Image viewer

[leerob]

Currently I've Faststone, but even though I setup CMS it tends to display images to red compared to NX2 and CS6.

Any suggestions for good image viewer?

Thank you!

 

[embie]

Since Windows 8.1 photo viewer reduced my photo's with more than 50% in MB, just to adjust contrast or anything (!) else I recently switched to Faststone, it's a pleasure to work with.

No colour change compared with Windows viewer but far more better IQ.

Couldn't be more satisfied.

Before that I also tried some other viewer/editors, like ViewNX-i from Nikon, gimp, Pixlr, Irfanview...but, for me Faststone is the best.

For a few tools I also use PhotoScape and for perspective adjustments I use PtLens .

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"Travel is fatal... to prejudice, pedantry and pettiness" (Mark Twain) - "The world...is our home" (embie)

 

[Holger Bargen]

In Germany Irfan View is a common Image viewer. If you install it it will be in English language - thu, no problem to use it.

Here ist the link:

IrfanView - Official Homepage - One of the Most Popular Viewers Worldwide

IrfanView ... one of the most popular viewers worldwide.

www.irfanview.net

You should get the programm and the PlugIns as well.

I can recommend this programm - I use it since many years. It is free for private use.

Best regards

Holger

 

[leerob]

In Germany Irfan View is a common Image viewer. If you install it it will be in English language - thu, no problem to use it.

Here ist the link:

http://www.irfanview.net/

You should get the programm and the PlugIns as well.

I can recommend this programm - I use it since many years. It is free for private use.

Best regards

Holger

I just stumbled on Apowersoft image viewer. Anyone using it?

 

[D Cox]

In Germany Irfan View is a common Image viewer. If you install it it will be in English language - thu, no problem to use it.

Here ist the link:

http://www.irfanview.net/

You should get the programm and the PlugIns as well.

I can recommend this program - I use it since many years. It is free for private use.

It's a very good and useful program.

The thumbnails option is not to be missed. You can even use it to compile a sequence of photos into a PDF file -- handy if you are giving a talk.

There is also a very good batch converter/resizer with loads of options.

 

[leerob]

In Germany Irfan View is a common Image viewer. If you install it it will be in English language - thu, no problem to use it.

Here ist the link:

http://www.irfanview.net/

You should get the programm and the PlugIns as well.

I can recommend this program - I use it since many years. It is free for private use.

It's a very good and useful program.

The thumbnails option is not to be missed. You can even use it to compile a sequence of photos into a PDF file -- handy if you are giving a talk.

There is also a very good batch converter/resizer with loads of options.

I'm trying it now. How can I view EXIF in infraview?

Thank you!

 

[leerob]

In Germany Irfan View is a common Image viewer. If you install it it will be in English language - thu, no problem to use it.

Here ist the link:

http://www.irfanview.net/

You should get the programm and the PlugIns as well.

I can recommend this program - I use it since many years. It is free for private use.

It's a very good and useful program.

The thumbnails option is not to be missed. You can even use it to compile a sequence of photos into a PDF file -- handy if you are giving a talk.

There is also a very good batch converter/resizer with loads of options.

I cannot get it to view RAW images.

 

[leerob]

In Germany Irfan View is a common Image viewer. If you install it it will be in English language - thu, no problem to use it.

Here ist the link:

http://www.irfanview.net/

You should get the programm and the PlugIns as well.

I can recommend this program - I use it since many years. It is free for private use.

It's a very good and useful program.

The thumbnails option is not to be missed. You can even use it to compile a sequence of photos into a PDF file -- handy if you are giving a talk.

There is also a very good batch converter/resizer with loads of options.

For some reason for me it's very un-intuitive interface. Probably will stay with faststone.

Thank you for all suggestions.

 

[Holger Bargen]

In Germany Irfan View is a common Image viewer. If you install it it will be in English language - thu, no problem to use it.

Here ist the link:

http://www.irfanview.net/

You should get the programm and the PlugIns as well.

I can recommend this program - I use it since many years. It is free for private use.

It's a very good and useful program.

The thumbnails option is not to be missed. You can even use it to compile a sequence of photos into a PDF file -- handy if you are giving a talk.

There is also a very good batch converter/resizer with loads of options.

I'm trying it now. How can I view EXIF in infraview?

Dear Adam,

You can find the Exif Information under: Image - Information - there you will find a button "Exif" - you get the entire information and you have the option to but to the clipboard by pressing the "Clip board" button.

Regarding the RAW files the programm should be able to read it.

IrfanView Formats

www.irfanview.com

Maybe they put it into the PlugIns. Do not know why they made the split and did not put the entire content into one installation - but the programm imroves a lot if you also install the PlugIns. Download from same side as the programm. Downloading needs a little longer than the programm itself - but installation takes just a few seconds.

I am used to this programm since years and for this reason I know where to search for the content and I know th eoptions of the progam. The design with the menu list and the flip down of the detailed features and options looks a little like the old fashiond MS Office versions till 2003/XP.

I downloaded Faststone, too, as a lot of people like it here on the forum. But I did not see any extra content over IrvanView and I am used to use my old program. Maybe it is a matter of taste.

The reasons why I like IrfanView or the options I use most often:

- I find the program simple, fast and reliable

- I like the slideshow to present my "harvest" of the day or the weekend to my family. Just copy a folder or singel photos to the list and watch the photos for a defined time or from click to click

- I like the batch option to rename or convert an entire folder within a very short time. I used it intensively when I prepared the homepage of our local church - but acutally, I don't do that job anymore.

- The Save for Web PlugIn is very useful to shrink imagines to a defined size or storage capasity size. Unfortuantelly, I always get rid of the Exif information for this way of size reduction which is not nice to share it with the dpreview users in my Gallery.

- The option to crop imagies works fine to me.

- The new Hot folder feature seems to be useful - it is new and I did not try it so far but it seems to be a feature I would like to have since a long time - just to safe time to be directly where my new photos of the month are gathered.

. There is an option to include Adobe PlugIns. As I use Lightroom for RAW development this option ssems to be useless for me - but a few very old PlugIns do not work in my Lightroom version, anymore - but they work fine in Irfan View (e.g. Color mancer) and I am glad IrfanView offers this option.

- There a numerous "quick and dirty" options to do simple postprocessing. I prefer Lightroom oder PaintShop Pro for these tasks. But to get a rough impression what options are wihtin an impage the features are nice in IrfanView.

Best regards

Holger

Thank you!

--
Adam Kielcz

 

[trungtran]

Glad i stumbled over this post.

Never heard of fast stone, but i just installed it (portable version anyway). I need a lightweight editor and this seems to be a nice basic tool.

Canons DPP is my favorite, has all the basics but it can't do other manufacturer raws.

I also use RAW therapee, but it has too many options.

 

[leerob]

In Germany Irfan View is a common Image viewer. If you install it it will be in English language - thu, no problem to use it.

Here ist the link:

http://www.irfanview.net/

You should get the programm and the PlugIns as well.

I can recommend this program - I use it since many years. It is free for private use.

It's a very good and useful program.

The thumbnails option is not to be missed. You can even use it to compile a sequence of photos into a PDF file -- handy if you are giving a talk.

There is also a very good batch converter/resizer with loads of options.

I'm trying it now. How can I view EXIF in infraview?

Dear Adam,

You can find the Exif Information under: Image - Information - there you will find a button "Exif" - you get the entire information and you have the option to but to the clipboard by pressing the "Clip board" button.

Regarding the RAW files the programm should be able to read it.

http://www.irfanview.com/main_formats.htm

Maybe they put it into the PlugIns. Do not know why they made the split and did not put the entire content into one installation - but the programm imroves a lot if you also install the PlugIns. Download from same side as the programm. Downloading needs a little longer than the programm itself - but installation takes just a few seconds.

I am used to this programm since years and for this reason I know where to search for the content and I know th eoptions of the progam. The design with the menu list and the flip down of the detailed features and options looks a little like the old fashiond MS Office versions till 2003/XP.

I downloaded Faststone, too, as a lot of people like it here on the forum. But I did not see any extra content over IrvanView and I am used to use my old program. Maybe it is a matter of taste.

The reasons why I like IrfanView or the options I use most often:

- I find the program simple, fast and reliable

- I like the slideshow to present my "harvest" of the day or the weekend to my family. Just copy a folder or singel photos to the list and watch the photos for a defined time or from click to click

- I like the batch option to rename or convert an entire folder within a very short time. I used it intensively when I prepared the homepage of our local church - but acutally, I don't do that job anymore.

- The Save for Web PlugIn is very useful to shrink imagines to a defined size or storage capasity size. Unfortuantelly, I always get rid of the Exif information for this way of size reduction which is not nice to share it with the dpreview users in my Gallery.

- The option to crop imagies works fine to me.

- The new Hot folder feature seems to be useful - it is new and I did not try it so far but it seems to be a feature I would like to have since a long time - just to safe time to be directly where my new photos of the month are gathered.

. There is an option to include Adobe PlugIns. As I use Lightroom for RAW development this option ssems to be useless for me - but a few very old PlugIns do not work in my Lightroom version, anymore - but they work fine in Irfan View (e.g. Color mancer) and I am glad IrfanView offers this option.

- There a numerous "quick and dirty" options to do simple postprocessing. I prefer Lightroom oder PaintShop Pro for these tasks. But to get a rough impression what options are wihtin an impage the features are nice in IrfanView.

Best regards

Holger

Thank you!

 

[Holger Bargen]

In Germany Irfan View is a common Image viewer. If you install it it will be in English language - thu, no problem to use it.

Here ist the link:

http://www.irfanview.net/

You should get the programm and the PlugIns as well.

I can recommend this program - I use it since many years. It is free for private use.

It's a very good and useful program.

The thumbnails option is not to be missed. You can even use it to compile a sequence of photos into a PDF file -- handy if you are giving a talk.

There is also a very good batch converter/resizer with loads of options.

I'm trying it now. How can I view EXIF in infraview?

Dear Adam,

You can find the Exif Information under: Image - Information - there you will find a button "Exif" - you get the entire information and you have the option to but to the clipboard by pressing the "Clip board" button.

Regarding the RAW files the programm should be able to read it.

http://www.irfanview.com/main_formats.htm

Maybe they put it into the PlugIns. Do not know why they made the split and did not put the entire content into one installation - but the programm imroves a lot if you also install the PlugIns. Download from same side as the programm. Downloading needs a little longer than the programm itself - but installation takes just a few seconds.

I am used to this programm since years and for this reason I know where to search for the content and I know th eoptions of the progam. The design with the menu list and the flip down of the detailed features and options looks a little like the old fashiond MS Office versions till 2003/XP.

I downloaded Faststone, too, as a lot of people like it here on the forum. But I did not see any extra content over IrvanView and I am used to use my old program. Maybe it is a matter of taste.

The reasons why I like IrfanView or the options I use most often:

- I find the program simple, fast and reliable

- I like the slideshow to present my "harvest" of the day or the weekend to my family. Just copy a folder or singel photos to the list and watch the photos for a defined time or from click to click

- I like the batch option to rename or convert an entire folder within a very short time. I used it intensively when I prepared the homepage of our local church - but acutally, I don't do that job anymore.

- The Save for Web PlugIn is very useful to shrink imagines to a defined size or storage capasity size. Unfortuantelly, I always get rid of the Exif information for this way of size reduction which is not nice to share it with the dpreview users in my Gallery.

- The option to crop imagies works fine to me.

- The new Hot folder feature seems to be useful - it is new and I did not try it so far but it seems to be a feature I would like to have since a long time - just to safe time to be directly where my new photos of the month are gathered.

. There is an option to include Adobe PlugIns. As I use Lightroom for RAW development this option ssems to be useless for me - but a few very old PlugIns do not work in my Lightroom version, anymore - but they work fine in Irfan View (e.g. Color mancer) and I am glad IrfanView offers this option.

- There a numerous "quick and dirty" options to do simple postprocessing. I prefer Lightroom oder PaintShop Pro for these tasks. But to get a rough impression what options are wihtin an impage the features are nice in IrfanView.

Best regards

Holger

Thank you!

--
Adam Kielcz

Thank you for your detailed reply.

I like programs that offer all the features easily accessible and I don't have to search for it.

Dear Adam,

the most important thing is, that you find a program that works for you regarding ease of use and quality of output. If a structure of a program works for someone is always a matter of taste and depends on the way he uses the program. As an example the ribbons in Microsoft Office were three steps back for me. I use it as I have to use it - but I never managed to work as fast as with the old menu version and I am still searching for hidden features I could find via menu with three clicks.

Best regards

Holger

--
Adam Kielcz

 

[leerob]

In Germany Irfan View is a common Image viewer. If you install it it will be in English language - thu, no problem to use it.

Here ist the link:

http://www.irfanview.net/

You should get the programm and the PlugIns as well.

I can recommend this program - I use it since many years. It is free for private use.

It's a very good and useful program.

The thumbnails option is not to be missed. You can even use it to compile a sequence of photos into a PDF file -- handy if you are giving a talk.

There is also a very good batch converter/resizer with loads of options.

I'm trying it now. How can I view EXIF in infraview?

Dear Adam,

You can find the Exif Information under: Image - Information - there you will find a button "Exif" - you get the entire information and you have the option to but to the clipboard by pressing the "Clip board" button.

Regarding the RAW files the programm should be able to read it.

http://www.irfanview.com/main_formats.htm

Maybe they put it into the PlugIns. Do not know why they made the split and did not put the entire content into one installation - but the programm imroves a lot if you also install the PlugIns. Download from same side as the programm. Downloading needs a little longer than the programm itself - but installation takes just a few seconds.

I am used to this programm since years and for this reason I know where to search for the content and I know th eoptions of the progam. The design with the menu list and the flip down of the detailed features and options looks a little like the old fashiond MS Office versions till 2003/XP.

I downloaded Faststone, too, as a lot of people like it here on the forum. But I did not see any extra content over IrvanView and I am used to use my old program. Maybe it is a matter of taste.

The reasons why I like IrfanView or the options I use most often:

- I find the program simple, fast and reliable

- I like the slideshow to present my "harvest" of the day or the weekend to my family. Just copy a folder or singel photos to the list and watch the photos for a defined time or from click to click

- I like the batch option to rename or convert an entire folder within a very short time. I used it intensively when I prepared the homepage of our local church - but acutally, I don't do that job anymore.

- The Save for Web PlugIn is very useful to shrink imagines to a defined size or storage capasity size. Unfortuantelly, I always get rid of the Exif information for this way of size reduction which is not nice to share it with the dpreview users in my Gallery.

- The option to crop imagies works fine to me.

- The new Hot folder feature seems to be useful - it is new and I did not try it so far but it seems to be a feature I would like to have since a long time - just to safe time to be directly where my new photos of the month are gathered.

. There is an option to include Adobe PlugIns. As I use Lightroom for RAW development this option ssems to be useless for me - but a few very old PlugIns do not work in my Lightroom version, anymore - but they work fine in Irfan View (e.g. Color mancer) and I am glad IrfanView offers this option.

- There a numerous "quick and dirty" options to do simple postprocessing. I prefer Lightroom oder PaintShop Pro for these tasks. But to get a rough impression what options are wihtin an impage the features are nice in IrfanView.

Best regards

Holger

Thank you!

 

[Tom_Bruno]

Another vote for FastStone. I've been using this free program since I first got started with digital, and it's still my favorite image browser.

It's fast, it displays your shots as thumbnails, or as full screen, and further zooms in if you want a closer inspection.

You can quickly and easily batch rename your photos. This is how I "catalog" my images. In FastStone I look at the images, figure out when and where I took them, who's in them, etc. Then I batch rename a group of similar shots, eg, "Tom, Redwood Creek Beach, Orick CA 082215" FastStone can then append numbers to each of these, eg, 001, 002, etc. Then I have all the information I I'll ever need about what's in the photo, its date and place, and people in the picture. That lets me sort and find any image out of my 170,000+ files, quickly and accurately.

That way I have my keywords AS THE FILE NAME, and not some arcane metadata, like in Lightroom. I have Lightroom, but don't use it because of its cumbersome and quirky "library" that no other program can search. Using batch renames with FastStone, ANY program can find and read the image files, sort them categorize and count them, etc.

I use Bridge along with FastStone, as a gateway to Photoshop. Once I've renamed my OOC files in FastStone, I start Bridge, and bingo! Bridge finds all the files, with their keyworded file names. Automatic. Easy peasy.

There are a lot of other features in FastStone, that I seldom have occasion to use. One that's handy is the crop function, to now and then resize my output files before sending them to the printer. I use Mpix for prints.

And lots of other features for those who want or need them.

Oh, and did I mention? It's free!

I love that little program.
---------------
Tom B

 

[leerob]

Another vote for FastStone. I've been using this free program since I first got started with digital, and it's still my favorite image browser.

It's fast, it displays your shots as thumbnails, or as full screen, and further zooms in if you want a closer inspection.

You can quickly and easily batch rename your photos. This is how I "catalog" my images. In FastStone I look at the images, figure out when and where I took them, who's in them, etc. Then I batch rename a group of similar shots, eg, "Tom, Redwood Creek Beach, Orick CA 082215" FastStone can then append numbers to each of these, eg, 001, 002, etc. Then I have all the information I I'll ever need about what's in the photo, its date and place, and people in the picture. That lets me sort and find any image out of my 170,000+ files, quickly and accurately.

That way I have my keywords AS THE FILE NAME, and not some arcane metadata, like in Lightroom. I have Lightroom, but don't use it because of its cumbersome and quirky "library" that no other program can search. Using batch renames with FastStone, ANY program can find and read the image files, sort them categorize and count them, etc.

I use Bridge along with FastStone, as a gateway to Photoshop. Once I've renamed my OOC files in FastStone, I start Bridge, and bingo! Bridge finds all the files, with their keyworded file names. Automatic. Easy peasy.

There are a lot of other features in FastStone, that I seldom have occasion to use. One that's handy is the crop function, to now and then resize my output files before sending them to the printer. I use Mpix for prints.

And lots of other features for those who want or need them.

Oh, and did I mention? It's free!

I love that little program.
---------------
Tom B

I actually send author of FS donation a few years ago.

 

[jim4850]

I like programs that offer all the features easily accessible and I don't have to search for it.

 

[leerob]

Another vote for FastStone. I've been using this free program since I first got started with digital, and it's still my favorite image browser.

It's fast, it displays your shots as thumbnails, or as full screen, and further zooms in if you want a closer inspection.

You can quickly and easily batch rename your photos. This is how I "catalog" my images. In FastStone I look at the images, figure out when and where I took them, who's in them, etc. Then I batch rename a group of similar shots, eg, "Tom, Redwood Creek Beach, Orick CA 082215" FastStone can then append numbers to each of these, eg, 001, 002, etc. Then I have all the information I I'll ever need about what's in the photo, its date and place, and people in the picture. That lets me sort and find any image out of my 170,000+ files, quickly and accurately.

That way I have my keywords AS THE FILE NAME, and not some arcane metadata, like in Lightroom. I have Lightroom, but don't use it because of its cumbersome and quirky "library" that no other program can search. Using batch renames with FastStone, ANY program can find and read the image files, sort them categorize and count them, etc.

I use Bridge along with FastStone, as a gateway to Photoshop. Once I've renamed my OOC files in FastStone, I start Bridge, and bingo! Bridge finds all the files, with their keyworded file names. Automatic. Easy peasy.

There are a lot of other features in FastStone, that I seldom have occasion to use. One that's handy is the crop function, to now and then resize my output files before sending them to the printer. I use Mpix for prints.

And lots of other features for those who want or need them.

Oh, and did I mention? It's free!

I love that little program.
---------------
Tom B

Thank you!

here's a review of irfanview

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/irfanview.htm-0

--
Adam Kielcz