Well, IV is a great viewer, but an awfully bad picture editor!!
It almost made me go mad, after overwriting my original picture three freaking times!! (Good I had saved it to an external file, because the undo function works according to the phase of the moon, i. e. if you need it badly, you cannot undo! :P)
I had to insert a slice of another picture into the original picture to "fix" it, but couldn't.
I still have the old Paint Shop Pro 5.0x installed on my home PC because it is no bloatware yet and I can blindly operate it, even if drunk
PSP can do something that IV can't: paste into a floating selection!
That is, you load a picture, then you paste some smaller picture from the clipboard INTO the new picture, so that the smaller picture will be outlined and floating, i. e. moveable. This way you can move the smaller picture pixel-exact to the location where you want it to be.
In IV, you can do that too. BUT:
- you must know the EXACT location where to put it, to have a starting point for the rectangular outline (coordinates!)
- the rectanglular outline to put it in must match EXACTLY in size like the smaller picture, otherwise the smaller picture gets auto-zoomed (what a nonsense!)
Sorry, but for the time being I will need to look out for another tool capable of doing that. I read so many rave reviews for IV, but for me, these are basic functionalities which should be available. And since IV has been developed for many many years, I'm wondering why these basic functions are not available, whereas some bells & whistles are (which I may merely need once a year).
That permanent auto-zoom of slices here and there is a pain in the neck, too, always makes me end up with some 5000x5000 pixels picture, which sometimes can't even be undone (if you don't do it in time!)
It almost made me go mad, after overwriting my original picture three freaking times!! (Good I had saved it to an external file, because the undo function works according to the phase of the moon, i. e. if you need it badly, you cannot undo! :P)
I had to insert a slice of another picture into the original picture to "fix" it, but couldn't.
I still have the old Paint Shop Pro 5.0x installed on my home PC because it is no bloatware yet and I can blindly operate it, even if drunk
PSP can do something that IV can't: paste into a floating selection!
That is, you load a picture, then you paste some smaller picture from the clipboard INTO the new picture, so that the smaller picture will be outlined and floating, i. e. moveable. This way you can move the smaller picture pixel-exact to the location where you want it to be.
In IV, you can do that too. BUT:
- you must know the EXACT location where to put it, to have a starting point for the rectangular outline (coordinates!)
- the rectanglular outline to put it in must match EXACTLY in size like the smaller picture, otherwise the smaller picture gets auto-zoomed (what a nonsense!)
Sorry, but for the time being I will need to look out for another tool capable of doing that. I read so many rave reviews for IV, but for me, these are basic functionalities which should be available. And since IV has been developed for many many years, I'm wondering why these basic functions are not available, whereas some bells & whistles are (which I may merely need once a year).
That permanent auto-zoom of slices here and there is a pain in the neck, too, always makes me end up with some 5000x5000 pixels picture, which sometimes can't even be undone (if you don't do it in time!)
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