Using ZoomBrowser

Not sure if this is the right section for a query about this programme but can any user tell me if I can display thumbnails of all images on the programme at the same time or must they be shown in file groupings ? If so, how ? Thanks.

Zoom Mode will display every folder in your Documents, along with thumbnails of the images inside. Downside is if you have a lot of pics per folder then you can't really see them properly.
Only way I can think of is to copy all your pics into one big folder and work from that...

sirbridge wrote in post #7088328
Not sure if this is the right section for a query about this programme but can any user tell me if I can display thumbnails of all images on the programme at the same time or must they be shown in file groupings ? If so, how ? Thanks.

Not sure if i understand the question correctly...

ZB organizes and displays on a per folder basis, you have no custom views like "all pictures" or albums.

Thanks folks. More or less as I expected - display will be on a folder basis.

What do you use zoombrowser for? I found it pretty useless and not as powerful as DPP

(zoombrowser saving options: resolution, bit depth, frame count)

zoombrowser users, when you save your raw file, then converting to a tif file. do you normally choose 16 bit tif vs 8bit tif? (does this get you 50% more working colors in future processing?)

in zoombrowser 6, when you save as tiff, why is there 2 frame counts outputted? second picture is a smaller thumbnail, as well original tiff file is quite large. 12-25mb is a normal tif file size, wheras zoombrowser tifs is 70mb.

resolution.. could you input in 72dpi, then change to 300, or is best to save at 300dpi from start, if you know you'll print later in future?

other saving options are linear or embed icc profile. seems like these just apply on certain canon cameras, like EOS on icc profile.

colors though are quite good in processing, when using original canon cam with zoombrow. both were designed with each in mind. adding curves/levels would be kewl.

No, it gets you 25,600% more colors although the range from the darkest to the brightest colors remains the same (it is defined by the color space). It is just divided up into smaller pieces.

The size of an uncompressed 8 bit tif file is 3 x the number of pixels [each of the three color channels is 8 bits, which is 1 byte, per pixel]. For a 16 bit tif, 6 x Mp = Mb.

That is just a meaningless number written in the Exif. You can leave it at whatever Canon chooses to make it or change it to any number that tickles your fancy. The real resolution of a digital image is its number of pixels. When you make a print the actual image-to-print resolution will be determined by the number of pixels along an edge of the source image divided by the corresposding side of the print in inches (dpi). Until then forget about it.

USER876 wrote in post #7110753
What do you use zoombrowser for? I found it pretty useless and not as powerful as DPP

I use it all the time to quickly view images and delete unwanted ones before starting the editing.

Anyway, it doesn't have the same purpose as DPP so you can't compare, plus not everybody uses DPP, most people seem to use Lightroom and others use Raw Image Task.

What's the purpose of it then compared to DPP? I use DPP to edit jpgs to and develop RAW.

DDP is an image editing program and RAW converter.

Zoombrowser is primarily a browsing tool that only lets you make quick and easy fixes. Once you're done you can then link from ZB to the editing tool of your choice.