{"id":358,"date":"2008-04-15T22:09:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T03:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2008\/04\/faststone_image_viewer\/"},"modified":"2012-01-22T18:35:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T23:35:13","slug":"faststone_image_viewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2008\/04\/faststone_image_viewer\/","title":{"rendered":"FastStone Image Viewer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the post on the <a title=\"Trip to Williamsburg\" href=\"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2008\/04\/trip_to_williamsburg\/\">Williamsburg trip<\/a> I wanted to take the pictures that Mom and Carol had taken and shrink them down to something appropriate for a web page. I also wanted to handle all of the pictures as a batch, so I didn&#8217;t have to open each one individually, resize it, and then save again. I visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.download.com\">download.com<\/a> and found a highly rated (5 stars by the editors, 4.5 stars by the users) free image editor called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.download.com\/FastStone-Image-Viewer\/3000-2192_4-10324485.html\">FastStone Image Viewer<\/a> that can handle batch conversions like that. I believe this is the same viewer that I had loaded on Susan&#8217;s computer when I had to crop some files. With my copy of Lview Pro (shareware I paid for in the 90&#8217;s) getting pretty old, lately I&#8217;ve been using the very basic image editor that comes with Microsoft Office, but with the switch to Office 2007, they ruined the program. For instance, I don&#8217;t even know how to use it to open a picture file. The obvious menu location, File:Open, is not available.<\/p>\n<p>FastStone is kind of complicated for what it does with some funky screens and previews. But after making copies of the pictures I wanted to use on the gallery web page in a single folder, FastStone made new copies in a subfolder that were resized perfectly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the post on the Williamsburg trip I wanted to take the pictures that Mom and Carol had taken and shrink them down to something appropriate for a web page. I also wanted to handle all of the pictures as a batch, so I didn&#8217;t have to open each one individually, resize it, and then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2008\/04\/faststone_image_viewer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FastStone Image Viewer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}