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
Hunter said: By "directly saved from your camera" are you referring to RAW files? JPGs? TIFs after the RAW has been processed? CPTs after the RAW's been processed? I've tried it with all of these and have had no issues. What are the physical dimensions of the file(s) in question? Can you provide a sample pic that's giving you grief?
The image files I've tried so far are the unprocessed JPG's copied from my camera's SD card to my computer. I have not tested RAW images yet. The dimensions from this camera are 4032 x 3024 and are generally over 2.4 MB. I don't really have a lot of images that need straightening ;-), but here's one you can try that I took today -- I intentionally made it crooked!: miniquiltpic
...and PP X5 does crash when I try using Straighten Image on it, unless I duplicate it first, or save it again from w/in PP.