XnView has some features I like very much - one of which is the creation of a web page index - this is something I do routinely of all my Canon 20D .CR2 RAW files - these pages are purely for my indexing purposes, not publication - I like to see an identifying thumbnail of a decent size and some basic EXIF to hand. I do it this way as a quick reference to shot information, even to image files on other drives and computers.
After some trial and error and creating my own template, I've got XnView to create a web page how I like.
The only thing I don't like is the quality of the thumbnail images themselves - it seemingly creates them from the full res. RAW file and seems to change the basic exposure/brightness to some sort of average - some that were too lightly exposed it has darkened to the extent that all detail has vanished in the areas that were actually correct. I'd prefer it to use the embedded JPEGs to create a thumbnail from, as I set my parameters to get what I want from those as reference and I'd prefer to see an unadulterated version.
These on the left are the untouched low contrast embedded JPEG for such shots and to the right, the XnView version of the web page based thumbnail - which makes it hard for me to judge how the original shot was when quickly previewing a set. Many seem to have been adjusted in this manner - but certainly not all or by the same factor. The thumbnails in the application itself are correct, they're based on the JPEG which is in the preview pane.
Does anyone know it it's possible to make it use the JPEG, or to leave the RAW version 'as shot'. You can make changes in other places, to gamma, WB and the like, but I can't see if for the web page. I've tried the camera RAW options and it doesn't make any difference to the web page thumbnails.
I really like this function, it's faster than doing the same task in my RAW developer that I was doing before and I can use it for several cameras and get the same format of output.
