Image Viewers

ST Thumbnails Explorer is an image file manager that allows you to browse thumbnails of image files in a selected directory. It also displays the additional property values (if any) and allows to sort the thumbnails based on various criteria. The program supports all popular image formats, as well as Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW and Macromedia FreeHand.

Graphics Converter Pro is an easy-to-use and powerful batch image viewer and graphics converter, that can import 500 graphic formats and export 100 formats including BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG and many others. The program comes with 50 image filters, including Blurring, Sharpening, Embossing, Diffusing, Color Balance and more as well as 12 image effects, including Flip, Wave, Noise, Arbitrary Rotation and more. In addition, Graphics Converter Pro includes a simple screen capture tool and a slideshow feature.

MySlideShow is a utility that allows you to create and play slide shows on your PC or on a CD. The program allows you to add captions and background music. You also have the option to create the slide show for publishing on the web rather than on a CD, so it can be used as a web publishing tool as well. Usage of the program is very easy, just browse and select the images to be included, and when you are satisfied with the structure of your slide show, you can place it and the program files on a CD and send it to your friends and family. When they insert your slide show CD into their CD-ROM, MySlideShow player will automatically play the slide show you have created. There will be no need for them to install any additional viewers or players!

Bix Photo Book is an image viewer that allows you to browse your images from a virtual photo album with page flipping, zooming and other special effects. To view your images, you can simply select the folder that contains the photos and they will be loaded into the virtual photo book. Unfortunately the program does not allow you to create or manage any virtual albums, but is limited to simple folder browsing. Bix Photo Book allows you to export the album as standard AVI file.

Picture Viewer Max can search your disk or CD-Rom and display popular file formats, such as pictures, sounds, music, and videos. You can display, Edit, Copy, Print, and Send Pictures and Images over the Internet, using the built in email sender or your default email client. Pictures can be viewed by clicking on the File Name, and captured using Twain supported devices. The program also includes file management options like batch copy, renaming and conversion between many formats. In addition, you can create HTML image galleries from your pictures, that can be used locally or uploaded to the internet. Also included is a slideshow feature, that lets you create slideshows with transition effects. Picture Viewer Max can also open zip files, capture screenshots, add text and shapes to images and more. Many features, but a little hard to use.

AD Picture Viewer a simple image viewer that supports all popular graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, GIF/Animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, TGA, etc), an offer basic file management to copy or move files between folders. It also includes some standard image filters and a slideshow option. AD Picture Viewer lacks most features that you would expect from a modern image viewer, it is limited to the most basic viewer options, lacks thumbnail display and does not provide any editing features at all. If you are looking for barebones functionality, give it a try, otherwise you should look elsewhere.

Ashampoo Photo Commander is a user-friendly tool for viewing, managing and sharing your digital images. It includes all the basic tools to work with your images, convert them to different formats, send them by email, apply borders and more. The program also includes an option to create slideshow CDs from your images, using the integrated CD burning feature. In addition to various image and RAW formats, Ashampoo Photo Commander also supports most popular multimedia formats, including audio and video. Other features include web gallery output, Twain support, slideshow and more.

ExifPro is an image viewer that enables you to display, manipulate and browse your photos. It offers extended support for EXIF data and allows sorting based on EXIF information as well as export of EXIF information to a text files. The viewing features include a slideshow option as well as a light table to collect images for further processing. In addition to image viewing and organizing, ExifPro offers basic image editing, creation of HTML albums, image resizing and rotation, image printing, side-by-side view, histogram and more.

ACDSee Pro is a full featured photo manager for serious photo enthusiasts, that enables you to view, process, edit, organize, catalog, publish, and archive your digital photo collections. It supports image formats from most DSLR cameras and allows you to process, edit and adjust your RAW files. You can organize your images into categories, assign keywords and ratings and more. The program fully supports IPTC/EXIF/XMP metadata. Other features include advanced search options and filtering by EXIF data, photo sharing via e-mail, web galleries and slide shows as well as CD/DVD archiving.

Touchpoint Gallery provides a unique way to browse your digital image collection. It offers 3D-style gallery templates that resemble a virtual photo album, an art gallery that contains your framed photos and other styles. You can create galleries from local folders as well as Internet sources such as Flickr users or search results and RSS feeds. The program also allows you to set a gallery as screensaver or automatically update your desktop wallpaper from a selected gallery. The galleries are very attractive to look at but offer limited navigation options, you cannot skip or forward through images, nor can you create galleries from a specific selection of photos.

Cam2PC is a complete solution for digital camera owners that allows you to download, manage, edit, share and view images from your digital camera. The software will automatically detect your camera, create the destination directory and transfer your images - all in a single click and based on your preferences. You can then browse the images, run a slideshow, organize them in photo albums, print them, view EXIF data, batch process them and more. Cam2PC also includes several image editing options that allow you to easily improve colors and contrast, remove RedEye and more using a side by side comparison with the original image. Additional features include lossless JPEG rotation, EXE and PDF slideshows, picture emailing, create screensavers, web galleries and more. A well featured all-around digital imaging tool!

Able Graphic Manager (formerly Able DXF Manager) is a program that enables you to view and print DXF files, generated by most CAD programs. The program can also convert to one of the following formats: JPEG Bitmap (JPG), TIFF Bitmap (TIF), PaintBrush (PCX), Portable Network Graphics (PNG), Windows Bitmap (BMP), OS/2 Bitmap (BMP), Targa Bitmap (TGA), Portable PixMap (PXM), Portable PixMap (PPM), Portable GreyMap (PGM), Portable Bitmap (PBM). It also supports batch processing.

MegaView is a viewing solution that supports a wide variety of image formats, as well as video, sound, text, HTML and Office formats (Office formats require existing Office installation). In addition to the standard viewing features, it offers image enhancements, corrections and effects. Other features include file management, slideshow, Batch Image Conversion and Manipulation, and a HTML Creation Wizard that allows you to create web sites with image indexes, thumbnail sheets and file lists.

EZ-Pix is an image browser that offers thumbnail display, printing and exporting and support for all common image formats, such as jpg, gif, bmp, png, tif etc. It offers Twain support, creation of HTML thumbnail indexes and contact sheets, image slideshow, basic image editing (rotation, cropping, resizing) and effects. Other features include easy emailing of images, fast-load mode, customizable interface layout and more.

PMView Pro is an image viewer that features support for over 40 file formats. PMView Pro also features automatic image thumbnailing, screen capture utility, image filtering, slideshow presentations and the option to acquire images directly from your scanner or camera.

CryptaPix is an image viewer with built-in Blowfish encryption. It supports GIF, JPG, PNG, PCX, TIF, and BMP images and supports full screen slide- shows of your protected images. Additional features include encrypted thumbnail and WAV sound support, format conversion, printing and secure wipe features.

Media Purveyor is an image viewer, and media player that allows you to manage your digital image collections. It supports IPTC, EXIF, JPEG Comment, PNG Key/Values, Dublin Core and ID3 information, and allows you to search for images or media files based on these criteria, and also view and edit image information to organize your files. In addition, the program offers lossless image editing, red-eye removal, color balance (with white balance), text annotations, and various image effects. Media Purveyor can also generate thumbnails, index images, convert images and more. Another small but handy feature is an image comparison option, which allows you to view two selected images side-by-side.

Image Eye is a fast, practical viewer that is designed for the sole purpose of viewing images and nothing else. You don`t get any menus, tool bars or other fancy things cluttering up the window. It offers many keyboard shortcuts to operate most functionality and supports all common image file formats. Image manipulation options include rotate, mirror, zoom, pan, adjust contrast, brightness, color, sharpness and more. Image Eye offers a full screen display and lets you change video mode on-the-fly. It also includes an index feature with fast thumbnail creation and more.

PictureViewer.EXE is an image viewer that looks similar to the standard Windows Picture and Fax viewer, but adds a variety of additional features, including a thumbnail filmstrip of all images in the same folder, a file explorer, file information and an option to create image slideshows. The program supports more than 20 popular file formats, and several basic image operations (rotate, resize, copy, move etc.). One of the more interesting features is the Explorer integration that enables you to preview selected images from within the Explorer right-click menu, and also start a slideshow with all images in the current folder. Despite these handy features, PictureViewer.EXE lacks some important functionalities like thumbnail sorting, EXIF support, cropping, image adjustments, email integration and other features that we would expect from an image viewer in this price range. No documentation supplied.

PhotoPlayer 6 is a simple sideshow viewer that allows you to view all the images in a folder in a slideshow. You can zoom a photo with the scroll wheel of your mouse and also pan by simply moving your cursor. To save the zoomed view as a new image, you can simply press the enter key.

PhotoPhilia enables you to view, edit, and organize your digital photos. You can easily browse and organize them, assign categories, add comments and keywords to the photos and find photos by assigned data and file attributes. It also includes some editing functions, allowing you to adjust brightness, remove red eye, rotate, crop, auto-trim, effects, and more. In addition, you can create and share slideshows that include captions, transitions, and background music. Print several photos on one page, create a web gallery from your collection and more.

Full Image Info is a simple image viewer that displays all EXIF and IPTC data fields for digital images, as well as other common information including resolution, width, height and color mode. The program supports most common formats, including JPG, JPEG 2000, TIF, GIF and others.

ContextView Pro is a convenient and powerful graphics and multimedia "add-on" for Windows Explorer that saves time and increases productivity by allowing you to preview image, animation, video, and optionally audio files without having to open a separate application or even leave your workspace. Simply right-click a desired file, and you will have immediate access to a thumbnail preview of the image or video and its properties, as well as the ability to quickly convert the file to any of over 60 supported formats, slideshow files in the current folder. You can even view thumbnail lists when multiple files are selected, send the file by email, set the image or video frame as your Windows wallpaper, create GIF animations and much more. Clicking on the thumbnail preview will display a full-size image. The program handles even large files very fast, so you wont waste time waiting for images and videos to load. Additional features include image editing (flip, mirror, rotate, resample, resize, auto-trim) and a variety of filters, that can be applied directly from the context menu.

Instant ThumbView is a tiny image viewer that displays the thumbnail of a selected image file in a popup window, when the mouse pointer is hovered over an image file. It supports most popular image file formats, including BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF, EMF and TIFF . and is handy for quick image viewing. To invoke it, open any folder with image files in Windows Explorer, and then hover an image file with your mouse pointer.

Context ThumbView is a Windows Explorer context menu extension that provides a pop-up menu containing a thumbnail of the selected image file. It supports most of popular image file formats and is very handy for quick image viewing. Just right click on any image file in Windows Explorer to preview the image without having to open your full blown image viewing application. You can also copy thumbnails to the clipboard and preview MS Word and Excel documents that were saved with preview picture.

Express NewsPictures is a powerful newsreader specifically designed for downloading images from picture usenet newsgroups. The program downloads articles with images inside, decodes them and saves on your hard drive. It filters spam, leaving only those articles that contain real images. Express NewsPictures lets you preview the downloaded pictures and shrink or scroll the picture if it doesn t fit in the preview window. A unique filtering capability lets you filter newsgroups and messages based on keywords you specify helping to avoid the content you may find offensive. The program comes packed with a set of keywords to filter off adult content and you can easily edit these filters, add your own keywords or remove all of them completely and rely on your own common sense. It can work with usenet groups via a proxy server and supports multiple news accounts. Other features include server authentication support and built-in picture viewer.

BreezeBrowser is an image browser and processing tool for photographers. It supports viewing and conversion of RAW images from Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Minolta and Olympus digital cameras as well as all other popular image formats. The program offers a thumbnail browser and detailed image view with EXIF display and histogram You can convert RAW files directly from within the software and also process and adjust RAW modifications (exposure, white balance etc.). Additional features include EXIF export, batch conversion, slideshow, image comments, lossless crop and rotation, HTML gallery creation and more.

ClearerZoom is an image viewer and enlargement tool, that uses proprietary a resizing method for high-quality enlargement of digital images. The results are most noticeable in line drawings and geometric shapes at very large sizes (400%), however can also be observed in details of enlarged photos. ClearerZoom also doubles as a basic image viewer, however should mostly be considered for the resizing capabilities, since the image viewer features are rather simplistic.

Makaha is an image viewer and editor to view the most popular graphic formats, create thumbnails, resize, print, convert, process, and manipulate the graphic. A 100 option Slide Show with videos and music! You can also create instant thumbnail web pages Image galleries) of all your graphics for internet or hard drive. Among other things, it will view videos, graphics, and listen to music all at once. Makaha includes a visual editor, that lets you apply multiple effects to an image and preview them at the same time.

Lightbox is a file browser for graphic/web designers and digital photographers. It attaches to your favorite graphics editor or any other program and adds visual file browsing with thumbnail display for more than 150 different file formats, including all popular image, digital camera, video, audio, HTML and document files. The file browser attaches to the lower portion of the selected application and can be quickly hidden or activated as needed to preview files and drag them into the application. In addition, Lightbox includes full screen image viewer with image rotation, color picker, detailed properties, EXIF data and more. Other features include customizable thumbnail sizes, dual monitor support, support for ICM color profiles, file history and Favorites list. The program works with all popular applications including, but not limited to Adobe Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, Macromedia Dreamweaver etc. and also offers support for various RAW image formats, PDF files (requires Ghostscript) and more.

Jpg Animated Slide Show is a simple slideshow viewer, that allows you to view all images in a folder with more than 120 animated transition effects. You can change the speed of the slide show, the background image and the background color. Slideshows cannot be saved, the program is intended for viewing only.