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It's not.

by gsich 3y ago

It's not.

j45 3y ago
Alternative?
- yau8edq12i 3y ago
  The built-in viewer in windows is fine. I can't really think of a feature that it doesn't have that I need. Could you say why irfanview gets your vote?
  - jajko 3y ago
    The speed, plugins ecosystem, many more formats supported out of the box, crop being faster and more intuitive, often good enough auto adjust. Irfan for images and vlc for video is the name of the game for me (and total commander for file management, the efficiency compared to simpler stuff is still in wow territory).
    - j45 3y ago
      IrfanView started so long ago, got and stayed so far ahead. Wish there was a mac version, but it can be run in an emulator easy enough.
    - copperx 3y ago
      DidectoryOpus is even better, but it's expensive.
  - jjbinx007 3y ago
    The batch image manipulation features it offers are pretty handy. Plus you can press L or R to rotate an image and it has lossless rotate options as well.
    - j45 3y ago
      I'm pretty sure it had batch processing capabilities before Photoshop.
    - iggldiggl 3y ago
      > and it has lossless rotate options as well … and lossless cropping, too.
  - card_zero 3y ago
    It's also a paint tool (edit->show paint dialog), and does tricks like swapping channels or repeating the image as a grid of tiles, which are handy when programming something involving raster graphics or textures.
  - jacekm 3y ago
    It's about speed mostly. And I got used to the shortcuts, ctrl+r to resize, 'i' to check image metadata. I don't really use any of the editing features (I use Paint.NET for edits). In theory I don't need a dedicated image viewer but I like IrfanView so much that I even paid for it so I can have it on company's laptop.
  - j45 3y ago
    Install it and you'll see within 5-10 minutes the next time you have go through a bunch of images, or do something to a bunch of images. IrfanView likely still supports more formats, since it was earlier than any other tool. This means any edge cases in file encoding that might not work, or render ideally likely has been solved there first. It probably has some batch file conversion tricks in it too. IrfanView also provided for free for a lot of years what was hard to get without paying. If it existed on mac I'd be all over it. Ah, the windows viewer always wasn't that good. And if I remember the big first improvement of it was copying a lot of IrfanView. Since this post, I remembered another old friend that was excellent on windows, AcdSEE. Also worth looking into.
- gsich 3y ago
  FastPictureViewer

It's not.

by gsich 3y ago

It's not.

j45 3y ago

Alternative?

yau8edq12i 3y ago
The built-in viewer in windows is fine. I can't really think of a feature that it doesn't have that I need. Could you say why irfanview gets your vote?
- jajko 3y ago
  The speed, plugins ecosystem, many more formats supported out of the box, crop being faster and more intuitive, often good enough auto adjust. Irfan for images and vlc for video is the name of the game for me (and total commander for file management, the efficiency compared to simpler stuff is still in wow territory).
  - j45 3y ago
    IrfanView started so long ago, got and stayed so far ahead. Wish there was a mac version, but it can be run in an emulator easy enough.
  - copperx 3y ago
    DidectoryOpus is even better, but it's expensive.
- jjbinx007 3y ago
  The batch image manipulation features it offers are pretty handy. Plus you can press L or R to rotate an image and it has lossless rotate options as well.
  - j45 3y ago
    I'm pretty sure it had batch processing capabilities before Photoshop.
  - iggldiggl 3y ago
    > and it has lossless rotate options as well … and lossless cropping, too.
- card_zero 3y ago
  It's also a paint tool (edit->show paint dialog), and does tricks like swapping channels or repeating the image as a grid of tiles, which are handy when programming something involving raster graphics or textures.
- jacekm 3y ago
  It's about speed mostly. And I got used to the shortcuts, ctrl+r to resize, 'i' to check image metadata. I don't really use any of the editing features (I use Paint.NET for edits). In theory I don't need a dedicated image viewer but I like IrfanView so much that I even paid for it so I can have it on company's laptop.
- j45 3y ago
  Install it and you'll see within 5-10 minutes the next time you have go through a bunch of images, or do something to a bunch of images. IrfanView likely still supports more formats, since it was earlier than any other tool. This means any edge cases in file encoding that might not work, or render ideally likely has been solved there first. It probably has some batch file conversion tricks in it too. IrfanView also provided for free for a lot of years what was hard to get without paying. If it existed on mac I'd be all over it. Ah, the windows viewer always wasn't that good. And if I remember the big first improvement of it was copying a lot of IrfanView. Since this post, I remembered another old friend that was excellent on windows, AcdSEE. Also worth looking into.
gsich 3y ago
FastPictureViewer