Output thumbnail images appear the same as the input images
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2019 1:55 am
Since Aug 10, 2014, then updated on Jan 17, 2016, then updated again on Nov 1, 2019 I've been using BatchPhoto Pro and love it. I'm running the most current version v4.4 on my Win 10 desktop PC. Last Friday, when I updated to v4.4 I immediately began having a problem. Nothing I've been able to do corrects the problem. I've rebooted and even un-installed and re-installed the v4.4 software. On your forum I found a several year old post from someone who was experiencing a similar problem to mine where the output images are the same as the input images. Unfortunately, there was no solution given.
My problem specifically, is this later version of BatchPhoto Pro is layering the original colored input image over the B&W output image and that's what I end up seeing on the thumbnails in the various folder viewing programs that I've checked (Win File Explorer, IrfanView, IrfanView Thumbnails, and others). For me this is a big problem because I am working on a multi-year project with over 30,000 scanned images of a 125+ year old monthly magazine from the 1880s and 1890s that I'm archiving and also converting the aged, yellowing pages to B&W and/or grayscale images for OCR. I have to have correctly rendered thumbnail images in all of the hundreds of folders I have to work with, otherwise I will create more problems for myself.
Now, here's the twist, when I open any of the output image files for viewing, they display the correct B&W image. Color thumbnail rendered for a B&W image.
I've captured and annotated seven images and created one short video to give you a storyboard of what I'm experiencing. The 7mb video shows 10 seconds of the output file destination folder so you can see the BatchPhoto output thumbnails first showing for less than a second as B&W, then immediately being overlaid with the original colored version.
Just view these images and video file in numerical order.
http://tcdrr.org/images/Capture-1.JPG
http://tcdrr.org/images/Capture-2.JPG
http://tcdrr.org/images/Capture-3.JPG
http://tcdrr.org/images/Capture-4.JPG
http://tcdrr.org/images/Capture-5.JPG
http://tcdrr.org/images/Capture-6.mp4
http://tcdrr.org/images/Capture-7.JPG
http://tcdrr.org/images/Capture-8.JPG
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Steve
My problem specifically, is this later version of BatchPhoto Pro is layering the original colored input image over the B&W output image and that's what I end up seeing on the thumbnails in the various folder viewing programs that I've checked (Win File Explorer, IrfanView, IrfanView Thumbnails, and others). For me this is a big problem because I am working on a multi-year project with over 30,000 scanned images of a 125+ year old monthly magazine from the 1880s and 1890s that I'm archiving and also converting the aged, yellowing pages to B&W and/or grayscale images for OCR. I have to have correctly rendered thumbnail images in all of the hundreds of folders I have to work with, otherwise I will create more problems for myself.
Now, here's the twist, when I open any of the output image files for viewing, they display the correct B&W image. Color thumbnail rendered for a B&W image.
I've captured and annotated seven images and created one short video to give you a storyboard of what I'm experiencing. The 7mb video shows 10 seconds of the output file destination folder so you can see the BatchPhoto output thumbnails first showing for less than a second as B&W, then immediately being overlaid with the original colored version.
Just view these images and video file in numerical order.
http://tcdrr.org/images/Capture-1.JPG
http://tcdrr.org/images/Capture-2.JPG
http://tcdrr.org/images/Capture-3.JPG
http://tcdrr.org/images/Capture-4.JPG
http://tcdrr.org/images/Capture-5.JPG
http://tcdrr.org/images/Capture-6.mp4
http://tcdrr.org/images/Capture-7.JPG
http://tcdrr.org/images/Capture-8.JPG
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Steve