These are descriptions of the most important functions in SlowView.
Open: Open the selected image.
Open With: Open the selected image with one of the listed applications. When first choosing a special Application you will need to tell SlowView the directory where it can find the wanted program's executable.
Save: Save the current image in its format. For advanced users only!
Save As: Save the current image. A Dialogbox pops up that lets you choose where to store the image, and in what format.
Reload: Reloads the current image.
Print: Print the current image based on your printer settings. A Dialogbox with different Printingoptions will follow.
Browse: Starts the Browsermode. If already in Browserl mode, it is closed.
Exit: Close the program.
Undo: Restores the image as it looked before you applied an image manipulation
to it.
Copy: Copy the image data to the clipboard.
Paste: Paste the image data from the clipboard, either as a new image,
or if you selected an area, then the image is pasted and scaled to fit this
area.
Cut: Cut the whole image or selection to the clipboard.
Crop: Crop the whole image or selection and display it. It's basically
a Copy and Paste at once.
Refresh: In Browsermode, does regenerate/actualize the filelisting.
Select All: In Browsermode, does select all possible files in the listing
Copy To: Clicking this brings the Copy Image File dialog box. You
can copy the file to different locations, or specify a new location. SlowView
remembers up to 50 different locations for you. *Note: This function
is not the same as the Copy function, above!
Move To: Clicking this brings the Move Image File dialog box. You
can move the file to different locations, or specify a new location. SlowView
remembers up to 50 different locations for you.
Rename File: Allows you to rename the currently selected file.
Delete File: When you select Delete File, you are prompted
if you want to delete the file to the Recycle bin. If you click Yes, the file
is placed in the Recycle Bin*. Clicking No cancels the delete. *In Options you
can set if Delete File should delete the file to the recycle bin or not, and
wheter it should ask for filedeletion or not.
Show Toolbar: Toggles the toolbar on or off, where you can reach various
features by clicking on the corresponding icon.
Show Status Bar: Toggles the status bar on or off, which displays various
information about the current file loaded.
Fit Images: Various forms of fitting images to the view area. Fit to
window, Fit only Big images to window, and Show Full Size.
Always Maximize: Various forms of fitting images to the view area.
Show Image As Tile Map: Repeatedly displays the image, filling the screen.
Full Screen: Toggles the view to full screen mode.
Use last window position/Size: Displays window in last saved position.
For advanced users only!
Save last window position/Size: Saves window in current position. For
advanced users only!
File: Loads and displays the next supported media in the folder.
Video/Media: Change video size, toggle video playbar and Loop
Video or Music.
Browser style: Change between Browse, Report and List modes.
Zoom In: Makes the image bigger.
Zoom Out: Makes the image smaller.
Original Size: Displays the image in its original size.
Lock Zoom: Locks current zoom size. This is then too used for other images
when you load them.
Start/Stop Slide Show: Starts and stops the slideshow as set up in the
Viewer tab of the Options panel. This does not work in Browsermode.
Flip: The displayed image is inverted, top to bottom.
Mirror: The displayed image is mirrored left to right.
Rotate: 90° left: The displayed image is rotated 90° counter-clockwise
Rotate: 90° right: The displayed image is rotated 90° clockwise.
Grayscale: Makes the image black and white.
Invert: Inverts the colors. Clicking this menu item again restores the
picture.
Colors:
Color Depth: Converts the current image to 4/8/16 bits by your selection. Clicking the Custom option opens the Quantize/Dither panel, where you can configure these options according to the image color depth.
Effects: Several visual effects you can apply to the actual image.
Resize: Allows you to define the new width and height, along with the
scaling filter.
Batch Conversion: Enables you to convert multiple imagefiles at once
into other formats.
Catalog Creator: Enables you to create SlowView Catalog Files (*.svc).
Database Maintenance: Allows for maintaining catalog files of images.
Export RAW Imagedata: Only available when an image is loaded. It does
write out the raw imagedata into a file with extension *.raw. For advanced users
only.
Set Image as Wallpaper: You can set the current image as the background
of your desktop. You can place it centered, tiled or stretched, or you can delete
the wallpaper file that SlowView created.
Set Language: You can set the language of your choice, from the available
translations.
Options: Please read below:
Tools/Options Menu
Options: When you click on this, a dialog appears with six tabs, which
allow you to set some default parameters: