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Mar 1, 2004
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I know its a little off-topic, but can anyone reccommend a decent image browser that will deal with all image formats, and do simple batch-conversion. Please dont say photoshop cs. I want something independant of ps. I’ve been using acdsee 3.1 – quick to load no frills – but somewhat suspiciously it stopped working after I connected to their "in touch" service.

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Julie Quinn
Mar 1, 2004
"Getho" wrote in
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I know its a little off-topic, but can anyone reccommend a decent image browser that will deal with all image formats, and do simple batch-conversion. Please dont say photoshop cs. I want something independant of ps. I’ve been using acdsee 3.1 – quick to load no frills – but somewhat suspiciously it stopped working after I connected to their "in touch" service.

GEth

Irfanview, a wonderful piece of freeware: http://www.irfanview.com/

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Getho
Mar 2, 2004
Thanks Julie,
I’ve tried irfanview previously – it doesn’t cache thumbnails, which means it must constuct them each time, which on 250MB images can take a wee while! Geth

"Julie Quinn" wrote in message
"Getho" wrote in
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I know its a little off-topic, but can anyone reccommend a decent image browser that will deal with all image formats, and do simple batch-conversion. Please dont say photoshop cs. I want something independant of ps. I’ve been using acdsee 3.1 – quick to load no frills – but somewhat suspiciously it stopped working after I connected to their "in touch" service.

GEth

Irfanview, a wonderful piece of freeware: http://www.irfanview.com/
Julie
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Getho
Mar 2, 2004
BTW: acdsee 6 seems to be crapporalla. Since installing it my system has crawled (could of course be the essential directx 9 install that didn’t help). Anyone else had problems?
Geth

"Getho" wrote in message
I know its a little off-topic, but can anyone reccommend a decent image browser that will deal with all image formats, and do simple batch-conversion. Please dont say photoshop cs. I want something independant of ps. I’ve been using acdsee 3.1 – quick to load no frills – but somewhat suspiciously it stopped working after I connected to their
"in
touch" service.

GEth

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xalinai_Two
Mar 2, 2004
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 19:56:34 +1100, "Getho"
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Thanks Julie,
I’ve tried irfanview previously – it doesn’t cache thumbnails, which means it must constuct them each time, which on 250MB images can take a wee while! Geth

You have four options:
1) Use a caching image viewer like Thumbs Plus and have thousands of small thumbnail files in your image directories, making browsing slower and wasting space (depending on your filesystem, half the cluster size per file).

2) Use a caching image browser like the one built in Paintshop Pro and have a huge (depending on thumbnail settings and filesize) cache file in each directory you visit.

3) Use a non-caching image viewer like Irfanview and spend some time waiting for reading 250 MB images.

4) Like 3 but cleanup/sort the directories to have less images per directory. If you start sorting an unsorted collection, it may help to create numbered directories and use windows explorer to roughly put 200 files in each directory.

Making smaller directories won’t help in case 1 and 2. Using a caching viewer/browser becomes really bad if you move lots of images using the windows explorer – then you need to update the thumbnails every time you use the browser. In case 1 things are even worse because of the lots of thumbnail files between the actual image files.

I’d really recommend case 4. 🙂

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nitiola
Mar 2, 2004
I use CodedColor PhotoStudio which is the best image browser I have found.
The viewing is a beauty. The interface is easy to use and requires no reorganizing of your photos. Apart from image editing and organizing the batch conversion is very easy to use and allows to resize and change your format in one step.
Download from http://www.codedcolor.com

Chris

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