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keith
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recommending XnView

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don't know if this is the right form for this question?

I am thinking of recommending XnView to members of my seniors art class.

All run windows. their experience level runs from almost zero to 6 on a scale of 10.

they would be playing with photos - cropping etc.

they have enough trouble trying to understand our modern world withought me throuwing something super complicated at them and then haveing it crash on them.

most of them have managed email but that's it.

Are current versions of XnViewer stable enough for them?
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keith wrote:Are current versions of XnViewer stable enough for them?
Yes, i think :-)
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Yes!

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Keith,
rather new to XnView and knowing some othter picturedatabases and using a different huge big one for a while I must say: yes (and a big compliment to the authors)
- stable
- fast
- easy behviour of the database itsself: you may use the same databasefile one several computers (if you are using identical folder and filestructure ( for example laptop and desktop) by copying the database and catalog file.
- croping and some easy editing: yes
- but not to forget, XnView ist not a picture editor. There are some basics for the first, but if one want to do real pictureediting there should be an additional choice.

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Post by helmut »

You've provided a good "evaluation" of XnView, Horst. XnView's main strengths are image browsing, viewing, and management, not image editing. Image editing can enhanced a bit by using the Paint plugin, but it cannot replace a fully featured Image editor with layers and mask tools.
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Post by keith »

Thanks for your help. They would be mainly concerned with the crop feature - the slide shows etc give them some nice learning stuff.

The crop feature seams to work ok. If when the crop feature were turned on the entire photo was darkened a bit and then when the crop window opened that part of the photo would be light.

this would make it easier to see the crip limits for composing. Now I just have to figure out where to make the suggestion.

take care: keith :D
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