Replacement for Breezebrowser Image Viewer ?

[Bill Faulding]

I've used Breezebrowser for image viewing for many years, and I love it. I use it most for:

Viewing thumbnails
Viewing full size
Viewing slideshow
Resizing a selection of and emailing in one hit (excellent at this)
Batch renaming
Pixel peeping
Comparing 2 images side by side

I don't use it for editing or retouching - I use LR or PS for that.
Unfortunately, I need to upgrade to the latest copy in order to be able to view Canon CR3 RAW files, and they want £50 from me which is a bit steep.

I can see there are other Image Viewers out there which can read CR3 (eg FastStone), but Breezebrowser has one killer feature which I don't want to lose ...

I always shoot RAW plus JPG. I start by copying them all into the same directory for the initial cull. Breezebrowser allows you to view them separately or stacked together - in other words it shows one thumbnail to represent the two files as one (RAW and JPG). You can rename them both in one click, delete them both in one click, move them both in one click. You can even batch rename and it gives the pairs of files matching names.

I can't seem to make FastStone do this - it shows and treats them as separate thumbnails. I might have a look at Irfanview next.

Any suggestions please ?

 

[Timur Born]

I didn't know about Breezebrowser and just tried it as an alternative to Fasstone for comparing up to 4 images at once. Unfortunately it suffers from the same limitation of only being a 32-bit application.

 

[Boomanbb]

If you have been using a product that does exactly what you want for many years at no upgrade cost, paying for one upgrade really doesn't seem that bad to me. Average the cost over the time you use it. A good product is worth paying for.

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Ben Boozer
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[JLGF1]

Maybe look into FastRawViewer...

 

[hurtsme]

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[Herve5]

Given that you don't mention your OS I presume you are on PC or mac, but if on Linux, Geeqie does exactly that, renaming both at the same time by default (or not)...

H.

 

[Bill Faulding]

If you have been using a product that does exactly what you want for many years at no upgrade cost, paying for one upgrade really doesn't seem that bad to me. Average the cost over the time you use it. A good product is worth paying for.

I fully agree, and I am always happy to pay for good software, but having paid for this one twice before I thought £50 was a bit stiff, when there seems to be some good software available for free. I'm not saying it should be free, but £30 would have been much more palatable ! I'll let you know what I decide ... it will probably cost me £50 !

 

[Bill Faulding]

Sorry - forgot to say ... I'm on Windows 10

 

[Bill Faulding]

Maybe look into FastRawViewer...

Thanks for that ... I'll take a look.