/0CdGo-aFr8s

http://youtu.be/yGNpiUUMjtk

http://youtu.be/9lir4MCRyDc

Impressed again... Yes, that is exactly what I was looking for! Perfect...
Thank you again for your rescue.

:D:D
Be well, always... Ara & Spirit

BeemerChef · October 14, 2011

It worked very nicely. Just playinig with a photo. IF for getting 701 x 411 (don't ask why!) and GIMP for the writing...
Thank you again...
Ara & Spirit

ziggy53 · October 17, 2011

We're here to help.

Lost a silly software!!! Cannot remember...

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