XnView Software

Hi,
when creating a screenshot I realized a problem in Xnview I never had in IrfanView (which I used the last years). To describe the problem there are 2 screenshots which I took from yahoo.com with IrfanView + XnView. The problem should be very clear when comparing both screenshots - it should look like the one taken with IrfanView. The preview after taken the screenshot was ok, though. When I saved the screenshot as a gif, obviously something went wrong.

Screenshot taken with xnview:

screenshot taken with IrfanView:

Gif-Settings of xnview:


What went wrong?

Thanks for any support!

Thorsten

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thor.a wrote: What went wrong?

It's the 256 colors conversion. And with dithering?
Could you send me the original 24bits picture to test?

xnview wrote:

thor.a wrote: What went wrong?

It's the 256 colors conversion. And with dithering?
Could you send me the original 24bits picture to test?

With dithering is worse.

The original image? I just took a screenshot with the print key on my keyboard from my browser (yahoo.com, left navigation pane); and saved it with IrfanView + Xnview. You could try the same and see the problem I mentioned immediately.

I tried different thing (reduce colors to 256 first and save afterwards), different gif options when saving. But it seems that is it not possible in Xnview what I am doing with IrfanView for years: to save a screenshot as gif without noticing any disadvantages on the saved image.

Of course, IrfanView does reduce colors to 256, too. But much, much better than Xnview... But Xnview has a much much better thumbnail view than IrfanView...!

So, I see, I will have to deal with two programs...

Best regards,

Thorsten

With 1.91.5 everything is (nearly) fine. Saving a screenshot in gif format works now, thanks!

Just one suggestion: It would be very nice if the "Save as - Color mode ..."-Window would remember the last input value. At the moment, you always have to choose 256 colors when saving as gif.

Thorsten

—> thor.a

Hello !

Just one suggestion: It would be very nice if the "Save as - Color mode ..."-Window would remember the last input value. At the moment, you always have to choose 256 colors when saving as gif.

• I support that suggestion totally ! Currently, we get always the lowest quality again, it's quite irritating.
- I assume that comes from the antiquated versions (working with Win 3.1) where one saved as the smallest size.
- For instance, my very first HD was 40 Mb (decimal) (!) and the PC ran with 4 MiB RAM !
- It doesn't matter nowadays with the HDs and the amount of memory we have…

KR
Claude
Clo

The 256 color dither is fixed, but the 16 color dither still has a very powerful pink tint, at least in the export dialog. (Much more noticeable because there's less colors.)

thor.a

I support too

Paul