Develop photos to CD, they come with bad software?
 

I have gone to Walgreens and Kodak, and had my film develped and put
on CD, and the software on the CD seems terrible. What should I do?

Is there a film processor that provides good software, mabye even
software I can use for the 3 CD's I already have?

Walgreens developed the roll backwards, so that the first picture was
the last I took, which is ok, but it was upside down, which isn't so
bad since there was a button to flip it over, but every picture was
upside down of course, and there was no button to flip them all over
at once, and every time I load the pictures, I have to flip them all
over one at a time.

Then I went to the supermarket that used Kodak processing, and the
software wouldn't let me print anything unless I copied it to the
harddrive first. That seems totally unnecessary. And it keeps trying
to transfer the whole CD to the harddrive. It says "You have 15
seconds to stop this" everytime I make any reference to the CD. Plus,
when I put the CD in a second time, it tries to install the software
again. Doesn't seem to know it's right there on the harddrive. And I
do have a second CD from months ago when I was less organaized, and it
doesn't know that the software is installed already. Is this because
I don't keep software in the default location (which has a blank space
in the directory name, which I don't like)?

The kodak files are regular .jpg at least. I didn't check on the
Walghreens.

I hate to buy third party software, when supposedly software was
included, but is there a good program? I only want to print
occasionally, since I had one or two copies of every picture on the
roll printed already.

Better yet, is there a film processor that provides good software,
mabye even software I can use for the 3 CD's I already have?

Thanks

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Develop photos to CD, they come with bad software?
 

If you want software that enables you to view your pictures and make changes
such as rotating them and saving to disk so you can copy to a new CD, and
printing pictures then this is probably the best:
http://www.irfanview.com/
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Jeff Richards
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I have gone to Walgreens and Kodak, and had my film develped and put
on CD, and the software on the CD seems terrible. What should I do?

Is there a film processor that provides good software, mabye even
software I can use for the 3 CD's I already have?

Walgreens developed the roll backwards, so that the first picture was
the last I took, which is ok, but it was upside down, which isn't so
bad since there was a button to flip it over, but every picture was
upside down of course, and there was no button to flip them all over
at once, and every time I load the pictures, I have to flip them all
over one at a time.

Then I went to the supermarket that used Kodak processing, and the
software wouldn't let me print anything unless I copied it to the
harddrive first. That seems totally unnecessary. And it keeps trying
to transfer the whole CD to the harddrive. It says "You have 15
seconds to stop this" everytime I make any reference to the CD. Plus,
when I put the CD in a second time, it tries to install the software
again. Doesn't seem to know it's right there on the harddrive. And I
do have a second CD from months ago when I was less organaized, and it
doesn't know that the software is installed already. Is this because
I don't keep software in the default location (which has a blank space
in the directory name, which I don't like)?

The kodak files are regular .jpg at least. I didn't check on the
Walghreens.

I hate to buy third party software, when supposedly software was
included, but is there a good program? I only want to print
occasionally, since I had one or two copies of every picture on the
roll printed already.

Better yet, is there a film processor that provides good software,
mabye even software I can use for the 3 CD's I already have?

Thanks

If you are inclined to email me
for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)

Develop photos to CD, they come with bad software?
 

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 04:15:37 +1100, "Jeff Richards"
wrote:

If you want software that enables you to view your pictures and make changes
such as rotating them and saving to disk so you can copy to a new CD, and
printing pictures then this is probably the best:
http://www.irfanview.com/

You know, someone, maybe you, recommended this program for another
need I had, maybe even 5 years ago. It didn't work for what I needed
then, but it is very impressive here. More than the Kodak or
Walgreens software even strives to be.

It works with Kodak, because they use standard .jpg files. I can't
find my Walgreens CD right now.

It has slide show, and I can at least write down the name or number of
the photo, but I'm not sure yet whether I can interrupt the slide show
to print a picture. Sometimes it seems to work and sometimes no.
Depending maybe on where I started. But I'll figure it out.

There is no need to copy the file anywhere, which seems to me the
normal way to write software. Kodak is only looking at things from
its pov, instead of the customers.

BTW, I wrote them Thursday night, and didn't get an auto-response, but
that doesn't mean they're going to ignore me.

And when the time comes to print, it allows me to modify the color
somewhat, which Kodak and Walgreens don't, and modify other things.

It has an entry for Canon 4x6 paper, and I have 4x6 post-it photo
paper I wanted to try printing on. but the versatility of the program
makes it confusing, so far. The preview...oh, maybe that's what it
means. It seems wrong, but maybe it is showing 4x6 within 8 1/2 x 11.
I have to dig out the paper, find something worth printing, and try
it.

They've had photo cd's for at least 5 years, right? More? It makes
one wonder what Kodak has been doing all these years.

Anyhow, thanks a lot.

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Develop photos to CD, they come with bad software?
 

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 04:15:37 +1100, "Jeff Richards"
wrote:

If you want software that enables you to view your pictures and make changes
such as rotating them and saving to disk so you can copy to a new CD, and
printing pictures then this is probably the best:
http://www.irfanview.com/

P&M

BTW, one of many very good things about this is that it prints right
off the CD, no need to copy to the HD.

But before you replied I also asked in a printers newsgroup and one
guy there told me about Google's Picasa. Also free. A lot of the same
features of irfanview, but some added ones. And vice versa. Worth
having both and using each when needed.

If you have win98 or ME, use:
http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa2-setup-1884.exe . It's only a year
and a half old and I'll bet has 95% of the features that the latest
verions has. They are both called picasa2. You have to copy the the
photos to the HD to edit them, but that makes sense if you want to
edit them and save the edits. With Kodak, you had to copy just to
print, just to email. Ridiculous.


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