The 'Moneta Image Loader/Extractor' screen provides easy management
of coin images.
Simply find the jpeg or bitmap (bmp) image of the coin, click on it in the
file box, and see
it displayed in the 'preview' box. Then just click on the Load button,
and
your image is stored in Moneta - no need to keep hundreds of image files.
If the image is
poorly cropped or even a combined image with the obverse and reverse on
the same image
- no problem. With a couple of mouse clicks you can have great looking
images imported into Moneta.
If you ever need to isolate an image you can use the 'Extract' buttons
to create a jpeg or bmp on your
disk or to put the image on the Windows clipboard (if you wish to embed
it in a word processing document).
You can even combine the obverse and reverse images into a single image
(stacked either vertically
or horizontally), either written to a file or the Windows clipboard.
Note that the size of the 'maximum viewable image' changes with the
resolution of your monitor.
These screen shots are from a 800x600 monitor, and the pixel size auto-adjusts
as resolution changes.
Here is an actual case showing the importation of the image of a coin purchased
over the internet,
and the image file was simply downloaded from the auction site (but it was
a tiny image and had a lot of
extra material on the image).
This is the image loader/extractor screen showing a small preview
of the original image file. The
images that have been loaded into Moneta were achieved using the built-in
cropping functionality.
The Moneta cropping screen (called from the screen above by clicking
on the "Crop Image..." button) is shown below
after the image has been "windowed" and cropped. Clicking on the "Load
Obv and Rev from Cropped Image" button
completed the process - closed the cropping screen to return to the image
loader/extractor, cut the image in half, and
loaded the images into Moneta without further intervention.