Image Viewers

Fresh View is an easy-to-use image viewer and media browser that supports many popular image, audio and video formats. You can easily copy or move files, view them as a slideshow (with transition effects), set them as wallpaper or create a HTML image gallery. You can also drop them into a handy collection basked and batch process them later. Additional features include import from scanner or camera, EXIF and IPTC support, customizable interface layout and more. (Requires free registration after 11 days)

XnView is a program for viewing and converting your graphics files. It supports more than 200 graphics formats and offers many additional features. You can apply filters and effects to your images, import from a twain source (scanner, camera) or use the thumbnail picture browser to explore your image collection. Xnview`s strongest feature is the support for a huge amount of file formats, and the option to convert among them, as well as compatibility with Photoshop plug-ins. It also offers many other features, including customizable screen layout, screen capture, slide show and much more. You can also create web pages from your images, create contact sheets, generate file listings and manage your file by move and copy. Xnview is a well established and feature packed imaging tool.

WPanorama is an image viewer, specially designed for panorama pictures. It displays the images by scrolling them horizontally or vertically on the screen, and can also run in full-screen or screensaver mode with additional options. It supports 360 degree scrolling, as well as back and forth scrolling with adjustable scroll speeds, mirror mode and more. Furthermore, you can create AVI and BMP export, background music, panorama shows and more.

STOIK Imagic Free Browser enables you to import, organize, enhance and share your digital photos. In addition to a thumbnail image browsing, the program includes a complete set of enhancement tools to adjust white balance, exposure, contrast, color curve, sharpness, lens distortion and more. The image enhancements can be applied manually or with the help of an improvement wizard. STOIK Imagic Free Browser also includes a set of additional tools that enable you to create contact sheets, web galleries, standalone EXE slideshows, screensavers, images collages, and even a fully automatic panorama stitching tool. You can organize your images with the help of personal ratings, categories, Other features include sending (resized) images by email, CD burning, camera import, EXIF support, image comparison, RAW conversion and more.

Vallen JPegger is a handy image viewer program that has been especially designed for browsing through large folders with many images. About 40 different image formats are supported like jpg., .bmp, .pcx, .tif, .png., .gif and many more. Original Explorer context menus provide all necessary file management functions like Copy, Move and Delete. Thumbnails of all images in the current directory are created automatically and full scalable print support including print preview for images and thumbnails is also included as well as a slide show mode. Images can be mirrored, rotated and saved. A built-in sound interface allows one to play back MP3, Midi or Wave-files while viewing. It can be used to assign spoken commentaries or sound impressions to specific folders. Besides viewing images and slide shows, you can also use Jpegger to take quick screenshots of your Windows desktop or applications and find duplicate images. Also includes a full featured MP3 Sound Explorer.

FastStone Image Viewer is an image browser, viewer converter and editor with an easy to use interface and a nice array of features, that include resizing, renaming, cropping, color adjustments, watermarks and more. It also includes an intuitive full-screen mode that provides quick access to EXIF information and thumbnail browser via hidden toolbars that emerge when you touch the edge of your screen with the mouse. Other features include a high quality magnifier and built-in slideshow with 60+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image frames, scanner support, histogram and much more. FastStone Image Viewer supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA as well as digital RAW formats including CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF and DNG).

IrfanView is probably the most popular and feature packed free image viewer for Windows. It has been around for many years and keeps getting better. In addition to standard image viewing, it includes many additional features including slideshow, batch conversion, image adjustment, image editing, resizing, panorama stitching, auto EXIF rotation and more. The functionality can be further extended via plug-ins that are widely available. Even though Irfan offers a powerful set of features, the interface lacks behind modern image viewers that often offer more user friendly operation and better thumbnail browsing features. With IrfanView even some basic features like EXIF display, lossless rotation etc. require you to download and install additional plug-ins. There certainly are more user-friendly and attractive image viewers, but few that offer all the functionality, and extendibility that IrfanView can provide.

WildBit Viewer is an image viewer with built-in slideshow viewer. It supports most popular image image formats, as well as EXIF data display. The program offers a thumbnail browser and a full preview of the selected image. In addition, it allows you to manage favorite folders and images, and offers an option to compare two images side-by-side. The slideshow viewer includes supports more than 170 transition effects and supports multiple monitors.

ArtSee is a small, standalone slideshow program, that displays JPEG files in the selected folder (and subfolders). The program can cycle through all the JPEG images it finds and you can also set some options, including slideshow timing, borderless image display, move between images, using the keyboard and more. ArtSee runs in the system tray for quick access and can also install a shell extension for JPEG images, making it available from the right-click menu.

Visualizer Photo Resize enables you to batch resize and convert images in a folder. It supports different aspect ratios as well as customizable image dimensions (with background canvas) and JPG compression level. The program can also embed a small text in the image and add a visible watermark to each. Visualizer Photo Resize supports JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TGA, TIFF, PSD and PSP formats.

Uticasoft Image Browser is an image viewer with several additional features. It comes with a built in slideshow creator, that allows you to compile standalone EXE slideshows from your images, with optional image effects, image titles and more. Image Browser also includes an icon extractor and a handy image file organizer, that allows you to compare folders side by side and move or copy images. Additional features include different viewing modes, batch conversions, set as wallpaper and more. The program supports all major image file types.

Wega2 is an image viewer for digital photos and other graphics, that offers a variety of additional features that can assist you with file management, emailing of images, resizing of images and more. It integrates a handy pixel magnifier, as well as extensive EXIF data display and sorting options, histogram, thumbnail navigation and a customizable interface. Wega2 also includes an EXIF analyzer that displays graphical statistics for exposure settings, shutter speed and other technical details. A very flexible image viewer designed for efficiency.

MyViewPad is a simple and easy to use image viewer that can read about 80 image formats and write to about 25 formats. In addition to standard viewing features (zoom, rotate, slideshow, full-screen etc.) it also offers several image correction options, including sharpening/unsharp mask, color/contrast/brightness adjustments, blur, gray scale and more. MyViewPad displays EXIF and IPTC information next to every image (if available), supports embedded color profiles, and can also import images from a Twain source (scanner, camera etc.) and more.

AutoCAD Version Explorer (AVE) enables you to browse folders that contain AutoCAD files and view thumbnail previews along with version information and other file properties. It can also export the thumbnails and file details to a HTML page with customizable column layout, zip files into an archive, and optionally integrated with Windows Explorer for convenient folder browsing from the right click menu. Standalone, no install needed.

AcadPVI Shell Extension (AutoCAD Preview-Version-Information) is an add-on for Windows Explorer that integrates an AutoCAD thumbnail preview and version information into the context menu. Just right-click on any AutoCAD file (.dwg, .dwt, .bak, etc.) to see the preview, no need to open the file.

ForceVision is an image viewer and editing tool that supports 50 different graphics formats, and offers thumbnail and full-screen viewing of your images. The interface uses 2 components, one for the image display and one for the file or thumbnail browser - a design that may not appeal to everybody. In addition to slideshow viewing, the program enables you to convert between graphic formats, apply various filters and effects, resize or crop your images and perform basic image editing tasks including color and exposure adjustments, sharpening and more. ForceVision offers a choice of rendering mode ranging from high quality to high speed.

The DWG Viewer is a small application wrapped around an ActiveX component, that allows you to view AutoCAD drawings in your IE4 and up browser. You can modify and compile the control for inclusion in your own application. Features include a simple user interface, zoom-all/window, pan, rotate, layering, toolbar toggle, and ActiveX interface. It detects and loads Xrefs. This free version does not offer printing, if you need print support, you can upgrade to a commercial version. This program can view DWG/DXF/DWF file formats only.

11view is an image viewer that offers most standard viewer features, as well as built-in display calibration and high-quality image interpolation. It comes with several additional tools that allow you to create GIF animations from a series of same size images, perform lossless JPEG rotations, batch convert images, add overlay images (watermarks) and more. Additional features include icon/cursor creation, PSD Decompiler, print functionality (up to 9 images per page) and more. 11view supports 15 popular image formats.

AutoPics is a simple, standalone image viewer that can run in slideshow mode. The program is only 30 kb in size and automatically loads all the images that it finds in its folder. The user can then browse them one-by-one, or click a button to start a slideshow presentation (optionally full-screen). The program is useful to be included on a picture CD or even a Floppy, allowing the user to easily view the images on the CD. Very simple.

nikvue.net is an image and media file viewer that supports popular image formats, as well as playback of video and audio files. The program offers a tabbed interface with basic image viewing features, as well as options to (bartch) convert between several popular formats. In addition, a slideshow viewer allows you to create image slideshows, and image management features allow you to move or copy files, add them to a list of favorites. It also includes a basic site downloader, that lets you download selected images from a specified URL.

SlickView is a small image viewer and HTML thumbnail page generator with support for popular image formats (GIF, JPG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIF...). The HTML thumbnail page is plain and simple, but can be customized completely to use your own design. The quality of the thumbnails is very good and the size can be adjusted. Image viewing capabilities are basic, but it offers conversion among all supported formats, so you can use it to convert BMP to JPG etc. Additional features include commandline support and keyboard navigation for image browsing. Not much of an image viewer but good to create quick galleries and to convert files.

P3dO Explorer is a light, easy-to-use Explorer-style graphics browser that supports all popular images files formats, as well as Poser and Vue d Esprit file formats. It features selectable thumbnail image size, slideshow support, zooming, a Windows-like favorites menu, Plugins and more. P3dO Explorer looks and feels just like your familiar Windows Explorer and also includes a file manager which allows you to do basic image management. Additional plug-ins are available for zip support, batch renaming and more.

Pixels is an image viewer with additional features like image management (move, copy, delete etc.), print support, color manipulation, histogram, send by email, Twain support and more. It also comes with a unique thumbnail browser that parses the files in a directory and groups them by similarities. IN addition, the program offers various image effects, several noise reduction algorithms, edge detection, image enhancements and more.

FocusViewer is an image viewer and browser that supports most popular graphic formats including bmp, dib, jpeg, gif, animated gif, pcx, tiff and tga. In addition to the viewer options, it allows you to create contact sheets, view slideshows, attach (optimized) images to emails, take screen captures and enhance your images. The feature we liked best is the support for EXIF data, that allows you to browse images while viewing detailed EXIF information (if available) for each image. Additional features include a built-in editor for red-eye removal, cropping, resizing and more, as well as several image effects.

Visualizer is a simple and easy to use full-screen image viewer an attractive, easy to use interface. It offers support for most common image formats and can be used to view slideshows, create auto-run CD presentations and also capture selections of the desktop as images. You can rotate, zoom and adjust the loaded image, save a single image as a web page or even create a thumbnail webpage.

A small standalone image viewer that supports slideshows and several conversion options. An interesting feature for webmasters is that it can copy the image tag (HTML) for any image to the clipboard, which can be used in your HTML code. FineView comes with an very attractice interface and is easy to use. The program can read the following image formats: BMP/JPEG/PNG/MAG/ICO/DIB/TGA/PBM/PGM/PPM/PCD/PSD/ERI/SGI(RGB)/IFF(ILBM)/PCX/PSP and write files as BMP/JPEG/PNG/TGA/ERI/PCXSGI/PPM/PGM/PBM/MAG. It also supports progressive-JPEG and Interlaced-PNG as well as Resize, Trim, Color balance, Filters and TWAIN interface.

iBrowser is an image viewer that lets you view and manage images in a custom environment. It offers 4 interface layouts, that can be easily switched by pressing a button and supports all popular graphic formats. Additional features include advanced memory management, slideshow, format defining by signature, full screen view, autoplay of animated images , copy to clipboard, intelligent large files support, set as wallpaper function, windows shell extension.

ZAP Picture Browser is an image viewer, that allows you to print 1 to 4 pictures onto the same sheet of paper. You can select from 4 different page layouts, specify the placement for each image preview the results and then print the page. It also offers full screen view and a mosaic style viewing mode. Supported graphics file format: bmp, cmp, cur, dcx, emf, eps, fpx, jpeg, jpg, gif, ico, img, mac, msp, pcc, pcd, pct, pcx, png, psd, tga, tif, ras, wmf, wpg.