Yes I know it is way off subject but some people here are clearly very good at taking digital pictures. I'm not.

I've got several digital photograph that I want to e-mail to a friend. But I want to put a simple arrow on them point to an important part of the picture. The software that came with my Canon Power Shot A540 will not do anything like that. So is there anything I can download that would this one simple task?

Do you have a Macintosh or Windows machine?

Gimp (GNU image manipulation program) will do it all but has a steep learning curve. I use Photoshop but it's pricey as well as complex.

Mike

Open the picture with "Paint". It has all the stuff you want, arrows, eraser, text, scribbling, etc.
Greg

Where would I get that?
I've got a Windows machine.

Paint comes with Windows. Programs\accesories\paint

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Found it. Never knew it was there. Thanks!
Now if I can only figure out how to use it.

Paint will do a lot for you for no extra cost. Microsoft Works is not too expensive and it has "Picture It!" which is easy to use and uesful.

KLW, I was just reading your article "Crosswind Deflcetions, a Cast Bullet Anomaly." This is an interesting and useful article - I am shooting low velocity smokless with cast bullets.

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William Iorg

I think that I wrote that 35 years ago. I can remember when I thought being 35 was old. How in the world did you ever find that and where did you find that? I don't even know now where it was printed.

Just hold your mouse (cursor) over the things on upper left, it will tell you what they do.
If you don't like what you did to your picture, exit without saving and it stays the same as when you opened it.
You could try "Help", but it never helps me. Good luck.
Greg

This article is from the 1979 issue of Gun digest.
There is little reliable information on bullet drift with velocities under 2,000 fps. This article is discussed often by sub-sonic pig shooters and some black powder cartridge rifle shooters.
I believe I have your copy of Everyday Ballistics by Charles Cummings. I bought it in Albuquerque at Ron Peterson's.
I have searched, unsuccessfully, for years for Homer Powley’s book: “Ballistic Notes.”
I am pushing 60 ahead of me with a snow plow, I know what you mean!

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I knew Homer. Never met him but we corresponded regularly for year. Ron would have had a large set of notes that I had collected over the years from him. If memory serves, and it has probably been 15 years ago, they were in a big black binder. If that is of interest you might call Ron and see if he still has those.

Thanks for pointing that out. I had forgotten.
Before his unfortunate death, Dan Shideler, the editor of Gun Digest, gave me a copy of their digital version of Gun Digest ranging from 1944 to 2009 so I looked that article up. Brought back memories.

John Amber wondered how I ever came up with those graphs. He had trouble believing that I actually calculated the numbers. Certainly couldn't do that today. Actually I have no idea how I did it but I've still got the notebooks. Maybe I'll go and look that up.

This is strange for another reason. The 2010 Gun Digest has an article that I've done twice. The first time was printed in the 1981 Gun Digest. I got out those old notebooks and looked that one up. 250 pages of notes full of algebra that I can not now understand. But once upon a time I did. That too brought back memories.

I am attaching a picture of the wall to the right of my desk. Homer Powley, Robert Hutton and Townsend Whelen were boyhood hero’s.
I may have seen the notebook many years ago at Peterson’s. At the time I was lusting after a 350 Remington Magnum and my wife was buying a 22 Short only handgun and arranging to have it shipped back to Texas.
I bought the Cummings book as it was on my want list. It was only after I got home that I saw your book plate – a night sky or space scene.
I’ll call Peterson’s today. Ken Howell is still attempting to establish a museum for Powley and Handloader’s. It would be fun to see your notes go in with his collection of Homer’s writing and his books.
You might be surprised at how many “nurdy” types work the math from those old Gun Digests. Negative Trajectory sighting and bullet drift are a good diversion from the trials of everyday life.
Here is a picture of my office – to the right of my desk.
We are waiting for a new copy of the F. C. Ness No-Glance cast bullet mold. The original made by Hensley and Gibbs. This is a deep hollow point .30 caliber mold and we hope to load it for use against feral hogs in a semi-urban environment from long barreled rifles and from suppressed rifles. The pigs are clever and are easily alarmed by the snap of the primer from a suppressed firearm. Backing off 100-yards helps but these bullets have a poor form and with the ideal velocity at about 1,700 fps these bullets will drift in a wind.

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I haven't heard of Ken Howell in maybe a decade. I'm a bit surprised that he is still with us. Last time I knew he had had a heart attack or stroke and was partially paralized.

All true. Ken is still holding court and teaching us a thing or two at the 24Hour Campfire.
I am wandering around a bit but did you meet Lloyd Brownell? The Handloader series: firearms Pressure Factors and then the book made from them has been the cause of more than one sleepless night for me. The old saying: “I have learned a lot and still don’t know much.”

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