Top 10 Freeware Photo and Image Viewers
Comments(0)We’ve put together a list of the Top 10 Freeware Photo and Image Viewers for the Windows platform.
All the programs provide thumbnail viewing and display of multiple image formats, many provide basic image manipulation such as color and density corrections, cropping, rotation and file format conversions (save as different filetypes). All the software listed here is either freeware or free for non-commercial use without feature disabling.
1. Irfanview
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative Freeware (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.
2. XnView
Come to discover XnView, a software to view and convert graphic files, really simple to use! Support of more than 400 graphics formats! Provided as Freeware for private non-commercial, educational use and non-profit organization.
3. Picasa 2
Picasa is free photo management software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the photos on your PC. Picasa automatically locates all your photos (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual folders organized by name, size, or date. You can drag and drop to arrange your folders and make albums to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your photos are always organized.
Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. And Picasa makes it a snap to share your photos – you can email, upload to an online album, print photos at home, make gift CDs, and even post photos to Blogger.
4. Imgv
Imgv is a unique and feature rich Image Viewer. Features include a GUI that doesn’t get in the way of viewing your images, a file browser, slideshows, zooming, rotating, on-the-fly Exif viewing, histograms, fullscreen support, wallpaper setting, the ability to view 4 images on the screen at once, adjustable thumbnail sizes, playlists, view and download images from Web sites, movie playing, file searching/filtering, multiple directory loading, transitional effects, image hiding and more.
cam2pc has all the features you may need to work faster than ever with your digital pictures. With cam2pc, digital imaging get as simple as it gets! cam2pc is aimed at digital photography and therefore handles most digital imaging image formats.
6. DaVinci
The program is written for anyone with a digital camera. The image editing tools included range in complexity from simple to advanced. The image improvement guide is available to help users improve their photos.
For people who need the powerful image editing software, but don’t want to spend a lot of money to get it. DaVinci™ is free.
7. Photo Studio
Photo Studio is a multi purpose tool for dealing with photographic images. It greatly speeds up and enhances the process of getting images from your digital camera to the web. It supports everything from downloading the images from your camera or memory card, through rotating, resizing, conversion, previewing, adding comments, creating thumbnails and generating fully customisable HTML index pages ready for uploading to your website.
Photo Studio is also a useful tool for exploring the meta data stored along with your image files. The program supports a wide variety of meta data standards, including EXIF, CIFF, Olympus, JFIF and Photoshop. EXIF data will be of particular interest to digital camera users – it is the format used by most digital cameras to store camera settings along with an image.
FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen.
Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats.
9. PhoA
Free photo album and image cataloguing software. You can store source image files the way you like. The files can be foldered by event, by date, by author, or be placed in the single folder. You can fill picture properties gradually as you wish. In addition, properties can be set for a number of pictures at once.
10. PhotoMeister
PhotoMeister helps you to handle, edit and publish photos from your digital camera. Everything that you need to manage your photos and to impress your family, friends or customers with your photos are included in one piece of software – easy to install and even easier to use!
