On Tue, 03 Jan 2017 02:18:38 -0600, SL <SerpentLord@Evil.Incarn8>
wrote:
> 640x480...blah!
> Capture devices have outpaced renderers. There's a void there
>no one is filling. Must not be any real money in it!
> I rememeber one time, long ago when someone complained about
>how large some of the image files I posted were. Well, it's only
>gotten worse. When you have cameras that are 20 megapixel and up and
>even our monitors are lagging, what's to expect but for things to be
>worse?
> With my systems, I see the worse culprit always being
>Watch4Beauty. One day we'll all thank them for their courage! But as
>it is now, there's a delay in viewing their images consecutively. How
>do you guys handle that? For looking through set folders I've found
>my ACDSee program works better than anything else I have. Yes, W4B
>makes it hard on ACDSee too, somewhat, but a LOT better than anything
>else. Yout better have a scroll-wheel on your mouse though.
> I've read recently that NVidia encourages people to only use
>one video card nowadays. Why? Most new software doesn't have the
>capability to use the second card. "What about 4K monitor use?"
>You'll barely be able to play(games) a relatively high-refresh rate
>without dialing down the settings. "So what's the use of having a 4
>or even 8K monitor?" Beats me!
> Talking about video cards...anyone else suspicious about how
>all of a sudden the card makers have leap-frogged way ahead with their
>cards performance? I think someone's done a magic trick or maybe it
>was in anticipation of AMD coming out with their new line-up. Well,
>if you were dumb enough to shell out for those new Titans then "a fool
>and his money are soon parted".
> Maybe anyone else can talk about what they use for their image
>viewers. I'll add that for the most part I use Windows Image & Fax
>viewer that comes with W8(you can downLoad this with W10).
> Btw, you c-o-u-l-d do a batch half-sizing on those W4B's with
>Irfanview. I don't. It's not that hard to set up though. I've tried
>fooling around with it.
New features in Faststone
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
Version 6.1 (December 23, 2016)
Improved loading speed of JPEG images
Added support for ZIP-compressed TIFF images
Added "Caption" option to the "Design and Print" tool. Now you can
print properties such as file name, date/time, dimension below the
images
Added "File name" option to the "Image Strip Builder" tool
Improved print quality of text in the "Contact Sheet Builder" tool
Other minor improvements and bug fixes
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