Imagemagick and little cms have their strong points also Edwin -----Original Message----- From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Howard Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 8:57 PM To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students Subject: Re: Program to see info on photos Mmmm - sounds rather like Xnview actually! Batch processing, choice of algorithms , etc etc. Have a look at it Karl. I've found Irfanview somewhat unstable, and I don't like its interface either! Here's a few of the things it will do: Batch processing includes: add text autocrop canvas resize flip horizontal flip vertical clean metadata crop extract channel flip vertical flip horizontal replace color resize rotate set dpi watermark. These can all be saved if you want and reloaded when required... Resize algorithms include: Lanczos Bilinear Hermite Gaussian Bell BSPline Mitchell and Hanning It reads 476 different formats and writes 46 including PSD It also reads, displays and converts RAW files (certainly up to D80), though without any parameters as in Adobe Raw Converter It creates Web Pages Slideshows and goodness knows what else! Batch rename Try it!! http://www.xnview.org Howard karl shah-jenner wrote: > Howard writes: > > Have another look - there's better programs in Windows than Irfanview - > try xnview <http://www.xnview.com/> (or Fasttone > <http://www.faststone.org/>although I'm not so sure about > accessing/editing the exif data with this one, it's very good graphically) > > Xnview gives you full access to image data including full editing of > IPTC information, batch processing, lossless transformations etc etc and > is a better program visually as well - I think! > > > > > I think the main benefits of irfanview are missed from people not installing the plugins, but the real strength of irfanview lies in its batch processing capabilities and its choice of resizing algorithms > > > as an aside, it took me quite some time downsizing an image of a slat table the other day in increments using different resampling techniques - blurring and sharpening as I went as needed until I had something acceptable at the end. It turned out quite a frustrating and challenging set of images! > > Moire and jaggies occuring if I overstepped only a tiny bit! > > I'm glad I had the algorithms to deal with it for a straight resample/resize made the thing look like a staircase! > > k > > >
