There is no image viewer in Windows 10

submitted by trident765 from self.nonmorons

If you want to view images, you either have to use Paint3D, which is a Photoshop-like software that is installed by default on all Windows machines, or you have to download a 3rd party image viewer. Since I am using my work's VM, the 3rd party software is not an option for me.

You might say I should just open the image in a browser. But my image is rotated 90 degrees, and I need to rotate it back. So my only option is to open it in Paint3D and rotate it there. But using Paint3D just for this is very annoying, because every time I open an image I have to wait for it to "Create new project", and it asks me to save when I close, whether or not I made any changes. And I can't save the image and be done with it, because I can only save the "project", and to save the image I will probably have to figure out how to "export" the image. Why can't there just be a simple image viewer, where you can view and rotate image, like they had in Windows XP? Why do they want to make things so difficult?

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[–]x0x7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

One tip I have is that you can rotate in css. You could create a userscript to do it automatically.

It is true that that is mostly an Apple issue. Apple like to intentionally make things difficult for people outside of their ecosystem. In this case instead of storing the photo rotated they use a meta data to signify that the photo should be displayed rotated. But most software doesn't account for that because it isn't a universal standard.

It would be more interesting if one could use javascript to read the Apple meta data and reorient the image. If you are able to install browser plugins someone probably has created something for that already.

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But my image is rotated 90 degrees, and I need to rotate it back.

Did you take it on an iPhone? If so, you need to whine at Apple, not Windows.

I hate Windows (and I can't test your claims because, you know, I'm not using Windows... inside my home... the fucking thought!) but I think you're overlooking something. Right Click -> Open With -> Paint? You could fix the rotation permanently in Paint.

[–]SDNineK 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This is just blatantly wrong, all you have to do is right click and then click "Open with > Photos" Don't blame others for your illiteracy

[–]trident765[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I don't have the "Photos" program

[–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Why do they want to make things so difficult?

Because they are modern scum. That's all there is to it.