What app opens digital photos
Don Tuttle
iMac, I get files named something like DSC00104.jpg. If I double click
on such a file, will it always open in Preview unless I change a
setting somewhere? Thanks. Don
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<d...@noplace.net> wrote:
you answered your own question. preview opens them, as does many other
apps, including safari, iphoto, photoshop, lightroom and countless
other apps. jpeg is a very standard format.
dorayme
Yes. If you do not want this (personally I hate preview as an up front
app but maybe it is better thought out in Leopard than in Tiger), select
a jpg file and command I to Get Info. In this panel, never mind if Apple
have not removed stupid and confusing words to describe things (as on
Tiger), just do this:
Go down to the 'Open with' section of this panel and select the app you
want and then press the change all button.
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dorayme
erilar
Open the app you WANT it in and use that to open it. Graphic Converter
will give you many more options for editing than Preview can begin to
equal. ColorIt! offers more yet, as I presume PhotoShop does. A word
processor's draw or paint program can also open .jpg files.
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Gerry
Instead of changing the default, you can Control Key + click on the
file, you will be presented with a list of applications that can handle
this file type, select the one you wish to use at that time.
Matthew Lybanon
DSC00104.jpg is the name your camera (Sony?) assigns to the file. (Of
course you can change the name to anything you want, as you can do with
any file.) If you double-click on the file icon it will open in the
application that is set as the default application for that file type.
You can change the default application (for that file, individually, or
for all files of that type); you aren't stuck with the choice that some
programmer may have made for you. A more intelligent approach is to
start up the program you want to use for whatever you want to do, and
use the File menu to navigate to the file.
Jamie Kahn Genet
Or just drag and drop the file onto the other app, or right click and
use "Open With…", or do a Get Info on the file and permanantly assign
another app to open just that file or all files of that type and then
doubleclick it.
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AES
Matthew Lybanon <lyb...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > System 10.5.8. When I transfer photos from my digital camera to my
> > iMac, I get files named something like DSC00104.jpg. If I double click
> > on such a file, will it always open in Preview unless I change a
> > setting somewhere? Thanks. Don
>
> DSC00104.jpg is the name your camera (Sony?) assigns to the file. (Of
> course you can change the name to anything you want, as you can do with
> any file.)
Another plug for iView MediaPro (or presumably its Microsoft heir,
Expression Media): Besides all its other virtuies, it includes image
batch-renaming capabilities that are very flexible, powerful, and
couldn't be easier to use -- including very clever search and replace
capabilities for file names.
(I'm sure other programs have image renaming capabilities as well; I
just know from long experience that the IVMP capabilities are very,
very good.)
dorayme
Matthew Lybanon <lyb...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> A more intelligent approach is to
> start up the program you want to use for whatever you want to do, and
> use the File menu to navigate to the file.
Maybe but why bother? Just look at the pics in icon view in a directory
window and click on any you want to see properly, having set the app
that is most appropriate generally for jpgs.
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dorayme
Fred Moore
AES <sie...@stanford.edu> wrote:
> Another plug for iView MediaPro (or presumably its Microsoft heir,
> Expression Media)
iView MediaPro was great. Reliable reports say MacroCrap ruined it. What
a surprise.
Matthew Lybanon
dorayme <dorayme...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
Because you may want to do more than just look at the image. Depending
on whether you want to catalog the image, perform image processing
operations, or use the image in a presentation (or a DVD, or . . .), the
"app that is most appropriate" will be different.
isw
Matthew Lybanon <lyb...@earthlink.net> wrote:
"More intelligent"? Well, it's certainly one of several ways to open a
file in a selected application. It's also probably the slowest.
If you don't want the file to be opened in the default app (probably
fastest), it would be faster to drag the file's icon to the app's icon
in the dock than it would be to use the app's Menu/File/Open...
selection process. I generally use that method only when working with
apps that don't acknowledge files dropped on their icons.
Isaac
Ned Mantei
Something not mentioned yet by others, but might be useful for you: If
you open the program Image Capture (in Applications) and connect your
camera, you can choose how the images will be imported and what program
will open them. The setting remains for future imports from that camera.
dorayme
Matthew Lybanon <lyb...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> In article <doraymeRidThis-48F...@news.albasani.net>,
> dorayme <dorayme...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> > In article <lybanon-DF8935...@earthlink.us.supernews.com>,
> > Matthew Lybanon <lyb...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > > A more intelligent approach is to
> > > start up the program you want to use for whatever you want to do, and
> > > use the File menu to navigate to the file.
> >
> > Maybe but why bother? Just look at the pics in icon view in a directory
> > window and click on any you want to see properly, having set the app
> > that is most appropriate generally for jpgs.
>
> Because you may want to do more than just look at the image. Depending
> on whether you want to catalog the image, perform image processing
> operations, or use the image in a presentation (or a DVD, or . . .), the
> "app that is most appropriate" will be different.
How busy and variable do you think people are in fact, day to day. I
guess because I am not from earth I am different, I have regular habits
and tend to be always wanting to open a particular type of file in a
particular type of app and when this is not wanted there are such simple
other remedies.
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dorayme
erilar
If I have a string of them I may want to do some editing on, I open the
app(in my case ColorIt) that I use for that purpose, then use IT to open
the whole string. This is, naturally, after I've moved them from the
camera en masse to the folder I want them in by dragging them over from
the camera.