Re: Re: wikiup for our photo data base (was Bulletin)
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  • Subject: Re: Re: wikiup for our photo data base (was Bulletin)
  • From: R* P* <r*@embarqmail.com>
  • Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 12:10:56 -0500 (EST)
Thanks Mike; Your pictures look great and I may have to get Paint Shop. My old Adobe Shop Elements used to work great but when I have some work done on my computer the techs lost the program. I bought a new Photoshop Elements and it is very difficult to use for downsizing. I have also tried some free software off the internet but it s great in other ways but not at downsizing. My old elements used to allow me to specify the file size and I could change the other parameters as desired. Alas, no more.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Greenfield" <mgreenfield@cinci.rr.com>
To: iris@hort.net
Sent: Monday, January 4, 2010 11:17:41 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [iris] Re: wikiup for our photo data base (was Bulletin)

If you click on the file name instead of the thumbnail you get a much larger 
canvas sized photo. I see many photos that are almost the limit on file size 
but small on canvas size. This is a hard thing to understand for many 
people. I use Paint Shop 7 to resize and it is the easiest one to work with 
I have found. It is well worth buying a used copy. The control is super.  I 
have entered many photos on TWiki and they seem to be some of the largest to 
view. None come close to filling my 19" monitor.

Mike Greenfield
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Pries" <robertpries@embarqmail.com>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [iris] Re: wikiup for our photo data base (was Bulletin)


> The photo sizes are supposed to fill the page. the thumbnails are smaller. 
> I have noticed that some photos do not fill the page. My hypothesis for 
> what is happening is that when the person reduced the size of the file 
> they did it by making the canvas or photo size smaller instead of lowering 
> resolution. I know we have all have e-mails that have photos and it is 
> common for people to have problems with size. I am not that computer 
> literate to know why every file can come out differently. I suspect with 
> the multitude of photo programs out there there may be many reasons. At 
> this stage of development there is so much work that I have not been able 
> to troubleshoot this but it seems to be intrinsic to certain people 
> entering and I think ultimately we will find what they are doing 
> differently.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "K. Loberg" <iris.loberg@comcast.net>
> To: iris@hort.net
> Sent: Sunday, January 3, 2010 10:05:01 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [iris] Re: wikiup for our photo data base (was Bulletin)
>
> I had a chance to take a peek at the iris wiki... and I am wondering if 
> the
> photo sizes could be larger?  I realize it's still in it's infancy and I
> don't know what is planned.
> One thing I think the world/public will want, which Dave's Garden already
> has, is larger pictures.  That's something I'll really like about Dave's
> Garden; the public is able to contribute significantly sized pictures and
> they are beautiful!
> Kitty Loberg
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Pries" <robertpries@embarqmail.com>
> To: <iris@hort.net>
> Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 3:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [iris] Re: wikiup for our photo data base (was Bulletin)
>
>
> I feel I must apologize to Paul publically because if I understood an 
> e-mail
> he sent me privately Plantsteps is much different than my understanding. 
> Mia
> Culpa. I try to be somewhat savy of what is out on the internet. One of 
> the
> trends I have seen, is plant sites starting up that want to represent all
> plants. When I look at them, I see the same information that is already in
> place on Dave's Garden that was simply pirated. It makes me sad that these
> sites just take the information from another site and make it seem like 
> they
> did the hard work of assembling it. It must drive the authors of Dave's
> Garden
> Wild. But it seems the internet is sort of like the wild west and you can 
> do
> whatever you want.
>
> I hope people will forgive me for jumping to the conclusion that 
> plantsteps
> might be the same. I have a high respect for Daves Garden because he was
> doing
> for all plants what the Iris Society should have been doing in the same 
> time
> period for Iris. We are Late in coming to the internet, it is not easy for
> plant societies to change.
>
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