Re: pics

Maybe they came with Quick Time.

On Tuesday, August 17, 2004, at 10:45 AM, Kitty wrote:

Marge - it's not clipart, it is superb photography. And it definitely did
not come with my HP scanner. The files are dated May of 2002; I bought the
scanner almost 7 yrs ago.

I have one photo program that claims to open pic files, but says these pic
files are too complicated for it. The file extensions cannot be changed.
The images are all compressed. File # 2001 is a 141kb pic, compressed from
a 942 kb jpeg. Changing the extension just screws up the photo.

The Quick Time Viewer offers no saving capabilities, however you can copy to
your clipboard. If I want to save the photo with a usable extension, I just
open Photoworks, click on "New Image" and paste. Then save it anyway I
want. So, yes, they're usable - in a convoluted way.

The biggest problem is in the identifying.  As I said, they're in no
particular order and no names, just numbers.

This is going to really bug me for awhile. Where the heck did this come
from? I have an inkling.......may take a while to figure out.

Thanks for your help.

Kitty



----- Original Message -----
From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 1:53 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] pics


Sounds like a collection of images that must have come with your
scanner software - sort of a really great collection of clipart.
Quite a few programs will offer collections of images or contain them
for use with the program - sort of an extra to get you to use or buy
the program in the first place...or the hardware they came with.

Try renaming one of the files - copy it to another folder somewhere
else on your hard drive.  Name it "whatever the photo is".jpg
(without the quotation marks) and see if you can open it in whatever
image viewer you usually use.  If you're using a MAC, maybe you need
to use .jpeg as an extension - try it both ways.  You can name a file
anything you want to and change the extension to anything you want
to, but to open it, the extension has to relate to the data in the
file in a meaningful manner to your computer system.  If those
extensions don't work, try .gif  .bmp   .tif  or .tiff...any file
extension connected to images.  If you have an image editing program
on your computer, see what options it gives you for saving files and
try all those extensions as well...

 If you can open it, that means you can change the file extension to
.jpg (or whatever works) and away you go...rename the images you want
to use or keep as you come across them; put them in other folders in
another directory on your computer.  Once you do that, you can delete
them from the original location to save space on your computer if you
want to.

If changing the file extension works, I am sure there is some freebie
software out there for doing this as a batch file - in other words,
software or instructions for creating a batch file that would change
all the file extensions in a given folder or directory at one time...

PS...just Googled file extensions .pic and found a site listing about
every known extension with what the file actually is - amazing.  It
gives the following for .pic...

PC Paint bitmap
Lotus picture
Macintosh PICT drawing

http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html#o

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 1:53 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] pics


Sounds like a collection of images that must have come with your
scanner software - sort of a really great collection of clipart.
Quite a few programs will offer collections of images or contain them
for use with the program - sort of an extra to get you to use or buy
the program in the first place...or the hardware they came with.

Try renaming one of the files - copy it to another folder somewhere
else on your hard drive.  Name it "whatever the photo is".jpg
(without the quotation marks) and see if you can open it in whatever
image viewer you usually use.  If you're using a MAC, maybe you need
to use .jpeg as an extension - try it both ways.  You can name a file
anything you want to and change the extension to anything you want
to, but to open it, the extension has to relate to the data in the
file in a meaningful manner to your computer system.  If those
extensions don't work, try .gif  .bmp   .tif  or .tiff...any file
extension connected to images.  If you have an image editing program
on your computer, see what options it gives you for saving files and
try all those extensions as well...

 If you can open it, that means you can change the file extension to
.jpg (or whatever works) and away you go...rename the images you want
to use or keep as you come across them; put them in other folders in
another directory on your computer.  Once you do that, you can delete
them from the original location to save space on your computer if you
want to.

If changing the file extension works, I am sure there is some freebie
software out there for doing this as a batch file - in other words,
software or instructions for creating a batch file that would change
all the file extensions in a given folder or directory at one time...

PS...just Googled file extensions .pic and found a site listing about
every known extension with what the file actually is - amazing.  It
gives the following for .pic...

PC Paint bitmap
Lotus picture
Macintosh PICT drawing

http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html#o

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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From: Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net>

I wonder if anyone can help me on this. I have a few collections
of garden
photos on cds. I have a large collection on my hard drive that I
have no
clue where it came from or how to identify the photos in it. For
some
reason the whole lot is simply titles Pics and was installed under
my 
scanner software.  It didn't come with the scanner.
The photos all have the extension .pic which none of my photo
programs will
open. However, Pics was also installed with its own Quick Time
Viewer which
bears a red apple icon making me think it has to do with Mac. So,
if I click
on one of these .pic files in Windows Explorer, the QTV opens and
shows the 
selected photo.
When the QTV is open, I can open more of these pics.  Each one is
labeled
PHOTO - JPEG and a number like 1639. There are 8 directories each
named
1500, 2000, 2500, etc. Each directory holds roughly 500-1000
pictures.
The strangest part of the collection is that there is no connection
between
the pictures within each directory. 8001 is a waterlily and 8007
is some
sort of succulent. 8005 looks like Million Bells. There are also
shrubs,
palms, cacti, you name it.

First, does any of this sound familiar to any of you? Second, can
you 
suggest any way of utilizing this horribly configured collection of
absolutely stunning plant photography?  It's pretty useless as it
is because
I can't find anything and nothing is named and there is no order to
it. But
it seems a shame to waste it. Any ideas?

Kitty


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