Image preview not working and large images taking long to open.

[Knoxtopia]

Windows OS version

Windows 11 24H2

ImageGlass version

9.3.2.520

ImageGlass release

Classic

1️⃣ Steps to reproduce

1. Find any image above ~50MB.
2. Double click or right click and click open.
3. Observe no preview and also "loading...".

2️⃣ Actual behavior

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3️⃣ Expected behavior

1. View lower resolution preview of image while image loads, and load image a bit quicker.

4️⃣ Screenshots / Video / Sample image file

No response

5️⃣ Additional context

First I'd like to say thank you for this amazing piece of software. I really love it and it's amazing features. I don't think I can use anything else anymore.

Secondly, I like finding wallpapers, upscaling them, then downsizing them to 4k, so I can have nice high quality wallpapers. The upscaled wallpapers are usually 50-500mb. I have Image preview enabled in settings, but It seems to not be working, unless I'm doing something wrong?

I have two images here I tested in the video:

First: 146MB; 12,800 x 7,200
Second: 403MB; 30,720 x 17,280

In ImageGlass:

• The first image took about 6.5 seconds to load, with no preview available.
• The second image took about 19.5 seconds to load, with no preview available.

In Windows Photos:

• The first image took about 2 seconds total to load, with a preview available while loading full resolution.
• The second image took about 5.2 seconds total to load, with a preview available while loading full resolution.
  (In the video you can see when the full resolution is loaded when I am able to zoom in).

Image.Glass.Preview.mp4

[d2phap]

IG 9 does not handle huge image well. It will be fixed in IG 10.

[Knoxtopia]

I'm looking forward to IG 10.

In the meantime, I'm using an AHK 2.0 script to route any PNG or JPG's larger than 50MB to windows photos and anything under 50MB to ImageGlass.

Here is the script if anyone is interested:

#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0
#NoTrayIcon

if (A_Args.Length = 0)
    ExitApp

if (FileGetSize(A_Args[1], "B") >= 52428800)
    Run("ms-photos:viewer?fileName=" . A_Args[1])
else
    Run('"C:\Program Files\ImageGlass\ImageGlass.exe" "' . A_Args[1] . '"')

Compile it with Ahk2Exe, set the custom icon, and set it as default for the filetype.
I currently only compiled two of them, one for PNG and one for JPG.

The script is for ImageGlass classic, so if anyone uses the MS store version, they'll have to change file paths.

[d2phap]

Thanks for sharing. If you're interested, this is the sneak peek video of IG 10: https://youtu.be/qZrTo4ebktE?si=JtJiwOrFPabEjXOf&t=62