Re: SEEKING PHOTO HELP
Especially on Flikr!
Thanks!
From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...>
On 8/24/2019 4:52 PM, Garth Groff wrote:
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Re: SEEKING PHOTO HELP
Many web sites play the "right click disabled" gambit - But if you follow my instructions, they're just putty in our nimble fingers... :-) On 8/24/2019 4:52 PM, Garth Groff wrote:
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Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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Re: SEEKING PHOTO HELP
Jim, I run Windows XP, and I bought my copy of Photoshop Elements 5.0 on Ebay two years ago for $10. Brand new w/ serial number. No subscription fees. A year ago my PC hardware died, and I got a complete replacement motherboard for $45 directly from Dell. It's basically brand new again. :-) Tim O' On 8/24/2019 3:38 PM, np328 wrote:
On my PC, I do what Tim does, sort of..... --
Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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Re: SEEKING PHOTO HELP
Garth Groff <sarahsan@...>
Friends,
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With some sites this may be necessary, but with Safari with a Mac (and probably in other browsers as well) the easy way is just to right click on the photo. The menu that appears includes "Save to Desktop". Once there you can open the image in your preferred photo editor and work it up as you please. I have a modest collection of these photos saved on my machine for possible modeling use. The folder is marked "Delete Upon My Demise", and my heirs will know these aren't my intellectual property. Yours Aye, Garth Groff On 8/24/2019 8:56 AM, BRIAN PAUL EHNI
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Re: SEEKING PHOTO HELP
np328
On my PC, I do what Tim does, sort of.....
For people without Photoshop, like me... 1. Open a blank page from Word, and once it is open, then format it to Landscape or Portrait, which ever best matches the photo. 2. go back to the image. Find the two buttons, Alt and Print Screen , and press at same time. 3. Reopen the page and right click, the Paste option should appear so paste it, and the image of your whole screen should appear. 4. Right click again on the image, and two boxes should appear, on the upper one look for what looks like the right angle clamp as viewed from on end, if you put your cursor over it, the word Crop should appear, click on it. 5. Crop by bringing in the corners to what you want to save, and click again, this time off the cropped image, at this point the grayed areas should disappear. 6. Click on your image again and perimeter markers should appear from which you can drag the image, opening it to the margins. 7. And save it, of course because it is on a Word background, it will want to be saved as a word document. File accordingly. Limitation is that it can't be filed as a Photo, as best as I am aware. However if it is for my personal modeling use only, no big deal. Jim Dick - St. Paul, MN
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Re: SEEKING PHOTO HELP (Terms For Freight Car Parts)
Bob Webber
One of the more proper usages seen here.....
At 12:18 PM 8/24/2019, Tony Thompson wrote: : It is true, ass Bob WebberBob Webber
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Re: Terms For Freight Car Parts
Tony Thompson
Mark Landgraf wrote:
In each case, Mark, there IS an industry term. You, of course, can ignore them all if you wish, as may anyone. Tony Thompson
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Re: Terms For Freight Car Parts
mark_landgraf
Well on steam locomotive factory drawings the side walkways are referred to as Running Boards. In the era of boxcar with wooden roof walks, the factory drawings refer to them as Running Boards.
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Many freight manufacturers refer to the steps below the underframe line as Stirrups on their factory drawings. The Car Builders Dictionary defines that running board is a wooden board, applied to rolling stock, that men can walk on. The stirrup had ties the horse and saddle stirrups and was typically made of iron stock. Personally I don't see much resolution coming from this definitional name chasing. Other examples might include: Single sheathed vs outside braced boxcars Turnout vs switch Bettendorf ( a manufacturer) vs a truck style (made by many mfrs ) Or what we and the rr's call the vertical side posts on gondolas Mark Landgraf Albany NY
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Re: SEEKING PHOTO HELP (Terms For Freight Car Parts)
Tony Thompson
Bob Chaparro wrote:
I agree with Bill Welch, who points out that the industry did have a standard set of definitions, set forth in each issue of the Car Builders' Cyclopedia. There you will find both "sill step" and "running board." It is true, ass Bob Webber mentioned, that working railroaders had all sorts of terms in daily use that appear nowhere in the Cyc definitions. The same is true of modelers, who also have terms that we all understand, but are not "industry terms." These kinds of common use are fine, and as long as we understand what is meant by, say, "roof walk," no confusion results. But I do stand with Richard Hendrickson, who urged us all to learn and use the industry's own terms in the Cyc. Tony Thompson
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Re: Terms For Freight Car Parts
Bob Webber
This might launch a large discussion..but....
Before you define those terms, better define "proper" - esp. which context you wish to use it in. Proper may mean what is proper within the group, within the hobby, by hobby manufacturers, authors, railroaders (and that's by division within railroad), by railroad correspondence, by car manufacturer..etc. etc.. Sidestep & Sill Step (and corner step) are used by Standard Steel drawings & references. With over 60,000 drawings scanned from Pullman, Pullman-Standard, Haskell & Barker, Standard Steel and others - the only mention of "stirrup" is in the use in conjunction with posts or daft gear rigging - where its function was to support (not step). Roof walk has not been used in the drawings, running board has been. (you can add outside braced to the topic and enjoy more opinions) Why do I say you must define "proper". I was discussing the term "Harriman" in conjunction with passenger cars, saying it would be better to use the term "Common Standard". One participant, who had spent many years on the C&NW took umbrage, and said he didn't know what "Common Standard" was but he sure knew a "Harriman" car when he saw it!!! "There was a Harriman car in the yards in Chicago that's now at the Illinois Railroad Museum, and everyone called in Harriman rather than Common Standard!". Looking at the car, I found the car in question was an ex-C&O arched roof combine - neither Harriman (sic) nor Common Standard - a completely different design. Yet...this was a man who had spent a lot of time on railroads, insisting the use was proper and more so than the "proper" term. Who was right? I have heard railroaders, manufacturers and others use all the terms above. Does use in the industry indicate "proper" use? How many authors have used these terms? Many. Proper? How many reference books have used these terms? Many. What then is indicative of a "proper" use? I have my opinion on this one - colored by what I do & see now. I'm not going to say one is more proper. It depends on context and intent. People on this list have tried to instill the use of proper terms - terms used by the manufacturers of the object, and the MCB use (among others). In a sense - just as will clinics and the more scholarly papers there is a certain trust that the use of a term will be proper use. Your mileage may very. At 10:58 AM 8/24/2019, Bob Chaparro via Groups.Io wrote: I noticed two terms for freight car parts in Mr. Trandel's presentation are in conflict with terms I usually see used on this group.Bob Webber
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Re: SEEKING PHOTO HELP (Terms For Freight Car Parts)
Bill Welch
My personal authority for this is the Car Builder's Cyclopedia's "Definitions" section—Sill Step and Running Board. You did not mention the use of term "Lateral" for which the mechanical term is Latitudinal.
Bill Welch
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Re: SEEKING PHOTO HELP (Terms For Freight Car Parts)
Pierre Oliver
And I'm waiting for Tony to engage in this debate Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com On 2019-08-24 12:22 p.m., npin53 wrote:
The term "roof walk" used to make Richard Hendrickson's eye twitch.
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Re: SEEKING PHOTO HELP (Terms For Freight Car Parts)
The term "roof walk" used to make Richard Hendrickson's eye twitch.
Aaron Gjermundson
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Re: SEEKING PHOTO HELP (Terms For Freight Car Parts)
I noticed two terms for freight car parts in Mr. Trandel's presentation are in conflict with terms I usually see used on this group. The author used "roof walk" for "running board" and "stirrup step" for "sill step". Which terms are preferred/correct? Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: SEEKING PHOTO HELP
Thanks Bruce, I had not seen this before nad it has some good basic info. Thanks for sharing fenton
On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 10:26 AM Bruce Smith <smithbf@...> wrote:
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Folks,
SERIOUSLY? What Bill has been looking at is a .pdf file. http://www.foxvalleydivision.org/fvd2016/imagesfvd2016/clinicdata/Mid-Century%20Boxcars%20V2.pdf It was not an "attachment" (as stated by Bill) and it is not a protected image. What was included in the original email was a LINK to a PDF of a presentation. By far, the simplest thing for Bill to do is to click on the link and download the entire PDF. On my Mac, all you do is hover over the open PDF and a button bar appears that includes a download icon.
Once that file is downloaded, you may be able to extract the image (if you have the full version of Acrobat) or you may have to use some of the screen shot tricks that others have discussed... but it isn't "protected" and it isn't very hard to do...
Of course, you could also be polite and email the author of the presentation that you are pulling photos out of and ask for a copy of the photo 😉. A little hunting at the parent web site shows that would be a Mr. George Trandel, who presented this clinic in February of 2018.
Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL
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Re: SEEKING PHOTO HELP
Macs don’t have a print screen, but the same general rules apply: To capture the entire screen display, press CMD+SHIFT+3 together. To capture a specific part of the screen, press CMD+SHIFT+4 together, then use the mouse to select what you want. The screenshot JPG will appear on your desktop, and can be edited with any number of programs
Thanks!
From: <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...>
On 8/24/2019 2:28 AM, Matthew Metoyer wrote:
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Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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Re: SEEKING PHOTO HELP
every PC keyboard I've used has a "print screen" button! the screen is copied to the "clipboard". then I open photoshop, create a new file from the clipboard, and trim the picture to suit my need. easy peasy. with Firefox, to steal a web site image file (not just a snapshot of the screen) you choose TOOLS->PAGE INFO->MEDIA. then scroll through the image files (including the "copy protected" ones the web sites lie to their customers and tell them the files are safe) and save the ones you want to your hard drive. also easy peasy. on Androids just click on a "volume" control button and the "power" button together and wait for the "camera click". the screen is now saved to your files. the rule is: if you can SEE it, then you can download it. Tim O'Connor On 8/24/2019 2:28 AM, Matthew Metoyer wrote:
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Re: SEEKING PHOTO HELP
Brent Greer
On most PC keyboards you will see a button marked "print screen". (Sometimes it may be a shift or control function key - you may have to play around with it)
Pressing tg his button takes a snapshot of whatever image is on your monitor at that moment. If you then open the "Paint" application (in windows accessories) you can the paste the screen captures and edit out whatever you don't want. Then save the image. Brent ________________________________ Dr. J. Brent Greer From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Andy Carlson <midcentury@...>
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2019 1:27:20 AM To: pardiew001@... <pardiew001@...>; STMFC <main@realstmfc.groups.io> Subject: [RealSTMFC] SEEKING PHOTO HELP Bill, to capture photos off of your screen requires a software called Screen Capture.
If you had a Mac, all you would have to do is click 3 buttons and hold down the mouse and drag over the image you wish to capture. I do this constantly and would hate to give up this feature. I would suggest that you search for a "Screen Capture" and download
into your computer. This is also helpful for sites which don't allow the even easier "Drag & Drop", but that is another Mac item.
Tim O'Connor has stated for years that nothing can't be captured from a computer. Just a little harder for a windows system. Perhaps he will share the technique.
-Andy Carlson
Ojai CA
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Re: SEEKING PHOTO HELP
Garth Groff <sarahsan@...>
Dave and Friends,
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I tried to upload to the files section a few months ago, but my load failed. Maybe that's why nobody has posted there for so long. Yours Aye, Garth Groff On 8/23/2019 10:50 PM, Dave Parker via
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Bill:
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