Posted by Ray Fischer on July 2, 2007, 6:13 am
>On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:06:29 -0500, M.L. wrote:
>>>> I just noticed Consumer Reports evaluated & rated, for the first
>>>> time I've ever seen, freeware digital photo-editing sofware such as
>>>> - Picasa 2.2.0 http://picasa.google.com
>>>> - IrfanView 3.99 http://www.infranview.com
>>>> - Corel Snapfire 1.10 http://www.corel.com
>>
>> CU did a report on IrfanView and other editors a few years ago. They
>> were not impressed with Irfanview.
>What I like about Irfanview is not the "editing" capability but the sheer
>speed in viewing pictures. Is any freeware photo "viewer" as fast as
>Irfanview? I think not.
"Preview" on a Mac is fast and free and displays a wide variety of
image formats including PDG and RAW.
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Posted by Susan Bugher on July 2, 2007, 6:45 am
Ray Fischer wrote:
>>On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:06:29 -0500, M.L. wrote:
>>What I like about Irfanview is not the "editing" capability but the sheer
>>speed in viewing pictures. Is any freeware photo "viewer" as fast as
>>Irfanview? I think not.
> "Preview" on a Mac is fast and free and displays a wide variety of
> image formats including PDG and RAW.
re a wide variety of formats:
IrfanView
http://www.irfanview.com/main_formats.htm
XnView
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enformats.html
XnView supports a variety of OS too (including MacOS X). see
http://perso.orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/endownloadgfl.html
Susan
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Posted by Susan Bugher on July 2, 2007, 6:49 am
Susan Bugher wrote:
> Ray Fischer wrote:
>
>>
>>> On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:06:29 -0500, M.L. wrote:
>
>
>>> What I like about Irfanview is not the "editing" capability but the
>>> sheer
>>> speed in viewing pictures. Is any freeware photo "viewer" as fast as
>>> Irfanview? I think not.
>
>
>> "Preview" on a Mac is fast and free and displays a wide variety of
>> image formats including PDG and RAW.
>
>
> re a wide variety of formats:
> IrfanView
> http://www.irfanview.com/main_formats.htm
> XnView
> http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enformats.html
>
> XnView supports a variety of OS too (including MacOS X). see
> http://perso.orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/endownloadgfl.html
oops - wrong link. see
http://perso.orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/endownload.html
Susan
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Posted by hummingbird on July 2, 2007, 7:08 am
On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:13:33 GMT 'catherine yronwode'
posted this onto alt.comp.freeware:
>What I like about Irfanview is not the "editing" capability but the sheer
>speed in viewing pictures. Is any freeware photo "viewer" as fast as
>Irfanview? I think not.
>So, it's no wonder Consumer Reports didn't rate it well then nor now as
>it's not really a freeware photo editor such as Gimp.
>By the way, speaking of Gimp, how come Consumer Reports didn't even test
>Gimp as a freeware photo editor. I'll bet it beats photoshop in
>functionality and price!
I don't know about Gimp but Photoshop adds tags into any file it saves
which I then have to strip out with jpgCleaner.
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Posted by Peter Bruells on July 2, 2007, 8:17 am
> By the way, speaking of Gimp, how come Consumer Reports didn't even test
> Gimp as a freeware photo editor. I'll bet it beats photoshop in
> functionality and price!
GIMP doesn't support CYMK, has a depth of 8 bit -- a DLSR's RAW format
will have a depth of 12 to 14 bit.
No real gamma support, only limited support of color models or color
managment, adjustment layers and a couple of other stuff.
>>>> I just noticed Consumer Reports evaluated & rated, for the first
>>>> time I've ever seen, freeware digital photo-editing sofware such as
>>>> - Picasa 2.2.0 http://picasa.google.com
>>>> - IrfanView 3.99 http://www.infranview.com
>>>> - Corel Snapfire 1.10 http://www.corel.com
>>
>> CU did a report on IrfanView and other editors a few years ago. They
>> were not impressed with Irfanview.
>What I like about Irfanview is not the "editing" capability but the sheer
>speed in viewing pictures. Is any freeware photo "viewer" as fast as
>Irfanview? I think not.