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by obelisk
Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:45 am
Forum: MP - General Support
Topic: Cleaning up old photo scans
Replies: 7
Views: 217

Re: Cleaning up old photo scans

Since the back is literally text the first option is to magically remove all yellows and leave the written text the second option would be to convert to black and white and hopefully that magically removes all yellows and leaves the text easily readable? i'm also thinking i should leave the front si...
by obelisk
Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:05 am
Forum: MP - General Support
Topic: Cleaning up old photo scans
Replies: 7
Views: 217

Re: Cleaning up old photo scans

the front varies a lot some are under exposed some are yellow and some are purple
by obelisk
Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:03 am
Forum: MP - General Support
Topic: Cleaning up old photo scans
Replies: 7
Views: 217

Re: Cleaning up old photo scans

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by obelisk
Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:58 pm
Forum: MP - General Support
Topic: Cleaning up old photo scans
Replies: 7
Views: 217

Cleaning up old photo scans

I'm scanning some really old photos and I'm wondering what is the best practise for archiving this so firstly I'm scanning without any colour correction because the scanner really stuff it up I have two resulting scans: front pile , the actual photos which are generally yellow with age and slightly ...
by obelisk
Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:55 pm
Forum: MP - General Support
Topic: Renaming pairs of files
Replies: 2
Views: 128

Re: Renaming pairs of files

Thanks I think I got it working in an external renamer
by obelisk
Thu Mar 14, 2024 4:41 am
Forum: MP - General Support
Topic: Renaming pairs of files
Replies: 2
Views: 128

Renaming pairs of files

I'm scanning really old photos and there's stuff written on the back so I end up with either a single file or a pair of files representing the front and back I'm wondering if there's a way to easily rename these. For example if it is a pair of files instead of saying scan101 & scan102, it would be s...
by obelisk
Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:17 am
Forum: MP - General Support
Topic: Advice on how to clean up old photographs
Replies: 2
Views: 169

Advice on how to clean up old photographs

I'm scanning some very old 40 years plus photographs that have faded or gone yellow https://imgur.com/a/FfUJLrt I'm trying to work out some settings that can be used to automatically clean them up a little bit. I'm finding these three actions seem to adjust the colour an I'm not sure which to use. N...
by obelisk
Thu Aug 31, 2023 7:18 am
Forum: New
Topic: Create contact sheet output does not remember settings
Replies: 1
Views: 654

Create contact sheet output does not remember settings

When I create a contact sheet every time I open the output se Settings change back to default.

Especially for PDF settings, the compression type and quality always default to nothing.
by obelisk
Wed Aug 30, 2023 11:22 am
Forum: MP - General Support
Topic: HDR laptop support
Replies: 0
Views: 9384

HDR laptop support

I have a win11 laptop with hdr. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/what-is-hdr-in-windows-11-f5fbf5cb-149d-4a0d-8be1-9ed78c68d3b4 Turning it on V\Videos seem to look good but the photos look muted. It seems to even affect the thumbnails if I regenerate them they stay in whatever mode I gene...
by obelisk
Thu May 04, 2023 11:10 pm
Forum: MP - General Support
Topic: Problem with Show files in sub folder
Replies: 6
Views: 468

Re: Problem with Show files in sub folder

press show files in subfolder
https://imgur.com/a/VODULQw
by obelisk
Thu May 04, 2023 6:25 am
Forum: MP - General Support
Topic: Problem with Show files in sub folder
Replies: 6
Views: 468

Re: Problem with Show files in sub folder

The filter only works in normal browser mode and not when view all in sub folder is selected
by obelisk
Wed May 03, 2023 10:37 pm
Forum: MP - General Support
Topic: Problem with Show files in sub folder
Replies: 6
Views: 468

Re: Problem with Show files in sub folder

That is correct the custom filter is working fine except it also lets through everything with no extension yesterday
by obelisk
Tue May 02, 2023 4:28 am
Forum: MP - General Support
Topic: Problem with Show files in sub folder
Replies: 6
Views: 468

Problem with Show files in sub folder

I have a custom filter set which is working properly in the normal browser When I do show files in subfolder they filter no longer works the same way It still filters the file extensions properly but files which have no extension at all are all shown as well So for example I have a file called lock ...
by obelisk
Mon Mar 13, 2023 11:19 pm
Forum: MP - General Support
Topic: How to set up folder icons
Replies: 5
Views: 736

Re: How to set up folder icons

Thanks very much.
this is a great idea, it seems to work in a small test.
Still lots of clicks but less than the old task.
by obelisk
Mon Mar 13, 2023 12:41 pm
Forum: MP - General Support
Topic: How to set up folder icons
Replies: 5
Views: 736

Re: How to set up folder icons

You want to have a folder containing only subfolders illustrated by the thumbnails of photos ? - You can take a screenshot of the thumbnail of a subfolder, (crop it), and name it "folder.jpg" . -You can also build your own thumbnail with a photo editor with this name. Then, the parent folder will b...