View and save the best pictures from flickr
Do you want to view pictures that are new and interesting every day? You probably know of the photo sharing site Flickr. Every day thousands of new photos are added to the site and people our voting and commenting. Flickr also has an open api that has brought a number of interesting services and if you have the time and knowledge you can create your own.
On of the services I like best is flickriver that each day gives you the voted most interesting photos on Flickr. Go to the web page and scroll down, as you scroll down more the page is constantly filled with more and more images. You can go on until what comes first, your computer running out of memory or 500 downloaded photos.
If you open the www.flickrriver.com page in Inzomia image viewer you can save save all images quite easy. Once the page is loaded with as many pictures you want, click the grab button to save all images to the playlist. Then from the playlist click save and in the file format dropdown list in the file dialog select “copy images here“.
Here is a video screen capture of how to save the best pictures from flickr
If you want to create a slideshow from the images simple select “create self running slideshow”. Or you can start a fullscreen slideshow in the image viewer without saving the photos first.
Edit photos online
Inzomia image viewer is not made for editing images but if you do need to edit your photos there is no lack of ways to do this. One of the new and more interesting possibilities is to use an online service. If you have a fast internet connection and only want to edit a few images an online service might be the right thing for you. No need to download software and you will have access to your images everywhere. One of the newest services and one of the best is Adobes new Photoshop express. Adobes service has integration with Flickr and it has basic imaging editing features like crop, red eye removal and some effects. As seem usual these days Adobe calls their service beta but really its already more “release” quality than many other services.
If you use the inzomia image viewer you have a web browser build into the program. Click on the open button and enter www.photoshop.com/express you can edit your images in Inzomia image viewer using Adobes Photoshop express service.
What makes a good windows image viewer
When I started work on my windows image viewer I had a couple of goals. I had been using Acdsee and a few other image viewer programs for a while but all programs seemed to be getting bigger and bigger with each release. They had more feature with each released and were all slowly turning into image editing programs. In fact, that is something that seems to happen to many image viewer that start out simple. I can understand this, you often do need to crop images and do other simply things with them but all design decisions have downsides. If you add image editing functions to a simple image viewer it will have consequences, at the very least the user interface will be more complex.
So my three original design goals were:
Focus on creating a fast windows image viewer
Inzomia image viewer still today has no feature to edit images, it still has the focus of an image viewer. You can connect other programs from the viewer program if you want to change images but the image viewer in itself still today has no way to edit images, or to put it another way, no way to mess up photos by mistake.
When the viewer starts there is a lot of code to make sure the image started with the program is displayed as quick as possible. For example before thumbnails are displayed in the playlist, before the windows folder view is initialized and before the browser windows starts loading the viewer start web page.
I have also spend a lot of energy making sure the viewer program is as small as possible. A large exe file will always take more time to load than a small exe file. Even today you can fit the viewer program on a floppy disc. It also has no dependencies on plugins or other dll files, all basic features are in the exe file from start.
Use the zoom functionality from zoom studio
When the zoom studio was released i belive it was alone to have its zoom functionality. Hold the right mouse button and move the mouse forward away from you to zoom in toward where the pointer is and the other way to zoom out again. The advantage of this way of implementing zoom is that you never loose context of where you are in the image.
Use as much screen estate as possible for the image
Inzomia image viewer has a very different user interface. Much of the reason for it is to always be able to use as much screen estate as possible for what you are doing at the moment. I will go into more detail about this later. This is the single point the viewer has got most complaints about, and there is a small learning curve to use it efficiently.
Do you agree on this? Download the image viewer and let me know what you think makes a good windows image viewer.
Vista image viewer
I have gotten the question quite often, does the Inzomia image viewer work on Vista? The answer is that the inzomia image viewer works fine as a vista image viewer. When Microsoft released Windows Vista one of the new fancy features was the glass user interface which I must admit does looks good.
The important thing though is that the user interface is now rendered with hardware support using DirectX. This gives a lot faster graphics than the old windows graphics system that really did little difference between a printer and your computer screen. With DirectX Windows Vista can make use of your 3D graphics card to render a much better looking user interface faster than ever before.
Inzomia image viewer also uses DirectX to render the image. This is the reason the zoom is so smooth and fast and its the reason the program can do filtering in real time to improve image quality while most other image viewer applies filters a few seconds after the zoom, if they do it at all.
There is a small issue in Vista though. The glassy user interface requires that applications user Directx9 and Inzomia image viewer an earlier version. The viewer works fine and is still as fast though it will not have the glass look of other windows vista windows, if you have not turned that feature off. Personally I have turned of the flash user interface features, they are nice when you first try out windows vista but when you start working with the operating system you really want it as fast and responsive as possible. Inzomia image viewer does help you with that. If enough people really want to be able to use the glass user interface with windows vista write comments here and I will make it a higher priority.
If you have not tested the Inzomia image viewer on vista yet do give it a try. Download the free version from the download page
image viewer blogg
The first version of the Inzomia image viewer program was released about 8 years ago now. The izview.com web site is 6 years old and it has really not been changed much since the initial release. Now is the time to change that. My name is Fredrik Lönn and I am the author of the inzomia image viewer as well as a number of other media software.
With the redesign of this web page I will also in the coming months use this space to explain in more detail how you can use the program better. I will also explain some of its features in more detail. The inzomia image viewer is really a very powerful application. The user interface in the viewer might not be what you are used to from other windows program. There is a reason for this and I will try to explain why it is designed as it is and why it is a good idea for an image viewer.
So make sure to check back here in a few days and if you have not done so already make sure to download the inzomia image viewer.
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