Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tony Cooper Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: Photos (Jpg, Png-viewer) --- i don't like it because it launches sluggishly... Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 09:59:35 -0400 Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <2nt5ajdvnhbveu80sc59tu31d0ja622cu9@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net /7Ws+YIGKM14oXlHA2/xtgVqx8OExB7brrziwyIqyKPFRWVDLP Cancel-Lock: sha1:btS5oPtOW36KHXMgrKWDD+hqwX8= sha256:xkZFLxdViVG7gBNpkmTclP2kqv7IQ5DpMXLs22HKkvw= User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.20.32.1218 X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 240726-2, 7/26/2024), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Bytes: 3460 On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 08:04:44 -0000 (UTC), Antonio Marques wrote: >Rich Ulrich wrote: >> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 21:47:38 -0600, Tilde >> wrote: >> >>> Tony Cooper wrote: >>>> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:19:17 -0700, HenHanna >>>>> There is a (Windows) tool called Photos (Jpg, Png-viewer) --- i don't >>>>> like it >>>>> because it launches sluggishly.... >>>>> >>>>> Esp. in the last 5 days or so, i'm noticing that almost every day >>>>> i have to go to Properties to change it back to >>>>> my fav. Jpg, Png-viewer tool >>>>> >>>>> because the Windows update (?) is pushing Photos on me. >>>>> >>>>> is there a Fix for this??? >>>> >>>> I have thousands of images from .jpgs to .pngs on my computer. I use >>>> the (free) FastStone Photo Viewer. It's not only a great image >>>> viewer, but offers many other options from selecting by tagged images >>>> to bulk re-naming. It's set as my default viewer. >>>> >>>> https://www.faststone.org/ >>> >>> https://www.irfanview.com/ >> >> I have both Faststone and Irfanview, and I like Faststone better. >> >> What I remember last using Irfanview for was when I wanted >> to change the default orientation of some pictures that were >> usually wrong (downloaded from my off-brand phone). >> >> IIRC, Faststone would rotate them okay for PC display by Faststone, >> but they would be wrong when uploaded to Face Book. > >Opening and saving a lossy format like jpg will usually result in... loss >of quality. For the specific purpose of rotating by multiples of 90°, it's >usually possible to do it losslessly, by just, well, rotating the encoded >data (rather than. decoding, rotating, and reencoding). There may also be >the possibility of specifying in the preamble what orientation the data >has, and maybe this is what solved the issue for one program but not for >fb, that paragon of quality software (maybe it just assumes the data >orientation rather than reading it from the file). > >Anyway, I don't know if your faststone has lossless rotation, maybe it >does. If not, there's a few utilities that can do it. AnnyStudio JPEG >Lossless Rotator seems to be one such. > Most sources state that .jpgs start to noticeably degrade only after about 10 open/saves.