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Setting Up XnView
Once you get XnView installed, you'll end up with a
setup that looks like this:
To me, the default layout is confusing. There
are too many buttons and I haven't a clue what they all
do! However, there are hundreds of customizable
options in XnView, so we'll go through the ones that
increase functionality, (but feel free to experiment),
before we get into the usage part of the tutorial.
There are waaay too many screens for me to do screen
captures of all the options, so I made a table (below)
to walk you through them, and there's a "Printer
Friendly" link at the top if you prefer to do it that
way..
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On the "View" Pull-Down Menu |
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Item |
Sub-Item |
Action |
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Tabs |
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Uncheck |
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Small Toolbar |
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Uncheck |
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Preview Pane |
Show |
Uncheck |
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On the "Tools" Pull-Down
Menu, Click "Options", Then ... |
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Sub-Item |
Action |
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Keyboard/Mouse |
Keybd/Mouse Tab |
Change the Mouse Wheel option box to
"Previous/Next file" (Allows you to scroll
through all pictures in a folder while in the
View Window) |
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Toolbar |
Buttons Tab |
Uncheck "Show Tooltips" and Check "Show
Button Text" (You don't need them both, and text
labels are a faster way to work until you learn
all the buttons) |
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Skins Tab |
So you know it's there - I prefer the
"Gnome" skin because the buttons are simpler and
seem more familiar, but it's a personal choice. |
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Browser |
Browser Tab |
Uncheck "Show Tooltips" (Big, annoying
popup balloons covering up the thumbnails you're
trying to look at!) |
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Associations |
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If you like, you can "associate" all the
graphics formats you use regularly with XnView.
This means Windows would automatically open
XnView whenever you double-clicked on a graphics
file anywhere in your system, like "My
Documents". DO NOT take the easy way and just
associate all. You'll be sorry if you do.
I clicked the "View as Extension" radio button
up top, and checked the extensions bmp, gif,
giff, ico, img, anything that listed JPEG in
it's description, pcd, png, tif, tiff, and vga.
That's all the common ones, and anything else
you run across you can open XnView manually then
open the file within it. |
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