Hi,

I'm quite new to digital cameras and have run into a problem with my Olympus C-2000 Zoom..I have tried applying "adjust auto levels" in Adobe Photoshop and the results improve some of my pictures quite much..The problem is that the the date dissapears when i view the image in the different slideshows.., and the image size differs very much from the original..Is there a way to save the edited image in original size and keep the date stamp?!?

Thanks Thomas Gunleiksrud

-- Thomas Gunleiksrud (thomas.gu@c2i.net), April 12, 2000

Answers

Autolevels isn't really a satisfactory tool. You should use Levels and adjust the three sliders to get much superior results. If you are viewing the saved image in a slide show, there is probably an automatic zooming correction that has nothing to do with file size. Can't help with the date thing.

-- Lee Custer (phoebe@laguna.com.mx), April 13, 2000.

Thomas:

It sounds like your slide show viewer is cropping your images, eliminating the date from the image. Make sure the settings in the slide show program are not setting up a crop for your images. Also, when you edit your pictures in PhotoShop, resample the resolution to match your slide show viewer's output. Generally, slide shows will reduce an image to 800x600 or even less, depending on what you are using. If you can not get the results you want from these suggestions, consider an alternative viewer. Kai's PowerShow is pretty good if you can find it. Then there is the venerable PowerPoint which makes a pretty decent, if limited slide show viewer. It will let you show your images full size if you wish.

-- Jeffrey Sevier (jsevier@one.net), April 14, 2000.

Thumber (version 3.1.2) may help you. Thumber is shareware.

This is from Thumber help: "If you edit a digital camera image in another program and then resave it, you will probably find that the edited image no longer contains the APP12 or EXIF data that was present in the original. However, Thumber allows you to extract this information prior to editing and then reinsert it after editing is complete. Thus, the edited image will contain exactly the same information as the parent, even if the program that was used to perform the editing caused the data to be lost when it resaved the image."

-- John Slivinski (john.slivinski@donet.com), April 24, 2000.