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From: Flavio Matani on 26 Feb 2010 07:39 Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> wrote: > J. J. Lodder wrote > >> Image Capture with my scanner doesn't seem to have all the options - for > >> controlling the scanner - that the Canon software does. > >> > >> The Canon software is truly horrible to use, but at least it can do > >> things usefully, like save each negative as a separate file. > > > > That's what the reviews say: a great scanner, > > hampered by awful software. > > I haven't used any Canon software for scanning. I don't even think any was > supplied. Image Capture does it all for me, and perfectly well. Same here, with a lowly all-in-one Canon 210. Some software did come with it but was awful and quickly ditched. Somebody else mentioned a couple of options they weren't getting in Image Capture -I've been using Preview for scanning and do get all the 'detect separate items', image correction, etc. options. -- flavio matani guitar tuition http://www.flaviomatani.co.uk http://fflavio.com
From: zoara on 26 Feb 2010 10:26 Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: > [..] > > > A chronological system does make that easier, but what if you > > > decided > > > you'd prefer a subject based system. Where would you store a photo > > > that > > > perhaps had nice scenery, with your family in it. > > > > I don't understand you here. > > > > > I don't have to think about that in Aperture/iPhoto, they file the > > > images for me, in pretty much the same way I would do anyway, and > > > it's a > > > simple matter to keyword them. > > > > What do you mean? > > > > > I can also put them into multiple albums, > > > with only one master file stored, and in the case of Aperture, I > > > could > > > have a different edited version in each album, all from a single > > > master > > > image. > > > > Can you explain what that means, please? > > > > I'd like to understand what these apps do, and I don't know what the > > terms you're using mean at all. > > Where do we start? I've explained a lot, but I'm not really sure what > it > is you're not getting. Can I try? In a chronological filing system, photos are filed by date - this is typically how people file their photos using something like Finder or a similar image manager. So you can find your photo as long as you know it was taken on 29/12/2008. With a system like that described by Andy, you could also have filed this under "holidays", "France", "Christmas party", "Melanie", "family" and "drunk". So you can find it by remembering it was that photo of Melanie looking very drunk in France that one time, or you can find it by remembering it was when you had a Christmas party abroad (was it France or Italy?), or it was on one of your family holidays, or whatever. This filing system also allows for selective editing, so with a single file on disk you can have the same photo in one album cropped to remove the bit where Melanie is spilling her wine into her roast turkey, and in another album it's cropped to accentuate the point. You can achieve the former with aliases but it's a lot more faff than just dragging a photo to an album (which then makes it part of that album without moving or removing it from its current location). I'm not sure how to achieve the latter with a simple filing system like the Finder. This may not be of any use to you, but it's evidently of enough use to enough people that the software in question is pretty popular. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: zoara on 26 Feb 2010 10:26 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > And that applies to almost all modern software - I can't find out what > it does, and can't even play around with it to find out. Even if I do > find out what the software does, the absence of a manual means I can't > learn how to use it. > > And so I, along with almost everyone else, is denied access to the > power > of the software that exists in the world. I'm afraid it's simply not true that the lack of a manual denies "almost everyone" access to software. Most people learn by trial and error, as evidenced rather well by the Facebook / ReadWriteWeb fiasco. The reason so little software comes with manuals these days is that so few people read them. That's where the acronym RTFM came from; because people are more likely to ask questions on a forum than actually bother reading a manual. I understand your frustration - I would find it frustrating if I couldn't try stuff without having to read a manual first - but you are by no means representative of the world at large in this respect. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: zoara on 26 Feb 2010 10:26 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > But if you're buying a scanner and it says USB 2, it's broken if it > won't work at 480 Mb/s. Are you saying that all USB2 devices must saturate the bus? -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: D.M. Procida on 26 Feb 2010 12:02
Flavio Matani <flavio_mataniTAKETHISBITOUT(a)mac.com> wrote: > > I haven't used any Canon software for scanning. I don't even think any was > > supplied. Image Capture does it all for me, and perfectly well. > > Same here, with a lowly all-in-one Canon 210. Some software did come > with it but was awful and quickly ditched. Somebody else mentioned a > couple of options they weren't getting in Image Capture -I've been using > Preview for scanning and do get all the 'detect separate items', image > correction, etc. options. That was me. Can it separate a strip of negatives into individual pictures? Daniele |