[photo-3d] Re: some depth charge info.

["John Goodman" <jgood@xxxxxxxx>]

David Samuel wrote:

> Depth Charge opened independent of a browser can view jpeg
> files without renaming by swiching in the file types box. 

If you are using the 1.2 version of the stand alone viewer, you 
can just drag and drop files from Explorer onto the 
DepthCharge Viewer window, and it will do its best to display 
them. I couldn't get it to display bmp files either, but didn't see 
an error message. I probably turned off error message 
notification when it first appeared (and there doesn't seem to be 
a setting to switch this off or on under the Preferences menu). 

> Also if the image is higher than 600 pixels, depth charge
> shrinks the image to fit the screen causing distortion
> (foggyness). 

This could be due to your display settings, i.e. display resolution 
and color depth. In the DC Viewer, under Preferences > More 
Preferences, there should be an "Always Stretch Image To 
Maximum Size" toggle, which you can turn on or off. Imo, 
having it "on" is very convenient.

I'm not sure what you mean by "foggyness", but this automatic 
stretching to fit the maximum screen size usually works very 
well for me. Depending on the color depth of your display (i.e. 
how many colors your system is set up to handle), there may 
be "dithering" going on that could degrade the appearance of 
the image, depending on the source image file.

Otoh, I've noticed retinally rivalrous artifacts in some (of my) 
stereo files, when the jpeg quality setting was set too low. The 
fineness of these unwanted artifacts seems to depend on the 
magnification of the image (which depends on both the pixel 
dimensions of the image file and the monitor's display 
properties).

With the 1.2 version of the viewer (and plug-in), the Tab key 
toggles the display of information concerning the 
magnification, viewing method, and display properties. The + 
and - (plus and minus) keys can also be used to zoom in and 
out, in steps. HTH.

jeg

 

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