I tried to edit an image in the Windows 10 Photos app
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*goes in search of Paint.NET*
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Who are 'We'?
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I hate this app. I've recently had to go through a lot of images and I had to zoom in look at each of them. There is no way to jump to previous/next picture when zoomed in. You have to fucking zoom out first.
I installed IrfanView.
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Who are 'We'?
The demons in the
detailscode.But honestly, MS uses child labor. When you edit a picture you make those kids do the actual editing work for you:
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those kids do the actual editing work
They must be older children then if their hands are too large to manage fewer than 50 pixels.
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They must be
oldertoo old children then if their hands are too large to manage fewer than 50 pixels.Yeah. Those morons at Microsoft can screw up the simplest things.
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It also doesn't do transparency
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But it does do less than 50px.
Also it can handle transparency in a limited fashion.
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Also it can handle transparency in a limited fashion.
By turning every transparent pixel in a PNG to opaque white?
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No, via the "transparent selection" option.
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I opened a PNG with transparency in Paint, cropped it, and saved it; it turned all the transparent pixels white. So please, do tell me what I did wrong there, because doing that in any other image editor (even Visual Studio!) preserves transparency.
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You did nothing wrong, I'm not
. I said "limited fashion." Your specific use case falls outside the scope of the limited fashion to which I was I was referring, but there are use cases involving transparency for which mspaint.exewould suffice. That was my point all along.
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mspaint does not support transparency. I don't know why.
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If you've upgraded to Windows 10 it sets the new Photos app as the default image viewer, but you can still change this by selecting 'Open with...' and choosing the old program.
If you've clean installed Windows 10 you can't do this as the old program has been removed from the 'Open with...' list and the .exe is gone.
There's a registry hack to get the old program added to the list though:
Activate Windows Photo Viewer on Windows 10.reg (2.1 KB)
After importing that the old viewer should be selectable with 'Open with...' again.
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I'm pretty sure I did the same thing just by using
Open With...
That is, I did that on my Surface; the machine I'm on right now is my work PC, where I haven't done it yet
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If you updated to Windows 10 it's still there. If you clean install Windows 10 it's hidden from everything, and trying to set it to image files doesn't work.
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Ah, that explains that; I did an in-place upgrade on my Surface
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Windows Photo Viewer still works. (Well, for various definitions of "work" when on a hi-dpi system - don't try running the slideshow) That was one of the first file associations I changed. (I still installed paint.net)
edit: ah - yeah, I did an in-place upgrade too.
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That app is way worse than the equivalent one in Windows 7.
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Oh awesome, that's handy.
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If you updated to Windows 10 it's still there. If you clean install Windows 10 it's hidden from everything, and trying to set it to image files doesn't work.
Goddamned, talk about bait and switch!
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Microsoft or me?
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You, you bastard.
"Here's how you can turn on the old photo viewer app"
(10 seconds later)
"But it won't work for you, Blakeyrat, HAHAHA I didn't mention that the first time because I wanted you to get your hopes up before dashing them!"
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You misunderstand. If you have updated to Windows 10 you can just set images to open with the old app, as raceprouk and dcon said.
If you have clean installed, as I have, then you can't do that. You can however use that registry edit to accomplish the same. I've done it myself.
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Also, before I forget: as far as I remember, the registry file simply makes the old app show up in the 'Open with...' list - you still have to set it yourself.
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Oh.
You know a couple sentences of explanation would have avoided being called a bastard. FYI.
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That's a fair point - I've edited the original post to make it clearer.
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Well, for various definitions of "work" when on a hi-dpi system - don't try running the slideshow
You've piqued my curiosity...
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@dcon said:
Well, for various definitions of "work" when on a hi-dpi system - don't try running the slideshow
You've piqued my curiosity...
Let's say you're running at 200%. In slideshow mode you'll only see the upper left quadrant of the image.
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Let's say you're running at 200%. In slideshow mode you'll only see the upper left quadrant of the image.
Oh... So not nearly as fun as would think. Oh well.
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The upper left quadrant is probably the best quadrant of the image, so it's not all bad news.
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Yes, for example, if it's an image of a US Map that upper left quadrant is where Seattle is. The best city.
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But what if the map is upside-down?
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Then you would see Melbourne.
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Not sure if intentional or a coincidence.
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Ah; the only places I know in Florida are Orlando, Miami, and Cape Canaveral/Cape Kennedy.
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I literally just searched for "Melbourne USA", that was the first result.
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That app is way worse than the equivalent one in Windows 7.
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BTW, after a recent Windows 10 update, Windows Photo Viewer is back (even on a system that was clean-installed to Windows 10), and you can easily set it back to the default for your PNG and JPG files. Yay.
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people don't like a decision we made. better add a compatibility shim!
people don't like a decision we made. better rename it and then release it for $200!
people don't like a decision we made. better fork Debian!
people don't like a decision I made. better threaten to sue and/or punch them in the face!
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@aliceif hmnmn
even correcting the domain leads to a 404 situation.
@ben_lubar, do your redirects handle these links?
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@accalia they do, but that post ID isn't in the data set. The topic is, though: http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/30082.aspx
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@bb36e Mr. Drumpf
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@ben_lubar Most dwarflike president we've had the opportunity to elect so far!
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@kt_ said in I tried to edit an image in the Windows 10 Photos app:
I hate this app. I've recently had to go through a lot of images and I had to zoom in look at each of them. There is no way to jump to previous/next picture when zoomed in. You have to fucking zoom out first.
I installed IrfanView.
Agree 1000%. The basic windows photo viewer from Windows 7 was amazing. this photos app is just cause of blood pressure pills getting sold all over the world.
#invest_in_drug_manufacturers_Always.
Melbourne, Florida - Wikipedia
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