I am editing a hundred or soccer photos for my daughter's team. Many of these photos are taken at awkward angles and need straightening. I am occasionally getting crashes while trying to straighten using the "Straighten Image" tool. It seems to happen most often when there is more than 2 degrees needed, or when I slide the tool one way and then the other. Anyone else have this problem?
Cindy
I've used PHOTOPAINT on different computers with different video cards - ATI, NVIDIA, Intel. Before SP1 PHOTOPAINT X5 crashed every time when I used "Straighten Image". After SP1 it always crashed when I try to work with large images, with small images it usually works well.
I think I made a discovery on this Straighten Image crashing.
I tried several smaller images and Straighten Image did not crash PP. Then I went back and tried several different images that were unchanged, i.e. they came directly from the camera. Those crashed everytime. If I make a duplicate in PPX5 first (Image>Duplicate) and then use Straigten Image, then PP does NOT crash. Would that be the video card doing that? Or is it related to the native color space?
Those of you that experience the crashing, are you working on images saved directly from your camera?
Patti
Yep, same thing works here. I was originally working from a jpeg file that was saved from the photographer's card to a CD, copied to my harddrive.
This sample is around 4500 x 3000 pixels, just under 5 meg.
http://home.comcast.net/~cindyvs/copa/sample.html