In Depth with IrfanView - #9 - Options in IrfanView pt.2

Hi this is Mike Callahan, Dr. File Finder and welcome back to part nine of our special 10-part series on IrfanView. Today we’re going to cover to rest of the available options that covered the first part and the previous tutorial.

So with IrfanView open we’re going to click options, properties and settings. Now this time you’re going to want to click on the tab that starts of with JPG as to cover this row. In 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 want to be 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 work with that then you wouldn’t select it in IrfanView but you could select all of your other graphics formats. So it gives you a lot of control over which files get pulled into IrfanView. You can also add IrfanView to the menu and there’s a specific tutorial already on that. And you can add browser with IrfanView to drive in the folders on the shell menu.

Now on the file handling tab you can set up specific directories or folders to copy and move file logs too when those dialogs come up. You could also control a lot of aspects about the leading files like whether you should be asked before the leading to whether to lift things at the recycle bin, closer from view after delete and so on.

Now the viewing tab basically covers some advance things on PING and TGA files, did BPP files and so on. and it also lets you configure the main window color as you see back here its black, its black because its black here. I can click on that, I can change it to blue, say OK. I say OK again, change it to blue. So we 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 act. You can have it fit to screen for large images, you can have images stretched so that they fit the screen. You can have it resample, you can have multiple monitor mode so that you could 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 the 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’ve now covered all 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 browse through them at your own speed and that concludes part nine.


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