XnView Software

I used to use 3 seperate progs depending on what I needed them for, now I use xnview almost exclusively. I used to use irfanview for most of my image viewing because it loaded much faster than xnview, image analyzer for enhancing & optimizing images & for quick annotation type stuff (it used to be about the only viewer with a simple paint tool), and xnview for loading multiple images at a time or for opening or converting oddball formats. With the string of improvements lately, xnview has pretty much taken over all those functions. The load time was sped up a few versions back, the export function is great for optimizing, and now it has a paint tool as well. Now about the only time I use another prog is when I want to use an adobe plugin (the ones I use most just don't work in xnview, so I still have to use irfanview for them), and when I want to do some heavy duty editing or full function painting (things xnview was simply never designed to do).

Drahken wrote:I used to use 3 seperate progs depending on what I needed them for, now I use xnview almost exclusively. I used to use irfanview for most of my image viewing because it loaded much faster than xnview, image analyzer for enhancing & optimizing images & for quick annotation type stuff (it used to be about the only viewer with a simple paint tool), and xnview for loading multiple images at a time or for opening or converting oddball formats. With the string of improvements lately, xnview has pretty much taken over all those functions. The load time was sped up a few versions back, the export function is great for optimizing, and now it has a paint tool as well. Now about the only time I use another prog is when I want to use an adobe plugin (the ones I use most just don't work in xnview, so I still have to use irfanview for them), and when I want to do some heavy duty editing or full function painting (things xnview was simply never designed to do).

Which adobe plugin don't work? And the speed to load is much faster in irf**** ??

The speed -used- to be faster in IV, before you made it so that XNV remembered the list of plugins & addons from session to session. Scanning the plugins folder on every startup really slowed it down.

There actually seems to be quite a few adobe plugins that don't work in XNV, but the one I use that doesn't work is DCEtools. It has a colorcast remover & an auto enhancer that does smart smoothing (smooths solid areas without blurring edges). I mentioned the problem before

Drahken wrote:The speed -used- to be faster in IV, before you made it so that XNV remembered the list of plugins & addons from session to session. Scanning the plugins folder on every startup really slowed it down.

So now it's good?

Yep. (Which was my original point btw. :p )