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1.0_ExifPro_interface by PtereZheng

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Sorry, my English level is bad, if you are willing to read this text, please keep patience.

If you are a software engineer to write image viewer, then this text is some feedback info to you. If you are a photographer or a camera lover, then you will get the sharing of application experience.

When you are reading here article, I suggest you download and install these Image Viewers, make you easy to understand the description of the article. If you do not try these software that you would not understand the article description.

ExifPro and FastStone are very worthy of using.

And, PhotoWingPro is worthy of your try.

Image Viewer main points compared and create a list.

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Feedback, Evaluation, Sharing, to Image Viewer

by PeterZheng

No matter what you shoot to get the RAW or JPEG, or viewing the Adobe PSD image, you would wish an image viewer to be a better and a faster. The image viewer not only support the JPEG, TIF, Adobe PSD, and the RAW image (can read the embedded JPEG) supported, here below.

I want to get the faster viewing and the fine display quality as well as a well interface window, not only the desktop system, and also it should be able to quickly run onto the UMPC. I have compared the image viewer more than 20 kinds, then ExifPro and PhotoWingPro both are currently two highlights.

The English language version's ExifPro is faster viewing the RAW images, and its smooth filter has been ran on the full screen image. (The thumbnail images did not need to take the smooth filtering or the sharpening).

Another PhotoWingPro only a Japanese version, (pricing 5800 JPY). It has not the superfluous function, did not have obese fattiness. This is really a image viewer, dapper, and excellent, although there were also bugs and flaws.

The author of PhotoWingPro is a Chinese in Japan. Mr. ChenChun birthplace is in ZheJiang 1959, he graduated from Beijing 1987. ChenChun arrived Japan 1992. ChenChun completed his own developing image engine in 2002. PhotoWingPro published in 2004, but PhotoWingPro has no Chinese or English version, up to now. In China inland, did not have birth excellent image viewer, but the noxious baby milk were again and again.

If an author cannot grasp the key point and the image viewer added the superfluous editing function, then a result gets slower. However, in the image editor that people could be using other better software. Also, If an author of software wants to take the more functions, then the software should take two (or many) module files, but cannot slow down the image viewing.

Today, several excellent image viewer did not come from like Microsoft or Adobe or Google, or ACD systems, etc..., they not happy to make smoe small software, and they are only more concerned to their high profits. They said a 1-GB of software to need 300.00 or 2000.00 USD. However, I have seen a 2-MB of software is better.

(Next document is Part II ExifPro)

***************** Part II. ExifPro ***********************

ExifPro is able to be faster viewing the embedded JPEG (RAW) and JPEG, the full screen image is the fine display quality, (its smooth filter is running at the full screen image). The software size is only a near 6MB at the initial installed.

ExifPro v 1.0.10 link:

www.exifpro.com/history.html

Anyone should read its help files, before ExifPro to be used.

www.exifpro.com/help_index.html

The file types there Nikon NEF, Pentax PEF, Canon RAW, Adobe DNG, JPGE, TIFF, Photoshop PSD, etc, many format types were supported. ExifPro v 1.0.10 is just an English version, and did not support non-alphabetical / non-numeric naming to the image files.

Moreover, not only the ExifPro can be running in the desktop system very well, and in the UMPC that ExifPro gets an acceptable level, the speed is clearly far faster than Epson photo viewer. In the outdoors, a 7-inch UMPC (tablet PC) or a 5.6-inch UMPC is clearly better than Epson photo viewer, thus you would get more usefulness.

The default user interface of ExifPro is a bit messy and the garish, there are many settings and too miscellaneous, maybe the entry-level users do not know how to commence on it. My settings are as the following pictures. After a series of settings, it would be slightly simple and effective as the daily use, as well as faster viewing, but some garish things were unchangeable.

6 pictures:

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My interest was highly eyeing to ExifPro, but I still need to mention FsatStone.

FastStone Image Viewer is clearly slower than ExifPro, especially is embedded JPEG (RAW), where FastStone v3.6 (or higher) its histogram were too small, also did not have the hotkey of RGB lines of histogram; etc... However, besides these flaws, the user interface of FastStone is slightly simplicity, and its pattern can follow a classical style, if you selected a classical style to Windows (similar to Windows 2000 style). Also, especially FastStone's full screen image mode has its own traits, as long as you move the mouse cursor to the edge of screen, (top, bottom, left and right), then you will find some hidden tools, "preview bar", "exif", and "histogram", as well as "edit tools", etc... All the tools take automatically hidden under the full screen viewing mode.

www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

www.imagingtips.com/faststone/intro/0intro.shtml

Although FastStone is freeware, but they announce that No Adware, No Spyware, Free for Home Users. In the CNET.com, FastStone Image Viewer gets 4,647,102 total downloads, but ExifPro is only 636 total downloads. Although FastStone Image Viewer is the free for home users, but it could get earning by business users. For the more important thing, FastStone Image Viewer helped their other software sales, and got widely known. FastStone Image Viewer v3.9 or v4.0 support the multi-language.

FsatStone's main flaw is the slower speed than ExifPro or PhotoWingPro, and the histogram is inferior than ExifPro in far.

(Especially in the embedded JPEG of RAW image, FsatStone is clearly a slower speed than ExifPro, and during the Pentax PEF image that FastStone is a worse.)

Secondly, FsatStone cannot be simultaneously compatible with sRGB and AdobeRGB, then these both images cannot be correct to get simultaneously displayed within a window, its color management still is not a really usable thing. In a latter problem, ExifPro, FastStone, XnViwe, they have a same trouble in a similar way, only an exception that PhotoWingPro is able to get compatible with sRGB and AdobeRGB very well. Also, Windows XP's image viewer is able to compatible with AdobeRGB and AdobeCMYK by a sRGB space (Tiff /8bit).

---------------- ExifPro Highlights ---------------

1. Very fast viewing the embedded JPEG (RAW)

ExifPro is able to be faster viewing the embedded JPEG (RAW) and the JPEG (10MP - 24MP in per image), if this folder has no Tiff or PSD image files.

(When Mamiya 645DF shot of per image as a 40MP/24MB JPEG, PhotoWingPro seems a faster viewing, but over the image of each 40MP/8MB JPEG that ExifPro is also same fast.)

BTW.

The following two links can download to get Mamiya 645DF JPEG images, the per image file is a size 6MB - 33MB /40MP JPEG, a double-click to a webpage illustration to start a large image downloading. (In Photoshop, these huge JPEG images can save as another format images, as like Tiff, PSD, for the color profile to take the sRGB, or the AdobeRGB, AdobeCMYK.)

dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/review/newproduct/20091208_33...

dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/review/special/20090907_31311...

2. The full screen image is the fine display quality

The full screen image is the fine display quality, (its smooth filter gets ran), but the thumbnail images do not need to take the smooth filtering or the sharpening, here speed is a priority. In the thumbnail image there should disable the smooth filtering or sharpening, which you can set for ExifPro.

3. ExifPro consumed the processor resource at less

In the UMPC, UMID, Netbook, Notebook, the bad image viewer will reduce your battery life, not only a slowed speed. I found a slowed image viewer could be worse consumed the processor-resources.

Viewing the embedded JPEG (RAW) and the JPEG, ExifPro won the processor resource to consume a lower, even a P III 733MHz processor can be easily viewing the RAW images, after a series of correct settings. (The color management was unused, and the sRGB is a default color space for Windows.)

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4. ExifPro provided a preview bar at the full screen image

In the full screen image mode, ExifPro provided a preview bar, which is a very nice design way, and there can be a vertical or horizontal setting under the screen 16:10 or 4:3. (However, here preview bar is lacking a refresh button, moreover ExifPro cannot automatically refreshes image file, but another PhotoWingPro would automatically refresh).

5. ExifPro has provided a larger histogram in viewer mode

Under the full screen image mode, ExifPro has provided a larger histogram, and can optionally turn on/off at anytime, very good! It is requisite! In the outdoors, so that a 7-inch screen of UMPC is able to effectively check image exposure. (but some related problem is text below).

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6. The full screen image mode can get started directly

The full screen image mode can also take directly started from the Windows explorer, without requires to firstly run the thumbnail image window. Usually firstly is running its thumbnail image window.

-------------- ExifPro flaws ------------------

1. ExifPro's scan sub-folder should be disabled

If you took a default way installed ExifPro, while the ExifPro started of first time would default to scan all the sub-folder of the local HDD, it is a very bad design, did not have any dialog box of an optional. (You should instantly disable its scan sub-folder. Also, please do not use its default installation way in ExifPro, besides your first time installation.)

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Also, when the ExifPro gets a first time of default installed, and the scan sub-folder has been stopped of later, to the following location open the folder "ExifPro", and delete the files "CacheDb.bin" and "CacheDb.bin.ix".

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiK\ExifPro

* Folder "Application Data" is a hidden attribute of default, setting Windows shows it.

(In future, you need to periodically delete CacheDb.bin and CacheDb.bin.ix. After a period, where cache files would include the many invalid data, it could lead to some unknown troubles.)

2. Rotate image at the full screen image mode of UMPC

Here rotates of image is related only to the full screen image mode.

The thumbnail image of automatic rotation has been welcomed at any desktop system or UMPC. However, the thumbnail image and the full screen image have the dissimilar situation, while the UMPC to display the full screen image, does not need automatic rotation.

The desktop system needs to rotate automatically of the image, but the UMPC (Tablet PC) is a handheld device, and its screen is smaller, which is easily turning to a horizontal or vertical position on your hand, so it did not need to automatically rotate the image in the full screen mode. If the automatic rotation of image goes applied to a 7-inch UMPC, then a showed image will be too small, (its screen height is only a 3.6-inch, 1024x600), and a 5.6-inch UMPC would be smaller.

3. The full screen image lacked a legible filename

In the full screen image of PhotoWingPro, there a legible filename being displayed (thick font) over the current image. While you take a bracketing exposure way and the camera got the more images later, then you need to clearly see the filename over the viewed image.

However, ExifPro lacked a legible filename of the full screen image.

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4. The thumbnail of the new image to show

When the ExifPro main window has been running, then ExifPro is unable to automatically refresh its thumbnail images, if the new image files are adding to this opened folder.

In the full screen image mode, its preview bar is more inconvenience, the preview bar does not automatically show the added new images, also did not have a refresh button or menu item, and F5 Key is unable to refresh the preview bar.

In the large image mode (full screen image viewing), if you want to view the new of the added image, there is only an inconvenient way: to end large image mode and restart the large image mode.

Also, now some UMPC have no F1 - F12 key in itself.

So here automation way gets applied that this is indeed the best approach.

PhotoWingPro is able to automatically show up the new thumbnail images, as long as the new image file is added to this opened folder. Actually is not "refresh", but is the new thumbnail able sync to get automatically displayed. The PhotoWingPro window is not flickering, which the new thumbnails are placid to get quickly showed.

In FastStone, when the full screen image is being viewing, once the viewing's current folder gets added the new images, then you can be directly viewing to the added images, did not need to exit the full screen viewing, and the FastStone preview bar would show up the added of images, did not need to manually refresh.

Another related trouble:

In the folder pane of ExifPro, its menu has a "Refresh" item, but it is unable to the normal use, which you cannot use it to refresh the thumbnail image. And it is also unable to refresh on its folder, once you click this refresh menu, then the folder pane became to the blank pane. This refresh menu looks like a bug.

5. When the image files transmit ended

ExifPro, when the image files transmit ended, you cannot demand that ExifPro automatically displays those thumbnail of the transmitted image files, it without this function.

FastStone, if destination is another new folder, FastStone would automatically switch to a new folder and the new thumbnails displaying. If destination is an existing folder, FastStone would automatically display the new thumbnails of the new image files in the existing folder.

PhotoWingPro, its file transfers period can be automatically playing the preview image and thumbnails by the per transmitted file, but the file transfers were slower.

6. Transmitting the files must be all in the one-time.

Transmitting the files of a folder must be all in the one-time. If the file transfers were interrupted and those files to re-transfer second time, then it cannot identify the copied files of before interruption.

7. The simple double-click cannot exit the full screen image

In the full screen image, the double-click on image cannot exit the full screen image window. Once the here toolbar has been taken a non-use setting, if you want to exit the full screen image window that you have to press a hotkey Esc, which is a sole way of an available, it is visibly a problem.

Because ExifPro cannot automatically display the new images, once the new image files get added, so that you have to exit the full-screen image and manually refresh the thumbnail window, but ExifPro exits the full-screen image window did not have an easy operation way like FastStone. When several sporadic flaws get together gathered, as a result was software operation would get trouble.

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In ExifPro, the double click way has been put to the image magnification, but FastStone is pressing the left mouse button to get the image magnification, thus FastStone can provide the interfacial operation in the more rationalization than other competitors. (See below)

FastStone has better way, a double click on the full screen image would get to exit the full screen image window, simple and effective, very good. FastStone's way: 1. a double click on the thumbnail would start the full screen image window; 2. a double click on the full screen image would exit the full screen image window.

8. ExifPro is clearly a bad performance to the Tiff or PSD viewing

The regret, ExifPro is clearly a bad performance at the Tiff or PSD viewing, despite the ExifPro's colour management has disabled, but the Tiff or PSD image still is very slow viewing.

In the Tiff and PSD, PhotoWingPro is clearly better than ExifPro.

9. ExifPro's colour management is unable applied.

The trouble, ExifPro's colour management cannot take applied, once the ExifPro colour management is running the AdobeRGB profile, then in the AdobeRGB image that ExifPro would be badly slow and the processor resource would be exhausted.

Especially the per Tiff image are a 115MB and AdobeRGB profile, once you try to run ExifPro's colour management, where you would be clearly seen trouble, especially the full screen viewing.

Also, even though ExifPro's colour management gets ran, it still is unable to simultaneously display a correct color to the sRGB and AdobeRGB both, but the PhotoWingPro can be working very well. PhotoWingPro can be simultaneously compatible with sRGB and AdobeRGB, which both images get simultaneously display within a window.

Windows XP's image viewer is able to compatible with AdobeRGB and AdobeCMYK by a sRGB space (Tiff /8bit), where the image color is correct, but did not support Adobe PSD image to display, did not support the RAW image, and no histogram, slow, etc.... MS had tried to develop another image viewer supports RAW image at Windows XP, but was unsuccessful and ended December 2005. That software have to running over the NET Framework, too bad.

In this, ExifPro is away from PhotoWingPro's level. ExifPro, FastStone, XnView, three seem a same trouble in the colour management.

This trouble is mainly to the desk-system, usually the UMPC does not run the colour management. Most notebook or netbook are only a TN LCD, and they are limited to lower than sRGB.

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1. The image magnification

ExifPro provided a method: In the full screen image that pixels are higher than current screen, to the point cursor of mouse a double click on the image of the needed magnifying location, this location would become a part on a 100% magnification, if pressing the left mouse button and moving the mouse, then this 100% magnifying image will follow moving.

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FastStone has a better magnifier, the cursor was moving to a need magnified location and then pressing the left mouse button, this location would be showed over the magnifier, the left mouse button gets kept and the mouse moves, which the magnifier can be an any location on a whole image. Once the left mouse button gets released, this magnifier would automatically exit off.

ExifPro has also another magnifier, which is a partial magnification mode, but the operational advantage is less than the above way, and the applied would be slow on some larger images. When the image is a 40MP/24MB JPEG, this ExifPro magnifier would be slowness and choked.

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Contrarily, although FastStone is a slower viewing, and in the large image here activating the FastStone magnifier would be delayed, but once the FastStone magnifier got activated, which still is able to be normal moving, whereas the image is a 40MP/24MB JPEG.

As both have been compared, FastStone has a better magnifier way. FastStone magnifier is more adapted to the actual application needs, which is very easily applied. Also, the double-click function gets put to the other need areas, thus the whole interfacial operation won the more rationalization. (See above)

PhotoWingPro is also a same way, ---------- Pressing the left mouse button to get a 100% magnifying image, (but it not a partial magnifier).

2. Multi-histograms were within a window by a bug

If the histogram of an image did not close down, and the image viewing continues to next one, the histogram opens again from another image, then the multi-histogram would be showed up. (This histogram is over the image viewing and not the thumbnail window).

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It is originally a bug, but now is to score a lucky hitting with, if you have made an Exposure of bracketing by 3 images, then you can contrast to 3 histograms in a window.

The histogram is very important tool, if you want to earnestly check the Exposure result, then the histogram is required. The monitor of camera is too small, but a 7-inch UMPC and the ExifPro can make you better to read the histogram, at outdoors.

(actuality it is still at least so, nowadays we still have not another portable monitor could be an available device on the camera. I have been dreaming to get a 7-inch UMPC with an added HDMI input port, it should be able to serve as a mobile monitor, then it can be used for outdoor. It needs to suspend its computing system while as a monitor running, which its battery will obtain the more time at the run of the monitor. )

3. ExifPro cannot display the thumbnails of Asia font filename.

4. The user-defined data put to Windows Reg or ini file?

ExifPro put user-defined data to record in Windows Registry, but did not have an ini file. If who wants to transplant the user-defined data then would get trouble, and the Windows Registry is also the more adiposity.

Another example, XnView of the first time start, that XnView provides an optional menu: 1. user-data stored to ini file; 2. user-data stored to Windows Registry. Secondly, Location of ini file is optional: 1. ini file is located in the folder directory of XnView; 2. ini file is located in each user folder under the \Documents and Settings\.

However, the ini file is likely located in the \ Documents and Settings \ All Users \ that it would be a better way. The \ All Users \ here folder is the permissive writeable at all users, including User account, by Windows XP.

Like the following location:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiK\ExifPro

P.S.

If the ini file is located in the folder directory of this program, this folder creator must come from the User account, so that User account can write the ini file, whereas Administrator account created the folder only the permission of read given to the Users account.

Also, if you want a non-default way to install the software, or a simple copy way, many green-soft did not need an installed, PhotoWingPro, FastStone, XnView, they have provided a simple copy way put to the program using, but you have to login to a User account and a destination folder been created, once the program has running then do not change this folder location, name, path, if you want the right mouse menu to keep the available in this program. If you are a mess way changed this folder location, name, path, then Windows Registry must be cleaned.

The typical location, name, path, files copied, (creator must be by the User account):

C:\Green Programs\ExifPro

C:\Green Programs\C Image\PhotoWingPro

C:\Green Programs\FastStone

Usually, a Windows XP system needs two available accounts as the local login. Administrator account is only for maintenance computer, and the User account is really for the applied of all the daily works, that Windws gets security and stability as a basic common sense.

-------------- ExifPro bugs --------------

bug 1:

When the left mouse button clicked on the thumbnail of the main window of ExifPro, then the full screen image gets opened. Pressing the hotkey Ctrl+H by this full screen image, then a histogram will show up, however, you can be instantly finding that this image has been defiladed by the main window of ExifPro, this image did not close down, it was the layer below.

If you take the Windows explorer window to directly open the large image with ExifPro, did not start the main window of ExifPro, which the above bug will not show.

bug 2:

After ExifPro main window got maximization and exited, once the full screen image of ExifPro is directly started from the Windows explorer, then the next time in the main window of ExifPro starts, where you would find ExifPro main window lost its maximization.

bug 3:

ExifPro's colour management trouble, the above part has already said.

--------------The wish to ExifPro -----------------

1. Keeping ExifPro speed on faster, an UMPC can get fast viewing by a 600MHz of the single core processor, and in the full screen image, its smooth filter must be able to be ran.

2. The above flaws and the issues need to get improved.

3. The above bugs need to get fixed.

4. The default interface of initialization should be terse, which would benefit the many of person to easily accept the ExifPro.

5. The histogram hotkey should provide two types, "Ctrl + H" and another "H", here a singly hotkey "H" is an important mode as the UMPC at the outdoors. Also, FastStone's edge of screen took the hidden menu is laudable of design. Once the mouse cursor moves to the edge of the full screen image, the hidden menu would be showed up, such as the "exif", "histogram", and "preview bar ", etc...

6. The fading effect mode ---"image fading in window" should be ---"in Slide show only", and not the default "Always" of all. When the "image fading in window" was taken disable, then the image viewing gets the higher speed, especially the UMPC.

6.1 The small image fits to 100% of screen, did not significance, and it should not put to a default setting.

7. The image cache data needs to add another optional way, an optional menu: 1. Keeping ExifPro's original way; 2. The image cache data saves only at the physical memory, do not take the CacheDb.bin file in the HDD. Before computer shut down, where its cache data of the physical memory gets fastest speed.

7.1 ExifPro's existing cache way improves. When computer is being running, putting the cache data saved to the physical memory, but the computer shut down ago, the cache data gets added to the file "CacheDb.bin" in the local HDD. Usually a running period less than 12 hours, the cache data is impossible to get a large size taking up the physical memory.

8. If possible, then the Chinese and Japanese package needs added.

9. If possible, making the AdobeCMYK gets compatible. If the speed will not be compromised, if the image colour management gets improved (no longer very slow), if AdobeRGB and AdobeCMYK been effectively got the compatible, then the ExifPro would apply to the more widely range.

(Next document is Part III PhotoWingPro)

Part III PhotoWingPro link:

www.flickr.com/photos/peter-zheng/4256438916/in/set-72157...

www.flickr.com/photos/peter-zheng/sets/72157623165123868/

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Feedback, Evaluation, Sharing, to Image Viewer

by PeterZheng

Part I and Part II link:

www.flickr.com/photos/peter-zheng/4256423312/in/set-72157...

www.flickr.com/photos/peter-zheng/sets/72157623040519895/

Image Viewer main points compared and create a list.

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************** Part III. PhotoWingPro *****************

For the viewing and browsing of images speed up, the prescan image in the opened folder is an usual way, but the software level is very differently between some authors. ExifPro is faster speed to viewing and browsing the embedded JPEG (RAW) and the JPEG. ExifPro take one-time scanning the image file in the current window, then the thumbnail images and the prescan of the full screen viewing would get ready. In the embedded JPEG (RAW) and the JPEG, ExifPro is quite outstanding speed at browsing or viewing, and a fairly low consumption takes up the processor resources, but its performance of the Tiff / PSD side has some imperfections.

In the embedded JPEG (RAW) and the JPEG (8bit/sRGB), ExifPro's one-time scan is faster than PhotoWingPro way, which is rare pace, but the folder does not contain any Tiff or PSD put to ExifPro viewing.

PhotoWingPro has been taken an alone way.

In the main window of PhotoWingPro, it will scan the image files of the current window to display the thumbnails, and then the medium-term previewing will second time read all the image files of this folder, its second time reading is really ready to the full screen mode of speedup. Pressing a hotkey F4 under the previewing window, then the display mode would enter a full screen image. The scan in preview window was slightly slowed.

www.cimage.co.jp/photowing/download.htm

www.cimage.co.jp/photowing/Introduct.html

Advice:

The sRGB profile would not impair to your image file, while in another AdobeRGB system, the profile can be switched, and its work-space is AdobeRGB mode, when it being needed. In the more application situation, you should select a sRGB profile to insert on the image. Only the few monitor and software can be effectively viewing the AdobeRGB color's edge of utmost. Secondly, AdobeRGB can be being rightly compatible and to be simultaneously displayed within sRGB window, there a correct color can be simultaneously displaying sRGB and AdobeRGB both images, such image viewer is also few, for instance this PhotoWingPro. Usually, the AdobeRGB is mainly being application to the post processing of the printed industry, but you did not need to uneasy about the sRGB profile in your photos. The sRGB profile can be switched to the AdobeCMYK, and the AdobeCMYK is more important than AdobeRGB.

AdobeRGB work-space does not mean that the image will be better color, only available to a high-level monitor could view the AdobeRGB color's edge of utmost. The CRT monitor period, the high-level Mitsubishi Diamondtron CRT (anti-dazzle layer included) was widely applied at the high performance monitor, and that 500 USD will easily get a 19-inch of the high performance monitor, but this LCD times were the tattered TN panels overran the market. Did you trust a TN monitor can view AdobeRGB? (not only a color gamut problem). Did you trust a TN monitor has visual angle 170 degrees (CR 10%)? I do not need "170 degrees", I want to have CR 90% and the vertical visual angle only more than 90 degrees! Sorry, even that IPS or VA panels are still slightly lower than CRT performance, despite theirs pricing higher than 500 USD or 2000 USD (1920x1200, 22 or 24 inch).

Advice:

In the ExifPro or PhotoWingPro, if you want viewing and browsing of both of very quickly in the images, then you should be careful your devices, a USB 1.1 or a bad mobile storage equipment will be obvious to destroy the speed in viewing and browsing.

---------------- PhotoWingPro Highlights ---------------

1. The fast viewing and with the fine display quality

The fast viewing and with the fine display quality (the smooth filter running), and even is a single-core processor (700MHz) in the UMPC or UMID. When in the outdoors, which is especially important.

2. A medium level in the consumed processor resource

PhotoWingpro consumes the processor resource to be a medium level, to all the image viewer compared. In the UMPC, UMID, Netbook, Notebook, the bad image viewer will reduce your battery life. In the JPEG, the embedded JPEG of RAW image, whereas ExifPro wins a consumed lower than PhotoWingpro, but in the Tiff image that ExifPro is clearly bad and slow. (However, in the outdoors, you did not need to view the Tiff image, camera file is usually with JPEG, embedded JPEG in the RAW image, as well as Adobe DNG.)

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3. The least add-in items to the Windows Registry

PhotoWingPro is the least add-in items to the Windows Registry, which is compared with the others. (This would benefit the computer to keep the stability and speediness).

4. The thumbnail images get automatically refreshed

PhotoWingPro is able to automatically refresh its thumbnail images in the current window, once the new image is added to this opened folder, did not need the other operation. (very good).

(We need this: in the outdoors situation, tripod, camera, UMPC, shooting scenery.

When you have interval shooting the new image, and the camera has connected on an UMPC by the USB port, once the UMPC has resumed up from the sleep mode, which in PhotoWingPro is able to directly view the new image within the camera (your images get copied ago), and the image window does not need to refresh manually. In this period, image viewer does not need to close down, which is just a computer sleep mode. When the computer entered the sleep mode, its USB port is automatically suspension, but the computer was resumed, then the USB connection would be automatically resumed. But in this, the PhotoWingPro is having another trouble to should be resolved, see below.)

5. The image rotation can preset to disable

The image rotation by the exif info of camera is an available function in the PhotoWingPro, but the user can preset to non-rotate automatically. This presettable item is very useful, especially is an UMPC or UMID under the full screen image mode. Typically, in a desktop system it needs to rotate automatically of the image, but the UMPC (Tablet PC) is a handheld device, and its screen is smaller, which is easily turning to a horizontal or vertical position on your hand, so it did not need to automatically rotate the image in the full screen mode. If the automatic rotate of image applied to a 7-inch UMPC, then a showed image will be too small, (its screen height is only a 3.6-inch, 1024x600).

Above said the rotate of image is only related on the full screen image mode.

In the thumbnail images, the automatic rotate of image has won welcomed, either desktop system or UMPC. However, when the full screen image is over the UMPC, did not need to rotate automatically of the image.

6. The multi-windows in the Windows

PhotoWingPro can be opened with the multi-windows in the Windows OS. You can be browsing and viewing the image of the each folder by the PhotoWingPro multi-windows. Looks like MS's IE can run multi-windows.

7. sRGB and AdobeRGB both are compatible

sRGB and AdobeRGB both are compatible very well. Under the PhotoWingPro color management, AbobeRGB and sRGB both are able to be simultaneously showed up a same correct color. Both images are simultaneously displaying in the PhotoWingPro window. (PhotoWingPro color management can be presetting to turn on/off. When its color management been disabled, AdobeRGB would be displayed a deviant color.)

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PhotoWingPro did not change the ICC profile of the image. (ICC management is mainly applied to the image post-processing. And it will consume more processor resources and power supply, then in the UMPC should set disabled it. Although PhotoWingPro gained solved quite good between systems consumption and the color management. )

This color management way looks like the PhaseOne's CaptureOne viewing mode under the color management, regardless of your image is what the ICC profile, which it will be automatically corrected and show up a same color effect at the current device.

Adobe Lightroom has a same color effect to the image viewing, then it did not have due to two kinds the ICC profile to get trouble. It is able to automatically check to switch the colour space, making the image got a correct display. When I have sRGB mode, if guest is AdobeRGB, then I will automatically switch guest follow to sRBG. In CaptureOne or Lightroom, their storage image can choose various ICC profiles, or that the original profile can be kept in the image.

8. The huge images been excellently supported

Even though the images are 40M Pixels JPEG/per 24MB or Tiff/AdobePSD/per 115MB, but the PhotoWingPro thumbnail images or its full screen image all are unhindered, did not fall into the quagmire, even is being color management ran. PhotoWingPro is excellently supporting the huge image of Tiff and AdobePSD to viewing. (Tiff or PSD is limited to 8bit of RGB).

The following two links can download to get Mamiya 645DF JPEG images, the per image file is a size 6MB - 33MB /40MP JPEG, a double-click to a webpage illustration to start a large image downloading.

dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/review/newproduct/20091208_33...

dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/review/special/20090907_31311...

P.S. In Photoshop, these huge JPEG images can save as another format images, as like Tiff, PSD, for the color profile to take the sRGB, or the AdobeRGB, AdobeCMYK.

-------------- PhotoWingPro flaws ------------------

1. The full screen viewing have to firstly run the thumbnail window

PhotoWingPro's full screen image mode cannot take directly started in Windows explorer, and the full screen image viewing cannot get started by the PhotoWingPro thumbnail. The previewing window must get running. Also, you cannot take a double click on the preview image to get the full screen viewing, very bad!

If you want to view the full screen image, which you have to take 3 steps: 1. PhotoWingPro thumbnail window; 2. the previewing window; 3. the full screen image.

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As author of PhotoWingPro is intended to improve the faster speed of thumbnails, the thumbnail displaying have an alone scan, then the medium-term previewing will be second time to scan all the images in this folder, its second time scan is really ready to the full screen mode of speedup. Well, if we take the Windows explorer to start PhotoWingPro viewing the full screen image, PhotoWingPro should get enter second step and not first thumbnail image window.

2. The double click on preview image cannot get the full screen viewing

You cannot take a double click on the preview image to get the full screen viewing, it is very bad!

Starting the PhotoWingPro's full screen viewing must press hotkey F4, or a virtual button. The many UMPC, UMID, Netbook, they have only the alphabetic keys, no F1 - F12 key, no direct numeric keys.

In PhotoWingPro, the double-click function did not get a reasonable application, this is a waste of resource. To start or exit the full screen image the operation should use the double-click function.

As other image viewer, ExifPro, FastStone, as long as a double click on the thumbnail then the full screen image to get viewing, despite are also having the hotkey of the full screen viewing. And the FastStone is more a reasonable of whole layout to the double-click function.

3. The info display must take beforehand selected

The info display of PhotoWingPro must take beforehand selected, and then you can watch the histogram and exif info. When the image is the full screen mode that its histogram cannot turn on/off. (very obvious flaw).

4. Histogram is too small and too imprecisely

PhotoWingPro has only a small histogram, which is too small! And too imprecisely. (very obvious flaw).

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5. The info font of exif is small

The info font of exif is small, if you are using a 5-inch UMPC in the outdoors, maybe you could be difficulty to read.

6. PhotoWingPro lacks the preview bar in the full screen viewing

PhotoWingPro did not have a preview bar in the full screen image viewing. (Another image viewer ExifPro has a preview bar for the full screen image viewing, its layout can be changed the size and horizontal or vertical, and also it can be turned on/off.)

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7. The original folder object cannot get kept when computer to exit sleep

If your camera has been connected to a UMPC or Notebook, and in the PhotoWingPro window to view the image within camera, after UMPC switched to sleep, once resumed, then the PhotoWingPro window would leave the original camera folder, which is unable to keep on the original folder object.

It is needed to add an option, making the PhotoWingPro can be selected another mode. It should not be always to popup the dialog box of the file transfers, sometimes is needed to avoid the USB signal of Windows.

I have already disabled a service item at the Windows Image Acquisition (WIA), and the Windows AutoPlay has been completely disabled, but did not solve the above causing trouble. This trouble is within PhotoWingPro.

8. The file transfers in second time to be unsuccessful

In PhotoWingPro, another trouble is the file transfers as the second time, once the transferring been interrupted, or the local storage folder of computer is being deleted, then the next time will be unable to copy these image files by the PhotoWingPro.

9. Copying needs to skip off the same name files

Copying the image files that PhotoWingPro needs an optional item to be making it can automatically skip off the same name files, (old image files).

(Maybe this not a problem because there some the Japanese menu are displayed the disorderly font, then the transmission interface cannot be correctly setting? ).

Another problem, if your two cameras are same of a model product that you might encounter some trouble? Did you want to automatically copy the files?

10. The cache data way needs an optional menu

PhotoWingPro does not save the cache file of image to the HDD. When PhotoWingPro gets ran, its image cache data will be saved to the physical memory, until computer shuttered down. This cache data will not consume a large amount of memory.

PhotoWingPro needs to provide an optional menu, let us select: 1. PhotoWingPro cache way of default setting; 2. The cache data been written a bin file and saved to the local HDD.

11. The color management needs to get directly turned on/off

The PhotoWingPro interface needs to add a button of the color management to get directly turned on/off.

12. PhotoWingPro199.ini file put to the Windows OS folder

The PhotoWingPro199.ini file put to the Windows OS folder, which is a worst way! I do not understand the author intention of PhotoWingPro.

Secondly, this way would cause the Windows Users account to be unable applicative in PhotoWingPro, then you have to take an Administrator account login Windows due to using PhotoWingPro. There is apparently a security problem.

PhotoWingPro would tell you cannot login to User Account running the PhotoWingPro.

Except PhotoWingPro, all the other image viewer are normal running under the User Account.

Typically, an Administrator Account is just for the computer maintenance, but the daily work should be the User Account to login Windows, it is computer security knowledge.

-------- Wishing and other over the PhotoWingPro --------

1. English and Chinese at the new version needs added

I have a strong desire that PhotoWingPro provides English and Chinese at the new version.

2. The above flaws need to get improved

3. The user interface needs to get improved

The user interface needs to get improved, also the right mouse button needs to get using.

4. Maybe the work space could be switched

If the viewing speed of image can be keeping, there will be proposed an added option to the PhotoWingPro color space mode, to the work space is able to switch between sRGB and AdobeRGB.

This is mainly for the post-processing to the image viewing, only an available high-level monitor could view the AdobeRGB color's edge of utmost. If your monitor is only a less than 400 USD, or monitor is only a notebook (laptop computer, regardless of being Windows or Mac), then you are unable to view all the AdobeRGB color effect.

5. Maybe support the CMYK Tiff images

PhotoWingPro does not support the CMYK Tiff images, (this CMYK Tiff is only for the printing industry to professional post-processing needs).

As the image viewer, Windows XP itself the embedded image viewer is compatible with the CMYK Tiff 8-bit, but the picture must insert the ICC profile, (such as AdobeCMYK profile). However, Windows itself the image viewer is away from people's desire. Some other software can view the CMYK Tiff images, but those software are usually image editing or processing, rather than an image viewer.

For the 2D image, people need a better image viewer. Adobe Bridge CS3/CS4 is unsatisfactory thing.

Adobe does not allow to take a separately installed AbobeBridge, AdobeBridge has no histogram, and the full screen mode of manual slide to the magnifying 100% function will have consumed the tremendous resource of the processor, especially is RAW image. Adobe Bridge's start is slow, a strong processor must be based, and not suitable for the UMPC.

If a non-normal way make Bridge CS3/CS4 to a separately installed, then it will be unable to correctly display the image of AdobeRGB or CMYK. Also, once Adobe Bridge launched then it will not support the newer camera RAW after 2 years, all these are high price under.

The Adobe Bridge CS4 its messy cache files are like slurry flood will fill over your harddisk. Adobe Bridge CS4 is worse than Bridge CS3.

In the RAW image viewing, once the RAW images been imported into Lightroom (or ACR), then the Adobe Bridge would be displaying with Lightroom/ACR color and gray level, and not the original RAW image. If you want to see the original effect in the RAW image, here is required to take another manual operation. A strange and complex way.

Another problem, the user interface of Adobe Bridge CS3/CS4 is very bad, (not conducive to using, and not only cosmetology problem), but Adobe Photoshop CS3 interface is very well. The Adobe Bridge and Adobe Photoshop CS3 both of them are tremendous disparity.

Under the exorbitant price's Adobe CreativeSuite kit or Photoshop, Adobe Bridge has some special functions over the CreativeSuite/Photoshop, whereas as an image viewer, the Adobe Bridge CS3/CS4 is unsatisfactory thing.

------------ PhotoWingPro bugs --------------

1. The preview mode was 4-image joined to a preview then a bug would be occurred.

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Application Failure photowingpro199.exe 1.9.9.3 in photowingpro199.exe 1.9.9.3 at offset 0004bd7c..

2. The preview image could be concealed

Sometimes, PhotoWingPro shows its preview image could be concealed, but the desktop is only PhotoWingPro running, its window does not display a preview image, while the window refreshed in back and forth, and then its preview image would get resumed.

3. Files transfers bug (This error occasionally shows)

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Application Failure photowingpro199.exe 1.9.9.3 in photowingpro199.exe 1.9.9.3 at offset 0005dd60..

PhotoWingPro is only a Japanese version and that some invalid fonts would be displayed in other lingual Windows, so I cannot consider to purchase its licence.

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IMG_2092__AdobeRGB by alashino

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C92-AdobeRGB-031 by Half the brain is dead. Man

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Campanula persicifolia by Seppo Maikkola

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Kurjenkello. 50mm Olympus on Canon full frame: Olympus OM-System Zuiko MC Auto-S 1:1.4 f=50mm. Full open. Circular polarizer.

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Campanula persicifolia by Seppo Maikkola

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AdobeRGB by Abetto

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Obelisco de Buenos Aires by Vamsi Illindala

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*This is in AdobeRGB format, please view in Mozilla Firefox for true colors*

So, I am back from my 5-day trip to Buenos Aires. The trip was great, and the city was really good - though not greatly impressive at the first look. Obviously, I am comparing it to my previous similar trip to Paris. Buenos Aires has a striking resemblance to any big Indian city - barring the good roads and highways.

The trip began without much ado. We reached BA at noon on November 2nd and checked in to Hotel Panamericano. My friends and I got ready by 2:30PM and walked around 9 de Julio.

The finale on the night of November 5th was, however, one of the most memorable and amazing experiences I've ever had. Though my photography hasn't been as prolific as that of my Paris trip, Buenos Aires indeed has a great charm and history. I wonder if I had captured its true essence. There are many more pictures to come, but the saddest part is, the last day of my stay (free day!) in BA was totally overcast and there was no sun at all. And that was the day I visited the most vibrant part of the city. I am trying to make those pics look vibrant by making some HDRs. Please visit my stream again and let me know if they are any good.

This monument is the Obelisco de Buenos Aires, the most important square/center of the city. This view is from my room on the 8th floor at the hotel.

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