free picture viewer

[sparklingblue]

IrfanView is a really cool program my computing teacher in school recommended. It's free and it has cool features:

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003.

It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support.
One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIFF support.
The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.


Some IrfanView features:

- Many supported file formats

- Multi language support

- Thumbnail/preview option

- Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)

- Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen
etc.

- Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters

- Drag & drop support

- Fast directory view (moving through directory)

- Batch conversion (with image processing)

- Email option

- Multimedia player

- Print option

- Change color depth

- Scan (batch scan) support

- Cut/crop

- IPTC editing

- Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)

- Capturing

- Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs

- Lossless JPG rotation

- Many hotkeys

- Many command line options

- Many PlugIns

- Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"

- No registry changes without user action/permission!
and many more

[Ace]

I've used it for a few years. LOVE IT! And would recommend it to anyone. It's so small and quick and diversified.

Ace

[curious george]

But what is it in English?

cg

[sparklingblue]

You mean the name?

I figure you are familiar with the word "view". "Irfan" is the first name of the genius who made/wrote that program.

The program allows you to work on your scans and other pics. You can change the size, improve the quality, create all kinds of effects and convert the files to another format, e.g. Paint files (.bmp) to .jpg or .gif files. I believe there's also a multimedia player and you can make screen captures of video files.

[curious george]

Okay, I understood some of that. Is that how you sharpened up the Monet for me? (love it as my desktop, btw)

There's just so much I don't know....!! Anyone out there teaching remedial computer for monkeys not born in this century?

cg

[sparklingblue]

Umm, I wasn't born in this century either...

And yes cg, that's how I sharpened your Monet. Glad you like it.

[curious george]

SparklingBlue said:

Umm, I wasn't born in this century either...

Figure of speech.

And yes cg, that's how I sharpened your Monet. Glad you like it.

Yup. Danke.

cg

[sparklingblue]

curious said:

Yup. Danke.

Bitteschön!

[sparklingblue]

Does anybody know where I can get some free webspace to upload avatars I made with Irfan and link to them?

[Yuliya]

I think www.fortunecity.com is the only one that allows linking.

[Ace]

If you just want to offlink and store photos then use the site I use for this board, the greatest off linking photo site on the net.

www.photobucket.com/

Ace

[Yuliya]

And you told me nothing about it. You told me I about fortunecities. And I listened and now I'm maintaining a whole site for two pictures because I wanted to make them easier to view.
You don't like me anymore.

[Ace]

Um didn't I mention it a couple months ago when I was talking about how FC was going wacky and not showing pics on this board and I moved things over to Photobucket. Yes I did, then FC began to behave and you told me I should have waited and saved myself trouble!

Ace

[Yuliya]

You did? I did? I have no recollection of that, Your Honor.

Later edit. You mean like here. "New site," that's it? I thought you just moved them to your own site that comes with your Internet bandwidth, to which you can link freely. I'm shocked at how much you don't like me.

[Ace]

How could the site be "new" if it was my old site? Huh huh? And I believe I mentioned the name in one of the PM's. If anyone should feel wounded tis I, if I wanted this kind of inattention I'd talk to my cat.

Ace

[Yuliya]

1. "New" as opposite to the "old" one where they were before. Wehn you say "I've found a new home for the house plant I'm allergic to" do you mean the home is brand new?
2. Do you have copies of those PMs?
3. Fine. I can just talk to my computer.

[Ace]

Ahem if you check the "here" in your link you'll see I even provided a link to where the pics would be housed for people to replace their FC avatar links:

img19.photobucket.com/albums/v56/mbe25/Board/

Now does that look like my OLD surfbest site? No, thought not, case closed.

Ace

[Yuliya]

I appeal. (You didn't expect me to exercize my right to remain silent, did you?)

1. That post is one above the one I quoted. It was above my eye level and nobody ever looks above that - don't you watch movies?
2. You were talking about off-linking avatars. I saw that link, I knew it wasn't your site, it didn't look familiar, but I thought it had something to do with the board. I never thought it had anything to do with other pictures. And you never said it, either. In fact, I didn't pay much attention to that link because it didn't have anything to do with me (see #3.)
3. I couldn't have been bothered with following the link because my avatar was the only one that worked (it's in the same thread.) See - it's all your fault.

Case closed.

[sparklingblue]

First off, thank you, Ace and Yuliya, for your help. I knew I could rely on you.

I hope I haven't caused a disagreement with my question... I'd hate to bring in lawyers...

<--- Ohh, there he is! It works!!

[Yuliya]

And you hate that?

Don't worry, you haven't caused anything. We were just talking. Ace and I would never bring lawyers into it. Not even a divorce attourney. Especially a certain very handsome divorce attourney because that's we'll start really arguing over who gets him.