Is it possible to capture still images from a DVD movie in a standard graphics format? Looking to save images of antique cars from old movies.
posted by Raybun
on Nov 22, 2005 -
12 answers
We have a problem with (only some) pdfs and TIFFs displaying and printing incorrectly in Quark 6 running on MAC OS 10.3.9. It's holding up the print run of our magazine!
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posted by lockedroomguy
on Nov 15, 2005 -
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You know how in "Peanuts," Lucy and Snoopy (disguised, of course, as the Masked Marvel) had an endless wrist-wrestling match that ended only when the MM, desperate, kissed Lucy on the nose? (Uh, did I need a spoiler alert there?) I need an image from that epic match, somewhere online. Ideally of them wrestling, locked in eternal combat, before the kiss. It's just for a personal joke on a friend who loves "Peanuts" and I won't be republishing it anywhere or anything like that. Endless Google Images and other searches turn up discussion of the strip, but no images. I'm thrilled that everyone is respecting Charles Schulz's copyright, but man, would I love to find one image of it for just five minutes. A book cover, anything...
posted by GaelFC
on Oct 17, 2005 -
9 answers
How can I capture images from the DVDs I play in my PowerBook? (10.3.8) Thanks!
posted by Wolof
on Oct 13, 2005 -
12 answers
PhotoshopFilter: How does one
add resolution to an image? My current image size is 3'w x 2'h at 100dpi. The finished image needs to be roughly 10' x 7.5' (possibly bigger) at 100dpi. If I just scale it up or add dpi, I'll have noticable pixelization.
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posted by fandango_matt
on Oct 7, 2005 -
31 answers
Does anyone know of a fairly fast algorithm for generating a "hash" of images which behaves like soundex, in that similar images have similar values? I know that's not possible in general, but I'm particularly interested in text - so what I really want is something that says "boo" is more like "bon" than "box" (in the character set I am using to type this, at least). You can assume no background noise, good orientation etc.
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posted by andrew cooke
on Jul 28, 2005 -
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Can anyone point me to a utility that will copy all the images from my camreas memory card (compact flash) to a directory in the My Pictures folder with the creation date. So all the pictures taken on 7/1 end up in a folder named 7-1-2005. I want it to be ea one-click deal.
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posted by TuxHeDoh
on Jul 2, 2005 -
11 answers
Awhile back, I mentioned on MeFi that I had in my posession
some pictures from Iraq that would no doubt attract a fair amount of public attention. I'm ready to make these pictures public, but I don't want my bandwidth costs to go through the roof, nor do I want to risk having my image hosting cut off. Does anyone have any advice as to how best to deal with this issue?
posted by insomnia_lj
on Jun 14, 2005 -
30 answers
Can anyone tell me what
this image (NSFW) comes from? Given its content, I wouldn't be surprised if it was from a bad Troma film or something similar, so bear that in mind before you click on it.
posted by jimmy
on May 25, 2005 -
6 answers
What computer is on the
cover of Kraftwerk's Computer World album?
posted by donth
on May 10, 2005 -
7 answers
Is it possible to convert a standard JPEG into a progressive one without losing quality? If so, what can I use to do it?
posted by Nikolai
on Apr 22, 2005 -
7 answers
I know Windows XP has some sort of restore feature, but how about a good independent program that can let me take a "snapshot" of my new clean WinXP installation + Documents and Settings + Program Files so I can maybe burn to (probably multiple) DVDs and then easily restore at some point in the future. (This must be a common thing, but my googling proved unfruitful.)
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posted by parma
on Mar 12, 2005 -
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I can't seem to figure out how to make an image that is in .pdf format into the wallpaper on my desktop, OS: XP. I've tried saving it in another format and it doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?
posted by pinkkitty
on Feb 11, 2005 -
13 answers
Searching for a specific type of book scanner....maybe it only exists in my imagination, but I would like to scan sketchbook pages without ripping them out...{mi}
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posted by eileen
on Feb 9, 2005 -
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I've been trying since christmas to find a picture of a dissassembled Santa Pez Dispencer. If you ever had one, you may remember that you could take off the hat and beard to make a clean shaven Buddha-esque Santa. I assumed I'd be able to throw a stone and hit about ten pictures of this phenenon on Google image search, but I've been searching off and on for a while and havn't fond anything. Anyone know where I can find vistual proof of this without buying one online? (the new, solid-design is all I can find at local stores)
posted by es_de_bah
on Jan 17, 2005 -
3 answers
Is it possible to get image files off a corrupted CompactFlash card? [more insi#$&*(!NO CARRIER]
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posted by Vidiot
on Jan 12, 2005 -
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FireFox filter. This is driving me mad. My website has a little JavaScript (inside) to drag in a random image. Each image is 150 wide (varying heights). IE displays them fine. Firefox 1.0 resizes certain images. Anyone know why?
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posted by Pericles
on Nov 24, 2004 -
8 answers
As per this
question a couple of weeks ago, the insurance company paid up and I'm the owner of a brand new
Canon 20D. Unfortunately, the new camera didn't come wiht any database software like my old D60 did. Now I need a new way to keep track of all the photos. (MI)...
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posted by trbrts
on Nov 17, 2004 -
4 answers
Stymied !! Does anyone know where I can get an image of Jackie Gleason online? For some reason the image must be at least 300 bpi and over 1000 pixels. Quality image sites anyone ?? Google turned up nada.
posted by repoman
on Nov 2, 2004 -
3 answers
Does anyone remember/can anyone find the Metafilter thread that linked to a website that could take an image, split it into a grid, and allow the user to print that image wall-size? In 8X11 increments? It's driving me insane and I'm in desperate need of an immense Bela Lugosi for my Halloween party.
posted by juniper
on Oct 21, 2004 -
3 answers
Television repair question: My TV displays everything in fuzzy black and white, and the audio is just static. [MI]
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posted by stopgap
on Sep 7, 2004 -
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i've got a client that is doing private investiations of insurance fraud cases, and has been writing up reports in MS Word and embedding photos of the casework into those .doc files. the problem is that he needs to email these files to his clients so they can be proofread and modified (i had suggested .PDF files until i realized the clients needed to be able to modify the reports). Unfortunately, these .doc files with images embeded end up roughly 15 MB in size each, and become too large to email. they're not technically astute enough to resize the images to be smaller, however .PDF files nicely package that same 15 MB .doc file into a 250 KB .pdf file. do any of you have any ideas of a common document format that i can recommend to them that will take care of the image size for them?
thanks!
posted by quadrinary
on Sep 2, 2004 -
13 answers
I have a collection of illustrations that a client wants to use in MS Word. I have them in their original Illustrator 9 format, as well as .psd and low-res jpgs.
Is the best option to convert them to Windows metafiles? (They'll need to be resized depending on newsletter content.) How do I do that?
posted by Mayor Curley
on Jul 27, 2004 -
5 answers
NERDS, PLEASE ADVISE! ... I have an old (but still treasured) Nintendo 64. I am currently addicted to playing games on my Gameboy SE. A friend tells me you can play Gameboy cartridges on the new Gamecube. I am excited about this, and price a Gamecube with the Gameboy add-on. I find it will be $150 for this. I am only really interested in playing Gameboy cartridges, and not so much interested in Gamecube games. So I have found
this gameboy adaptor for the n64, which I can find all over the place for about $30. This sounds awesome, especially since it's $120 cheaper and since I fear that if I upgrade to the gamecube I'll never play the n64 anymore.
My question is: is the gameboy-to-television image as good on this n64 cartridge? Has anyone actually played with this? Or if I'm just interested in playing Gameboy on the t.v. , is the Gamecube worth the money?
Thank you for your time on this most important discussion topic.
posted by Peter H
on Jul 23, 2004 -
19 answers
Sometimes I'll be at a website that won't allow me to click and download an image. How do you code this? Is it basic html? ...Also, does this really protect the image from being downloaded or are there ways around it? (beyond doing a screenshot) Is embedding the image in a flash document a good idea too? - thanks.
posted by Peter H
on Jul 6, 2004 -
18 answers
I have a large amount of CBZ and CBR files that are ZIP and RAR files respectively with scanned JPEGs of comic books inside them. Thing is, the levels on the scans are sometimes too dark or too bright. Is there a windows program that would batch fix the levels (like photoshop's Automatic Levels command) on the compressed archives without having to unzip pr unrar them first?
posted by signal
on Jul 2, 2004 -
4 answers
Win2K - I had a risque pictue set as my desktop background. My in-laws are coming to stay for a week, and my machine is in the guest room. Since I already don't rate very highly with then, I swapped the background image to something very tame. However, during the startup process, the original image appears for a couple of seconds before being replaced by the new. Why does this happen, and how can I fix it?
posted by Irontom
on May 23, 2004 -
15 answers
My sister sent me something using her cell phone, and I can't play it. [you will find more if you go inside]
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posted by emelenjr
on May 4, 2004 -
5 answers
Pagemaker question- I know little about print publishing as I work mostly with the web, but I do put out a newsletter for a local natural foods market and have so far been able to fake it through most challenges. My printer guy complains that the images are sometimes not available within my document. What is the proper way to link these if you are then throwing the publication on disc. I use PM 7.0, but save as a .P65 file because my printer has only that version. Thanks!
posted by pissfactory
on Apr 24, 2004 -
4 answers
Sorting digital images. I went digital a year and a half ago and I
still haven't figured out a way to sort my pictures that really works for me (by which I mean edit, in the sense of going through and picking out the keepers and organizing them by merit, subject, whatever). Before I went digital I used to just get cheap 4x6 prints of everything on every roll and had a very efficient system for sorting through, editing and organizing them, is there anything software-wise which makes this intuitive and easy, or should I just start printing? I find moving images around in folders really counter-intuitive for this purpose. Any suggestions?
posted by biscotti
on Mar 7, 2004 -
12 answers
I'm looking for a PC equivalent of the Mac OSX default beaches/nature/cosmos/etc screen savers. I've yet to see anything on the PC that can gently zoom/pan its images like that. Ideally this would be something that would allow me to use my own images.
posted by tirade
on Jan 23, 2004 -
5 answers
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posted by Jimbob
on Jan 14, 2004 -
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