Tywais Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 I stumbled across this site recently and found the program to be a very good replacement for ACDSee. Not as blotted and much faster. Some of my image folders hold 3-4000 images and handles them well. Several built in batch editing/conversion tools and the price is exellant - free. http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
francois Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 hi' thanks for link anything better than Irfanview? anyway, I'll test it, looks quite easy to use francois Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSixpack Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 I stumbled across this site recently and found the program to be a very good replacement for ACDSee. Not as blotted and much faster. Some of my image folders hold 3-4000 images and handles them well. Several built in batch editing/conversion tools and the price is exellant - free. http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm Agreed. I've also switched from ACDSee to Fastsone. Another nice feature is the email button that lets you resize before sending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lopburi3 Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 I don't use image viewers enough to know but from past experience think it is rather hard to beat Irfanview. That ACDC never worked right for me (tried at least 3 different versions over the years). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Betong Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 I stumbled across this site recently and found the program to be a very good replacement for ACDSee. Not as blotted and much faster. Some of my image folders hold 3-4000 images and handles them well. Several built in batch editing/conversion tools and the price is exellant - free. http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm Hi TyWais, Anyone else installed and use this toolbar? I stumbled upon a very good webmaster's personal choice of free programs: http://www.jonasjohn.de/lab/apps.htm Three I tried (there are only so many hours in a day!) were excellent: Pixie - a very nifty tool for finding the hex, rgb, etc values of a colour, with the facility to easily copy values into your keyboard buffer. Anry colour - similar capabilities and an additional feature of similar, contrasting colours and also a magnifier. (Ideal tools for webdesigners). ExplorerXP - a fast tabbed web browser that saves/displays path/directory size. Other features include printing, saving groups, etc Looks as though it is a good replacement for having umpteen Explorer windows open. Cheers, John_Betong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywais Posted May 11, 2006 Author Share Posted May 11, 2006 I stumbled upon a very good webmaster's personal choice of free programs: http://www.jonasjohn.de/lab/apps.htm Three I tried (there are only so many hours in a day!) were excellent: Good link, and know what you mean about 'so many hours'. I tend to stay away from any toolbars, got burned too many times from some - plus don't like too much clutter in my browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astral Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 Irfan is my favourite and also gives resizing. Downloading your suggestion as I write this and will check it out. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meadish_sweetball Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 I am also an Irfanman and have been since 1996. It is exactly what I want from a program - very small, customizable, stable and versatile. If this other one is even better I'd love to see it. Please post your reviews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywais Posted May 11, 2006 Author Share Posted May 11, 2006 (edited) Irfan is my favourite and also gives resizing.Downloading your suggestion as I write this and will check it out. Thanks The feature list is quite extensive and includes resizing, rotating, color/contrast/brightness, etc. Also e-mail image with option to change the size for the e-mail (as JSixpack mentioned). A couple of problems I have with IranView is the lack of clean integration of thumbnails and viewing. Also I just tried IranView on my digital camera folders and it crashed everytime. Faststone had no problems showing my raw format images (MRW). I'm not often impressed with a program, but this one is surprisingly full featured for a freebie. The only thing it doesn't support is multi-media files (video) which is all I use IranView for now. When you open an image from the thumbnail you can move your mouse to the different edges (top, bottom, left) of the image and a set of menus popup allowing you do a variety of things with the image such as rotating, resizing, cropping, etc. Plus it has a picture preview like ACDSee which I haven't seen with IranView (maybe I just don't have it configured right). Edited May 11, 2006 by tywais Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astral Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 I like the initial Thumbnail presentation, rather like Piccassa. Has to be asked for in Irfan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywais Posted May 11, 2006 Author Share Posted May 11, 2006 (edited) I was wrong about the video presentation mode. Does it very well also, I just didn't select the image/video filter menu. Only thumbnails the videos but double clicking will send it to your default multi-media player program. Edited May 11, 2006 by tywais Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeWill Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 tywais, This viewer/editor is really nice one, thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 This viewer/editor is really nice one, thank you. Seconded..its really very good and free too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
udon Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 Good tip, Tywais (as usual) Have you tried their version of Snagit yet? I'm unable to capture stuff by scrolling down (or up)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywais Posted May 12, 2006 Author Share Posted May 12, 2006 (edited) Good tip, Tywais (as usual) Have you tried their version of Snagit yet? I'm unable to capture stuff by scrolling down (or up)? Thanks. The scrolling web page capture only works with IE or browsers that use the IE engine. I just tried it under Avant and it worked perfectly. Just right click on the FSCapture icon and select "Screen Capture" "Scrolling Web Page" then click on the page (will have a red border). A preview of the full page will come up then you can right click and "save as". An example, scaled down 75% to keep the size small. ----- Edited May 12, 2006 by tywais Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astral Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 I have now set this little programme as my default viewer. I nice combination of the features of Irfan and Picassa that I used to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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