XnView Software

I'm a pretty new user, so sorry if this has been suggested (or is not appropriate.)

Users can view images as a slideshow, or they can go into "quick slideshow" mode. Why not have a default slideshow mode, with settings defined by the user, and have that be your "default slideshow" mode? For example, if you prefer very fast changes from image to image, you can have that. But if you wish the "default slide show" mode to take 12 seconds per image, with particular image transitions, random order, you could do this as well. Pressing pause would take you into your user-defined default slide-show mode.

Another, minor suggestion: in slideshow mode, users can advance the slideshow using a timer *or* a keyboard press. Some people might prefer both: use a timer, unless a particular key is pressed to advance to the next image.

Final suggestion: the slideshow viewer gPhotoShow uses a smart technique for automatically panning across very large images, which also involves reducing their size as little as possible and then panning across the longer side. This is a wonderful feature. It would be nice to see it in both the slide show and default (quick) slide show modes.

kbomb wrote:Users can view images as a slideshow, or they can go into "quick slideshow" mode. Why not have a default slideshow mode, with settings defined by the user, and have that be your "default slideshow" mode? For example, if you prefer very fast changes from image to image, you can have that. But if you wish the "default slide show" mode to take 12 seconds per image, with particular image transitions, random order, you could do this as well. Pressing pause would take you into your user-defined default slide-show mode.

Quick slide show is very simple slide, transitions and other are not used in this mode...

Another, minor suggestion: in slideshow mode, users can advance the slideshow using a timer *or* a keyboard press. Some people might prefer both: use a timer, unless a particular key is pressed to advance to the next image.

You can use keyboard even with timer...

Final suggestion: the slideshow viewer gPhotoShow uses a smart technique for automatically panning across very large images, which also involves reducing their size as little as possible and then panning across the longer side. This is a wonderful feature. It would be nice to see it in both the slide show and default (quick) slide show modes.

Could you explain me more this technique?

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kbomb wrote:Users can view images as a slideshow, or they can go into "quick slideshow" mode. Why not have a default slideshow mode, with settings defined by the user, and have that be your "default slideshow" mode? For example, if you prefer very fast changes from image to image, you can have that. But if you wish the "default slide show" mode to take 12 seconds per image, with particular image transitions, random order, you could do this as well. Pressing pause would take you into your user-defined default slide-show mode.

Quick slide show is very simple slide, transitions and other are not used in this mode...

But it would be nice. More here - also if someone would like to support it.

Final suggestion: the slideshow viewer gPhotoShow uses a smart technique for automatically panning across very large images, which also involves reducing their size as little as possible and then panning across the longer side. This is a wonderful feature. It would be nice to see it in both the slide show and default (quick) slide show modes.

Could you explain me more this technique?

To me, a weakness of current image viewers is that they don't take into consideration the growing size of images available due to the increasing amount of inexpensive disk space. It was once unusual to find images much bigger than the screen; now it's getting to be the norm.

Ideally, an program designed to enhance the image viewing experience will display these images in the best possible way(s). So what's the best way to view an image that is both larger and wider than the screen? You can reduce it to fit the whole image within the screen. But then the image might just has well have been screen size to begin with--detail is lost.

So what about panning across it? If I have an image 2 feet wide, and an inch taller than my screen, how could I pan across it? Since reducing the height would involve the least size reduction, I reduce the height to screen height, maintaining the aspect ratio. Then I pan across it horizontally, manually (or automatically at some set speed, which is what I prefer.) In this way, you see the glorious detail a large image can provide, sacrificing only the ability to see the whole image at once.

I've made slide shows this way, and they can be quite hypnotic. The effect is almost identical to what you see in a movie when the camera pans across a landscape. Imagine XnView slideshows producing that effect.

I find that if I am looking at a very large image, I perform this panning manually anyway--it's simply a very pleasant way to look at big images.