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I have a PC system with three monitors, two of which are normal PC monitors, one is a mid-size LED TV.  I use  ThumbsPlus 10 on the first monitor and normally view pictures I open and edit and crop, on the second monitor.

Some reason, when I use F8 for a basic slideshow, it displays these on the third screen, the TV.  In past it displayed the slideshow on the 2nd screen, my preference.

I have only found one place in TB to select the monitor, that is under...  Options tab,  Viewing page,  in the 'Misc' section.  I seem to recall a second setting option for Slideshows screen.

Well now after attempting to correct the issue, now when I simply open a picture, it goes to screen 1, no longer 2 as before,  and when I hit F8 it still goes to the 3rd screen.

Read somewhere this was a bug in version 8 I think...  

Am I missing the options?
How do I correct / reset my selections?
 - so when I open a picture it geos to Screen 2?
 - and when I hit F8 it also go to screen 2 ?


Frolin

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ThumbsPlus v10 Questions / Resizing distortion
« on: 2016-11-27 22:18:47 »
Anyone else still finding (and getting tired) of the 'resizing' feature in ThumpsPlus, over the recent versions?

This is when you say, take a higher resolution photo like 4000x3000 pixels, and resize it down to say 1100x825.  The result is some distortion and fuzzy edges.  Does not seem as bad if using a default size like  1024x768  but looking for a little bigger size.  And at times smaller like say, 500x375.

This has been a problem for years now with ThumbsPlus in the last couple versions, up to and including Version 10.  It was presented again in January of this year by Michael in this thread...
   http://forums.cerious.com/forum/index.php?id=5039
I also presented this question in June of 2015 with similar results...
   http://forums.cerious.com/forum/index.php?id=4468

There are a couple others that mentioned it also.  Maybe Cerious has no interest in this problem or fixes to it, as I reported a couple times  (at least by me)  and in this forum.


Anyone found a major selection in TP that fixes this, where you do not have to do any tricks, simply open a large format picture, select Resize, can key in a custom size and it reduces the size and does not distort the quality?

Been using TP also, like Michael, for many years over the many upgrades, but this bug or design flaw (call it what makes your happy), has been an issue for some time and really makes TP less-good for the daily photo crop and resize, of modern larger format pictures...

Frolin

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In creating web pages using the Webpage Wizard, looking for two options, maybe combination of other features, if available or some manual one-time template coding I can setup...

I create many web pages with the Wizard.  Been using a custom .tptp someone here designed for manually moving from photo to photo, it opens the photo as a new html page and has button words for Next, Previous, and Index.  They can advance to the next picture, go to previous or exit back to the Index page.


What I want to do is, when a Visitor clicks the thumbnail on the main Index page, for it to open that photo page with the picture, in a 'new tab' leaving the web page in the original tab.  From there if they see picture 5 they clicked on, they can go Next to 6, Next to 7, Previous to 6 (for example), and exit back to the Index web page.

And when they select exit for the Index page, it closes that 'new tab'.  Thus the browser defaults back to the web page with the index list and thumbnails.


So thus basic web page with thumbnails, when you click on the thumbnail it opens a 'new tab' not staying in the same browser session tab.  And in that slideshow  (it is similar to the default Photo and Photo 2 templates), when they click 'Index' or 'Exit', it will close that new tab.


The default Photo or Photo 2 templates for example work great, but they open the photo as an html page, in the same tab/session.  And after scrolling thru pictures when you exit it directs back to the index page site link.  

Works great in general but I need it to go to a new tab and then close that tab when exiting.


Is there an option in TP for this?  

Did not see one when testing with the default  Photo  template, to open the picture page in a new tab, it always opens in same.
And did not see in the code  .tptp  template code where clicking exit/index tell it where to go, so could tweak.


thanks,
Frolin

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Lately noticing even more fuzzy results with resizing images in Thumbsplus.  I normally try to start with medium to higher resolution pictures, say 4000x3000 or at least 2000x1500, and drop to 1024x768.  Have noticed slight quality lost and fuzzy.

But when I take a larger photo and try to make a business card size picture, like 235x176, the content becomes unusable, terrible distortion.

Funny thing is, just using MS-Paint to do this works fine, no issues.

So what gives in TP v9 now, as do not recall this being an issue in v7?

So mention of setting the 'Interpolation' during Resize, to 'Resample' or 'Bi-Cubic' but nether really helped.  Nor did using a Filter to Sharpen and 'unmask'.


Seems the programmers screwed up another basic feature of a photo editor, in v9 where it is distorting terrible on a resize to very small.

Am I missing a simple setting that id defaulting wrong in v9 to fix this?


Frolin

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Looking to see if anyone is using a simple Slideshow software in addition to Thumbsplus, in the create of website photo pages ?

I have used the "webpage wizard" for many years as the basis for my various photo pages online.  People can visit the March update or the October progress page, and find a TP created photo page I enhance with an HTML editor. It has the thumbnail icons, which they can click to see the full size pictures.

I created a manual "slide show" process a few years ago, but it is really just separate HTML pages, that go manually picture by picture.

I am looking for software that will use the 'existing' photo pages I gave, more so, the existing photo 'files' in those pages, to simply give a more modern, automatic, "slideshow" presentation of the exiting picture files in the existing folder.

Here is an example of a photo page for an event site and the manual slide shows...
  http://www.frolin.net/nngc/pictures/tplc/layout.html

And here is a different photo page for the event with slide software I tried...
  http://www.frolin.net/nngc/pictures/gcmrrc/layout.html

Try the 'slideshow' option on each page to see my old way, and the extra software way.  the new way is nice, it's what I would like, except, with the new software I have the Pic-A thumbnail at 10k, the Pic-A picture in full size at 500k, and the copy of Pic-A2 at 500k for the slide sofwtare to use for itself.


I have tried some software programs, but they tend to make revised copies of the picture files.  So thus have a folder for March updates, it has 10 thumbnails adding up to say 200k, then 10 full size pictures at say 500k each adding up to maybe 5meg.  And those programs making copies gives me an additional 5meg.

As note, I would prefer to NOT need to have a Database Engine or addons on the hosted system, for this feature.  The software I have tested work independent but just force the duplicate photo files.


SO...  anyone using the web-page wizard to create a photo page,  AND  using some other software to use the existing photo files in that page, created by Thumbsplus, software to present the existing picture files in a online web slide show ?


Frolin

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Wondering if others have had the lack of replies to Support Tickets I have had, sent to Cerious ?

In recent years, have sent 8-10 emails to Cerious and in general, most go without a response.  Most are new issues that you can find in these forums, weeks or months later.

While the seem to release updates with as many bugs as fixes, and have ignored many bugs mentioned in recent years...  just curious if other had had the lack of reply from Cerious Support, that I have seen in recent years ?

Frolin

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When I go view a folder with pictures and video files, and if the video is a .MOV file directly from my Canon point-and-shot camera, Thumbsplus will not play it.

When I go to the folder, I see a thumbnail picture for all picture files.
But for the MOV files, I get a tiny windows type icon.
When I double click it opens the 'video player' and gives a blank, black screen.  When I click the play [>] icon, nothing happens.

So what's wrong this time with Thumbsplus v9 ?


Sure miss v7 when things...  normally just worked.

But unable to get v7 to show the thumbnail icons in a folder for pictures, just get a similar windows type icon, but it will open the photos at least.


Frolin

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When I go to edit a bunch of select pictures, I revise and crop and then do a 'File - Save As' and give them a new name and save to a different folder.

As example, in the folder Vacation July 2013, I have two sub-folders, one called 'Originals' and one called 'Revised'.  The originals has several hundred original pictures files, where the Revised is the handful I pick to edit, crop and then share.

So I go open Pic00015 from the originals sub-folder. then edit and crop and do a 'Save As' in to the Revised folder calling it Vac2013-A.  Then I go open the next picture file I want to edit, crop and then 'Save As' and call it Vac2013-B.

In past, it would remember, to place the Save As file in the revised folder.  It remembered where I put the last Save As file.  So all I had to do going forward after the first Save As was done, was simple Save As, and it placed the following new pictures in that Revised folder.

Can't find the setting, or did the new Build change or break the option, because now every time I do a 'Save As' it defaults to the current Originals folder.  So with every photo edit I have to go change folders again to Revised.


Is this a setting I can't find, or another thing broken with a recent update ?


Frolin

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Renaming glitch since v8
« on: 2014-02-06 20:11:40 »
Have found a glitch in the renaming process for Photo files in Thumbsplus since version 8.  And it continues still with the recent V9 Build 3934.

What happens is when I rename a picture to a name that was used before, the rename takes but the preview thumbnail vanishes.

As example, I have Photo-1, Photo-2, Photo-3, -4 and -5, after some edits.  I decide I don't want to use  Photo-2  any more so I delete it.  I think go to rename  -3 to be Photo-2, and it takes the change then the thumbnail vanishes.  Then rename -4 to be -3, same thing.  And rename -5 to -4,  same thing.

The rename takes.  If I change folders, to another folder, then come back, the photos are there, -1 -2 -3 and -4.

Have reported several times to Cerious since v8, no fixes.
Anyone having or seen this issue?

Frolin

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Have found in ThumbsPlus v9, when I try to use the 'Web Page Wizard', that the feature no longer works.  

And appears to be due to a missing table option, when you first start the wizard, the first window is where you have two drop-down tables to select the... "Select Schema" and to "Web Page Style".  Even doing a preview does not work.

Have uninstalled and reinstalled v9.  Even uninstalled and did a new install of the recent V9 Build 3934, which has no effect, it still does not work.  These drop downs are blank, so it seems the wizard has no schema or style templates to use and create the page.

Any thoughts?

Frolin

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