I just got back from a long vacation and I want to share about 400 photos and a few videos. Since many of the photos are panoramas, I need the software to scale them for height and let me scroll left and right.
I want to present the photos live, just clicking forward and back, without having to create a video. XNView always pauses at videos, which messes up the keys, and it doesn’t scale right either. I feel like using LibreOffice for this is a bit overkill for such a simple task, right?
On Linux? Gwenview would do fine, I believe.
Nomacs might also work for you, though I don’t know how good it is on Linux specifically.
Gwenview doesn’t scale panoramas to fit the screen height at all. I can’t even adjust it to fit properly; it’s either too small with borders at the top and bottom or the next zoom level is too big and cuts off part of the image.
It’s funny because Nomacs has the exact same issue. Plus, when I zoom in, I can only scroll the image with my mouse, not the keyboard.
You might want to check out software like digiKam or gThumb; both are great for viewing photos and videos on Linux. They make it super easy to navigate through your images and handle panoramas well. You could also give feh a try, it’s lightweight and lets you scroll through photos smoothly. These options should work well for you without the hassle of making a video!
Irfanview might do the trick.
Thanks! gThumb doesn’t scale panoramas to fit the screen height by default, you can do it manually for each image, but it’s a hassle. Plus, it doesn’t let you sort images the way you want, and the interface isn’t very user-friendly.
As for digiKam, it wants to scan all my photos first for indexing. With around 150,000 images and videos, it takes forever! I stopped the indexing because it was so slow and seemed stuck. After a restart, it was usable with a smaller index, but still slow. It also doesn’t automatically scale panoramas to fit the screen height, and I can’t sort the images for my presentation without renaming them all, which isn’t ideal.
Thanks! But it looks like there’s no native Linux version of IrfanView, and I really don’t want to mess with installing WINE.
Well, on Linux, you’ll find plenty of programs to try out! I’m not too sure about how each one handles panoramas since I haven’t used Linux in a while. But I’m guessing both Gnome and KDE have standard image viewers, did you give those a shot?