[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

IV may not be a full-on image editor in the Photoshop/Gimp league, but it has a lot of editing features. I regard most of the Image menu options as editing features, and there are plugins to add more.

Fair enough, and yes, those are editing options. It depends on what sort of editing you need to do. The sort of stuff I call Paint.NET for can't be done in IrfanView.

The Edit menu includes cut/copy of a selected area from an image to the clipboard, and you can paste the clipboard to an image edge. What it lacks is paste as a selected 'object', that you can move around on the current image. That's my main use of Paint, I thought they were going to remove it, maybe they removed it in 8 and put it back in 10, I never used 8 or 8.1.

And that sort of thing is why I use Paint.NET

I can load Paint, do the cut/paste/move, save, and upload the image file to here faster than PS/Gimp/Paint.NET can load. I used Paint.NET several years ago, had a lot problems with plugins so I switched to Gimp.

I'm not surprised Paint is faster to load than PS or the Gimp, but Paint.NET loads quickly enough here that I don't feel constrained.

The one thing I miss in Paint.NET is an airbrush tool, but that's not in Paint either. (It is in the Gimp.)

For image viewing I use FastImageViewer for RAW images, Very Large Image Viewer for big NASA style TIFFS, or HoneyView for comics and solid jpeg archives.

Hmmm. I hadn't seen Very Large Image Viewer. Noted for future reference.

I have an ancient version of Photoshop available. The last time I actually used it was for a big NASA TIFF. A chap elsewhere was trying to download a raw file from the Hubble Telescope and having problems. I could get it with no problem. He wanted the TIFF file rather than the JPG NASA recommended because he wanted to slice it up into pieces that could become part of interactive wallpaper on his PC. PS here was the only thing I had that would open and display a 100MB+ TIFF file. Everything else died horribly with out of memory errors.

I don't normally have a need to view image files that large, but VLIW looks worthy should I need to.

Thanks!
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Dennis