Workflow Tweaks
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:49 am
Hey guys,
Well, I love Xnview - I'm using it a lot while working (digital sculpting) and have it constantly opened on the second monitor, but there are quite a few things that could be improved:
1) SAVE SESSIONS! While sculpting, it's not unusual that I've 20-30 reference images open at a time. When I turn off the workstation and restart it the next day, all the images that I've loaded into xnview the day before are gone and I'll have to load em all up again. So, it'd be great if Xnview, if you close it, could save out the session that's currently open, all the tabs, everything and once you rerstart Xnview again, you'll be where you left your workstation yesterday. That's my No1 Must-Have Feature, cause it's so annoying to go through the reference library again and again, just to do the same things again and again.
2) Better organization: Tabs are good, yes. But it'd be nice if we could approach the view more like a desk. Say, I can load not only one image into a tab, but multiple images, XNView would organize them, one after the other, in rows - And we could just, like always, RMB to the part of the image that we want to look at. If you're sculpting an eye, you could load up all eye references into an eye tab and could just RMB pan to the important image. It's hard if you've got 30abs loaded to keep track of everything, so that'd be great.
3) Scrolling through tabs would be neat - if I hover my mouse over a tab and scroll, it should scroll through all the tabs and not resize my image. If I hover over the image and scroll, it should resize the image.
That's all for now. I'll add more later, probably
Well, I love Xnview - I'm using it a lot while working (digital sculpting) and have it constantly opened on the second monitor, but there are quite a few things that could be improved:
1) SAVE SESSIONS! While sculpting, it's not unusual that I've 20-30 reference images open at a time. When I turn off the workstation and restart it the next day, all the images that I've loaded into xnview the day before are gone and I'll have to load em all up again. So, it'd be great if Xnview, if you close it, could save out the session that's currently open, all the tabs, everything and once you rerstart Xnview again, you'll be where you left your workstation yesterday. That's my No1 Must-Have Feature, cause it's so annoying to go through the reference library again and again, just to do the same things again and again.
2) Better organization: Tabs are good, yes. But it'd be nice if we could approach the view more like a desk. Say, I can load not only one image into a tab, but multiple images, XNView would organize them, one after the other, in rows - And we could just, like always, RMB to the part of the image that we want to look at. If you're sculpting an eye, you could load up all eye references into an eye tab and could just RMB pan to the important image. It's hard if you've got 30abs loaded to keep track of everything, so that'd be great.
3) Scrolling through tabs would be neat - if I hover my mouse over a tab and scroll, it should scroll through all the tabs and not resize my image. If I hover over the image and scroll, it should resize the image.
That's all for now. I'll add more later, probably