CIPCUG SIG meeting on IrfanView September 9, 2002

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Creating Newsletters with MS Word
October 7th, 2002

IrfanView Graphic Editor

• Downloading is EASY with this free program available from
  http://www.irfanview.com
  You may want to save to a common subdirectory (or folder) that you always use for downloading like
  C:\DOWNLOADS

• Installing is easy
  Either click on OPEN after downloading or double click on the EXE file from the sub-directory you downloaded it into (perhaps after Virus Scanning your C:\downloads sub-directory)

• Great new features while installing!!! Choose NOT to add icon to your desktop but Yes to adding to Start Menu
  and then the Automatically Associate all graphic file formats to IrfanView

• Start program by clicking on desktop Icon (if you chose to put another icon on your desktop when installing
  OR - Start - Programs - Irfanview
  OR (my favorite) from My Computer or Windows Explorer - click on the sub directory where you keep your photos and just click on any photo (this assumes you've associated all graphic file formats to Irfanview above)

• First GREAT FEATURE is opening and saving to almost ANY graphic format

  Supported File Formats: Extension Format name Open Save         AIF Sound file, Audio Interchange Format ¹   ANI Animated Cursor format for Microsoft Windows   AU, SND Encoded Audio format used by Sun and NeXT machines ¹   AVI Audio Video Interleaved: Video format for Windows   BMP, DIB Windows or OS/2 Bitmap CAM Casio digital camera file (JPG version)   CLP Windows clipboard format   CPT CorelDraw Photopaint image (Corel 6)   CUR Cursor Resource file format for Microsoft Windows   DAT Video CD format ¹   DCM, ACR Dicom/ACR file format for medical images ³   DCX Multipage PCX files format   DJVU AT&T DjVu format ³   EMF Enhanced Metafile Format EPS Encapsulated PostScript (TIFF preview)   FLI, FLC Autodesk animation format ²   FPX FlashPix format ³   FSH EA Sports FSH format ³   G3 Group 3 Facsimile Apparatus format ³   GIF Graphics Interchange Format ICL, EXE, DLL Icon Library formats (Icons)   ICO Windows Icon IFF, LBM Interchange File Format   IMG GEM Raster image ³   JP2 JPC J2K JPEG 2000 format ³ ³ JPG, JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group KDC Kodak digital camera format ³   LDF LuraDocument format ³ ³ LWF LuraWave format ³ ³ Mac PICT Macintosh PICT format ²   MED MED/OctaMED sound file format ³   MID, RMI Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)   MOV QuickTime Movie format ¹ and/or ²   MP3 MPEG audio layer 3 format ³   MPG, MPEG Moving Pictures Experts Group format ¹   NLM, NOL, NGG, GSM Nokia/LogoManager formats ³   PBM Portable Bitmap File format0;/font> PCX PC Paintbrush format from ZSoft Corporation PCD Kodak Photo CD   PGM Portable Greymap File format PNG Portable Network Graphics PPM Portable Pixelmap format PSD Adobe Photoshop format   PSP Paint Shop Pro file format   QTIF QuickTime image format ²   RAS, SUN Sun Raster format ³   RA Real Audio sound format ³   RLE Utah RLE format ³   SFF Structured FAX file ³   SFW Seattle Film Works format   SGI, RGB Silicon Graphics format ³   SWF Macromedia's Flash/Shockwave format ³   TGA Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter (TARGA) TIF, TIFF Tagged Image File Format WAV Windows audio file   WBMP WAP Bitmap format ³   WMF Windows Metafile format   XBM X11 Bitmap ³   XPM X11 Pixmap ³

• Basic editing includes
  Resizing
  Rotating Left or Right (perfect for vertical or portrait shots from your digital camera
  Horizontal Flip (or "mirroring" the photo)
  Converting to Greyscale
  Enhancing Colors - including playing with color balance and Gamma correction - with a preview window to see if you like what you're doing

• THUMBNAILS !! Automatically make thumbnails (in your choice of sizes) of entire sub directories and SAVE them as New, individual thumbnails
  as a contact sheet - one page full of thumbs (great for archives or table of contents)
  or even as an HTML file , automatically creating photo-gallery web pages with thumbnails and links to the full size photos

• SLIDESHOW features include not only creating a slide show of any or all of the pictures in a single sub-directory, but also of selected photos from DIFFERENT subdirectories and even different drives.
  Then you can export the slideshow to an EXE file which you can email to a friend

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