XnView Screenshots

helmut · Post by **helmut** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:20 pm

For marketing, it's good and important to have a nice picture of your product. For an application like XnView it's the screenshots which should be good looking.

When seeing the personal screenshots in topic What does YOUR XnView look like?, an old idea/vision came back to my mind: Wouldn't it be cool to have various very good-looking screenshots of XnView with various themes?

These XnView screenshots would be used for marketing and could be downloaded by other download portals or people as examples of XnView.

Some ideas for themes:
- Sport
- Landscape
- Space
- Animals
- Women
- Movie
- Cartoon
- Fantasy
- Portraits (Family, Wedding, ...)

Mainly the screenshots would show the browser and the image view, just like the screenshots that we have, now, see Screenshot page on www.xnview.com.

The more or less hard part is the copyright aspect. The copyright of the photos used in the XnView screenshots have to be respected and must be legal. (For the current XnView screenshot I've used clipart of a professional graphic software and pictures of Dias dos Reis, who kindly gave me the permission.)

If you like this idea and think you can create a good looking screenshot of XnView of legal images, go for it and post it here. (For uploading images there's Image Shack for example, or contact me). As screenshot dimensions a maximum of 700x600 pixel would be good. On-screen language should be English.

Later, we would choose the best Screenshots (a poll?!) and would place them on the download server in various sizes and provide them for marketing, just like the current screenshot. Since Pierre is partly (or fully) responsible for the stuff he provides, it's essential and very important that the screenshots are legal, i.e. there is a written permission that images shown in the screenshot can be used. Only XnView screenshots with images with proven and clear copyright / permission will make it on the download server.

Comments, feedback, and ideas are welcome.

Drahken · Post by **Drahken** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:53 pm

Free/public domain images can be found on many sites, here are a few:
http://pdphoto.org/
http://creativecommons.org/image/
http://openphoto.net/
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_dom ... _resources
http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/l ... ipart.html
http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/cfimages.html

THIS image would be particularly good.

This site has SVG images with small PNG previews:
http://www.openclipart.org/

btw Helmut, your link to the screenshots page is 404. The only screenshots page is at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/xnview ... shots.html (or the directory at http://www.xnview.com/xnview/images/screenshots/ )

helmut · Post by **helmut** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:03 pm

Thank you for the good links, Drahken. Those picture are a good basis for screenshots, I think.

Drahken wrote:btw Helmut, your link to the screenshots page is 404....

Fixed.

sullysnet · Post by **sullysnet** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:38 pm

my screenshot is the best

helmut · Post by **helmut** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:28 pm

sullysnet wrote:my screenshot is the best

Hmm. Your screenshot is hidden very well hidden. Until now I couldn't find it.

Clo · Post by **Clo** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:36 am

—> sullynet

Hello !

• Please, could you give us the magic formula to make it appears here ?
- In usual English, this is so-called «a link»

Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

sullysnet · Post by **sullysnet** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:46 am

helmut wrote:
sullysnet wrote:my screenshot is the best
Hmm. Your screenshot is hidden very well hidden. Until now I couldn't find it.

LOL I will post

sullysnet · Post by **sullysnet** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:20 pm

Ok mine is not the best but I do like it

how it is layed out similar to ACDsee

http://img239.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen8eb.png

helmut · Post by **helmut** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:23 pm

sullysnet wrote:Ok mine is not the best but I do like it how it is layed out similar to ACDsee

http://img82.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen8km.png

Thank you for your screenshot, which is the first screenshot. I'm tempted to comment it, but I think we should not influence each other and vote once we have a couple of screenshots.
Just a small note: Path names like "D:\shit" should be avoided.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:53 pm

helmut wrote: Just a small note: Path names like "D:\shit" should be avoided.

opps

sorry about that, forgot about that and I can change that

sullysnet · Post by **sullysnet** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:14 pm

edited post and old one is dead

hope you liked it

helmut · Post by **helmut** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 5:53 pm

sullysnet wrote:edited post and old one is dead

hope you liked it

Thank you for changing this.

Some hint for further screenshots:
If possible screenshots should not exceed 800x600 and/or not have too many details. Keep in mind that screenshots might be sized down very much and still should look good and interesting. A sample:

Olivier_G · Post by **Olivier_G** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:17 pm

Here is mine:

Those are my photos and I own all rights on them.

Simon Le Bon · Post by **Simon Le Bon** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:19 am

Here's mine:

See you!

helmut · Post by **helmut** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:56 pm

Simon Le Bon wrote:Here's mine:

See you!

Your screenshot does not look too colourful, but the skin used for the toolbar is exciting and appealing.

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Magic formula ?