How do you choose ~30 pics from a selection of 100+ ?

[Dylan]

Trying to choose ~30 pics from a selection of 100+ on my computer brings my computer to a slower than snail pace within a minute or 2 and eventually freezes my computer.

|pcsucks|

This is how I "try" to select the pics: Click on my computer, go to the folder in question, click on a pic name and let the preview load on the left, then I either keep or delete the pic. The same thing happens if I try and load the pics through IE.

Thanks

[Greenguy]

Try getting an image viewer/editor - I have CompuPic - http://www.photodex.com/products/compupic/ & I love it :)

[swedguy]

I use ACDSee (http://www.acdsystems.com/English/index.htm) :)

[Ramster]

Never delete any pics you have bought. You may be able to use them at a later date!!!!!

Create a folder within that pic folder and as you pick a pic, copy and paste into the other folder since you will probably edit that original size and compress it too.

I made this mistake. I have use for pics I bought in the past only to find some of them I resized and compressed. :(

[amadman]

I have that side thing turned off and instead have my folder set to view thumbs. This way it just shows all of the thumbs in the folder at once.

I look at those and delete obvious repeats and ones that dont fit the site.


Once I get it down to 50 or so I walk thru them with the windows viewer thing check for blurry/bad pictures and to see how it flows. Then keep on removing until down to thirty.

[amadman]

One note about using the thumbs view in folders like I was talking about above.

When you have this on Windows creates a file (thumbs.dbs I think) for these thumbs. Try not to upload it with your sites because it is a waste.

[MadMax]

Originally posted by Greenguy
Try getting an image viewer/editor - I have CompuPic - http://www.photodex.com/products/compupic/ & I love it :)

CompuPic Pro also has a nifty thumbnail page generator and does nice batch conversions. It automatically puts the pics on .html pages, but it's easy enough to go into the thumb page's code, do a "find & replace .jpg.html with .jpg" to change all the thumb links to images only, then drag and drop into a gallery. Now if I could only get my content providers to give me sets that are already in order....

Seriously though, it's a nifty tool with lots of cool features.

[MeatPounder]

I absolutely love irfanview, its free and does many of the things purchased viewers/editors do; sometimes better.
www.irfanview.com (http://www.irfanview.com)
I hit enter for full screen of an image, then just browse through the folder deleting, adjusting brightness, resizing, clarifying, sharpening as I go.

[Dylan]

Thanks for the product recommendations everyone. They all cost money though :( Are there any free ones?

amadman, how do you enable a folder to view thumbs?

Ramster, I keep the original zips :)

[Alphawolf]

Maybe you didn't see MeatPounder's reply yet. http://www.irfanview.com/ is free.

[Smutferret]

Hi Dylan,

To view thumbnails in a folder...

Open the folder, select "view" from the menu at the top and then select "thumbnails"...:)

Regards,
SF

[Dylan]

? I can't find it.

I'm using win 98.

Thanks.

[Useless]

If viewing pics on your hd is bogging your computer, it's time to get a new computer. There is no work-around for that.

[plateman]

I agree and win 98 is to old IMHO..

[Alphawolf]

Originally posted by Dylan
? I can't find it.

I'm using win 98.

Thanks.

It'll be 2005 very soon. ;)

[BackToMine]

I use XnView (freeware):
http://www.xnview.com/

Screenshots:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/xnview/images/screenshots/win1.jpg
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/xnview/images/screenshots/win2.jpg

If you want more features, get XnView DeLuxe 2:
http://www.xzeos.net/site_xnview_uk/screenshots.html

[Dylan]

|shocking|

IrfanView ?

I have had IrfanView for years. I have only used it a couple of times to resize images though.

Now I find out it has a thumbnail feature after all the hassles I've gone through. Sigh.

I feel like such a moron!

No. I feel like a dumbass. I just downloaded XnView and was about to install it. Haha.

[Greenguy]

Originally posted by Alphawolf
It'll be 2005 very soon. ;) A little off topic, but I remember in 97 when Windows 98 came out because I was working at a trucking company & we had pallets & pallets of them on the dock. The bosses knew that I had the pornsite side project & knew I was savy with computers, so I was brought into the big bosses office with my supervisor & they made me promise to go nowhere near the pallets :)

I also had to sign some papers when the office got it's 1st non-interal computer, but that's another story :D