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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Bo Bo on 10 January 2007, 17:34:28
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My friend got married recently & was given a proof disk with all her wedding photos on it from the photographer. She wants to make copies of some of the pics to give to friends & get some printed.
Trouble is the pics are in a slide show & there's nothing you can do with it (you can't even pause it).
I've copied it to my PC but can't figure out how to crack it.
It's an .exe file but I don't know what program was used to create it.
I've tried extracting it with Winzip & Winrar & Orca but no good & there's no right click option to "open with".
Any ideas?
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My friend got married recently & was given a proof disk with all her wedding photos on it from the photographer. She wants to make copies of some of the pics to give to friends & get some printed.
Trouble is the pics are in a slide show & there's nothing you can do with it (you can't even pause it).
I've copied it to my PC but can't figure out how to crack it.
It's an .exe file but I don't know what program was used to create it.
I've tried extracting it with Winzip & Winrar & Orca but no good & there's no right click option to "open with".
Any ideas?
A common way of protecting such material - the photographers have to as they know it will otherwise get copied and they will lose out.
There probably is a way which I'm sure someone will know...
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Thing is she's already paid £700 & would just like family & friends to be able to choose a few of their own.
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Thing is she's already paid £700 & would just like family & friends to be able to choose a few of their own.
I never said the photographers were poor....
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A friend of mine used to use a program called 'PicturesToExe' to protect his work
Note sure yours will done with the same program.
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Thing is she's already paid £700 & would just like family & friends to be able to choose a few of their own.
I never said the photographers were poor....
Think I'm in the wrong job.........
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A friend of mine used to use a program called 'PicturesToExe' to protect his work
Note sure yours will done with the same program.
Had a look at that & downloaded a trial but could only get it to create a slideshow not open one, had a look around & there's loads of progs, just need a way to get into this file...
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A friend of mine used to use a program called 'PicturesToExe' to protect his work
Note sure yours will done with the same program.
Had a look at that & downloaded a trial but could only get it to create a slideshow not open one, had a look around & there's loads of progs, just need a way to get into this file...
I suspect you will struggle - by design its to stop retrieving pictures... ...may need to look on those 'special' sites...
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As a last resort you could press the prt sc (print screen) button when it gets to a picture you want then paste it into a graphics package - MS Paint would do. This would be very time consuming though if you wanted to do it for many photos.
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A friend of mine used to use a program called 'PicturesToExe' to protect his work
Note sure yours will done with the same program.
Had a look at that & downloaded a trial but could only get it to create a slideshow not open one, had a look around & there's loads of progs, just need a way to get into this file...
I suspect you will struggle - by design its to stop retrieving pictures... ...may need to look on those 'special' sites...
Been searching for a couple of hours & found a way, trouble is I've got to save them one by one.
Still won't take too long.
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As a last resort you could press the prt sc (print screen) button when it gets to a picture you want then paste it into a graphics package - MS Paint would do. This would be very time consuming though if you wanted to do it for many photos.
Quality would likely suffer badly as well....
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search for some exe decompilers see what they make of it....
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If you're graphics card and monitor can cope, push the resolution as high as it'll go (1600x1200 or higher) and then screendump them. If all you're after doing is a smallish album then you can just about get away with it....
...as for cracking the exe then I'd expect the program to downsize the originals to pack them anyway, so I'd be suprised if there were any hi-res versions lurking in there.
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Quality would likely suffer badly as well....
Would depend on the resolution they are being displayed in, but yes if you have original x megapixel files they would be reduced but would still look the same on the same resolution screen, you just wouldn't be able to zoom in etc. As I said a last resort if you just wanted to show people a few pictures.
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As a last resort you could press the prt sc (print screen) button when it gets to a picture you want then paste it into a graphics package - MS Paint would do. This would be very time consuming though if you wanted to do it for many photos.
Quality would likely suffer badly as well....
Yeah thought of that, it reduces the size dramatically & therefore quality.
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If you're graphics card and monitor can cope, push the resolution as high as it'll go (1600x1200 or higher) and then screendump them. If all you're after doing is a smallish album then you can just about get away with it....
...as for cracking the exe then I'd expect the program to downsize the originals to pack them anyway, so I'd be suprised if there were any hi-res versions lurking in there.
Found a prog called RestorePTE & it works pretty well, saves the pics as bitmap somewhere between 2 & 3 MB.
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If you're graphics card and monitor can cope, push the resolution as high as it'll go (1600x1200 or higher) and then screendump them. If all you're after doing is a smallish album then you can just about get away with it....
...as for cracking the exe then I'd expect the program to downsize the originals to pack them anyway, so I'd be suprised if there were any hi-res versions lurking in there.
Found a prog called RestorePTE & it works pretty well, saves the pics as bitmap somewhere between 2 & 3 MB.
Is that the answer to your problem? Or is quality still too low?
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If you're graphics card and monitor can cope, push the resolution as high as it'll go (1600x1200 or higher) and then screendump them. If all you're after doing is a smallish album then you can just about get away with it....
...as for cracking the exe then I'd expect the program to downsize the originals to pack them anyway, so I'd be suprised if there were any hi-res versions lurking in there.
Found a prog called RestorePTE & it works pretty well, saves the pics as bitmap somewhere between 2 & 3 MB.
Is that the answer to your problem? Or is quality still too low?
They look pretty good on the PC but don't know what the original sizes are.
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The person who took the pictures may have copyright ???????
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The person who took the pictures may have copyright ???????
Grey area here!
1) They paid them
2) They are on them
BUT
3) They took them
I'd say 70-30 towards justifiable copying
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The person who took the pictures may have copyright ???????
Grey area here!
1) They paid them
2) They are on them
BUT
3) They took them
I'd say 70-30 towards justifiable copying
Yes it is, if a carpenter builds you a cupboard do you have to pay him every time you open the door?
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Photographers generally keep the copyright, even though you commissioned them.
Some will however, sell you the images, some at a cheap cost, some rediculous, got to be worth a phone call asking.
I very much doubt you will get any pictures out of the program, except using the print screen trick.
probably made using Photodex Proshow Gold, lots of proffessional photographers use this or similar.
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Having limited knowledge of photo disks my suggestion may or may not work.
I had a kodak photo cd created and I was able to browse it using powerpoint it seemed to break down the slideshow so to speak so I could pick what I wanted.
Used normally it was a slideshow.
You maybe able to select the exe file from within the program and open it this way it should show all the slides.
This maybe worth a look. :-/
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Hi Bo Bo
most photographers tend to use Adobe photoshop, it is supposed to be the muts manhood. its very complicated but can do almost anything with digital images. pm me with your address & a contact no. & I will see what i can do :y
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Having limited knowledge of photo disks my suggestion may or may not work.
I had a kodak photo cd created and I was able to browse it using powerpoint it seemed to break down the slideshow so to speak so I could pick what I wanted.
Used normally it was a slideshow.
You maybe able to select the exe file from within the program and open it this way it should show all the slides.
This maybe worth a look. :-/
Cheers I'll give it try when I get home :y
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Hi Bo Bo
most photographers tend to use Adobe photoshop, it is supposed to be the muts manhood. its very complicated but can do almost anything with digital images. pm me with your address & a contact no. & I will see what i can do :y
I have a err.... "copy" of Photoshop but don't currently have it installed, if all else fails I'll give it a go, cheers. ;)