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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 If you are inclined to email me for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-) |
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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/ -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "mm" wrote in message ... 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 :-) |
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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/ 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. If you are inclined to email me for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-) |
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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. If you are inclined to email me for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-) |
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