Hi, this is Michael E. Callahan Dr. File Finder with your butterscotch.com special ten-part tutorial on IrfanView. Today we are going to look at batch conversions and this is part one of ten.
So I have IrfanView open, I have a picture of the dingle pen along item loaded just for some color. Batch conversion is a cool feature IrfanView because what you can take large number of files that are in one graphic format and convert all of them to another file format. IrfanView also offers the feature to rename files in the batch so click file below here the batch conversion rename, see it opens up and over here you can see you can do batch conversion, batch rename or you can do a batch conversion then rename the resulting files. Here’s what we pick our format. It has them as ping; we’ll put them as JPEG. Now advance options are some thing you might want to explore on your own. You can do things like cropping, you can sharpen brightness, you can add over lay text, a lot of little functions that you can pick from.
Down here, we can select or output directories so that we put our new files in a different place. We can have it show on preview, we tell it to include subdirectories. Now pick pictures we want we’ll click up here, we move over to this side, hold down the shift key and click , we will say add all to our list to be converted they will move here and say start batch. And you can see that IrfanView is quickly going through and converting the files, just about done and the renaming function is actually very cool too because you can quickly rename your files much faster than you could manually.
So there it just a few seconds we converted 46 files from one graphics format in to another using IrfanView. That’s all the risk to it.
Then we look at special effects and there are a lot of them in IrfanView. So I got an image loaded in IrfanView, we’ll click image we move down here to effects. Now you see I could add effects one at a time from here but in order to show you the range of effects that IrfanView has I’m going to go to the effects browser. So you can see it brings it up here and on the left hand side its shows the original image on the right hand side it shows what the image will look like when the effect is applied. So I'm just going to show you some of them because there are so many.
There is blur and bloss as fairly dramatic, edge detection, there’s a really cool effect, explosion, pixelized, sharpen. There are effects for red-eye, there’s raindrops on your camera lens, sepia gives you the old fashion photo look, frog minute, tool it, kind of a cool way effect, swirl do a radio blur, zoom blur kind of pop out, rock is really cool. I’ll use that for wallpaper. There is a relief and there are circular waves, cylindrical effects, shift to color and do metallic gold.
When you find the effect that you want you can also change the effect by moving the slider. So I can see I can increase the level of gold with say rain drops there are no settings that I can change but with many of them there are settings I can change so I can change the effect to review the way I want to be. And when it the way I want I click OK and there’s my image totally swirled around. Now say I don’t like it all I have to do is click edit undo and there's my image back to way it was. When you put an effect in image make sure you click file, save as and save it as new file and that’s all the risk to it.
Now today I’m going to show you the screen capture ability in IrfanView. Now if you want something with complex screen capture function you want to left something like snag it but IrfanView can capture screen so that you can use the resulting images and manipulate them in IrfanView. So with IrfanView open we’ll click options move down the capture screen shot. Now you see we have some options here we can capture the whole desktop area just the four-gram window the four-gram window with the client area if you want we can include the mouse cursor or not. We can save the captured images and the file and it gives you the default name of capture day, month, year, hour, minute, second.
We can click browse and select the destination directory where our files will be saved and we can also set the file format we want them save in. so we’ll set that for JPEG. Up here the capture method we can set a half key which is control F11 in this case we can change it if we like or we can set it to be an automatic timer delay and indicate how many seconds. I personally prefer the half key so that we will use we’ll have it bring it up to the main window we’ll have it do the program window client area. So now I’ve got butterscotch.com loaded up in goggle crawl up click start there's the lovely amber Mac we confess there for Christmas I’ll hit the half-key control F11 and there you see is the screen in IrfanView. Now to save it click in the save file, save as we will say amber festive and there we can also select what file format we want, say save and we’re all done. So that’s capturing screen in IrfanView and that’s all the risk to it.
Today I'm going to show you the paint tool that comes with IrfanView. I got an image loaded and we’ll click edit, show paint dialogue. Now here is the paint dialogue comes up now bear in mind that the paint function of IrfanView is in totally complex like paint shot pro but it certainly will let you get some things accomplished. You have the paint brush that you sue free hand to draw with you have an eraser that you can click you can go in and you can pick out color, you can draw out lines, you can draw out arrows so perhaps you want to draw an arrow point to the turtle and you can do circles, rectangles. So say we a rectangle right here down below and arrow.
Now we can also use the file here’s our current foreground color so we’ll click there and pull the rectangle is filled now with that color. Another thing that you can do is straiten and rotate tool. So we’ll click our net and moving here click and just put a line and now you see our picture is rotated. Here are the pen and brush settings dialogue up so that you can see it. You can pick the kind of pen that you want to end cap the line joints, you can have your brush be solided the line hatched and pick the color the transparency you can also pick some functions for the background. When you settle down those things click OK down here you can also change the size of the whip of the pen and click false by increasing or decreasing. So this is the basic thing function of IrfanView. You can do some neat things with it you want to save this changes you are going to say file save as and give it a new name and that’s all the risk to it.
Today I'm going to look at altering your images and IrfanView has quite a few options so I'm going to cover that in this tutorial and the next one. So with an image loaded in IrfanView we’ll click image now you can rotate to the left and rotate the picture to the right or you can do a custom fine rotation and you can se here on the left side is the original image on the right is the new image and that by changing the percent of angle you can get different effect. So you can se that you can get five degree of angel you can also change the background color, they can be anything you like.
Another option here is to do a vertical flip or you can do the horizontal flip if you don’t like those you can click undo. Resize and resample lets you resize an image either base on the specific size or by sizes percentage or there's even default sizes that you can pick from. The camera size allows you to adjust the size of the boarder dimensions and pixels so you can create more of the boarder around the image and once again, you can pick the color of the boarder. And you can also decrease the color depth so you can reduce it down from the millions of color to two colors 16 colors and so on. So that concludes part one of altering your photos with IrfanView and that’s all the risk to it.
Today, I’m going to conclude the section on altering your images with IrfanView. So I’ve got an image loaded, click on image once again, we left of after decrease color depth. So one thing you can do to alter your images is convert them to grayscale and see there everything goes gray. As always if you don’t like it you can just click undo. Another thing you can do is make a negative, so you have a negative image, undo that, you can enhance the colors by moving, we put a little bit more of red in the background there, do that makes a little bit more pale. So you can get lots of different effects by filling with the pajama correction, the saturation to alter your photos.
Now a histogram shows you all these different aspect of luminosity, red blue and green. You can auto-adjust the colors in which the program goes through and adjust the color as it thinks they should be adjusted. Another thing you can do and this is often needed with images that you’ve resize is to sharpen them. If you’re taking pictures especially if a person with blue eyes you have red-eye reduction. We have gone through the section on effects, we can swap colors and this is kind of fun. Pictures the basic is swapping you know red green and blue, for red blue and green, red green and blue for blue green and red. This a pretty need effects that way and again if you don’t like it you can always undo it. And then you can import a new palate. So IrfanView in short gives you all kinds of ways to alter your photos by altering the colors, altering the palate, removing red-eye, slipping, rotating, fine and custom rotating and lots more. And that’s all the risk to it.
Today I’m going to show you how to a slide show in IrfanView. So with IrfanView open, we’ll just click file, slideshow, you see a dialogue comes up and you have lots of options to really customize the way your slideshow works. So here you can say that the transition is after five seconds, you can have it be base on keyboard input, you can have it be random, you can loop on MP3 file against background music if you like, you can hide the mouse cursor, you can have it go full screen. For up to the purposes I’m having it go smaller. You can load names from a text file, so you can prepare a text file.
Full of picture names and load up from there. So you can have slide shows already prepared. You can save slide show as an EXC or a screen saver. You can burn it to CD. This option here will display the date, the filename and the file index in the slide show. So I don’t like to have that. We want to see if preview image. Now over here are some pictures, I’m going to say add all and then we’ll come over here and click play slide show and our slideshow will play and every five seconds it will automatically change pictures, again if I want it I could have music played in the background, I could save this slide show of my 25th anniversary trip to Ireland with my wife Carol. I could save it, make it a new screen saver; I could do lots of things with it. So this is a handy and powerful feature in IrfanView and that’s all the risk to it.
Today I’m going to talk about available options and IrfanView has such a wealth of available options that it would take us too many tutorials in order to go over them all. So in this tutorial and the one that follows I’m going to primarily just try to outline some of the options that are available so you are aware of them and then you can explore them yourself in the program. So with IrfanView open, just click options, properties, settings, and other twelve tabs available here so to be on the same page just click the one that says video and sound and that brings G7 to the top.
The video and sound tab lets you configure quick time, let you configure the use of an external audio player, and let you configure options for an internal video and sound. The language tab lets you select the language and more languages are available from the IrfanView website. Now miscellaneous one tab generally ahs items that help you control the programs performance and how it behaves in different circumstances. Miscellaneous two tab lets you control IrfanView start-up, its window position and some miscellaneous settings and then on the miscellaneous three tab you can configure external editors, you can control font colors and background colors and other items that are related to text.
Now you can click on the tool bar option, you can configure what items appear on the IrfanView toolbar and there are even different tool bar configurations available. So you can pick the ones you want, if you don’t to have certain things on your toolbar you don’t have to and then the last one in this set is plug-ins and this controls the behavior of various plug-ins, there are quite a few plug-ins available for IrfanView and this where you would handle those. So this takes care of the first section of the available options and that’s all the risk to it.
Today we are going to cover the rest of the available options that cover the first part and the previous tutorial. So with IrfanView open we are going to click options, properties and settings. Now this we are going to want to click on tab that starts of with JPG will cover this row and this tab it lets you determine what size, photo, CDs to load. You can tell IrfanView to play animated G files by default. You can have it load all graphics files as gray scales by default and so on.
Now the extensions tab is a handy tab because you can configure exactly what file formats you want IrfanView to handle. So if there’s a particular file format, you didn’t like to pulled in the IrfanView automatically when you click done it you could configure that here. So it’s a rough example. Say, you have a program like Microangelo that deals with animated window cursors and if you wanted Microangelo to wok with that then you would select an IrfanView but you can select all of the other graphics formats. So it gives you a lot of control over which files get fold on the IrfanView.
You can also add IrfanView to the center menu, and there’s a specific tutorial already on that and you can add browse with IrfanView to drives and folders in the shelf mate. Now on the file handling tab you can set-up specific directories or folders to copy and move file logs too when those dialogues come up. You can also control a lot of aspects about the reading files like whether you use to be ask before the leading, to in order to delete things at the recycle bin, closer from view after delete and so on.
Now the viewing tab basically covers some advance things on paint and TGA files differ in the VPP files and so on. And also lets you configure the name, window color as you see back here its black, its black because its black her and click on that I could change it to blue and say okay, I’ll say okay again and change it to blue. So we’ll go back here and the last tab is the full screen tab and this lets you configure basically how full screen mode is going to add. You can have it fit to screen for large images, you can have images stretch so that they fit the screen, you can have it resample, and you can have multiple monitor mode so that you can stretch an image over two or more monitors.
You can have text that shows the folder, the name, the file index and you can determine whether that text is shown at the top, middle, bottom, left, center or right, whether the text is transparent the screen color, the font and the font color and so on. So we now covered all of the available options in IrfanView and again as I said in the previous segment the purpose here was to make you aware of all of the many options that IrfanView has so that you can use them and browser them at your own speed and that concludes part nine.
Today, I’m going to show you how to create a panorama using IrfanView. The panorama is great when you have scenery and you can’t really get all in one picture so you can take multiple pictures and then splice them together to create a panorama. So with IrfanView draw a table simple have it open, click image, create panorama image. Now you can see here we have several options that can create our image horizontally and lay images down to the right side of the previous ones or we can create it vertically, add images below, previous ones.
We can add images, remove images, sort images and once we get the images loaded we can move them up and down. So I’ll show you here briefly is one of the images I have part of the mountain range in Colorado and the others are about the same size so I need to splice them together. So we’ll click add images we have the desktop, click that hold down the control key, I get those selected, we’ll click open. I want to like it move this up and down but I think I have them in the right order so I’ll create image and here if you look carefully you can see the fine line where the three images went together here and over here. Barely discernable and it put these three pictures together in to one panoramic shot. So that’s creating a panorama in IrfanView and this concludes part ten our ten part series.
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