Batch Optimize with Photomizer ?

[Daffy D]

All my old slides that I finaly managed to scan have lost some of their color and brightness, they are about 49 years old so not all that surprising.

Have been trying out various optomizing programs and "Photomizer2" seems to give about the best all round results to restore the the color and brightness of the pictures.

Trouble is I can only get the program to optimize one image at a time, can't find a way to do batches of images.

When I select "all" and "optomize" the process starts and after a few moments get the message "All Done" but the pictures in the output folder are the same as the origionals no optomization has taken place.

I have no problem working with just one image and saving that but with nearly a thousand pictures to optomize I'd really like to get batch mode to work.

What an I missing?

[RichCor]

I would guess that you need to place all the files you want to optimize into a single folder, and create a new folder as a sister directory (not a child) for the output.

Then use the program to select the original folder.

1. FILE | ADD FOLDER --> find originals

All the files should be listed with checkboxes on the left pane.

2. Screen Bottom Right button, press OUTPUT FORMAT button,

specify the TARGET PATH for output. Press SAVE.

3. Select the optimization type in right-hand pane

4. Press START OPTIMIZATION NOW

5. Verify that the optimized files are indeed in the Target Folder you specified.

example screenshot from engelmann.com website:

[Daffy D]

Hi RichCor

Thanks for your prompt reply.

I did all that many many times but it just did not want to work for me. It's straight forward enough, not rocket science, so have no idea why it would not work.

Eventually I uninstalled the program and cleaned up any leftovers with Revo uninstaller and started all over again. That seemed to do the trick and it works OK now.

This has brought up another problem. My photos don't have names just numbers No.1 to No.800. This seems to confuse the program and I end up with random numbered photos that are not in the original sequence.

For a test I put names instead of numbers on a few photos and it handled that quite well with the optimized photos retaining the same name in the new folder.

Don't quite know how to sort that out as I certainly don't want to rename all my slides .

Maybe I will have to do them all one at a time after all .

Again thanks for your help

Daffy