XnView Software

Hello, I'm sorry I don't speak French so maybe my question may be
difficult to understand. But I would appreciate it very much if anyone
could help me.

I do freelance work in investigative matters, often finding lost persons.

An interesting thing I discovered about XnView is that if you open the
program and browse a folder (Operating system WinXP) it will of course
give you thumbnail views of the photos in that folder.

But if I have an altered photo, where someone cropped the photo to
show only them-self in the photo, when XnView is in browser mode
looking at the thumbnails, it shows the UnAltered photo as it originally
was before the person cropped the photo.

This is a big help to me, in that I can see anyone else who may be in
the photo that the person doesn't want me to see. And can help give
me clues to who else they know, in a case like finding a missing child.

I can't find a reason for this though, and I'm wondering if this effect
has a name. I'd like to be able to do what XnView is doing in Browse
mode, which is show the complete UnAltered photo before it was cropped,
and have a large version of that photo. This must be possible, I just
don't know how.

Can you tell me why XnView browser shows the UnAltered photo when
un thumbnail mode? This may help me figure out how to find something
that can enlarge the photo in it's Unaltered state.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

- Goller

—> Goller

Hello !

…I'm sorry I don't speak French so maybe my question may be
difficult to understand…

• No problem, there is a pretty bunch of users plus the Author-Admin- etc. here able to read and understand in English

• I guess that the thumb nails which are displayed as the original pics are embedded ones within *.JPEGs images.
- So you could untick the box “Use embedded thumb nail” in the Options (F12) >> Thumbnails.
- Then, XnView'll rebuild the thumb nail according to the real modified file.

Kind regards,
Claude
Clo