Anyone Use or Have an Opinion on irfanview editing software?
Jan 20, 2020 07:08:39 #
greymule wrote:
Why does one use irfanview?
What is good for?
Is it worth the disc space?
What is good for?
Is it worth the disc space?
I've used it for years. Doesn't take much disc space. Handy for previewing / cropping / basic stuff like adjusting brightness, contrast, and being able to resize a photo. Really nice program for $0, and pretty fast.
Jan 20, 2020 07:46:31 #
Jan 20, 2020 08:32:04 #
nospambob
Loc: Edmond, Oklahoma
Irfanview is great for viewing just about any kind of graphic image. And also for saving from one format to another.
Jan 20, 2020 08:43:21 #
wkocken
Loc: McGregor, MN
I use it all of the time. Here's an article that tells some of what it can do. https://digital-photography-school.com/irfanview-free-program-for-your-editing-toolbox/
Jan 20, 2020 09:03:57 #
I've been using irfanview for a number of years. It has some very strong good points and lacks some others. I'd definitely suggest getting it along with the add-ons.
--Bob
--Bob
greymule wrote:
Why does one use irfanview?
What is good for?
Is it worth the disc space?
What is good for?
Is it worth the disc space?
Jan 20, 2020 09:11:18 #
greymule wrote:
Why does one use irfanview?
What is good for?
Is it worth the disc space?
What is good for?
Is it worth the disc space?
I have used it for 10 years as my go-to viewer and simple crop/adjust app. No, it's not photoshop.
It also has excellent sorting and copying/moving abilities AND you can launch another editing app from a list.
I do work for a Catholic diocese and one day was told that the pope was going to hold a Mass in DC and each diocese was asked to send 10-20 digital photos to be shown on a Jumbotron screen for the crowds waiting to get in. They ask me to go though several YEARS worth of their newspaper's photos and select and adjust them...in two days. I used Irfanview to get it done.
In my classes on digital camera use, I had people try it and also Photofiltre. Together they make quite a pair. They were also good for my eBay class, as they allowed easy selection of the best shot, cropping, contrast/saturation, etc, and even adding text (with Photfiltre).
Irfan Skiljan could probably walk into any place in the world and people would know his name and app!
Hint: get it direct from his site, not through a 3rd party.
Jan 20, 2020 11:58:17 #
I used Irfanview off and on years ago until I found FastStone and switched over. In may opinion, easier to use and have found the Clone and Heal in FastStone to work fairly well in repairing some old scanned phones (ie. great great grandparents) that had been damaged by folding. Both are free (other than a donation if you care) and have small footprints as noted.
Jan 20, 2020 12:38:32 #
Jan 20, 2020 12:57:43 #
lsaguy wrote:
Been using it for almost 15 years now. Very capable and easy to learn. One fault, it won't deal with RAW images.
When I open a folder, only the jpg images show, BUT if I open one of them and then use the arrow keys in Irfanview to advance through the images, the RAW image after each jpg shows up too. Seems a little weird, but, in any event, Irfanview does handle raw images (mine are RAF files).
Jan 20, 2020 13:01:30 #
While I mostly use ON1 for RAW and Paint Shop Pro for general non-RAW editing, Irfanview is much faster as an image viewer and it has one feature hard to find elsewhere that's handy in my line of work: if you need your files to come in at a specific size, Irfanview can do it with minimal muss/fuss and generally makes good compression choices. On the other hand, precision cropping is clunky at best. When I just need to do something quickly, I find myself using Faststone more and more.
Jan 20, 2020 14:08:40 #
maxlieberman
Loc: 19027
I use it as a viewer, and also to resize images, which it does simply and well. I often need to collect images outside of Elements, so I put what I need on a flash drive, then can view them on Irfanview, decide which to keep, and resize the ones that need that treatment.
Jan 20, 2020 15:30:27 #
I've used it since it first came out over 20 years ago. I don't do a lot of editing with it but use the heck out of its batch processing module which allows you to resize, rename, & relocate many images at once. Getting photos down to a tiny size for use as attachments to emails is a breeze. It is and has been my default image viewer all that time. I wouldn't be without it.
Jan 20, 2020 17:04:30 #
I found it easy to change the default program for viewing photo View just go to Settings and look for the default files settings.
BigDaddy wrote:
It's a free image viewer that also does some minor... (show quote)
Jan 20, 2020 18:10:46 #
jgunkler wrote:
I found it easy to change the default program for viewing photo View just go to Settings and look for the default files settings.
Thank you! I just did this, and now things open up quickly in Irfanview rather than taking forever in the Windows 10 app.
Jan 20, 2020 19:29:56 #
First discovered it when working in Switzerland; liked it so much, sent him a Eurocheck back when he was a university student.
Has been my default image viewer for 20 years on every computer I've owned or maintained. Use it to quickly resize or crop. Also use the ability to add text on a photo (as in, "OK, Sis, here is the button you push").
Irfanview, Editpad, Teracopy, Everything - must haves for me.
Has been my default image viewer for 20 years on every computer I've owned or maintained. Use it to quickly resize or crop. Also use the ability to add text on a photo (as in, "OK, Sis, here is the button you push").
Irfanview, Editpad, Teracopy, Everything - must haves for me.
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