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Help with wedding photos
« on: 10 January 2007, 17:34:28 »
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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Re: Help with wedding photos
« Reply #1 on: 10 January 2007, 17:56:35 »
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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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Re: Help with wedding photos
« Reply #2 on: 10 January 2007, 18:11:32 »
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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Re: Help with wedding photos
« Reply #3 on: 10 January 2007, 18:29:25 »
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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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Re: Help with wedding photos
« Reply #4 on: 10 January 2007, 18:34:56 »
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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« Reply #5 on: 10 January 2007, 19:17:09 »
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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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Re: Help with wedding photos
« Reply #6 on: 10 January 2007, 19:22:35 »
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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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Re: Help with wedding photos
« Reply #7 on: 10 January 2007, 19:31:25 »
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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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Re: Help with wedding photos
« Reply #8 on: 10 January 2007, 19:48:26 »
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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« Reply #9 on: 10 January 2007, 19:49:48 »
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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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« Reply #10 on: 10 January 2007, 19:50:14 »
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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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Re: Help with wedding photos
« Reply #11 on: 10 January 2007, 19:51:09 »
search for some exe decompilers see what they make of it....
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Re: Help with wedding photos
« Reply #12 on: 10 January 2007, 20:04:26 »
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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« Reply #13 on: 10 January 2007, 20:05:18 »
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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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Re: Help with wedding photos
« Reply #14 on: 10 January 2007, 20:07:32 »
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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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