XnView Software

Hi, I have been using the basic XnView for 2 years now, mainly for converting default BMP files to optimized JPGs. Lately on my art blog I have been noticing a very slight loss of image quality, even when the image is uploaded as a regular PNG file instead of JPG. It could just be the nature of some ...

Hey all, I am baaaaaack....

Haven't used XnView in a while but found it necessary to fire it up again. New version does seem easier to use. I had my old forum thread bookmarked and followed that to refresh my memory. :)

I have a large - 8000 x 8000 - fractal image that I wanted to keep kind of ...

You can bump the quality slider up to 95% if you want, but I wouldn't go higher than that.

** I wondered about that too. I've been leaving it on 90 percent. I have a good photo-stitch program where the default is, like, 80 percent. And someone told me that the difference between 80 and 100 ...

The fractals, not the photos.

** Ahh. Yes, some of them will be redone, that is possible. And, a "spot file" is a parameter file that can only be opened in that particular fractals program that I use. I have certain other ones, and each program has its own special file extension.

If you plan to ...

If you have a lot of BMPs to convert, you can use xnview to batch convert instead of 1 by 1.

** Great, I was hoping for that, since I have a bajillion photos... :shock:

The estimated quality one is irrelevant unless you started out with JPGs.

*** Not quite sure what that means? I quote ...

Cool! I chose a large BMP fractal image, found XnView's "export" and set it as advised, quality at 90, subsampling factor at best quality. The original file is 4+ MB, the exported version would be minimized to 1 MB.

Now what does DCT Method mean, and the smoothing factor, what does that do? And do ...

Thanks everyone for being so prompt and also giving a thorough explanation of things I was either not aware of, or had a very fuzzy awareness of, lol. :D

Okay, here's another question about my photography. Both my cameras automatically upload all images as JPGS. How about if I tried a batch ...

Hi All,

I am a newbie and even though I've been studying the XnView help files, I'm already confused. I am a photographer and I also dabble in fractals and other abstract art. I was getting concerned about the looks of my fractal art especially; in them I can see some obvious loss of quality when ...