I don't think so: Core I7 with 8GB and a hybrid drive with a 15GB solid state buffer.
...however if I were you I'd put at least 16 GB inside, especially if you're on Windows 7/8. Also, be sure to have a mobo which supports 32 GB.
But I'm a panorama nut and a typical image for me >100Mb
What program do you use? Hugin? It would be very nice to have some integration between XnViewMP and Hugin. There are some buttons in Toolbar Customisation dialog saying 'AutoPano Giga / Pro' but nobody(?) knows what they're doing...
[...]Esp. for such things as noise reduction (using the really excellent Zoner "Advanced Noise Reduction" dialog) a zoomed miniature makes the trial and error process faster than with the new design.
Oh, yes. IMHO one of the best GUIs are the ones from Nik Software which includes a loupe (the "small preview" which you mention). See bellow a screenshot: (explanations after the break
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Nik-Color-Effex.jpg
1. Before/After screens (The XnV's Batch Engine has this already)
2. Zoom (one can zoom also with the mouse wheel and pan with mouse btn down and drag)
3. Our main topic: Non-distructive editing in a very similar manner with our XnView MP
4. Loupe - zoomed area under the mouse. The user can have the following options: Automatically apply the filter on the Loupe only & Automatically apply the filter "on the entire image" (of course, "on the entire image" means that it will show in the loupe also)
4,5 - As an aside, when one clicks on the loupe the pane toggles to the histogram representation and back.
How does the new Zoner Manager design support a second monitor? Making the preview unavailable to the side of the thumbs panel (that is, locking it to the filmstrip) seems to work against using the "Manager" with two monitors...
Off-topic, but anyway:
In the right "title bar" next to the main modules (Import | Manager | Editor ...) you have a button with a monitor and '2' inside. Click on it. It will show you another simple full-screen window on the 2ndary monitor with the same modules (defaulting the Viewer). Hence you have the Manager on the 1st (it is the only monitor on which works) and on the 2nd you have the preview.
[...] Again, their response to my wailing about it was "Users got confused, it was a support issue".
Sigh.
Sigh +1.
Limiting a program in a certain domain for the limited ones in that domain will make that program to be used only by those who have very limited needs & sights.
Geee.... I'm becoming very wise, isn't it?
But indeed the tendency is sad. Let's hope that XnView will be user friendly but not limited.
Such a large monitor seems to me to be better served by the floating adjustment dialogs rather than a single panel " 'way over there on the right"...
hmmm... dunno... I worked for years with both paradigms: floating toolboxes and docked layouts both in programming and in graphics. While I was very used with the floating paradigm I think that the docked metaphor keeps the thing cleaner and easier to access. Perhaps that's why many programs had a transition from floating to docked rather than the opposite. Gimp, Photoshop, Quark / InDesign, Corel Draw/PhotoPaint, Blender, IDEs from Borland, Microsoft, Eclipse etc. come in mind at a quick glance. Also, you know that there is
NO monitor big enough for your photo, isn't it?
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m. Th.
- Dark Themed XnViewMP 1.7.1 64bit on Win11 x64 -
, he would add an optional (auto-hide?) strip of thumbnails like in the Compare window (perhaps is easier) or in Full Screen mode (F11) which will auto-hide in order to allow a more streamlined workflow - something like this: (see the thumbs on the left and the non-distructive editing controls on the right)
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