Hey, love the program. Have been using it since the previous version and I really appreciate a lot of the updates to it in this version. However I cannot find the menu in the above screenshot (Set Picture Modes). Any pointers? Sorry if it’s really obvious…
Easy, go to ‘More Settings’ > ‘Picture Handling’ then select ‘Use individual picture modes for each picture source’ and the drop-down list on the settings dialog will change into a button that brings up this dialog!
I have two questions:
1. Could you please add more larger pixels of setting the Thumbnail Mosaic.
2. If I choose snapshot scrapbook and I use one of the snapshot as the backgroud picture. Then the backgroud picture will be chosen from the small snapshot pictures, but not the orignal pictures. So, the background picture will be very ugly in this case.
Anyway, Thank you for your work! That’s the best best best one I can find!
Ok, firstly I can’t make the mosaic thumbnails any larger as the thumbnail size downloaded from places like Flickr are set dimensions and to stretch them any more would make them look a lot worse. And downloading the larger sizes would mean a lot more bandwidth for all the JBS users out there on sites like Flickr. However I’m investigating more montage options for the next version so a sort of mosaic with medium sized tiles is on the cards then – which should do the trick for you.
Next, the problem with option 2 is that JBS would need to either download all the large size pictures (which ironically JBS does from most of the modes except Flickr) to generate the snapshot scrapbook as it doesn’t know ahead of time which picture to use for the background. But that’s something I’ll be looking at in the next version as I don’t think the impact of downloading ‘Large’ instead of ‘Medium’ pictures is a big one.
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5 Comments on “Individual Picture Modes”
September 22nd, 2009 at 10:59 |
Hey, love the program. Have been using it since the previous version and I really appreciate a lot of the updates to it in this version. However I cannot find the menu in the above screenshot (Set Picture Modes). Any pointers? Sorry if it’s really obvious…
September 22nd, 2009 at 11:06 |
Easy, go to ‘More Settings’ > ‘Picture Handling’ then select ‘Use individual picture modes for each picture source’ and the drop-down list on the settings dialog will change into a button that brings up this dialog!
September 22nd, 2009 at 11:24 |
Ah magic! Thanks very much
September 26th, 2009 at 20:36 |
I have two questions:
1. Could you please add more larger pixels of setting the Thumbnail Mosaic.
2. If I choose snapshot scrapbook and I use one of the snapshot as the backgroud picture. Then the backgroud picture will be chosen from the small snapshot pictures, but not the orignal pictures. So, the background picture will be very ugly in this case.
Anyway, Thank you for your work! That’s the best best best one I can find!
September 26th, 2009 at 22:50 |
Ok, firstly I can’t make the mosaic thumbnails any larger as the thumbnail size downloaded from places like Flickr are set dimensions and to stretch them any more would make them look a lot worse. And downloading the larger sizes would mean a lot more bandwidth for all the JBS users out there on sites like Flickr. However I’m investigating more montage options for the next version so a sort of mosaic with medium sized tiles is on the cards then – which should do the trick for you.
Next, the problem with option 2 is that JBS would need to either download all the large size pictures (which ironically JBS does from most of the modes except Flickr) to generate the snapshot scrapbook as it doesn’t know ahead of time which picture to use for the background. But that’s something I’ll be looking at in the next version as I don’t think the impact of downloading ‘Large’ instead of ‘Medium’ pictures is a big one.
And you’re most welcome!