Handiest little picture viewer tool I've been using for years now...

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Handiest little picture viewer tool I've been using for years now...


Lview Pro is a simple, easy to use graphic program that will do a lot of common graphics editing tasks. To be fair, there is an updated version of Lview Pro here,
Lview Pro Home Page

I tried the newest version of LviewPro and found it to be complex with a steep learning curve, (at least for me). What I like better is an old version of it that came out for Windows 95 but so far has worked on all of my computers no matter what the operating system has been.

You can download an older Shareware version here,

Free Shareware version


I use this mostly for sifting through multiple photos using the slide show option (Under File -> Multiple Open), which helps me to find the best shots or quickly rotating a photo 90 degrees...

(Yes I know there are zillions of programs that do this I just like LviewPro the best)

Thought I would share it with the forum while the shareware version can still be found...


:)
 
Mike.Phillips@Autogeek said:
I tried the newest version of LviewPro and found it to be complex with a steep learning curve, (at least for me). What I like better is an old version of it that came out for Windows 95 but so far has worked on all of my computers no matter what the operating system has been.

You can download an older Shareware version here,

Free Shareware version





:)
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Is this link stll good? I mean, I clicked on it and I found an old version near he bottom of the page, but was made to feel somewhat uneasy about clicking on it because the last time the page had been updated. It says, "September of 1919." :eek::laughing: If it looks familiar to you then that'll help.

What was the name of that sorting program again, please? You mentioned LViewPro and something else.
 
Hoytman said:
Is this link still good? I mean, I clicked on it and I found an old version near he bottom of the page, but was made to feel somewhat uneasy about clicking on it because the last time the page had been updated. It says, "September of 1919." :eek::laughing: If it looks familiar to you then that'll help.

What was the name of that sorting program again, please? You mentioned LviewPro and something else.
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The link is still good and you get the free shareware version. Been using this since probably 1995 or so...

Just took this screenshot using the program...


LViewPro.jpg






I use it every time I work with pictures. It's the handiest little picture viewer...



:dblthumb2:
 
BobbyG said:
Is this for Mac also? :D
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I don't think so.

I use it with all my PC's. Been using it since I've been on forums, it's simple, works great and it's free.

I use it when I want to go through an entire folder of pictures to pick out the ones I ant to use for a write-up.

I use it to take screenshots

I use it as my default picture viewer.
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It works great.


:)
 
Yea, I looked through the operating systems it supports and didn't see Mac listed.

It does look like a great product and for $30.00 how can you go wrong...You just can't beat that with a stick!! :props:
 
Mike.Phillips@Autogeek said:
The link is still good and you get the free shareware version. Been using this since probably 1995 or so...

Just took this screenshot using the program...


LViewPro.jpg






I use it every time I work with pictures. It's the handiest little picture viewer...



:dblthumb2:
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Thanks Mr. Phillips.

For some reason I was thinking you had mentioned another program you were using besides LViewPro and Easythumbnails.

(Side note: I quote a thread with pictures and then clicked on editor mode. First time I'd seen that with pictures and it makes sense after you described it. However, in editor mode, I still am not seeing the difference when multi-quoting a message.)
 
I'm a big fan of Picasa along with Picasa Web Albums (aka now Google Plus Photos). You get a free computer program that handles many common editing needs (resizing, cropping, color, exposure, funky effects, etc) as well as UNLIMITED FREE online storage for photos 2048 pixels x 2048 pixels or smaller. This also has a viewer that does fast slideshows.

And as a bonus, there's an online editor called Creative Kit (formerly Picnic) that does a lot of the same stuff--for editing on the fly.

If you need higher resolution and more storage, you can buy it through google and share it with the rest of your google features.

Matt
 
Now when trying to download it (free version) I'm getting a message saying it isn't commonly downloaded and could harm my computer. Perhaps it's nothing but it's just that I just finished fixing a bunch of issues with this dinosaur I'm using. Sounds like the program would be a big help too.

Man...it's always something...
 
y8s said:
I'm a big fan of Picasa


Matt
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Hi Matt,

I like and use Picasa for a number of things but not as my preferred default image viewer. I like a much simpler piece of software for simple tasks is the reason why and that's just me.

I also like Easy Thumbnails for resizing because I trust it not to distort my pictures. I'm sure Picasa wouldn't do this either but now that I have a system in place that works for me it's easier not to change.

Picasa is great for searching your hard drive and finding pictures you have no clue where you saved them to. I use it for this feature all the time, especially on my antique Dell Laptop with thousands of car pictures I've worked on over the years...


:)
 
y8s said:
I'm a big fan of Picasa along with Picasa Web Albums (aka now Google Plus Photos). You get a free computer program that handles many common editing needs (resizing, cropping, color, exposure, funky effects, etc) as well as UNLIMITED FREE online storage for photos 2048 pixels x 2048 pixels or smaller. This also has a viewer that does fast slideshows.

And as a bonus, there's an online editor called Creative Kit (formerly Picnic) that does a lot of the same stuff--for editing on the fly.

If you need higher resolution and more storage, you can buy it through google and share it with the rest of your google features.

Matt
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Appreciate the info, but I simply don't know much about any of what you mentioned. I'm fairly new at working with photo's and I was just trying to use something that Mr. Phillips uses everyday in hopes that it would make life easier for me.

So many programs to be used and its tough to know what to do. I would think MS Office 2007 would have a way that's easy to work with photos and still be able to work with this forum.
 
Mike.Phillips@Autogeek said:
Hey Bill,

Look at the screen shots I just took and created this thread with...


Editor view of BB code behind multiple pictures



Shows you a few things that should help...



:)
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Yeah...that helped. Right after we got off of the phone together I found one of your posts, like you said to do, with a good number of pictures in it and hit the quote button, then the editor button and was able to see the number and the code. That will certainly make uploading photo's faster.

Now I just have to somehow download LViewPro without it damaging my computer and then figure how how that editor mode works for text to increase speed rather than copying and pasting the beginning and ending tags for each section of text I wish to quote. I'm using IE (don't recall which version but my computer is a 2007 HP and I'm sure I've only missing one of two update versions which should still work) but for text editor mode just provides a bigger font. I'm not sure what's going on with that.

For others reading, it's not that I can't upload pictures, or multi-quote text, I'm simply trying to figure out a much faster way of doing it.
 
An alternative program, one which I've used for years, is IrfanView. It's freeware, frequently updated, fast, easy to use, has a thumbnail mode for quick browsing and comparison of images, supports the most common image operations (cropping, lossless rotation, basic edits for brightness, contrast and color, etc), and also allows for batch processing (renaming, resizing, editing) of multiple pictures.
 
Mike.Phillips@Autogeek said:
Hi Matt,

I like and use Picasa for a number of things but not as my preferred default image viewer. I like a much simpler piece of software for simple tasks is the reason why and that's just me.

I also like Easy Thumbnails for resizing because I trust it not to distort my pictures. I'm sure Picasa wouldn't do this either but now that I have a system in place that works for me it's easier not to change.

Picasa is great for searching your hard drive and finding pictures you have no clue where you saved them to. I use it for this feature all the time, especially on my antique Dell Laptop with thousands of car pictures I've worked on over the years...


:)
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Haha I put the kibosh on the "search everywhere for everything" function and limit it to specific folders where I store relevant pictures.

But one really great feature that picasa web albums does have that even you'd appreciate is the ability to edit part of the picture's URL to change the size.

The URL looks like this:
Code: 
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WSIGihWGgo8/UJ7H_sKXYmI/AAAAAAAAQAg/u8ynPlIoBBQ/s[B]640[/B]/DSC_6306.JPG

I bolded the relevant value. Just change it to the photo's longest dimension that you want and voila, instant resize and thumbnails!

50 pixels
DSC_6306.JPG


200
DSC_6306.JPG


The Mike Phillips Special (800)
DSC_6306.JPG


Original size:
(well you get the idea)
 
y8s said:
Haha I put the kibosh on the "search everywhere for everything" function and limit it to specific folders where I store relevant pictures.
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Yeah that can be a time-consuming mistake and I've done the same for all my computers.



y8s said:
But one really great feature that picasa web albums does have that even you'd appreciate is the ability to edit part of the picture's URL to change the size.

The URL looks like this:

Code: 
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WSIGihWGgo8/UJ7H_sKXYmI/AAAAAAAAQAg/u8ynPlIoBBQ/s[B]640[/B]/DSC_6306.JPG
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That is a nice feature...


:xyxthumbs:
 
y8s said:
The URL looks like this:
Code: 
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WSIGihWGgo8/UJ7H_sKXYmI/AAAAAAAAQAg/u8ynPlIoBBQ/s[B]640[/B]/DSC_6306.JPG

I bolded the relevant value. Just change it to the photo's longest dimension that you want and voila, instant resize and thumbnails!
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For others reading:

If you're trying to figure out where the "bold relevant value" is that y8s mentioned, and and you are just looking at a quote that appears like any other quote...thinking it's just a picture of a slide bar...I discovered you can move the slide bar in y8s post, or the quote above, if you put your pointer on the slide bar, left click and hold, then slide your pointer left or right.

Slide the bar to the right and you see 640 in bold.


EDIT:

Quote y8s's post with pictures, expand the typing box and click editor mode and you can see the code change for each size of picture.
 
Hoytman said:
I discovered you can move the slide bar in y8s post, or the quote above, if you put your pointer on the slide bar, left click and hold, then slide your pointer left or right.

Slide the bar to the right and you see 640 in bold.
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Pretty cool.

I've never seen the
Code: 
 tag used on vBulletin before, just goes to show you can always learn something new if you're willing to learn.
 
 
:dblthumb2:
 
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