jadrake

I used AutoHotkey and you are right... this worked like a charm. Just needed to adjust the macro to use the current active window title but yep, all I do now is.... "S" - select my stamp outline with the mouse (someone recommended a sprint builder - but unfortunately stamps are different sizes....) Win-S (run the macro) type the stamp number and hit enter.

Fair enough... I use .png for all of my application icons (but for photo scans the JPEG format gives me sufficient quality (with reduced sizes). Afterall, I am not the library of congress (these are for my records). I guess what I was asking for might have been missed. If you are not willing to put in a "default" property, is there a way to at least remember the file extension for the session? ie. once I user chooses .gif, .png, .xxx that is the default extension on the next save-as? -Jason

I use Paint.net in for my stamp collection hobby and I love it. One issue I run into all the time though is I scan a page of stamps (say 20-30) open the image in Paint.net, perform any color correction etc. so that I feel it is pleasant representation, and then I will go and Select (CRTL-S) <pick a stamp in the large image> Copy (CTRL-C) New Image (CTRL-N) Save AS (CTRL-Shift-S) I save all of stamp in folders by country (since the catalogue numbers can be duplicated by countries). So I find the folder and.... oh oh.... the format is .PNG. Now I have to "TAB" "J" to select JPEG and hit enter. While I'd love to save them all as PNGs, the file size difference in my case is typically 2-3 times (the stamps I collect tend to be not very colorful - so compress really well). I repear this for the rest of the sheet. Since the extension is not remembered (and I have found no way to set a default) I have to do this every time. The "save folder" is remembered which really helps since I am typically processing these images by country in batches. I have done this over 3000 times so far, but have likely 45000 times more to go. That would be a savings of 90000 key strokes! Thoughts?