irfanview - freeware imageviewer and more

***Zardon*** · Jan 4, 2004, 07:53 AM

Gold member Hawk has written a guide for Irfanview a freeware imageviewer, he has sent me the HTML and everything complete, which ive uploaded to our server Read the guide here.

Its a comprehensive little guide which covers alot of ground and im sure will benefit alot of our members and visitors, thanks to Hawk for sharing !

brc64 · Jan 4, 2004, 02:41 PM

IrfanView is one of the best freeware applications I've ever seen. I use it primarily for screenshots and quick adjustments to digital camera photos, though it can do so much more.

- Me

toddsmack2k · Jan 4, 2004, 02:58 PM

Thanks for the good article Hawk!

Matth · Jan 4, 2004, 03:17 PM

My own Irfanview tip - some effects are confined to a selected region (if you have a selection) - this is quite useful if you want to use the pixelate effect to obscure private information from a screenshot.

The other thing to note is that the effect browser preview is not very accurate, as it does not take into account the scaling difference between the preview and the full image.

~~HawK~~ · Jan 4, 2004, 03:31 PM

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Originally posted by Matth
My own Irfanview tip - some effects are confined to a selected region (if you have a selection) - this is quite useful if you want to use the pixelate effect to obscure private information from a screenshot.

Yeah thanks I kept forgeting to add it to the guide

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Originally posted by Matth
The other thing to note is that the effect browser preview is not very accurate, as it does not take into account the scaling difference between the preview and the full image.

True, but to be fair the filters is only for a quick job filtering, if you wanne do it in a more sophisticated manner one uses a prof. program, but this still is a a freeware program

Matth · Jan 6, 2004, 12:16 PM

Actuall, even if you don't want to APPLY an effect to a selection, you can get a better idea of how it will look by selecting an area which comes up at approximately actual size in the effects browser preview.
You can then examine the result of several settings (of sharpen etc.) befor coming back out, deselecting and then applyin the affect to the whole image - much faster than trial and error.

Note that there is only ONE level of undo so any unwanted apply must be undone before any other action is taken, or your only other option is to undo ALL changes by reloading the original.

Irfanview is a VIEWER with some editing capability.

PS. Another tip - to add text up the side - Rotate, add the text, rotate back!

Hkhalid · Mar 11, 2004, 11:29 PM

i aint getting some images mentioned in the guide

**Roadee** · Mar 12, 2004, 12:27 AM

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Originally posted by Hkhalid
i aint getting some images mentioned in the guide

I just went through and checked all the images. They all showed up for me. You may want to clear out your temp folder in IE and try again. Sometimes IE will do that.

Moss · Oct 23, 2004, 05:36 PM

I had this years ago and despite seeing it here and there had forgotten it. Thanks for the heads-up and guide on a nice utility.

Kabob983 · Nov 18, 2004, 08:41 PM

irfanview is great! Easy to clip and resize images, lots of formats to save images as, and best of all...it's FREE

rjpogi · Nov 18, 2004, 11:46 PM

i'm going to try this one =)

~~HawK~~ · Nov 20, 2004, 09:53 AM

Well hope you like it all, as soon as I have some more time I will update the Guide, and make it more compatible with 3.95 & DH,
ATTN:
version 3.95 has now a Ebay shortcut & toolbar option in the installer, you may want to uncheck that before installing..

Hinnerk · Aug 1, 2006, 06:58 AM

Irfanview is definitely among the best.

However it is not Freeware, as i recall it, but postcardware, that is the author would really enjoy a postcard from you. However, there are no penalties for not doing so

Hinnerk

konic · Aug 1, 2006, 11:30 AM

And it's 3.98 now too.

Willy Foo · Sep 4, 2007, 11:50 PM

It's ver 4.00 now!
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