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From: Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Photos (Jpg, Png-viewer) --- i don't like it because it launches sluggishly...
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 18:11:25 -0400
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On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:58:14 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Lo, on the 7/26/2024, Tony Cooper did proclaim ...
>> On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:28:16 +0200, occam <occam@nowhere.nix> wrote:
>>
>>> On 26/07/2024 07:20, Rich Ulrich wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 21:47:38 -0600, Tilde <invalide@invalid.invalid>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Tony Cooper wrote:
>>> 
>>> <snip>
>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 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. 
>>> 
>>> Same here.
>>> 
>>> However, you should bear in mind that Irfanview is the more accomplished
>>> of the two. It has a far more comprehensive set of functions.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I think you must've missed the warning given by the 'rotate' function of
>>> Faststone. It clearly states (at the point of clicking the rotate arrow)
>>> that the rotation is for display purposes, and that the image will
>>> return to its normal orientation after the display.
>>> 
>>
>> The advantage offered by FastStone is that it opens the entire folder
>> of images as thumbnails.  (Each image can be displayed full screen,
>> though)   It allows the user to rearrange the order, re-name the
>> files, two image comparisons, or sort by tagged images.
>>
>> Irfanview provided more options for a single image, but each image
>> must be opened as an individual file.
>
>I usually use XnView or XnViewMP, which does much of the above, and can 
>open an image in irfanview as well as in itself.
>
>/dps

I have XnView for viewing HEIC images (FastStone doesn't open them)
for time when I work with images taken on my iPhone.  Except for those
images, I find FastStone more than sufficient.

FastStone will open images in Irfanview using "Open With", but I
rarely need to use Irfanview.