Questions tagged with this tag can refer to graphical images, e.g. a .jpg or .gif file or system snapshots, which are also called "images".
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Imaging new hard drive in Windows 7 laptop?
I'm upgrading my Windows 7 laptop to a new hard drive.
How can I clone or image the old hard drive over to the new hard drive, so that it looks like nothing has changed (other than the new hard ...
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JPEG vs PNG vs BMP vs GIF
I would like to know which one of these formats requires less memory for the same quality of the picture. And what are the main differences of these formats
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Want to create a system image
I have upgraded from Vista to Win 7 Home Premium 32. I want to create a system image for recovery purposes in the event of disaster. Tried it several times on discs and it didn't work. Would it ...
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Image to Text converter
I need a software which can convert scanned text to editable text. I will prefer freeware?
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How to take an image of an hard drive partition
I'm a reformat freak and I reformat almost every month for one reason or another. I have a small (32 GB) C:\ partition for Windows and some programs and keep everything else on different partitions ...
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Windows 7: Image thumbnails fail to appear
All right, I've got a pretty strange one here. Since I installed Windows 7 on this machine some time ago, image thumbnails have never worked properly. For the vast majority of images, they ...
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How to extract image from PDF file
I currently use Foxit's PDF reader, and I recently downloaded an image from the Internet, but it is inside a PDF file. How do I extract this image?
Operating system is Windows 7.
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How do I batch change the date taken information in EXIF data?
I use F-Spot to manage my images. For one set of images, the dates somehow got messed up and they all are marked as September 1st 2007. I'd like to change the date taken information to a different ...
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Good tool for finding photo duplicates based on image data [closed]
Anyone know of a good (and preferably free) tool for finding photo duplicates based on the photos themselves? So, not filename, filesize etc., but how the photos look like. Would be nice if it managed ...
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How do I save an image PDF file as an image?
I have a PDF that contains a scan image of a document. I want to save the contents of this PDF as an image so that I can then run it through an OCR program that only accepts .jpg, .png, and .gif type ...
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Prevent Outlook 2010 Insert Picture resizing image
When I "Insert Picture" a JPEG in Outlook 2010 it automatically resizes the image and, I think, recompresses it too. I realise this would be useful for photographs or for people who try to email 1MB ...
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Acronis True Image free/open source alternative
I've installed fresh Windows 7 Ultimate (32bit) on my laptop. I've installed all the application/WindowsUpdates which I wanted to and my system is ready to use. All my other data is now on D: drive.
I ...
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How to convert poor quality bitmap image to vector?
I'm designing a website for a group which has lost the original digital image for their logo. The only file they have of it is a jpg which was embedded into a word document. The image has everything ...
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transform a trapezium into a rectangle
I use my iPhone to capture a painting. However, the angle was not perfect, so instead of getting a straight rectangle, I get a trapezium. However, I want to transform this trapezium back into a ...
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Why are PNG-8 files mangled when opened in Photoshop?
Why are some 32 bit PNGs opened in Photoshop with Indexed Colors and no transparency?
For instance, I grabbed a png icon file of the Stack Overflow logo at: ...
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Huge TIFF file bogs down Explorer thumbnail generation
In one of my photo folders, I have a 3.8 GiB TIFF image file. With automatic thumbnail generation set, explorer completely locks up my system when accessing the folder. By inspecting the Resource ...
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Windows tool to resize / crop images before uploading to web site
I'm supporting some non-techie users on Windows XP who are occasionally required to upload images to a web content management system. The source images come in many forms: JPEG, TIFF, EPS, etc. Before ...
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Looking for a good simple free/open source photo editor? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Looking for a good free image editor
I need a program that can do the following:
Open up an image either JPG or GIF. Resize the image (constraining proportions, and ...
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Converting a word document to an image (free)
Is there any free way to convert a word document to an image? I suppose you can print screen, but that is pretty painful.
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How can I take an image with a white background and make it transparent
I have a png image that has a white background. Is there anyway to take the white and make it transparent.
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Which free software can I use to deskew scanned images
I've scanned about 100 documents, so I have a folder with 100 jpg images, but they are rotated by the angle up to 15 degrees. Is there any free simple to use software I can use to rotate them to the ...
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Batch “resize” JPEG images to a fixed file size
Changing quality of the JPEG when saving an image, changes the file size. For eg. I have the following image. Dimension: 243px x 53 px Quality:100% File Size:9.7kb
Background:
If I edit the ...
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How to convert video to images?
How can I convert a video file to a sequence of images, for example one frame every N seconds. Can mplayer or ffmpeg do this? I have used MPlayer to grab screenshots manually but I would like to ...
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Is it possible to store arbitrary data in an image file?
Is it possible to store arbitrary data such as documents or a program in the form of an image file, such as a PNG image? My concern is that someone could encode data for use by malware into an image ...
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Tool for comparing two images?
I have two images that are slightly different. (The second is actually generated by some manipulation in MatLab).
I need some way to compare these two images.Some utility that can highlight where the ...
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How could I find out the path to the current desktop image?
I have Windows 7 displaying random images every minute from all of my photo directories and every so often there is one I really want to see again.
How can I either always display on the screen the ...
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Free program / tool to convert multiple images into a single PDF
I'm looking for a free Windows program that will take images and convert them into one PDF file.
I want to scan a handwritten letter, so it would be nice to have it divided into pages.
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Automatically resize picture/image in Word?
I'm using Microsoft Word 2007. I have several large screenshots that need to be inserted into the document at various places. When I paste the pictures, I have to manually resize them to fit within ...
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Copying PNG with transparency from browser shows a black background instead
When I copy a PNG image with transparency to the clipboard and subsequently paste it into Photoshop, Paint, etc. - the transparency turns to black.
Is there any workaround for this? Is this a ...
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Local image search against a source image?
I came across this: Is there a free visual similarity image local hard drive search?. However, it doesn't answer the question and the solutions don't work.
Basically, I have a directory structure of ...
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How to generate web picture gallery offline? (no php on server)
I've just attended a huge family gathering, and now an hour after getting home people are texting asking for the photos. The deal is that the images are like ~5mb a piece, so e-mailing people isn't an ...
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How to collect images of a website efficiently while browsing it?
What I want to achieve is:
after browsing the web page,all images on this page is downloaded to a specified directory.
Better with firefox because I'm using it.
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Why shouldn't we open an image in an email?
Most email clients do not display an image by default in the content of an email.
But I don't understand this yet. How can displaying image job attack the computer?
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Gimp: change one colour to another?
Simple to explain: possibly not so simple to do.
In Gimp, I have a green button GIF image: it shades from dark green to light green, against a transparent background.
I would like to change it to ...
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fast batch image resizer
looking and cant find the perfect one.
i have 100 gig of 4K image-sequence to process.
found imagizer2 on sourceforge. multi-thread but not 64bit (does matter?).
i guess the fastest one will be ...
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GUI for editing image metadata
Is there a graphical application for editing image metadata in EXIF, IPTC and XMP formats?
Preferably free and for Windows.
Some image editors and the Windows Explorer properties window allow editing ...
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Best way to create and restore a Drive Image with Windows 7? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Want to create a system image
I am about to build a new PC. I am a windows 7 user. For years now I have been wanting to install windows and all my favorite software, ...
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How to selectively load images in Chromium?
How to control loading of images individually like in Opera or in Firefox+ImgLikeOpera?
When I set "Don't load images" in options I don't see clear stubs to Ctrl+RightClick at them and allow this ...
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Is there software that will convert a jpg to a vector format?
Is there software that will convert a jpg image to a vector image? I've got a simple logo that is being put onto baloons/pens/whatnot and the printer needs the logo in a vector format, which we don't ...
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Software for handling camera RAW-files [closed]
I use a digital SLR as most other photographers do today and have quickly realised that capturing images using camera-RAW files is the way to go.
Personally I use Adobe Lightroom to handle my photo ...
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How to open nokia photo images with .nrw extension?
I took some photos with my Nokia and they stayed with the .nrw extension. How can I open this format?
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Good application to render or convert SVG files to other file formats
I need to render SVG files to other file formats (.png, for example.) What's a good application for performing that render or conversion?
Specifically, I need an application that runs on Windows.
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Find missing image on drive without knowing the name or extension
I have an image that I know somehow got renamed and does not have a normal image extension (i.e. it's definitely not .jpg .gif .png, etc) but rather some random non-image temp extension.
Is there a ...
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How can I create a screen shot with emphasis?
How can I create a screen shot like the above? I am using a Mac.
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Mass rescaling of PNGs
I have a bunch of PNG files that I want to rescale.
Oversimplifying a little, let's say I have files named:
apple@2x.png
orange@2x.png
pear@2x.png
and so on, and I want to make:
apple.png
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Whats the quickest way to crop pics?
What is the quickest tool that can let me choose a rectangle (of a predefined size) within any picture file, and it should crop it to that. Something like the tool you get when uploading a Gravatar ...
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How to image a Windows partition so I can browse the files later?
My laptop's current setup dual boots into Windows XP and Linux Mint. The harddrive seems to be going bad, so I want to backup all the data from the Windows partition.
This laptop was a loyal servant ...
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Free Huge Image Viewer/Editor (like Photoshop, but free) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is a good and free image editor? (Alternative to Photoshop)
Does anyone know of any free image viewer (or preferably editor) that can work with very large images ...
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Free command line image converter
I need a free image converter (program that converts images from one format to other) for Windows that can be used via command line parameters.
I've been searching for it for a long time, but couldn't ...
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Simplest way to add stills to MP3 audio soundtrack
I have some audio and want to add visuals to it and upload to YouTube.
Nothing fancy, just like slides, image_A from 00:00:00 to 00:00:05 then image_B from 00:00:50 to 00:00:30 and so on.
I have ...
