Hi there!
First of all a lot of thanks for Irfanview. It has been my image-viewing buddy since v2.85 or so, and I will only change if they threaten to pull out my fingernails or something, lol.
Now on to my feature request:
For my activities I often need to very quickly look for matches between a picture that I am editing in Photoshop, and candidate-pictures in folders. For this specific task I'm currently NOT using Irfanview ( ) but the software VUEprint, because it offers exactly what I need for this, which is:
- I can quickly (re)size the window in which I will see the thumbnails, so I can adapt it to the size of the picture that I'm editing in Photoshop (i.e., Photoshop is visible in the background on the left of the screen, while some part of the right of the screen is filled by the thumbnails-screen)
- screen is used optimally because by tapping the ESC-key, all toolbars and scrollbars etc. are removed from the window with thumbnails; this gives opportunity to show the thumbnails as large as possible. Basically it becomes a black background with pictures and the filename under it, nothing else. (display of filenames is also a big plus since I know where I am approximately in the folder)
- I can configure the background-color of the thumbnail-windows (to black, for optimal contrast)
- I can configure the amount of rows/columns of thumbnails that will be shown (2 X 3 rows of thumbnails for optimal balance between browsing FAST, and still seeing enough details in the thumbnails to judge whether I have a "match" or not)
- very quick switch (point to thumbnail and click) between this thumbnail- view, and a view in which the selected thumbnail is displayed fitting optimally into the size of the thumbnail window; in this view, I can then easily mirror/rotate the picture (which is often necessary to find out how well it matches the picture that I'm editing)
It would be cool if functionality similar to this would be built-in so I wouldn't have to BETRAY Irfanview every day. ;-)
JoH
First of all a lot of thanks for Irfanview. It has been my image-viewing buddy since v2.85 or so, and I will only change if they threaten to pull out my fingernails or something, lol.
Now on to my feature request:
For my activities I often need to very quickly look for matches between a picture that I am editing in Photoshop, and candidate-pictures in folders. For this specific task I'm currently NOT using Irfanview ( ) but the software VUEprint, because it offers exactly what I need for this, which is:
- I can quickly (re)size the window in which I will see the thumbnails, so I can adapt it to the size of the picture that I'm editing in Photoshop (i.e., Photoshop is visible in the background on the left of the screen, while some part of the right of the screen is filled by the thumbnails-screen)
- screen is used optimally because by tapping the ESC-key, all toolbars and scrollbars etc. are removed from the window with thumbnails; this gives opportunity to show the thumbnails as large as possible. Basically it becomes a black background with pictures and the filename under it, nothing else. (display of filenames is also a big plus since I know where I am approximately in the folder)
- I can configure the background-color of the thumbnail-windows (to black, for optimal contrast)
- I can configure the amount of rows/columns of thumbnails that will be shown (2 X 3 rows of thumbnails for optimal balance between browsing FAST, and still seeing enough details in the thumbnails to judge whether I have a "match" or not)
- very quick switch (point to thumbnail and click) between this thumbnail- view, and a view in which the selected thumbnail is displayed fitting optimally into the size of the thumbnail window; in this view, I can then easily mirror/rotate the picture (which is often necessary to find out how well it matches the picture that I'm editing)
It would be cool if functionality similar to this would be built-in so I wouldn't have to BETRAY Irfanview every day. ;-)
JoH
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