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i currently have ACDSee v7 and i want to upgrade, does anybody know some other good image browser ?
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Probably the single most god-awful piece of software that ships with Windows. I mean, seriously, the thing is slower than a salted snail caught in a spider web and crushed by molasses. Just try opening a 60 mega pixel image in it. God, it's so slow.Windows Picture and Fax Viewer = instant win.
the thing is slower than a salted snail caught in a spider web and crushed by molasses.
Camera?LOL !!
60 MP that´s a good camera !
"Megapixel" just means millions of pixels. The source has nothing to do with it.Most people reference Megapixels as a camera reference. Most Photoshop artist and image creaters refer more to resolution or a scale of 2k, 4k etc. I haven't heard anyone reference megapixels to something that wasn't taken from a digital camera.
Probably the single most god-awful piece of software that ships with Windows. I mean, seriously, the thing is slower than a salted snail caught in a spider web and crushed by molasses. Just try opening a 60 mega pixel image in it. God, it's so slow.
Just like you wouldn't run Supreme Commander in your browser you would never open a 12k image in anything else other then a professional program.
that is a completely invalid comparison. You would never run ANY game in a web browser because...well...web browsers aren't made to run games
You would, however, open pictures in a picture viewing program because, well, that's what the program was written to do.
You play flash games in your browser right? So your browser can be used to play games but you wouldn't want to play any high end games through it now would you?
No, that's not how it works. You don't optimize an image viewer for a specific limit. It's not that the Picture & Fax viewer is really fast with 4 megapixel images and then gets slow. It's that it's a generally shitty and unoptimized application. The reason it's fine with 4 megapixel images, is because 4 megapixel isn't an awful lot of pixels, not because they optimized it for that particular size.Statement is valid and remember Picture and fax viewer was made 5 years ago when XP came out. It was when 4 megapixels were high end. So you have an app optimized for that. If Vista version of picture and fax can't handle 10 megapixel pictures than i would say it sucks. It's just Microsoft can't update every app to fit with the times otherwise the operating system would be well behind the times when it comes to other new technologies.
Compared to how switching back & forth between them in something like XNView is instant, as opposed to almost a second.I am running a laptop at 1.5ghz (overclocked to 2ghz) with 512mb of ddr2 ram and a 40gig 5400 rpm hard drive. It seems to take less then 1 seconds to go from one picture to the next with the Picture and Fax viewer. Mind you these are 8 Megapixel images that are at about 3-6 mb each in Jpg. It does exactly what it was created for they can't make an app future proof thus the reason why there is always new versions of programs.
I seem to recall XNView being good.So what image browser is both fast (between switching images) and supports lots of different formats (jpg, png, jp2, the adobe formats etc...)?