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Originally Posted by RobF
Picasa viewer is a nice intuitive program for viewing any pic, but particularly huge astro pics I find. The rest of the screen is dimmed, the picture is auto-zoomed, and you can intuitively zoom in and pan around with the mouse and mousewheel. You have to save the image before you can open that way, but worth it for exploring a top class image I reckon if download is allowed.
Bit like Zoomify in realtime time, but faster and smoother.
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Yeh maybe, although I have found Picasa clumsy
probably just what you get used too I recon. The problem is that most viewers are impatient, there are so many images to look at in forums and other places these days, if it isn't easy people will just give up, I am sure I have lost many viewers as a result. I get the impression that many people just open an image quickly look at it for a few seconds and then a few comment based on that experience.
Not sure what the perfect solution is? Personally I like to really look at images so when people post a large option ie bigger than my 22" screen, it is great and I usually look at it at that size first then shrink it in my browser to fit nicely on my screen - this is the best way to appreciate most images but I know many won't wait or be bothered with this. I really don't like zoomify at all, it is slow and clumsy and doesn't allow full appreciation of an image, I prefer to download a large jpeg if the option is there - like Ken Crawford provides and look at that in my picture viewer or where ever...but that takes time.
This is why I offer a number of crops and framings so hopefully there is something that appeals
my image view counts show that the first image link in the post text is the image most look at and lots don't bother with the others anyway but they are there for the inquisitive amongst you
Mike