In a message dated 1/15/2006 5:31:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, kkuhn@columbus.rr.com writes: http://www.irfanview.com/ We had a family emergency and have been away. We were encouraged and amazed at the help offered. I read your replies several times and we have both studied them closely. All of you have been so helpful with your comments and suggestions. We understand better some things, while know how to proceed in other area. From what you are saying, this software of a "free" download seems to be exactly what we need to get posting to the other lists - to share and spread our wealth of searches and travels! My wife is going to take over this area, but she is baffled about all the options offered at the irfanview site. Which way to go and which 'option' should we click on to 'download'? Do they all have the 'copyright' feature to overlay on the photos? How do we find that, to use it? Also, just to be sure we are understanding, or perhaps a question, is that we looked at the copyright symbol on your excellent examples, from your own experience, and are we correctly understanding that this infranview is used and what puts it (the symbol and then we type our name, somehow?) directly onto the photos? (Then looks like we can go and post them and freely distribute, feeling some protection and credit is acknowledged. Thinking that there are probably a lot of Rootsweb lists or someplace, geographically, where these would "fit".) The reason I ask is they we did not see anything about "copyright" in reading about the infanview features or maybe we overlooked it, did not understand, or ? as we are rather new to this sort of thing, to say the least. Thank you so much for the wisdom of your experience, Cynthia and others who helped us to get a good perspective, too. Sincerely, Bruce

From: Bcinders686@aol.com [snip] From what you are saying, this software of a "free" download seems to be exactly what we need to get posting to the other lists - to share and spread our wealth of searches and travels! My wife is going to take over this area, but she is baffled about all the options offered at the irfanview site. Which way to go and which 'option' should we click on to 'download'? Do they all have the 'copyright' feature to overlay on the photos? How do we find that, to use it? ******************************** Reply: Just download the program and the plug-ins. from any of the sites they offer to do the download. They have many servers that are doing the sending of the files, I just go with the one who's location is nearest to me. ********************************************** From: Bcinders686@aol.com Also, just to be sure we are understanding, or perhaps a question, is that we looked at the copyright symbol on your excellent examples, from your own experience, and are we correctly understanding that this infranview is used and what puts it (the symbol and then we type our name, somehow?) directly onto the photos? [snip] *************************************************** Reply: using Irfanview to open a photo you want to work on. now use your curser to click on the photo, and hold down on left click to drag and create a box where you want to inject your text. Let go of left mouse button and you will see where the box is (if you do not like it.. then do it over, practice makes perfect!) Now go up to "edit" and down to "insert text into selection" This will open a window with many options. first: click on the "append copyright" button, and it will put the "C" thingy in the text box for you. second: just after the copyright symbol, left click in the text box, to get your cursor working there and type in your name and a date. third: click on "choose font" button to open a window of choices for that. As a rule I click on the color and choose "white" as that shows up the best on photos, and then the size font depends on resolution of the photo.. but I usually use a 14 or 20 point font. now click on OK and look at the results. If you do not like how it is, just click on Edit and "undo" and start over. You will notice it saves whatever text you entered the first time, when the text window opens again, so you don't have to retype all that all settings are saved! so for the next billion photos... you just make your box (remember to try to choose a dark place in the photo, so your text shows up nice) and then hit "CTRL -T" as a short cut... (this inserts your text) and "CTRL -S" to save it (another short cut) name the file and you are ready for the next pic. Just hit your spacebar at this point, to open the next photo in that same folder. Email me privately if you have anymore questions... I do not know if I should take up anymore space here on the mailing list. Good Luck! -Kristina Kuhn Krumm