FastPreview

Nils Maier

FastPreview is a free Windows app that allows you to easily visualize images, and it is an alternative to the image viewer that comes with Windows by default. You can see the image in different sizes thanks to the zoom tool. You can also rotate the image if it doesn't have the correct orientation. The program integrates with the contextual menu of the image file, offering a thumbnail preview. You can change the size of that preview in the app options. Another feature of FastPreview is that it allows you to view more information about the image in the Details tab of the file properties window for the image that you want.

Able Photo Slide Show

GraphicRegion

Able Photo Slide Show is an image viewer that we can use to watch a slideshow of our photos, accompanied by transition effects and background music. We configure each presentation by selecting the images that we want to see, plus the effects we want to add. We chose the effects once we have selected our photos. We can create a full-screen slideshow of our photos. We don't even have to touch anything at all so that the presentation starts or for the images to change. Able Photo Slide Show readjusts the size of the photos so that, regardless of how we chose to look at them, they are always an acceptable size. We can create very elaborate presentations and export them afterwards in HTML.

Picture Viewer

Gaijin

Picture Viewer is a small, simple tool that allows you to open all of the image files that you have saved locally, no matter what format they are saved in. With this app, you can comfortably see all of the files on your computer that have been saved with JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, ICO, WMF, EMF, TIFF, DIB, RLE or JFIF extensions. You just have to open Picture Viewer and select the folder where you save all of your photos; the program will show a list of all of them so that you can select the ones you want to see. You can also browse the entire gallery using the 'forward' and 'back' buttons. This viewer, created by the company Gaijin, is not just designed to view images. It also lets you rotate them, flip them, delete them or move them to a different folder, all without leaving the program's main window. Picture Viewer will show you the photos however is most comfortable for you: in their original size, adjusting them all to the same size on the screen or full screen. In addition, you can view the EXIF information using the properties window for each file.

Xlideit Image Viewer

picorover3

Xlideit Image Viewer is an image viewer that doesn't take up a lot of memory. It allows you to see all the pictures you have saved in any given folder in a slideshow. Right when you open up the application, the first image on the list will automatically open. You'll find a tool bar that allows you to choose the other images you want to see. The application also has an image converter that allows you to change the file format. You can also rotate the pictures and save any modifications. In addition to having a customizable image viewer that you can look at all your pictures with, Xlideit Image Viewer makes available a series of tools with which you can duplicate files, adjust the zoom, or even change the size of the image.

CPix

FileFriend

Photo Data Explorer

Alex Nolan

Photo Data Explorer is a comprehensive image viewer that you can use to check EXIF data for any image. If you're looking for a good application that includes this feature, Photo Data Explorer is a great choice, as it includes countless other options to make your life easier when it comes to opening images in large batches. To select the images you want to view, simply find where the images are stored on your computer or select an entire folder to see everything inside it. Once all the images have been opened, you can browse through them by clicking. You can also rotate images, zoom in, delete them from the viewfinder, and save them to new locations from the menu at the top of the interface. In addition to all that, Photo Data Explorer lets you check EXIF data for any image just by clicking on it. On the right side of the screen, you'll see a long list of details so long as the image is your own and not taken from the Internet. You can see the date taken, camera model, resolution, ISO, exposure time, flash, and tons of other technical information. Another great advantage to using Photo Data Explorer is that it's a portable application, so you don't have to install it and take up memory. Simply download the file, then click on it to open and start working.

Diffractor

Organization1915

A Viewer

Rob Latour

WPanorama

Pierre-Alain Bovard

WPanorama is specially designed to view your panoramic pictures in your screen. WPanorama uses a simple but useful system, moving the picture with the mouse to the position we desire. Besides, we can configure the program so it will navigate the picture automatically with the desired speed. We will be able to view the picture in several ways, using several points of view, and it includes some advanced options lie creation of mirror images, resizing, rotation, and it even allows us to create a screensaver with our own wide photos. WPanorama offers us several interesting options and we have to highlight the possibility of creating a video which will show the photo, no matter how big it is, and you can add it audio files.

FastStone MaxView

FastStone Corporation

Are you searching for a tool which let you watch all your pictures one by one in your computer? If yes, you have arrived to the correct page, because FastStone MaxView is a full featured image viewer which is really easy to use, without useless options which only give you problems. When you run FastStone MaxView you realize you are in front of a program where the user is the most important, because everything is develloped and placed to make you feel the best user, as if you had used the program for years. You will be able to see all your pictures just clicking them, or maybe you can choose several ones or a full folder and see them one by one with more than 150 transition effects. If you feel creative, you can add music to your composition to create a perfect video with your photos. If you think it will be hard to use, you are wrong, try drag&drop the music, photos, effects, and everything you need. Show your photos to your friends as never before.

Pictomio

Pictomio GmbH

If you are searching for a photo and video viewer and organizer, Pictomio can be one of the best choices you can install. Pictomio is totally free and it offers you a great and intuitive interface. Its eye-catching interface looks pretty well and it allows you to organize all your multimedia stuff. Order them by categories, choose the size of the thumbnails, choose how you want to see the pictures and videos, create slideshows and even see them with an amazing coverflow style called Carrousel. This amazing multimedia viewer is one of the best ones we have tested and it's for free, don't hesitate give it a try, you will not be disappointed.

Photology

enoetic, llc

Photology offers you a new way to organize and manage your photo collection. An innovative system based on a wide range of image filters that allows you you find your photos in a different and funny way. It includes the usual filters we usually use in other programs like date or name of the file, but the feature that makes it different is that you can search for the photos by selecting filters that will give as result the group of photos taken indoor or outdoors, where water, sky or snow appears or maybe the ones where the predominant color is blue or red. You can search for the photos where water appears, maybe snow or flowers, it's excellent. Finally, it allows you to organize the photos in groups, make simple adjustments (rotate, cut, reduce red eyes, modify brightness,...) and share your favorite photos via web, Flickr or SmugMug. With no doubt, Photology is a very good choice to manage your photos.

Desktop Picture Frame

Alexei A. Abramoff

Ubiquitous player

N/A

Ubiquitous Player jumps to the software world as a new and useful All-in-one multimedia player. It tries to cover all necessities and, in fact, it offers you a good range of actions that can make it a good tool if you need to do several tasks from the same interface. You can view pictures, watch video, write notes, write texts, use a built-in calendar, surf the web,... and even play Tic Tac Toe! Ok, its look is not amazing, but it is very useful, and it doesn't need to be installed.

Photophilia

Pholix

Having your images ordered is a difficult task you always start and never finish. How many times have you decided to manage all your photos, organize and keep them in order? A lot, but maybe they are still disordered. PhotoPhilia is the tool you need to make easier that annoying task. Not only will you manage images, but also videos and any kind of multimedia files. Browse through multimedia files on your hard drive, CD-ROM or digital camera and manage all of them. It supports Canon CRW/CR2, Nikon NEF, Sony SRF, FUJIFILM RAF, and Minolta MRW file formats. Exif standard support: you can view Exif fields (as a list or customizable captions), search for Exif data, use Exif in the Batch Processor, auto-rotate images using Exif Orientation tag,... Of course, it also offers a built-in editor which lets you crop and auto-trim, rotate, flip, adjust their brightness, contrast, saturation,... In short, a new way of handling your multimedia files.

Photo to Movie

LQ Graphics

Photo to Movie is a very interesting application that allows you to create videos put of your photo folders. Choose the photos you want to add to the video, choose transition effects, movements and soundtrack to make it more eye-catching. It's not difficult, in fact, it's really easy. Drag and drop the photos you want to add to the video. The timeline is ready to receive your pictures. Then, choose the transition effects. Of course, all those photo s need something to go by with them, choose a music file. Once you'll have finished creating the movie, it's time to export it. AVI, WMV or YouTube, choose the one you prefer. Photo to Movie is a very interesting choice if you are planning to show your photos to your friends and you want to do it in an original way.

QManga

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QManga is a lightweight application for reading comics in digital format over a simple and intuitive interface. The program is compatible with image formats such as JPG, PNG, and GIF, as well as with ZIP and RAR files. To use it, just select the folder that contains the images or the zipped file, and then start turning the pages. The program comes with a keyboard shortcut editor to customize how you go from one page to the other, allowing you to do everything only using your keyboard. Other options let you display one or more pages simultaneously on the screen, and even enable the Japanese reading mode (from right to left). QManga is a lightweight comic book reader that doesn’t require installation, meaning you can always carry it with you on a flash drive.

BreezeBrowser

Breeze Systems

Need a quick and simple way to find and select photos from your extensive collection of images, or create a website with a gallery of images without knowing HTML? BreezeBrowser is a tool designed to display, rotate, crop and save all your JPEG files without any loss of quality (including in the RAW format), along with converting any image, generating web pages and geotagging with Google Earth and online maps. The program intuitive interface makes navigating through directories looking for your pictures much easier, as you are able to organize the various albums and export them to HTML documents ready for publishing on your web site to share with the world. The built-in graphics editor in BreezeBrowser can resize and adjust photographs without losing any information, and can work with different formats such as handling large RAW, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, JPEG 2000, GIF, BMP, PSD Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro files, along with EXIF, IPTC and XMP data relating to images.

Unifie

N/A

Unfie is a practical tool to view pictures in a way that's very convenient and also different from the way you're used to in similar programs. This tool can show you all the precise details related to each image when you open it up. For example, it tells you when and where you took the picture. First and foremost, Unifie's interface is very simple. It gives you three different options for viewing your images: in your system file tree view you can search for and select the pictures you want to open; secondly, a thumbnail view lets you preview the images you've selected; and, lastly, an additional thumbnail view clusters two blocks of snapshots if you need them. If you want to see the full-size image, you just have to double-click the image and it will open up in its actual size. You can customize the interface to make viewing your images even easier and more adapted to your preferences. Thus you can choose to view images in cascade mode, from one side of the screen to the other, or individually, which makes viewing your batch of photos easier and clearer. In all cases, you'll see beneath each element the dimensions of the photo and its size. In this regard Unifie incorporates a feature to give you a better idea of the history of each photo. If you click on any of them, you'll see all the information related to each snapshot. Thus you can find out the date and time the picture was taken, the make and model camera that was used, whether you used flash or a filter, the exposure time... everything you need to know just a click away.

PhotoStage Pro Edition

NCH Software

PhotoStage Pro Edition is an interesting tool that lets you create dynamic video montages using your own picture library. Using PhotoStage Pro Edition is easy because it works just like a simplified basic video editing tool; to import your picture collection to the program you just need to drag it onto the main window. Once there, you can select the images and organize them on a timeline in a way that fits your preferences. You can add a ton of different transitions, effects, texts and even audios that’ll play during the final montage. Once you’re done with the creative process, you can export the file to your computer as well as share it directly on your favorite social networks. One of the most interesting features that PhotoStage Pro Edition offers is that you can create a presentation, including effects and transitions, in a totally automatic way. This feature is especially useful when you need an urgent montage and you don’t have the time to edit it manually. Just drag the pictures you want on the video and let PhotoStage Pro Edition add the transitions, zooms and other effects in a surprisingly efficient way. PhotoStage Pro Edition’s intuitive interface helps you create the perfect gift or relive those great moments in a unique and fun way.

FastPictureViewer

Axel Rietschin Software Developments

The latest versions of the Windows image viewer presented a huge step forward, which was long due on an operating system that is ever more widely used to manage image files. Nonetheless, this viewer lacks important customization features that make it lose part of its appeal, particularly for those who work with a huge number of pictures every day. In order to fill those needs, there are other more comprehensive alternatives, such as FastPictureViewer, a free application for viewing images that stands out for its looks, similar to the latest version of the viewer in Windows, and for its reduced consumption of resources. This viewer is ideal as a default image viewer. FastPictureViewer also includes a great number of additional benefits and features that set it apart from other viewers; for instance, it includes editing features, a library organizer, it lets you import pictures from other devices, it supports 4K screens, and it can even convert files between dozens of different formats.

SlideProject

Peter Csizmadia

SlowView

Nikolaus Brennig

Irfanview Plugins

IrfanView

This pack of Plugins for Irfanview will solve those little problems you had when using Irfanview. When we talk about problems we are talking about those moments when we try to open a certain file but it is not supported by our beloved Irfanview. From now on, it will be even more difficult to find a file that is not supported by Irfanview (Now it will support PDF files, RAM, WMV,...), because this pack includes the following plugins: IV_Player, Med, Mp3, Nero, Quicktime, Real Audio, SoundPlayer, B3d, Crw, CADImage, Dicom, DjVu, EaFsh, Ecw, Flash, Formats, Fpx, Ics, JPEG2000, Jpm, Kdc, Ldf, LogoManager, Lwf, Mng, Mrc, MrSID, PhotoCD, PNGOUT, Postscript, Sff, 8BF_Filters, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, Email, Exif, Iptc, Jpg_Transform. Furthermore, it also includes more options and features for your picture an video viewer. We think they will be enough, won’t they?

JPEGView Portable

PortableApps.com

JPEGView Portable is a compact, easy-to-use image viewer that provides you with a number of interesting options from a very simple, minimalist interface. The program not only allows you to perform basic tasks such as rotating images or zooming in and out, but also lets you view the EXIF information of photos as well as perform automatic color correction. JPEGView Portable is a good alternative to the Windows image viewer, as it is more lightweight, can be used from a portable device such as a flash drive or memory card, and offers more features.

Sharp IMG Viewer

Sharp IMG Team

Sharp IMG Viewer is a viewer that includes a few extra tools so you can retouch and edit photos easily. With it, you can also easily access a photo's properties to check basic information without leaving the program. Sharp IMG Viewer includes many basic features, like the ability to extract elements from the photo, such as removing certain colors like red, blue, or green, for example. This option does not modify the original file. Instead, it creates a new one that you can keep editing from this interface. Beside removing elements, you can also use Sharp IMG Viewer to invert the photo, adjust its size, and create colors, or rotate the file left and right. Although these are very basic options, they allow you to make small corrections which make a big difference. Though Sharp IMG Viewer doesn't have a wealth of editing options, it is extremely useful when it comes to converting between formats, a key addition for a viewer like this. This means you can view, edit, and convert your files with a single tool. Available formats for conversion include BMP, ICO, CUR, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIF, WMF, EMF, PBM, PGM, PPM, TARGA, HDR, WBMP, XPM, XBM, CUT, DDS, FAXG3, IFF, JNG, KOALA, MNG, PCD, PCX, PSD, RAS, SGI, EXR, JP2, J2K, ANI, and AVI.

XnView MP

XnView

Brava Reader

Informative Graphics

Brava! Reader is a simple application created with the sole purpose of allowing you to view your PDF, TIFF and CSF files. The program is presented on a simple and intuitive interface, from where you can access all the necessary commands required for proper viewing of these files. Although the program is compatible with these 3 formats, it is particularly good when working with CSF files, a format similar to PDF, and even better developed for 3D images because it is capable of rendering any integral element of the same file, regardless of its depth and modelling. Brava! Reader also installs the ActiveX drivers needed to view these files, and includes support for hyperlinks. You can also print these files from the interface to read them on paper.

Photo Manager

Proxima Software

Photo Manager 2008 offers features that make this application more than just a simple image viewfinder. It offers various tools that help you work with your images, from printing to an online album creator. Despite its many features, the main purpose of Photo Manager 2008 is to serve as a simple image viewfinder. You can change your image size by simply dragging and dropping the scrolling bar. If the size is too small, you can see a preview of the image on the left side. Photo Manager 2008 also allows you to see the images you have previously selected through the use of a slideshow. Playback is done in full screen. The rest of the images in the presentation are shown above in smaller thumbnails. And Photo Manager 2008 offers even more. It also features a search option that allows you to find any image in your hard drive and create working lists with them. In addition, you can choose from different layouts and sizes when printing your photographs and its editing capacities also allow you to apply changes to the whole batch (basically resizing). Last but not least, there's also the online album generator, which allows you to create an HTML album with the photos you have selected by simply choosing a template and clicking the 'Create' button.

PhotoStage Free Slideshow Maker

NCH Software

Do you have lots of photos? Do you want to show them but in a different way? PhotoStage is the piece of software you need. Creating a slideshow from your digital photos and videos has never been so easy. The intuitive interface of PhotoStage guides you throughout all the process. Choose the photos you want to add to the compilation, choose the transition effects and spice it up with a bit of music. Finally choose the device where you want to play it on and enjoy your own slideshow. That's the easiest way, but you can also modify some settings, choose the length of each transition and each photo, modify the effects, add comments, narrate a story, etc. A good choice if you want to create a slideshow and view it on your smartphone, PSP, DVD, Mac or PC.