Always have to install Quicklook on my windows machines, too used to it on Mac
IrfanView
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Re: IrfanView
#262Lest Mac users miss out on the nostalgia trip the Windows users are enjoying in this thread: Remember GraphicConverter? It's still around and actively developed. 32 years old!
Re: IrfanView
#263Some 15 years ago I wanted to contribute/fix bugs and asked the author if the sources are available. He answered yes, for $10000. Screw that guy, I wrote my own image viewer )
Re: IrfanView
#264Tried to get into it many times but just couldn't and finally found XnView and it was awesome. Sadly after switching to mac it was no longer available and later on Qt version wasn't that good
Re: IrfanView
#265My dad introduced me to it after he started using it when it came out in 1996. It’s great, quick image editing. My only gripe with it is that cropping is unnecessarily convoluted…
> My only gripe with it is that cropping is unnecessarily convoluted… What are you talking about? Make a rectangular selection on the image (click and drag across the image), then CTRL+Y. Couldn't be easier.
That shortcut is permanently burned into my muscle memory. I still instinctively hit Cmd + Y in Preview.app when meaning to crop.
Re: IrfanView
#266Why are most comments referring to having used this in the past tense? I was under the impression that it was still the best image viewer in town, on Windows at least
It made more sense to go through the effort to install IrfanView when there was no image previewer built into windows, in the days of Windows 95/98/ME/2000. Those only had MS Paint, and I think some versions only supported bmp files (no jpeg or gif). Windows XP had an ok image previewer.
Windows 98 did have an image viewer but it was an optional component. It was called Imaging for Windows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaging_for_Windows
There was also a Microsoft Photo Editor that was bundled with Office 97: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Photo_Editor
Re: IrfanView
#267Related question: Is there any way to view HEIC files on Windows without installing the extensions from the Microsoft Store, or dodgy proprietary software? Even Irfanview requires the former.
Re: IrfanView
#268I've been using IrfanView since at least 1997, if not earlier in 1996. I still use IrfanView to this day. It's my Swiss knife for a lot of simple photo editing work (cropping, resizing, padding, text-adding, etc), batch-processing, and for browsing single photos through directories. It's not just good, it's way faster than the bloated alternatives. To top it off, IrfanView works beautifully on my Linux via Wine, and…
You want to open a picture, FAST, no matter the format or resolution ? You want to open a picture and then move from one picture to the next in the same folder with arrow keys or mouse scroll, again fast and without loading or menus fonctions or whatever ? You want to batch process a folder to convert all files to png with the larger side limited to 2000px, keep the location data but reset the orientation data, and r…
I'd be interested in your list of must have, the one you've mentioned mirror mine, though I've never heard of NAPS2. A few of mine:
Treesheets Zim wiki Notepad++ Autohotkey
Re: IrfanView
#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use maccy on my wife’s Mac and don’t love it, maybe it’s bec I’m still not comfortable with Mac keyboard shortcuts or maybe it’s just the UI, but there’s something about it that feels less baked than ditto.
I don’t know ditto but on maccy it’s just the paste shortcut (for the last copy) plus a number (if you need an older copy). Could it be easier?
A way to sort of "alt-tab" between copy versions instead of separate keypresses for each?