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OmNomDeBonBon t1_ixxh529 wrote

Reply to comment by Implausibilibuddy in ELI5: In recent years, new formats like webp and jfif have started popping up. However, if I rename them to gif or jpeg, they still work. How can it be that renaming the extension doesn't ruin the image format? Why do they even exist then? by Luthemplaer

Looking at it again, probably the GUI. Looks straight out of 1997. I am about to try it again though, given what you said about its speed.

I used Windows Photo Viewer (even on Windows 10) and tried probably a dozen different imagine viewers until I found ImageGlass. Modern GUI, highly customisable: https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass

Likewise, I went through about 20 (!) music players (foobar2000, mp3cube, MusicMonkey, etc.) until I found MusicBee, which is incredibly good for music listening and management: https://www.getmusicbee.com/

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Implausibilibuddy t1_ixz9x0q wrote

Yeah the GUI isn't exactly current-millennia, but it's unbeaten on features. There are even basic colour correction tools inbuilt, you can copy chunks of an image straight into photoshop or whatever just by selecting an area and hitting ctrl-C (saving having to drag the whole image in there), and as long as the thumbnail previews have generated it can skip through fairly large images as fast as you can spin your mouse wheel (and wrap back around if you've enabled the setting). Irfan plus Pureref for transparent imageboard overlays is an indispensable combo to any sort of visual artist / 3D modeller.

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