XPost: alt.usage.english
From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl
Antonio Marques wrote:
> Rich Ulrich wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 21:47:38 -0600, Tilde
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Tony Cooper wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:19:17 -0700, HenHanna
> >>>> There is a (Windows) tool called Photos (Jpg, Png-viewer) --- i don't
> >>>> like it
> >>>> because it launches sluggishly....
> >>>>
> >>>> Esp. in the last 5 days or so, i'm noticing that almost every day
> >>>> i have to go to Properties to change it back to
> >>>> my fav. Jpg, Png-viewer tool
> >>>>
> >>>> because the Windows update (?) is pushing Photos on me.
> >>>>
> >>>> is there a Fix for this???
> >>>
> >>> I have thousands of images from .jpgs to .pngs on my computer. I use
> >>> the (free) FastStone Photo Viewer. It's not only a great image
> >>> viewer, but offers many other options from selecting by tagged images
> >>> to bulk re-naming. It's set as my default viewer.
> >>>
> >>> https://www.faststone.org/
> >>
> >> https://www.irfanview.com/
> >
> > I have both Faststone and Irfanview, and I like Faststone better.
> >
> > What I remember last using Irfanview for was when I wanted
> > to change the default orientation of some pictures that were
> > usually wrong (downloaded from my off-brand phone).
> >
> > IIRC, Faststone would rotate them okay for PC display by Faststone,
> > but they would be wrong when uploaded to Face Book.
>
> Opening and saving a lossy format like jpg will usually result in... loss
> of quality.
That's ancient folklore, from the times when 640x480 was a big image.
It may get noticable, but only when you order a huge reduction
in file size,
Jan
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