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This is my ancient copy of the worlds first and bestest image browser and viewer. Even today, it's stupid fast and will view humongous images without skipping a beat. It's what software should be...simple and robust. This archive includes the base program, the update and the crack.
Please rename the whole thing from .txt to .zip before opening.
Enjoy!
https://mega.nz/file/kmYhmIzZ#En_Y5pDEPIP-ErEU4CvCDiwBA72vf_rOEF_aPru6O7gThanks a lot for that.
My archive of the older non bloat ACDSees are long gone, so that really helps out.
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Thanks mate. I remember using ACDSee ages ago and it was very good. The one I'm using now (Ulead PhotoImpact) has long since been superseded.
I usually test all the available image browsers (note: note'browser' vice 'viewer'. An image browser has
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has to be able to create thumbs quickly) once a year or so. So far, XNView is mostly the winner. It's also saddled with a lot of excess options but is reasonably quick and stable. I like that it can edit IPTC data (International Press Telecommunications Council) and can bulk resize and bulk annotate. Both have proven essential for posting to Tumblr.
Directory Opus has a thumbnail mode that's pretty decent and is stable. It allows resizing thumbs easily, quickly and on the fly.
Good old Windows file explorer will show image thumbs in limited sizes and does quick and dirty bulk renaming.
I frequently have several instances of all three of these going at once as I sort and screw around with stuff.
This gent (https://www.nyam.pe.kr/dev/imagine/) has been working on this one for some time. It's the closest I've come to ACDSee Classic's look, feel and usability. Unfortunately it hasn't been the most stable for me. I still send him a few bucks once a year to hopefully spur him on.Works OK thanks.
I forgot that it didn't have the captioning function back then though.
It seems very few / none other than later ACDSees have that?
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@eelgoo,
By 'captioning' do you mean adding text on the image itself or just renaming? Only XNView adds text on the image (I call this annotating, a habit I still have from adding position and time data on thousands of pictures of land and water surveys...argh!) as far as I know.
The XNView captioning utility will place the image's file name on the image itself in a variety of sizes and positions, with some options to make the text stand out. I do this to the thousands of scans I post on Tumblr (42,000 so far) because stupid Tumblr renames all the damn images...grrrrr!What I am meaning is the ability to add a footer & or header to the image with editable user defined text.
It can be used to comment on or tag an image.
I refer to it as that because 'Caption' is the name ACDSee use for it on their later iterations.
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IrfanView is awesome. It's been going since Windows 95.
It's still up-to-date and it's always been freeware.
It's good for lots of simple image manipulation and can do batch operations.
Irfan is one of the good guys of the internet - the cool and useful internet before everyone started hatin' on each other...I actually found a decent alternative for lightweight viewing, minor editing, gallery view, automatic thumbnail generation (in-app, not write-to-file) and slideshows. It's called ImageGlass: https://imageglass.org/
It is open source and free; the developer supports himself by selling a version of it for $10 USD on the Microsoft Store (and also takes donations), but the "Classic" alternative costs nothing.
So far, it's been working pretty well.
Do you know if that has the ability to caption images, please?
I couldn't see it in the blurb.
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Sorry, was out; I don't believe it does, let me check...
It does not, at least natively. It does have the ability to integrate external editing apps (Photoshop, GIMP, whatever), but it doesn't look like it does captions.
I have been trying, unsucessfully so far, to find the ACDSee version that the function was first included. :0/
I am using ACdsee Ultimate 24... It has AI tools etc etc
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