Viewing uploaded images

Post by **Tracey** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:27 pm

Is there a way to "zoom" in on images posted to the gallery to make the particular word question larger ?

Tracey

JustJean · Post by **JustJean** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:00 pm

Hi Tracey

From as much as I can tell from reading some of the pitfalls of folk...not everyone has the same approach to viewing images. It must depend on the software your computer defaults to. In my case any .jpg or .tif image opens in my Windows fax viewer. (that's not the exact name but it's something like that....sorry...it's early yet

) When the image opens on my screen I have option buttons beneath where it can be zoomed or even saved. What process does your computer use to view the image now??? Can that be changed?? Can someone who understands this stuff please come along and do a better job explaining??...hope so.....

Best wishes
Jean

nelmit · Post by **nelmit** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:19 pm

JustJean wrote:Hi Tracey

From as much as I can tell from reading some of the pitfalls of folk...not everyone has the same approach to viewing images. It must depend on the software your computer defaults to. In my case any .jpg or .tif image opens in my Windows fax viewer. (that's not the exact name but it's something like that....sorry...it's early yet ) When the image opens on my screen I have option buttons beneath where it can be zoomed or even saved. What process does your computer use to view the image now??? Can that be changed?? Can someone who understands this stuff please come along and do a better job explaining??...hope so.....

Best wishes
Jean

You are doing fine Jean.

I'm not too good at explaining but I understand a bit about image formats.

It all depends on the way it is uploaded to the gallery.

What you've described is the best way but this only happens when the image is uploaded as a .tiff which is the recommended format.

If it is saved as a .jpg you can see the actual image in the gallery and then if you want to zoom in you will have to right click on the image and save the picture as ....to your machine where you can then zoom but it does not enlarge well in .jpg format.

I'm sure someone else will explain better.

Kind regards,
Annette M

Post by **Tracey** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:30 pm

The gallery uses uses quicktime as the viewer (?) i suppose in short, i was wondering if there was a tool bar option with quicktime to enlarge the image

Should have said that originally

Post by **AndrewP** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:05 pm

On clicking on a JPG format image in the gallery, most PCs will open the image using another window of Internet Explorer which give you no way of zooming in.

On clicking on a TIF format image, it will fire up whatever TIF compatible viewer you have (if any). Not all versions of Windows have a built in TIF viewer. For some, you will need another viewer or graphics program. The program selected as a TIF viewer depends a lot on the software you are runnung. Typically with Windows XP, it will be Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. If you have loaded one of the more recent versions of Microsoft Office, then you will most probably view TIFs using Microsoft Office Picture Manager. Otherwise it can be one of many graphics programs or viewers, such as QuickTime, Photo Editor or PaintShopPro. Any of these programs should allow you to zoom in on an image.

For anyone uploading a document that originated from a ScotlandsPeople download, then it is best to upload that TIF file that you received from SP.

If you are uploading an image that is of black and white origin, such as a certificate or OPR page that you have scanned, then it is best in TIF format. JPG format can often compress the file size significantly, but it may also significantly reduce the image quality, and make deciphering handwriting much more difficult. With home-scanned images, beware of the file size. There are file size restrictions on the Gallery.

For a colour picture where zooming in for detail is not an issue, then the JPG format is more appropriate.

There are of course many other image formats, but not all of them will upload to the Gallery, and if it is a less common format, then it may be that not so many people would have a viewer program that would show it.

All the best,

Andrew Paterson

StewL · Post by **StewL** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 1:43 am

Andrew

You've just answered the question in my head as to why my programme changed to Microsoft Document Viewer, from Windows Picture and Fax viewer. I just had a recent automatic update to Windows XP and Office XP

Now I wont have this wonderment in the heid