Image viewing soft for PA. ACDSee. Bugs
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Topic: Image viewing soft for PA. ACDSee. Bugs
Posted By: Manupix
Subject: Image viewing soft for PA. ACDSee. Bugs
Date Posted: 02 October 2009 at 6:56am
Maybe these are too many subjects for one thread, but they're related. Anyway mods, feel welcome to split / move this if needed.
Why use an image viewer for PA? Because you want to zoom in, esp if you
have a hi res screen, and you can no longer zoom in current browsers.
So what I do when I want to look at, rate and crit PA on the web is:
copy every single image into a PA folder, permanently opened in ACDSee
so the latest downloaded file always appears at the end, open the file
at a locked zoom factor of 200% and upward as needed, look, and delete
(or keep).
It happens I have ACDSee 8.0 (need it for work), so that's why I'm
using it, and I like / I'm used to many of its features, such as zoom
/zoom lock /unlock shortcuts.
What do you use and why?
Now, ACDSee has 2 main issues with PA: transparency (not supported) and anims (supported but buggy).
Transp is always replaced by some solid color: white, black, any
primary, any other color. I suspect it's the color the artist used as a
transp placeholder, but I can't be sure of that, because I don't do
transp that way.
A consequence is you can't check your pieces for transp on ACDSee.
Anims: sometimes they show well, sometimes not at all, often in between.
Pick your favorite bug:
1- transp bg is a solid flashy color on one frame only, white elsewhere;
2- some frames appear badly cropped, as if some kinds of layers were
used and only some moving part shows: one frame in an anim is bad; half
or all of them is horrible;
3- timeframe for the first frame is not respected: this happens often;
4- timeframe for all frames is not respected and the whole anim is way too fast: this is uncommon;
5- any combination of these, plus some I probably forget.
Some of these happen with my own anims (made with ImageReady): #2
sometimes (not recently, I must have tweaked something in IR but I
don't remember what), #3 often or always. All my transp pieces show on
a white bg.
Can anyone explain any of this?
Does anyone use a later version of ACDSee, and has those problems too, or not?
Does anyone have similar problems with other viewers, and more
important, does anyone use a good viewer with ACDSee-like features and
without the bugs?
Widening the question range: how are anims coded? How come many
downloaded anims have a timeframe of 0 when checked in ImageReady, and
yet show with correct speed?
How can you reduce an anim file weight? (that bloody 10 k limit...)
Any links?
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