Isolate one image on a .jpg and send it as email attachment

Hello, Keith Barkley,

Unfortunately, I don't think that cropping images would help, or even is possible, since I can't even isolate any of the photos from the pages they are on. They aren't discrete images; the "images" are pages of photos. That is, each page, not each photo, was digitized as a JPG file. I was misinformed that I'd be able to do what I asked about. I believe that the person I talked to had the best will, but either he didn't understand the question, or he didn't know that it wasn't possible.

Thank you very much for your suggestion, though. I appreciate the time and thought you put into it.

Old Toad,

That sounds promising, and I'd like to try it, but the files aren't in Photos; they are on a flash drive. Is there some way to "migrate" one of the JPGs (a page of photos) into Photos? If so, how would it be done? I think I know how to get a file onto my hard drive, but not how to get it into Photos. Can you fill me in?

Many thanks, regardless.

Thanks, but I'll have to continue trying this at some other time. I was working on it in Preview and got only so far before I had to stop. I'm going to send the individual files I have to the editor, by email, along with a couple of actual photos by snail mail (or personal delivery by me). Then, when I have time, I'll be able to try again with Preview (or buy or otherwise download some photo-editing software.

I shall keep your message, even though it's for Photos. I thank you very much and shall report on my progress, once I have had time to follow through. I did wonder, though, about saving the cropped image (in Preview, but it probably is the same for Photos). Where would it be saved to? That is, there were no options for where to put the cropped image, but I assume that I'd be able to save it to a fresh, blank file or somewhere else. If it's not a pain for you to spell this out, I'd really appreciate the information. I'm a real newbie on all of this.

But if not, you have already advanced my cause well beyond what I had before. Isn't it curious that the digitizing people not only gave me misleading information before I ordered the digitizing, but seem to think that Photoshop (not even Photoshop Elements) would be the way to go? There are scads of other photo editors around, including GIMP, which many places seem to recommend. No mention of Photos or Preview, though, except by searching with exactly the right words, and then, most everything talks only about editing PDFs!

Well, thanks very much again. You will be hearing from me.

Hi,

Regrettably, no. Some pages of photos in an album were each made into one JPG per page (with all the photos on the page being digitized as a unit, one JPG per page, not various JPGs placed individually on a page. I don't think that selecting and cropping of any one of the photos is possible, or even what I want. .

The company that digitized the photos (some singly, and others as pages) had told me that I could isolate any of the photos on the pages, copy it and save it elsewhere, then send the file to people or print it or do anything that anyone would do with, say, a photo from an "album" of photos in Mac's Photos or any other such app. (They were trying to save me a great deal of money, but apparently, there either was a misunderstanding on their part about what I wanted to do, or they just didn't know, themselves, that it couldn't be done if I followed their advice.),

Anyway, I've written to them and gotten no explanation for why I was assured that I'd be able to do that if the pages in the album were going to be "shot" with all the photos on each page would be part of a single JPG unit. All they seem to be able to say is that I'd have to get Photoshop and that they'd teach me how to do what I want to do. Or, they say, they could make a (very limited) number of the images for me. Not a great offer, considering that they were the ones who advised me to have the albums digitized that way. But I'm really not in a position to force the issue, and I haven''t enough time now to pursue any of it. I shall need to learn at some point how to do the task, because there are photos that i or someone else may want, and many of them are fixed to pages in albums dating from the earliest years of the twentieth century onward.I shall want to try to make some of the photos into separate files.

Unfortunately, I have only a little time to complete a project that requires several individual photo files; fortunately, there are some photos that they fell out of the albums or were removed physically for some reason, and I think they may be suitable for the brochure that is being made. But I still want to be able to do what I've mentioned here, so I hope that in time I may be able to take the time in which to learn what I need to know.

I've been reading about Photoshop, though, and it seems that it's not just very expensive, but seems to be more complex than what I might be necessary for me. And quite a few reviewers also say that Adobe customer support is not helpful, and that the latest Photoshop and Photoshop Elements have real problems. Am I correct that I don't need the full Photoshop? And are viable alternatives to Photoshop and Photoshop Elements that would let me accomplish what I want to do? Any suggestions?

Thanks again for your thoughtful answer.

Thank you, but that is just the point: The JPGs are pages full of photos; the individual photos are not separate entities. What you are showing me here are separate photos what I have is pages full of photos treated as a unit. It's like thinking of the body as a whole, as opposed to its parts.

I'd show you one of the pages, but they are bound in photo albums, so I'd ruin the albums if I tried to remove a page. Many of us have photo albums that either we, or some relative, composed before putting photos on our computers was even a mote in someone's eye. Try to picture a single page of many photos as a unit, not as separate photos, and I think you'll understand what I'm talking about. The JPGs are like that: each page is a JPG, but each photo is not:. I was assured that I'd be able to treat the photos on each page as though they were separate elements on the page, but that was a misapprehension.

And as I said, I'm not trying to crop any image; At least, I don't think that is what I'm trying to do. I just want to separate an image of a photo from the page (preferably, copying it, not removing it forever from the page), save it elsewhere and be able to send it to anyone who wants it (for example, a family member or a friend). I don't know how I could do that, the way things stand.

I would appreciate, though, some suggestions of reliable alternatives to Photoshop or Photoshop Elements (if that would do what I want to do as well as the full Photoshop or Photoshop Elements (for Mac) – assuming that Elements is equally good for my purposes. There have been plenty of complaints about both Adobe's customer service and the recent versions of the software. There seem to be quite a lot of paid and free offerings, but I don't know which of their features are what I need, nor which ones are good. Do you know anything about that?. Or maybe someone else has advice about that.

Thank you again. I hope I've made clear where the problem lies.

Regards,

jenny