Image Viewer

This chapter gives reference info about all functions of the image viewer

Options unique to this image viewer:

Exif and IPTC information can be viewed together with the image
Optimal display quality by use of zoom filters
Supports the ImageMagick graphics library.
Supports Color Management using Little CMS

Quick start:

Use F11 key to toggle between full-screen and normal window
Use Up or Down arrow key to display previous or next image
Use F6 key to fit large images to the window (shrink if needed)
Use F7 key to always fit the image to the window
Use F10 key or right-click for menu
Use Shift key to move image window to background
Use left mouse button to move image within window

Fitting the image on the screen:

Screenshot of popup menu

Zoom Filter: when image is zoomed (scaled to fit the screen) you can use one of several zoom filters to increase display quality
Always Fit to Window (F7): Image is always scaled to fit within the viewing window
Shrink If Needed (F6): Image is scaled only if it is too big to fit to the screen
Full screen (F11): Image is displayed full screen and scaled to fit to the screen or back to normal window
Read Resolution: (Jpeg) images can be read in a lower resolution to make loading faster
Best Quality: If loading of images is too slow you can uncheck this menu item. In that case color profiles are not applied and -when possible- images are loaded in a lower resolution (Jpeg only).
Set Time Delay: use to slow down browsing through images
Magnifier: use to enlarge section of an image

Show Info:If checked available info about the image is taken from the database or the image itself and displayed behind the image. Move image to the right if the info is not visible.

Changing (editing) the image:

Some basic but essential functions are provided for to edit your images. All in de Edit submenu of the popupmenu:

Editing Exif and IPTC information contained within the image file
Enhancing the image using the image enhancer to correct colors, red eye removal etc.

Window positioning keys:

Alt+Home: align window to left-top of screen
Alt+End: align window to bottom/right of screen
Alt+PageUp: align window to top of screen
Alt+PageDown: align window to bottom of screen

Moving the image within the viewing window:

You can move the image within the window by pressing the left mouse button and moving the mouse. Or you can use the following keys:

Home: align image to top-left within window
End: align image to bottom-right in window
PageUp: align to top of window
Pagedown: align to bottom of window

Drag and drop:

Drag: press Ctrl and left mouse button to drag and copy the image file to a new location
Drop: drop image file into image window to display it

Other keys:

Key	Function
Insert / Ctrl+Insert	Set / Clear read-only file attribute. If the read-only flag is set the image file is protected against deletion and can not be deleted by LCAMediabase. Also it is displayed in red
Shift	Move image window to background
Up / Down (Arrow keys or mouse wheel)	Display previous / next image
X or Esc	Close image window
F3	Show Random Image from originating list
F4	Go to database screen
F5	View index windows (if any are open)
F6	Shrink image to fit window if needed
F7	Fit image to current window size
F8	Go to import & browse screen
F9	Go to database screen and lookup a keyword
F10	Display popup menu
F11	Toggle Fullscreen
Ctrl-+ / Ctrl--	Decrease / Increase time delay (when browsing using Up and Down keys)
I	Minimize window
A	Maximize window
Ctrl+Alt+R	Rotate image file right 90 degrees (lossless, jpeg only)
Ctrl+Alt+L	Rotate image file left 90 degrees (lossless, jpeg only)
S (or Arrow key Right)	Show information for this image only (Ctrl+I to always show infomation)
Ctrl-F9	Go to database screen and lookup a filename
Ctrl+F5	Display index windows (if any)
Ctrl+G	Lookup current image in database
Ctrl+C	Copy image to clipboard
Ctrl+E	Edit Exif Comments or IPTC information stored in file (jpeg only)
Ctrl+V	Paste image from clipboard
x or Ctrl+x where x=1..9	Add image to basket #x
Ctrl+Del	Delete image file to Recycle Bin
Numeric keypad keys	Arrow keys move image within window 5-key: same as F7 + / -: Enlarge / reduce read resolution (and size) by 50% (jpeg images only)
Ctrl+Alt+S	Start slideshow (see Options for slideshow options). Press Esc to stop slideshow
Ctrl+Alt+F	Find image file in database with same CRC
Ctrl+Alt+I	Add shortcut to this image to remarks field of current database item
Ctrl+Z	Select zoom filter (resampling method)

Color Management

Some images (jpeg or tiff) can contain a Color Management profile. If such a profile (also known as icc profile) is found then the image viewer displays the colors in a more accurate way.

General info

The image viewer can display the following image types:
(Look in Preferences for complete list)

Extension	Description
.jpg;.jpeg;.jif	JPEG image (RGB, GrayScale, YCbCr, CMYK, YCbCrK)
.tif;.tiff;.fax;.g3n;.g3f	TIFF (rev.6.0 and Tech.Note #2, Packbits, JPEG, LZW, CCITT G.3 and G.4) with RGB, CMYK, B/W, CIELab color spaces to file or stream. Also FAX (CCITT3), G3F and G3N (Zetafax) formats supported. Supports paletted 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 and 256 colors images
.psd	Adobe Photoshop Image
.jp2;.j2k;.jpc;.j2c	JPEG2000: JP2, J2K and JPC code stream formats (JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard, ISO/IEC 15444-1)
.jbig;.bie;.jbg	JBIG: Joint Bi-level Image experts Group file interchange (JBIG1 standard) Uses Jbig Kit
RAW	Various Digital Camera RAW formats (list) Note: includes Adobe's Digital Negative format. Uses Dave Coffin's dcraw.exe
.png	Portable Network Graphics
.gif	Compuserve bitmap
.tga;.targa;.vda;.icb;.vst;.pix	Targa bitmaps
.pxm;.ppm;.pgm;.pbm	Portable Pixmap, GrayMap
.pcx	PaintBrush
.wmf;.emf	windows metafiles
.bmp;.ico	windows bitmaps and icons
ImageMagick Types: (pcd (Kodak Photo CD), dicom, cut, avs, cin, dot, dpx, fits, fpx, hdf, mat, miff, mtv, palm, pcl, pict, pix, pwp, rla, sgi, sun, svg, ttf, vocar, viff, xbm, xcf, xpm)	Image types supported by the ImageMagick library. Click here to see a full list of supported filetypes) Note: You need to download and install the ImageMagick Plug-In for this.