Tuesday, January 5, 2016

New technology, foul mouth

My new toy is a Microsoft Surface Pro 4. My question throughout the research process was this - what do I lose if I use a tablet instead of a computer. Of course, there are differences. My question now is this - are these differences more like losses? Time will tell.

On my PC I used MS picture manager to edit pictures for my blog. Nothing sophisticated - just cropping and re-sizing, mostly. Occasionally red-eye removal and rotation. My new tablet has a program called *Photos* with all the standard edits I know from picture manager. Whew!

But, wait! One is missing - re-sizing. That is important to me.

Expert guy at MS store confirmed that *Photos* software does NOT provide re-size functionality. And he suggested Gimp, a free software package. Just downloaded it. So far, I am not entertained. It looks like the proverbial hand-grenade used to kill a gnat.

But. I did finally figure out how to re-size in it. This post is an experimental one to see if this will work OK.

Oh, and Happy New Year to you!

First up, a few pictures of the final gifts made for 2015:

Wall quilt for DH:

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OK, that did not work. No JPG extensions that I can find in GIMP.

So...I am asking you all - any suggestions for JPG image mods on a MS Surface Pro 4?

6 comments:

  1. Sorry, no answers for you, Martha. But I'm having a similar adjustment period with my new iPad Mini 4. Better than a computer in some ways and in others? Not so much. Best of luck on finding a solution!

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  2. A trick I learned from a friend: email the pictures to yourself. you are asked which size you want to send the pictures. Even though I use picture manager this has often saved me a lot of time downsizing a lot of pictures at once. Save the attached pictures and you're done.

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  3. Interesting! BTW, Photoscape is also free and lots easier to use than Gimp. Available for both Microsoft and Mac machines. Also has some nice editing features, like great cropping, skin clearing, and a full range of tools to filter a pic that has exposure and color cast issues. I've been using it for 3 years and love it.

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  4. Sorry I can't help, BUT you have convinced me to keep my laptop. LOL You will figure it all out; I just know you will.

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  5. I second Photoscape - it's easy and free.

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