Comparison of image viewers
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This article presents a comparison of image viewer
s and image organizer
s which can be used for image viewing.
Note 1: Adobe Bridge
comes included in the price with the Adobe Creative Suite
CS2, Adobe Production Studio and Photoshop Elements 4 for Mac OS X. Adobe Bridge cannot be purchased separately, but Photoshop Elements is available from Adobe Systems
for 70 USD, and Photoshop is available for 400 USD.
Note 2: The latest version of iPhoto
comes included with every new Mac
PC. iPhoto cannot be purchased separately, but is part of the iLife
suite which is available from Apple
for 10.49 GBP.
Note 3: See also Comparison of raster graphics editors
.
Image viewer
An image viewer or image browser is a computer program that can display stored graphical image; it can often handle various graphics file formats...
s and image organizer
Image organizer
An image organizer or image management application is application software focused on organizing digital images. Image organizers represent one kind of desktop organizer software applications.- Common image organizers features :...
s which can be used for image viewing.
General information
| Name | View functions | Other functions 3 | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACDSee ACDSee ACDSee is a shareware image organizer, viewer, and editor software for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X 10.5 and higher developed by ACD Systems. It was originally distributed as a 16-bit application for Windows 3.0 and later supplanted by a 32-bit version for Windows 95.ACDSee displays a tree view... |
Thumbnails (user-defined sizes), fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, fit, view Exif info, view inside ZIP archives, ... | Resize, crop, rotate, flip, JPEG lossless rotate/mirror, adjust exposure and colors etc., filters (sharpen, blur, average, emboss, ...), red eye removal, batch rename, edit Exif info, ... | std: 69.99 USD pro: 169.99 USD |
| Adobe Bridge Adobe Bridge Adobe Bridge is an organizational software application created and released by Adobe Systems as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite, beginning with CS2. Its primary purpose is to link the parts of the Creative Suite together using an interface similar to the file browser found in previous versions... |
Thumbnails, slideshow, filmstrip, preview, versions with alternates | Stand Alone: rotate, rename, delete, move, copy, batch rename, add/Edit Metadata Metadata The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at... , camera raw image adjustments (crop, resize, exposure, contrast, white balance, curves, etc...) Via Photoshop: contact sheet, merge to HDR High dynamic range rendering In 3D computer graphics, high dynamic range rendering , also known as high dynamic range lighting, is the rendering of computer graphics scenes by using lighting calculations done in a larger dynamic range. This allows preservation of details that may be lost due to limiting contrast ratios... , PDF presentation, Photomerge, Web picture gallery |
Included with various Adobe products 1 |
| Adobe Photoshop Lightroom | library organization, RAW RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... and JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... editing, slideshow tools, print layout and preferences, web gallery creation and uploading |
299 USD | |
| Aperture | Add view functions here | Add edit functions here | 79 USD |
| AZImage | preview | support for most common and raw graphic formats, conversion, scale, rotate, batch mode, upload to Facebook and Google Picasa | 18 USD (15 days trial) |
| blueMarine BlueMarine blueMarine is an open source photograph management application designed to support a digital photographer's workflow. It is developed upon the NetBeans / OpenIDE platform.- Features :... |
Import, tag, organise. JPEG, TIFF, RAW formats. | None presently | Apache License Apache License The Apache License is a copyfree free software license authored by the Apache Software Foundation . The Apache License requires preservation of the copyright notice and disclaimer.... 2.0 |
| CDisplay CDisplay CDisplay is a free sequential image viewer utility for Microsoft Windows used to view images one at a time in the style of a comic book. CDisplay was written to easily view JPEG, PNG and static GIF format images sequentially... |
Fit to window, zoom, print, full-screen, slideshow, image collection, image information... | Rotate, flip, save as, used for reading manga. | freeware |
| Comix Comix (software) Comix is an image viewer specifically designed to handle comic book archives. It reads ZIP, RAR and tar archives, as well as plain image files. It is written in Python and uses GTK+ through the PyGTK bindings... |
Fit to window, zoom, rotate, full-screen, image collection, image information... | manga mode, double page view | free (GNU GPL) |
| digiKam DigiKam digiKam is an image organizer and editor using KDE Platform. It runs on most known desktop environments and window managers if the required libraries are installed. It supports all major image file formats, and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, or dynamic albums by... |
Fit to window, zoom, pan, Light Table, Slideshow+Effects, OpenGL viewer | Rotate, crop, vertical/horizontal flip, lossless JPEG operations (90° steps), color management, 16bit color depth, Light Table, Exif, IPTC IPTC Information Interchange Model The Information Interchange Model is a file structure and set of metadata attributes that can be applied to text, images and other media types... , XMP Extensible Metadata Platform The Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform is a standard, created by Adobe Systems Inc., for processing and storing standardized and proprietary information relating to the contents of a file.... , GPS metadata, adjust colors/brightness/levels, elaborate Black and White conversion, automatic lens correction, anti-vignetting, sharpening tools, vibrance, many filters, Batch operations, export to archive, HTML, flickr, gallery2, picasaweb, smugmug, iPod, facebook, 23hq, flash. |
free (GNU GPL) |
| Eye of GNOME Eye of GNOME Eye of GNOME is the official image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment. Unlike some other image viewers, Eye of GNOME will only display images... |
Fit to window, zoom, print, full-screen, slideshow, image collection, image information... | Rotate, delete, flip, save as | free (GNU GPL) |
| EyeBrowse EyeBrowse EyeBrowse is an advanced graphics editing and management program which has fully featured multiple file and directory management and many tools to help you work with graphics. The software incorporates extensive support for all common file formats . You can display images in a tiled pattern, best... |
Fit to window, zoom, file tree, file selector, print with print preview, keyboard control, hotkeys, screen captures... | Image manipulation (blur, resize, crop, sharpen, rotate, negative, vertical/horizontal flip, grayscale, brightness & contrast), batch file management, undo/redo actions | 0/20 USD |
| FastPictureViewer Fast Picture Viewer FastPictureViewer is a commercial 32 and 64-bit image viewer for Windows 7, Vista and XP. Its aim is to facilitate quick review, rating and annotation of large quantities of digital images in the early steps of the digital workflow, with an emphasis on simplicity and speed.As of v1.6, a basic... |
Borderless full-screen kiosk mode, Fit-to-window, 1:1, 50%-6400% magnifier, Multicore-aware, DirectX hardware accelerated. | No image editing. File renaming. Single-click background copy/move to preset location, single-click rating/labeling (writes Adobe XMP sidecar files and/or embeds XMP metadata within JPEG/TIFF/HD Photo/JPEG XR), Windows Vista rating, Color management Color management In digital imaging systems, color management is the controlled conversion between the color representations of various devices, such as image scanners, digital cameras, monitors, TV screens, film printers, computer printers, offset presses, and corresponding media.The primary goal of color... including custom target profile selection, Unicode Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems... support, Exif shooting data (shutter speed, f-stop, ISO speed, exposure compensation...) and real-time, seamless R,G,B histogram Image histogram An image histogram is a type of histogram that acts as a graphical representation of the tonal distribution in a digital image. It plots the number of pixels for each tonal value. By looking at the histogram for a specific image a viewer will be able to judge the entire tonal distribution at a... in translucent floating window. IPTC medatada editor in the registered version. |
free limited version, 39.95 USD for Professional edition |
| FastStone Image Viewer FastStone Image Viewer FastStone Image Viewer is an image viewer and organizer for Microsoft Windows, provided free of charge for personal and educational use, .- Features :Highlights:* Relatively fast HQ image/thumbnail viewing, using Lanczos resampling algorithm... |
Thumbnails (5 predefined sizes), fullscreen, slideshow, Exif, etc. | Rotate, move, rename, 150+ transitional effects, lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, scanner support, histogram, ... | Free for personal and educational (including non-profit organization) use. For commercial use, it is required to register. 34.95 USD |
| Firehand Ember Firehand Ember Firehand Ember is a Windows-based image viewer, editor and organizer. It is no longer commercially available as the company ceased to exist following the death in 2006 of the program developer, Matthew Warren Smith, who was also the company owner.... |
60 USD | ||
| F-Spot F-Spot F-Spot is an image organizer, designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop environment. The name is a play on the words F-Stop and G-Spot.-Features:... |
Full-screen, slideshow, zoom, multiple sizes of thumbnails. Export: HTML, Flickr Flickr Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to... , Gallery Project Gallery Project Gallery is an open source project enabling management and publication of digital photographs and other media through a PHP-enabled web server. Photo manipulation includes automatic thumbnails, resizing, rotation, and flipping, among other things... , Picasa Picasa Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by Idealab in 2002 and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my... Facebook Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as... (via extension) and O.r.i.g.i.n.a.l |
Tags, rotate in single degree increments, hue, contrast, white balance, colour, sharpen, soft focus, crop, auto red-eye reduction | free (GNU GPL). Files stored at /user/Pictures/Photos/[year]/[month]/[day] |
| GQView GQView GQview is a free software image viewer created by John Ellis using the GTK+ toolkit, designed to run on the X Window System. For MS Windows, an unofficial port is also available.... |
Full-screen, slideshow, zoom, color spectrum, 14 sizes of thumbnails | Rotate, move, rename, hue, contrast, find/remove duplicates | free (GNU GPL) |
| GraphicConverter GraphicConverter GraphicConverter is computer software that displays and edits computer graphics files. It also converts files between different formats. For example, one can convert a GIF file to a JPEG file.... |
Full-screen, slideshow, etc. | Rotate, move, rename... | 35 USD |
| gThumb GThumb gThumb is an open-source image viewer and organizer for the GNOME desktop environment released under the GNU General Public License. It was originally based on GQView, and is designed to have a clean, simple interface.- Features :... |
Full-screen, slideshow, zoom, color spectrum, three sizes of thumbnails | Rotate, move, rename, hue, contrast, | free (GNU GPL) |
| Gwenview Gwenview Gwenview is an image viewer for the KDE Software Compilation desktop environment. The current maintainer is Aurélien Gâteau. The word "Gwen" means "white" in the Breton language and is commonly used as a first name.... |
fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, rotate, adjust gamma/contrast/brightness, disk navigator, file tree, thumbnails, extended thumbnails, bookmarks... | add border, filter, effects, resize, rename, raw image converter, recompress, edit color... | free (GNU GPL) |
| ImageAXS ImageAXS ImageAXS is a software application for organizing and editing digital photos, originally created by Digital Arts and Sciences Corporation and later acquired by Caere Corporation . "ImageAXS" is a blend of the word Image and [sic] Access .Native applications for Windows, Mac OS were available... |
Unicode | Organizing photos, importing image files, tracking features, as well as tags and collections for further sorting. | cost-free (Freeware Freeware Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the... ). Out of support |
| Imagine Imagine (graphics software) Imagine is an image and animation viewer developed by Chun Sejin for Microsoft Windows, capable of viewing numerous image formats, including ANI, ANM , BMP, CorelDRAW, CDT, PAT, CMX, CUR, DCX, DDS, EMF, GIF, ICL, ICO, JPE, JPEG, MacPaint, MNG, PBM, PCD, PCX, PGM, PIC, CEL, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP , RAS,... |
Fullscreen, Slideshow, Zoom, Rotate, Thumbnails | Resize, Rename, Greyscale, Negative, Swap colors, Filters (blur, edge, emboss, gaussian, sharpen, soften, viewer plugin for Total Commander Total Commander Total Commander is an Orthodox File Manager software for Windows, Windows CE, and Windows Mobile. Some features include a built-in FTP client, file compare, archive file navigation, and a versatile multi-rename tool with regular expression support.... and Double Commander Double Commander Double Commander is a cross-platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas. Double Commander aims to be compatible with Total Commander plugins and have similar interface and functionality.Double Commander is written in... ) |
cost-free (Freeware Freeware Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the... without any limitation http://www.nyam.pe.kr/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=632&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc) |
| IMatch IMatch IMatch is shareware digital asset management application for Windows.IMatch is targeted at professional and serious amateur photographers because of its organizing functions and its noted capability for managing large collections .- Features :Imported images can be sorted and organized in categories... |
Unicode | Maintains and external database for thumbnails and tags. Capable for very large collections. | 59.95 USD |
| imgSeek ImgSeek imgSeek is a photo collection manager and viewer with content-based search and many other features. The query is expressed either as a rough sketch painted by the user or as another image... |
Search similar images, Fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, thumbnails, disk navigator tree, tag treeview. Export: HTML | Rotate, move, rename, hue, contrast, etc. | free (GNU GPL) |
| iPhoto IPhoto iPhoto is a digital photograph manipulation software application developed by Apple Inc. and released with every Macintosh personal computer as part of the iLife suite of digital life management applications... |
Thumbnails, fullscreen, slideshow, camera information, search, tags, organize by event or album, auto organize by date during first import | Lossless JPEG rotate, Cropping (custom and template), Brightness/Contrast, Red-eye, Retouch, Color Enhancement, B&W and Sepia Conversion, Export to multiple format & size | – 2 |
| IrfanView IrfanView IrfanView is a freeware/shareware image viewer for Microsoft Windows that can view, edit, and convert image files and play video/audio files. It is noted for its small size, speed, ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats, and has some image creation and painting... |
Thumbnails (18 pre-defined sizes from 50×50–800×800 pixels), fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, fit (several options), view IPTC and Exif info, hex view, histogram (also RGB); Format detection with offer to rename, set wallpaper, EXE/SCR creation, Burn slideshow to CD; directory tree 29 languages (version 4.25) |
Add Text, Crop, Cut/Copy selected area, Paste-Into selected area, paste from PrintScreen, Resize/Resample, Rotate, Flip Vert/Horiz, JPEG lossless transformations, Color Adjustments, change color depth, Greyscale, Red-Eye Reduction, Sharpen, effects/filters, Own and 8bf (Photoshop) plugins compatibility, insert text, edit IPTC info, Move, Copy, Delete, Rename, Convert, batch conversion, batch renaming/resizing/cropping, panorama creation, send email via IrfanView Thumbnails/Plugins: contact sheet creation, thumbnail creation, web gallery creation |
For personal, educational use (schools, universities and libraries) and for use in charity or humanitarian organisations: cost-free (freeware). At place of business or for commercial purposes: 12.00 USD or 10 EUR Euro The euro is the official currency of the eurozone: 17 of the 27 member states of the European Union. It is also the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union. The eurozone consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,... . |
| KSquirrel KSquirrel KSquirrel is an image viewer for the KDE desktop environment with a disk navigator, file tree, thumbnails, extended thumbnails, dynamic format support, DCOP interface, KEXIF and KIPI plugins support. The current version is 0.8.0 . It supports , including PNG, JPEG, PSD, APNG, GIF, WMF, OpenEXR and... |
disk navigator, file tree, thumbnails, bookmarks, fullscreen, KIPI plugins ... | resize, rotate, colorize, convert, print ... | free (GNU GPL) |
| KPhotoAlbum KPhotoAlbum KPhotoAlbum is an image viewer and organizer for Unix-like systems created and maintained by Jesper K. Pedersen. The core philosophy behind its creation was that it should be easy for users to annotate images and videos taken with a digital camera... |
Zoom, Rotate, Metadata, Exif, thumbnails (customize size), slideshow, Categories | As Available per KIPI plugins | free (GNU GPL) |
| Lphoto Lphoto Lphoto is an open source image editor for Linux. The Lphoto open source project was started by and maintained by Linspire, a Linux distribution based on Debian and Ubuntu.In 2008, Linspire was acquired and then discontinued by Xandros... |
Zoom, Slideshow, camera information, | Crop, redeye, color tweaking, auto attach and resize for email, export to HTML, export to CD | free (GNU GPL) |
| Phase One Media Pro Phase One Media Pro Phase One Media Pro is a commercial digital asset management cataloging program for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It is the next version of iView MediaPro which Microsoft acquired in June 2006, and sold again in May 2010 to Phase One in Denmark... |
Thumbnails, Slideshow, Zoom, Print, Light Table, Library organization, best practice DAM | Rotate, rename, delete, batch rename, Add/Edit Metadata (IPTC, EXIF, Custom), Free Reader App to distribute catalogs | EUR 139,00 |
| Paint.NET Paint.NET Paint.NET is a proprietary freeware raster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows, developed on the .NET Framework. Originally created by Rick Brewster as a Washington State University student project, Paint.NET has evolved from a simple replacement for the Microsoft Paint program, which is... |
Thumbnail, Zoom, Rotation, Multiple Page support, Pan, Fit to screen | Resize, Crop, Copy, Paste, Black and white/sepia, various blurs, add and reduce noise, Plugin Support | Free (Creative Commons Creative Commons Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons... Non commercial CC-BY-NC) |
| Picasa Picasa Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by Idealab in 2002 and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my... |
Zoom, lossless rotate, histogram, camera information, Thumbnails (fully adjustable), Slide Show (Full Screen w/zoom), Magnifier, Search, Search for faces | Crop, straighten, redeye, color tweaking, retouch, tuning, add text, numerous effects, batch edit, batch rename, video rendering, HTML gallery creation, photo browser application creator, screensaver, face recognition, keyword tagging, geo-tagging, photo collage, original file preservation, reorganize storage | cost-free |
| Preview Preview (software) Preview is Mac OS X's application for displaying images and Portable Document Format documents. Like Mac OS X itself, it comes from NeXT's OPENSTEP operating system.... |
Zoom, rotate, metadata | Crop, straighten, color tweaking, profile assignment | cost-free |
| Shotwell Shotwell (software) Shotwell is an image organizer designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop environment. It has replaced F-Spot as the standard image tool for several GNOME-based Linux distributions, including Fedora in version 13 and Ubuntu in its 10.10 Maverick Meerkat... |
Thumbnails, Fullscreen, Slideshow, Zoom, Print, Camera Information, Events | Auto Enhance, Rotate, Mirror, Flip, Red Eye, Crop, Exposure, Saturation, Tint, Temperature, Shadows, Revert to Original, Rename, Change Time/Date, Publish to Facebook Facebook Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as... , Picasa Web Albums, Flickr Flickr Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to... |
Free GNU Lesser General Public License GNU Lesser General Public License The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License... |
| ShowImg ShowImg ShowImg is an open-source image viewer for the KDE desktop environment by Richard Groult. According to the website there have been no releases since the 0.95 release in 2006.-External links:*... |
fullscreen, slideshow, filters, search for similar images | Batch rename, convert filetype | free (GNU GPL) |
| Simple Comic Simple Comic Simple Comic is an open source comic book and manga viewer for Mac OS X. It supports reading both directories of images and comic book archives... |
slideshow, double image layout, left-to-right & right-to-left ordering, thumbnail navigation, zoom, print | Quick Look Quick Look Quick Look is a quick preview feature developed by Apple which was introduced in their operating system, Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard". It was announced and demonstrated at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2007.-Overview:... for comic book archives, Finder icons, text notes, delete files, extract files |
Free (MIT License MIT License The MIT License is a free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . It is a permissive license, meaning that it permits reuse within proprietary software provided all copies of the licensed software include a copy of the MIT License terms... ) |
| SIV | zoom, pan, slideshow, brightnes/contrast/gamma adjustments, filters, displays MPO and JPS stereo images | stereoscopic image viewer, VR920 headtracking, quad buffered stereo | Free (Creative Commons Creative Commons Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons... Non commercial CC-BY-NC) |
| STDU Viewer STDU Viewer STDU Viewer is a compact viewer for PDF, WWF, DjVu, Comic Book Archive , FB2, XPS, TCR, multi-page TIFF, TXT, PalmDoc , EMF, WMF, BMP, GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, PSD, PCX, DCX files... |
fullscreen, fit to window, zoom, print | rotate, brightness, contrast, gamma setting | free for non-commercial |
| Windows Live Photo Gallery Windows Live Photo Gallery Windows Live Photo Gallery is a photo management and photo sharing application released as a part of Microsoft's Windows Live initiative. It is an upgraded version of Windows Photo Gallery, which is a part of Windows Vista.... |
fullscreen, slideshow, fit, zoom, print | Panorama stitching, adjust brightness, contrast, color saturation/hue, filters, stitching, rotate, straightening and skew. | cost-free |
| Windows Photo Gallery Windows Photo Gallery Windows Photo Gallery is a photo management, tagging, and editing tool developed by Microsoft, and is included with all editions of Windows Vista... |
fullscreen, slideshow, fit, zoom, print | – (included with Windows Vista Windows Vista Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs... ) |
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| Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Windows Photo Viewer is an image viewer developed by Microsoft that is included with Windows 7. It was also included with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 under the name of Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. It was temporarily replaced with Windows Photo Gallery in Windows Vista, but has been... |
fullscreen, slideshow, fit, zoom, print | rotate, lossy JPEG rotate, annotate TIFF images | – (included with Windows XP Windows XP Windows XP is an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops and media centers. First released to computer manufacturers on August 24, 2001, it is the second most popular version of Windows, based on installed user base... ) |
| XnView XnView XnView is a cross-platform image viewer used for viewing, converting, organising and editing graphical & video files. It is free of charge for private, educational and non-profit organisations... |
Thumbnails (user-defined sizes), fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, fit, view IPTC and Exif info, ... | Resize, crop, rotate, flip, JPEG lossless rotate/flip/crop, adjust exposure and colors etc., filters (sharpen, blur, average, emboss, ...), batch convert, batch rename, edit IPTC info, ... | freeware for private non-commercial or educational use, including non-profit organization (i.e. schools, universities, public authorities, police, fire brigade, and hospitals); otherwise 26 EUR. |
| Xv Xv xv is a shareware program written by John Bradley to display and modify digital images under the X Window System.While popular in the early 1990s , no official releases have been made since December 1994... |
View as ASCII or Hex, magnify, determine pixel values | Crop, pad, resize, rotate, flip, brightness, contrast, gamma, saturation, hue, colormap, reduce colors, dither, convert, and more | 25 USD |
| Zoner Photo Studio Zoner Photo Studio Zoner Photo Studio is a software application for viewing, editing, organizing, archiving, publishing and sharing digital images. It also supports GPS-assisted geotagging and creation of 3D pictures.- Versions :... |
Thumbnails (user-defined sizes), fullscreen, histogram, slideshow with transitional effects, auto rotation, JPEG lossless rotate, pan, zoom, fit, ITPC and Exif info, GPS support, full Unicode support, free version does not support color profiles... | Resize, crop, rotate, flip, JPEG lossless rotate/mirror, adjust exposure, colors, contrast, saturation, hue, white balance, levels, curves, gamma correction, filters (sharpen, blur, soften, edge, emboss, average, grayscale, ...), .8bf (Photoshop) plugins compatibility, color management, batch operations, image conversions with reduced/dithered colors, batch rename, red eye removal, edit ITPC, XMP and Exif info, time creation offset, merge to HDR High dynamic range rendering In 3D computer graphics, high dynamic range rendering , also known as high dynamic range lighting, is the rendering of computer graphics scenes by using lighting calculations done in a larger dynamic range. This allows preservation of details that may be lost due to limiting contrast ratios... , PDF presentation, panorama creation, lens correction, anti-vignetting, web picture gallery, DNG Digital Negative (file format) Digital Negative is an open raw image format owned by Adobe used for digital photography. It was launched on September 27, 2004. The launch was accompanied by the first version of the DNG specification, plus various products including a free of charge DNG Converter utility... /RAW image converter, TWAIN scanners support, send pictures via e-mail, 3D pictures, dynamic calendar generation, support for WIC codecs (RAW processing)... |
Free: for personal non-commercial use Home: 49.99 USD Pro: 99.99 USD |
| Name | View functions | Other functions | Price |
Note 1: Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge is an organizational software application created and released by Adobe Systems as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite, beginning with CS2. Its primary purpose is to link the parts of the Creative Suite together using an interface similar to the file browser found in previous versions...
comes included in the price with the Adobe Creative Suite
Adobe Creative Suite
Adobe Creative Suite is a collection of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications made by Adobe Systems. The collection consists of Adobe's applications , that are based on various technologies...
CS2, Adobe Production Studio and Photoshop Elements 4 for Mac OS X. Adobe Bridge cannot be purchased separately, but Photoshop Elements is available from Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...
for 70 USD, and Photoshop is available for 400 USD.
Note 2: The latest version of iPhoto
IPhoto
iPhoto is a digital photograph manipulation software application developed by Apple Inc. and released with every Macintosh personal computer as part of the iLife suite of digital life management applications...
comes included with every new Mac
Macintosh
The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...
PC. iPhoto cannot be purchased separately, but is part of the iLife
ILife
iLife is a suite of software applications developed by Apple for organizing, editing, and publishing photos, movies, and music. The suite comprises five applications: iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, and iWeb, all of which run on the Mac OS X operating system....
suite which is available from Apple
Apple Computer
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...
for 10.49 GBP.
Note 3: See also Comparison of raster graphics editors
Comparison of raster graphics editors
- List :- General information :Basic general information about the editors: creator/company, license etc.- Operating system support :The operating systems on which the editors can run natively , meaning which operating systems have which editors specifically coded for them - List :- General...
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Supported file formats
| Name | File formats |
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| ACDSee ACDSee ACDSee is a shareware image organizer, viewer, and editor software for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X 10.5 and higher developed by ACD Systems. It was originally distributed as a 16-bit application for Windows 3.0 and later supplanted by a 32-bit version for Windows 95.ACDSee displays a tree view... |
BMP, EMF Windows Metafile Windows Metafile is a graphics file format on Microsoft Windows systems, originally designed in the 1990s. Windows Metafiles are intended to be portable between applications and may contain both vector graphics and bitmap components.... , GIF, JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , PCX PCX PCX is an image file format developed by the now-defunct ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted DOS imaging standards, although it has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats, such as GIF,... , PIC, PICT, PNG, PSD, PSP Corel Paint Shop Pro Paint Shop Pro is a raster graphics editor and, later in the series, a vector graphics editor for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system that was originally published by Minneapolis-based Jasc Software. In October 2004, Corel Corporation purchased Jasc Software and the... , SGI, TGA, TIFF, WMF Windows Metafile Windows Metafile is a graphics file format on Microsoft Windows systems, originally designed in the 1990s. Windows Metafiles are intended to be portable between applications and may contain both vector graphics and bitmap components.... , XBM XBM In computer graphics, the X Window System uses X BitMap , a plain text binary image format, for storing cursor and icon bitmaps used in the X GUI.XBM files differ markedly from most image files in that they take the form of C source files... , various camera formats among others |
| Adobe Bridge Adobe Bridge Adobe Bridge is an organizational software application created and released by Adobe Systems as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite, beginning with CS2. Its primary purpose is to link the parts of the Creative Suite together using an interface similar to the file browser found in previous versions... |
Displays all file types supported by Adobe Creative Suite Adobe Creative Suite Adobe Creative Suite is a collection of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications made by Adobe Systems. The collection consists of Adobe's applications , that are based on various technologies... |
| Aperture | JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , GIF, TIFF, PNG, PDF, PSD. RAW Formats: .ARW, .CR2, .CRW, .MOS, .NEF, .RAF, .RAW, .SRW, .TIF, .OLY, .FFF, .3FR, .DNG. Various video formats including: AVI Audio Video Interleave Audio Video Interleave , known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback... , MOV, MPEG |
| AZImage | BMP, GIF, JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , PNG, TIFF RAW formats: (.3fr, .arw, .srf, .sr2, .bay, .crw, .cr2, .cap, .iiq, .eip, .dcs, .dcr, .drf, .k25, .kdc, .dng, .erf, .fff, .mef, .mos, .mrw, .nef, .nrw, .orf, .ptx, .pef, .pxn, .r3d, .raf, .raw, .rw2, .raw, .rwl, .dng, .rwz, .x3f) |
| CDisplay CDisplay CDisplay is a free sequential image viewer utility for Microsoft Windows used to view images one at a time in the style of a comic book. CDisplay was written to easily view JPEG, PNG and static GIF format images sequentially... |
PNG, GIF, JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , BMP, CBZ, CBR |
| Comix Comix (software) Comix is an image viewer specifically designed to handle comic book archives. It reads ZIP, RAR and tar archives, as well as plain image files. It is written in Python and uses GTK+ through the PyGTK bindings... |
PNG, JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , CBZ, CBR, CBT, ... |
| digiKam DigiKam digiKam is an image organizer and editor using KDE Platform. It runs on most known desktop environments and window managers if the required libraries are installed. It supports all major image file formats, and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, or dynamic albums by... |
JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , PNG, JPEG 2000 JPEG 2000 JPEG 2000 is an image compression standard and coding system. It was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee in 2000 with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine transform-based JPEG standard with a newly designed, wavelet-based method... , BMP, GIF, PCX PCX PCX is an image file format developed by the now-defunct ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted DOS imaging standards, although it has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats, such as GIF,... , TIFF, WMF Windows Metafile Windows Metafile is a graphics file format on Microsoft Windows systems, originally designed in the 1990s. Windows Metafiles are intended to be portable between applications and may contain both vector graphics and bitmap components.... , PNM, PPM, XCF, XPM, PGX, all RAW formats, DNG Digital Negative (file format) Digital Negative is an open raw image format owned by Adobe used for digital photography. It was launched on September 27, 2004. The launch was accompanied by the first version of the DNG specification, plus various products including a free of charge DNG Converter utility... , MPEG, MPO, MPE, AVI Audio Video Interleave Audio Video Interleave , known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback... , MOV, ASF Advanced Systems Format Advanced Systems Format is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media... |
| Eye of GNOME Eye of GNOME Eye of GNOME is the official image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment. Unlike some other image viewers, Eye of GNOME will only display images... |
PNG, GIF, JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , BMP, PNM, RAS, TIFF, ICO, XPM, SVG |
| EyeBrowse EyeBrowse EyeBrowse is an advanced graphics editing and management program which has fully featured multiple file and directory management and many tools to help you work with graphics. The software incorporates extensive support for all common file formats . You can display images in a tiled pattern, best... |
PNG, JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , BMP, TGA Truevision TGA Truevision TGA, often referred to as TARGA, is a raster graphics file format created by Truevision Inc. . It was the native format of TARGA and VISTA boards, which were the first graphic cards for IBM-compatible PCs to support Highcolor/truecolor display... , TIFF, PCX PCX PCX is an image file format developed by the now-defunct ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted DOS imaging standards, although it has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats, such as GIF,... , WMF/EMF Windows Metafile Windows Metafile is a graphics file format on Microsoft Windows systems, originally designed in the 1990s. Windows Metafiles are intended to be portable between applications and may contain both vector graphics and bitmap components.... , DIB, GIF, ICO |
| FastPictureViewer Fast Picture Viewer FastPictureViewer is a commercial 32 and 64-bit image viewer for Windows 7, Vista and XP. Its aim is to facilitate quick review, rating and annotation of large quantities of digital images in the early steps of the digital workflow, with an emphasis on simplicity and speed.As of v1.6, a basic... |
JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , HD Photo, HDP, WDP, JPEG XR (+ PNG, BMP, RLE Run-length encoding Run-length encoding is a very simple form of data compression in which runs of data are stored as a single data value and count, rather than as the original run... , DIB, ICO, TIFF, MTIFF, DNG Digital Negative (file format) Digital Negative is an open raw image format owned by Adobe used for digital photography. It was launched on September 27, 2004. The launch was accompanied by the first version of the DNG specification, plus various products including a free of charge DNG Converter utility... , NRW, NEF, CR2 RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... , ORF ORF ORF may refer to:* ORF , the Austrian public service broadcaster.* Open reading frame, a portion of the genome.* The IATA airport code for Norfolk International Airport in Norfolk, Virginia.* ORF format , Olympus raw image file format.... , PEF RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... , ARW .ARW (filename extension) Alpha Raw , along with SR2 and .SRF formats, is a proprietary raw image format for the Sony α cameras owned by Sony used for digital photography.... , RW2, SR2, SRF, RWZ Rawzor Rawzor is a proprietary lossless image compression software which compresses camera raw images without any loss in image quality or meta-information. It is available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.-Features:* Supports all major raw formats... in the registered edition, as well as DjVu DjVu DjVu is a computer file format designed primarily to store scanned documents, especially those containing a combination of text, line drawings, and photographs. It uses technologies such as image layer separation of text and background/images, progressive loading, arithmetic coding, and lossy... , TGA Truevision TGA Truevision TGA, often referred to as TARGA, is a raster graphics file format created by Truevision Inc. . It was the native format of TARGA and VISTA boards, which were the first graphic cards for IBM-compatible PCs to support Highcolor/truecolor display... , PSD, HDR, DDS, EXR, J2K, TGA, PNM, PBM, PGM, PBM, LRPREV, JPS through additional WIC codecs Windows Imaging Component The Windows Imaging Component is a Component Object Model based imaging codec framework introduced in Windows Vista and Windows XP Service Pack 3 for working with and processing digital images and image metadata... from the optional FastPictureViewer Codec Pack or from 3rd parties) |
| FastStone Image Viewer FastStone Image Viewer FastStone Image Viewer is an image viewer and organizer for Microsoft Windows, provided free of charge for personal and educational use, .- Features :Highlights:* Relatively fast HQ image/thumbnail viewing, using Lanczos resampling algorithm... |
loading of: PNG, JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , BMP, JPEG 2000 JPEG 2000 JPEG 2000 is an image compression standard and coding system. It was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee in 2000 with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine transform-based JPEG standard with a newly designed, wavelet-based method... , GIF, PCX PCX PCX is an image file format developed by the now-defunct ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted DOS imaging standards, although it has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats, such as GIF,... , TIFF, WMF Windows Metafile Windows Metafile is a graphics file format on Microsoft Windows systems, originally designed in the 1990s. Windows Metafiles are intended to be portable between applications and may contain both vector graphics and bitmap components.... , ICO, CUR ICO (icon image file format) The ICO file format is an image file format for computer icons in Microsoft Windows. ICO files contain one or more small images at multiple sizes and color depths, such that they may be scaled appropriately... , TGA Truevision TGA Truevision TGA, often referred to as TARGA, is a raster graphics file format created by Truevision Inc. . It was the native format of TARGA and VISTA boards, which were the first graphic cards for IBM-compatible PCs to support Highcolor/truecolor display... , CRW RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... , saving to: JPEG, JPEG 2000, TIFF, GIF, PCX, BMP, PNG, TGA |
| Firehand Ember Firehand Ember Firehand Ember is a Windows-based image viewer, editor and organizer. It is no longer commercially available as the company ceased to exist following the death in 2006 of the program developer, Matthew Warren Smith, who was also the company owner.... |
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| F-Spot F-Spot F-Spot is an image organizer, designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop environment. The name is a play on the words F-Stop and G-Spot.-Features:... |
CR2 RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... , CRW RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... , DNG Digital Negative (file format) Digital Negative is an open raw image format owned by Adobe used for digital photography. It was launched on September 27, 2004. The launch was accompanied by the first version of the DNG specification, plus various products including a free of charge DNG Converter utility... , GIF, JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , MRW, NEF, ORF ORF format In digital photography, ORF file format is a Raw image format used in Olympus digital cameras. Like all other raw formats, this one contains image information rendered directly by a camera's sensor. ORF files feature so called headers that present image characteristics, such as saturation, color... , PEF RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... , PNG, PPM Portable pixmap The phrase Netpbm format commonly refers to any or all of the members of a set of closely related graphics formats used and defined by the Netpbm project.... , RAF C-Raf RAF proto-oncogene serine/threonine-protein kinase also known as proto-oncogene c-RAF or simply c-Raf is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the RAF1 gene. The c-Raf protein functions in the MAPK/ERK signal transduction pathway as part of a protein kinase cascade... , RAW, SRF, SVG, TIFF |
| GQview GQView GQview is a free software image viewer created by John Ellis using the GTK+ toolkit, designed to run on the X Window System. For MS Windows, an unofficial port is also available.... |
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| GraphicConverter GraphicConverter GraphicConverter is computer software that displays and edits computer graphics files. It also converts files between different formats. For example, one can convert a GIF file to a JPEG file.... |
190 types read, 79 types saved |
| gThumb GThumb gThumb is an open-source image viewer and organizer for the GNOME desktop environment released under the GNU General Public License. It was originally based on GQView, and is designed to have a clean, simple interface.- Features :... |
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| Gwenview Gwenview Gwenview is an image viewer for the KDE Software Compilation desktop environment. The current maintainer is Aurélien Gâteau. The word "Gwen" means "white" in the Breton language and is commonly used as a first name.... |
PNG, JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , MNG, GIF, SVG, MNG, XCF etc. |
| ImageAXS ImageAXS ImageAXS is a software application for organizing and editing digital photos, originally created by Digital Arts and Sciences Corporation and later acquired by Caere Corporation . "ImageAXS" is a blend of the word Image and [sic] Access .Native applications for Windows, Mac OS were available... |
Read/Write: BMP/DIB, ICO, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIF, TGA, PCX, DiCOM. |
| Imagine Imagine (graphics software) Imagine is an image and animation viewer developed by Chun Sejin for Microsoft Windows, capable of viewing numerous image formats, including ANI, ANM , BMP, CorelDRAW, CDT, PAT, CMX, CUR, DCX, DDS, EMF, GIF, ICL, ICO, JPE, JPEG, MacPaint, MNG, PBM, PCD, PCX, PGM, PIC, CEL, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP , RAS,... |
ANI, ANM (Deluxe Paint Deluxe Paint Deluxe Paint is a bitmap graphics editor series originally created by Dan Silva for Electronic Arts .The original version was created for the Commodore Amiga and was released in November 1985... Animation), BMP, CorelDRAW CorelDRAW CorelDRAW is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation of Ottawa, Canada. It is also the name of Corel's Graphics Suite... drawing (CDR,CDT,PAT,CMX), CUR ICO (icon image file format) The ICO file format is an image file format for computer icons in Microsoft Windows. ICO files contain one or more small images at multiple sizes and color depths, such that they may be scaled appropriately... , DCX, DDS DirectDraw Surface The DirectDraw Surface file format , from Microsoft, is a standard for storing data compressed with the lossy S3 Texture Compression algorithm, which can be decompressed in hardware by GPUs and consoles like the Playstation Portable, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360... , EMF Windows Metafile Windows Metafile is a graphics file format on Microsoft Windows systems, originally designed in the 1990s. Windows Metafiles are intended to be portable between applications and may contain both vector graphics and bitmap components.... , GIF, ICL, ICO ICO (icon image file format) The ICO file format is an image file format for computer icons in Microsoft Windows. ICO files contain one or more small images at multiple sizes and color depths, such that they may be scaled appropriately... , JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , MacPaint MacPaint MacPaint was a bitmap-based graphics painting software program developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal computer on January 22, 1984. It was sold separately for US$195 with its word processor counterpart, MacWrite. MacPaint was notable because it could generate... , MNG, PBM Portable pixmap The phrase Netpbm format commonly refers to any or all of the members of a set of closely related graphics formats used and defined by the Netpbm project.... , PCD Photo CD Photo CD is a system designed by Kodak for digitizing and saving photos in a CD. Launched in 1992, the discs were designed to hold nearly 100 high quality images, scanned prints and slides using special proprietary encoding. Photo CDs are defined in the Beige Book and conform to the CD-ROM XA and... , PCX PCX PCX is an image file format developed by the now-defunct ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted DOS imaging standards, although it has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats, such as GIF,... , PGM Portable pixmap The phrase Netpbm format commonly refers to any or all of the members of a set of closely related graphics formats used and defined by the Netpbm project.... , PIC, CEL Autodesk Animator Autodesk Animator was a 2D animation and painting program created in 1989 by Yost Group for Autodesk and ran on a PC under MS-DOS.... , PNG, PPM Portable pixmap The phrase Netpbm format commonly refers to any or all of the members of a set of closely related graphics formats used and defined by the Netpbm project.... , PSD, PSP (Paint Shop Pro image) Corel Paint Shop Pro Paint Shop Pro is a raster graphics editor and, later in the series, a vector graphics editor for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system that was originally published by Minneapolis-based Jasc Software. In October 2004, Corel Corporation purchased Jasc Software and the... , RAS, RLA, RLE, SGI (RGB,BW) Silicon Graphics Image Silicon Graphics Image or the RGB file format is the native raster graphics file format for Silicon Graphics workstations.Common file endings are:*SGI or RGB 3 colour channels*RGBA 3 colour channels and alpha... , SPR (Pro Motion Animation), TGA Truevision TGA Truevision TGA, often referred to as TARGA, is a raster graphics file format created by Truevision Inc. . It was the native format of TARGA and VISTA boards, which were the first graphic cards for IBM-compatible PCs to support Highcolor/truecolor display... , TIFF, WBMP, WMF Windows Metafile Windows Metafile is a graphics file format on Microsoft Windows systems, originally designed in the 1990s. Windows Metafiles are intended to be portable between applications and may contain both vector graphics and bitmap components.... , XBM XBM In computer graphics, the X Window System uses X BitMap , a plain text binary image format, for storing cursor and icon bitmaps used in the X GUI.XBM files differ markedly from most image files in that they take the form of C source files... , XCF, XPM XPM (image format) X Pixmap is an image file format used by the X Window System, created in 1989 by Daniel Dardailler and Colas Nahaboo working at Bull Research Center at Sophia Antipolis, France, and later enhanced by Arnaud Le Hors.... , |
| IMatch IMatch IMatch is shareware digital asset management application for Windows.IMatch is targeted at professional and serious amateur photographers because of its organizing functions and its noted capability for managing large collections .- Features :Imported images can be sorted and organized in categories... |
over 50 types including RAW RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... , also Unicode |
| imgSeek ImgSeek imgSeek is a photo collection manager and viewer with content-based search and many other features. The query is expressed either as a rough sketch painted by the user or as another image... |
12 types |
| iPhoto IPhoto iPhoto is a digital photograph manipulation software application developed by Apple Inc. and released with every Macintosh personal computer as part of the iLife suite of digital life management applications... |
PNG, JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , GIF, RAW (All QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... supported images), PSD (Leopard), AVI (Leopard), MOV (Leopard) |
| IrfanView IrfanView IrfanView is a freeware/shareware image viewer for Microsoft Windows that can view, edit, and convert image files and play video/audio files. It is noted for its small size, speed, ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats, and has some image creation and painting... |
~70 types including : AIF, ANI/CUR, ASF, AU/SND, AVI, B3D, BMP/DIB, CAM (Casio JPG), CLP, DDS, Dicom/ACR, DJVU, ECW, EMF/WMF, EPS/PS/PDF, FITS, FlashPix (FPX), FSH, G3, GIF, HDR, ICO/ICL/EXE/DLL, IFF/LBM, IMG (GEM), JPEG 2000, JPEG, JPM, KDC, LDF, LWF, MED, MID/RMI, MNG/JNG, MOV, MP3, MPG, MrSID, NLM/NOL/NGG, OGG, PBM/PGM/PPM, PCX/DCX, PhotoCD, PIC, PNG, PSD, PSP, RAS/SUN, RAW, Real Audio (RA), RLE, SFF, SFW, SGI/RGB, SWF (Flash/Shockwave), TGA, TIF, TTF, TXT, WAD, WAL, WAV, WBMP, WBZ/WBC, XBM, XPM, CRW/CR2, DNG Digital Negative (file format) Digital Negative is an open raw image format owned by Adobe used for digital photography. It was launched on September 27, 2004. The launch was accompanied by the first version of the DNG specification, plus various products including a free of charge DNG Converter utility... , NEF, ORF, RAF, MRW, DCR, SRF, CAD formats. Partial support: MOV, QTIF, Mac PICT, FLI/FLC, SVG. |
| KSquirrel KSquirrel KSquirrel is an image viewer for the KDE desktop environment with a disk navigator, file tree, thumbnails, extended thumbnails, dynamic format support, DCOP interface, KEXIF and KIPI plugins support. The current version is 0.8.0 . It supports , including PNG, JPEG, PSD, APNG, GIF, WMF, OpenEXR and... |
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| KPhotoAlbum KPhotoAlbum KPhotoAlbum is an image viewer and organizer for Unix-like systems created and maintained by Jesper K. Pedersen. The core philosophy behind its creation was that it should be easy for users to annotate images and videos taken with a digital camera... |
Photo formats supported by KDE; AVI, MPEG, RAW |
| Lphoto Lphoto Lphoto is an open source image editor for Linux. The Lphoto open source project was started by and maintained by Linspire, a Linux distribution based on Debian and Ubuntu.In 2008, Linspire was acquired and then discontinued by Xandros... |
iPhoto Clone |
| Phase One Media Pro Phase One Media Pro Phase One Media Pro is a commercial digital asset management cataloging program for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It is the next version of iView MediaPro which Microsoft acquired in June 2006, and sold again in May 2010 to Phase One in Denmark... |
Supports over 100 file formats for images, videos and documents. Including: JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, PNG, PDF, PSD, .IIQ, .CR2, .CRW, .MOS, .NEF, .RAF, .RAW, .SRW, .TIF, .DNG, .EIP, .DOC |
| Picasa Picasa Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by Idealab in 2002 and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my... |
8 types including PNG, JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , GIF GIF The Graphics Interchange Format is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.... , TIFF, BMP, TGA Truevision TGA Truevision TGA, often referred to as TARGA, is a raster graphics file format created by Truevision Inc. . It was the native format of TARGA and VISTA boards, which were the first graphic cards for IBM-compatible PCs to support Highcolor/truecolor display... , RAW RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... , and some movie formats |
| Preview Preview (software) Preview is Mac OS X's application for displaying images and Portable Document Format documents. Like Mac OS X itself, it comes from NeXT's OPENSTEP operating system.... |
All QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... images: |
| ResourceSpace ResourceSpace ResourceSpace is an open source Digital Asset Management system originally developed for Oxfam. It has been released under a BSD-style license. It requires PHP, MySQL, and the GD Graphics Library, and works with most web server software such as Apache.... |
Hundreds; all types supported by ImageMagick ImageMagick ImageMagick is an open source software suite for displaying, converting, and editing raster image files. It can read and write over 100 image file formats. ImageMagick is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.- Features and capabilities:... and FFmpeg FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line... plus InDesign |
| ShowImg ShowImg ShowImg is an open-source image viewer for the KDE desktop environment by Richard Groult. According to the website there have been no releases since the 0.95 release in 2006.-External links:*... |
JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , PNG, GIF, XCF, PSD etc. |
| Shotwell Shotwell (software) Shotwell is an image organizer designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop environment. It has replaced F-Spot as the standard image tool for several GNOME-based Linux distributions, including Fedora in version 13 and Ubuntu in its 10.10 Maverick Meerkat... |
JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , PNG, RAW RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... , TIFF and some video formats |
| Simple Comic Simple Comic Simple Comic is an open source comic book and manga viewer for Mac OS X. It supports reading both directories of images and comic book archives... |
JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , PNG, GIF GIF The Graphics Interchange Format is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.... , JPEG2000 and any other Core Image Core Image Core Image is a pixel-accurate, near-realtime, non-destructive image processing technology in Mac OS X. Implemented as part of the QuartzCore framework of Mac OS X 10.4 and later, Core Image provides a plugin-based architecture for applying filters and effects within the Quartz graphics rendering... supported format. Also opens 7-Zip 7-Zip 7-Zip is an open source file archiver. 7-Zip operates with the 7z archive format, but can read and write several other archive formats. The program can be used from a command line interface, graphical user interface, or with Microsoft Windows shell integration. 7-Zip began in 1999 and is actively... , LHA LHA (file format) LHA is a freeware compression utility and associated file format. It was created in 1988 by , and originally named LHarc. A complete rewrite of LHarc, tentatively named LHx, was eventually released as LH. It was then renamed to LHA to avoid conflicting with the then-new MS-DOS 5.0 LH command... , RAR, ZIP ZIP (file format) Zip is a file format used for data compression and archiving. A zip file contains one or more files that have been compressed, to reduce file size, or stored as is... and comic book archives. |
| STDU Viewer STDU Viewer STDU Viewer is a compact viewer for PDF, WWF, DjVu, Comic Book Archive , FB2, XPS, TCR, multi-page TIFF, TXT, PalmDoc , EMF, WMF, BMP, GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, PSD, PCX, DCX files... |
BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, PSD, multipage TIFF, TXT, EMF, WMF, PDF, DjVu, XPS |
| Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Windows Photo Viewer is an image viewer developed by Microsoft that is included with Windows 7. It was also included with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 under the name of Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. It was temporarily replaced with Windows Photo Gallery in Windows Vista, but has been... |
JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , BMP, PNG, GIF GIF The Graphics Interchange Format is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.... , WMF Windows Metafile Windows Metafile is a graphics file format on Microsoft Windows systems, originally designed in the 1990s. Windows Metafiles are intended to be portable between applications and may contain both vector graphics and bitmap components.... , EMF Windows Metafile Windows Metafile is a graphics file format on Microsoft Windows systems, originally designed in the 1990s. Windows Metafiles are intended to be portable between applications and may contain both vector graphics and bitmap components.... , TIFF, ICO ICO (icon image file format) The ICO file format is an image file format for computer icons in Microsoft Windows. ICO files contain one or more small images at multiple sizes and color depths, such that they may be scaled appropriately... |
| XnView XnView XnView is a cross-platform image viewer used for viewing, converting, organising and editing graphical & video files. It is free of charge for private, educational and non-profit organisations... |
reads about 400 formats, including: JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... (IPTC & Exif), BMP, PNG, FAX Fax Fax , sometimes called telecopying, is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material , normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device... , GIF, TIFF (Multipage), NEF, CRW RAW image format A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor... , RWZ Rawzor Rawzor is a proprietary lossless image compression software which compresses camera raw images without any loss in image quality or meta-information. It is available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.-Features:* Supports all major raw formats... , PSD, Paint Shop Pro Photo PSPIMAGE, EPS Encapsulated PostScript Encapsulated PostScript, or EPS, is a DSC-conforming PostScript document with additional restrictions which is intended to be usable as a graphics file format... , WMF Windows Metafile Windows Metafile is a graphics file format on Microsoft Windows systems, originally designed in the 1990s. Windows Metafiles are intended to be portable between applications and may contain both vector graphics and bitmap components.... , DICOM; writes about 50 formats |
| Xv Xv xv is a shareware program written by John Bradley to display and modify digital images under the X Window System.While popular in the early 1990s , no official releases have been made since December 1994... |
GIF, JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , TIFF, PBM, PGM, PPM Portable pixmap The phrase Netpbm format commonly refers to any or all of the members of a set of closely related graphics formats used and defined by the Netpbm project.... , XPM XPM (image format) X Pixmap is an image file format used by the X Window System, created in 1989 by Daniel Dardailler and Colas Nahaboo working at Bull Research Center at Sophia Antipolis, France, and later enhanced by Arnaud Le Hors.... , Sun Rasterfile, Targa Truevision TGA Truevision TGA, often referred to as TARGA, is a raster graphics file format created by Truevision Inc. . It was the native format of TARGA and VISTA boards, which were the first graphic cards for IBM-compatible PCs to support Highcolor/truecolor display... , RGB, BMP, PCX PCX PCX is an image file format developed by the now-defunct ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted DOS imaging standards, although it has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats, such as GIF,... , FITS FITS Flexible Image Transport System is a digital file format used to store, transmit, and manipulate scientific and other images. FITS is the most commonly used digital file format in astronomy... , PM PM PM often means "after noon" in the 12-hour clock .PM or Pm may also refer to:-Sciences:*Particulate matter, particulates — fine dust and soot — suspended in the air... , PostScript PostScript PostScript is a dynamically typed concatenative programming language created by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in 1982. It is best known for its use as a page description language in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. Adobe PostScript 3 is also the worldwide printing and imaging... , PNG (with patch) |
| Zoner Photo Studio Zoner Photo Studio Zoner Photo Studio is a software application for viewing, editing, organizing, archiving, publishing and sharing digital images. It also supports GPS-assisted geotagging and creation of 3D pictures.- Versions :... |
JPEG, HDP/WDP, TIFF, GIF/aGIF, PNG, PSD, PSB, PSP/PSPIMAGE, BMP/DIB/RLE, J2K/JPC/JP2, PAM, PBM, PGM, PNM, PCD, PCX, WBMP/WBM, TGA, ICO, MAC, WPG, BMI, MDM, THN, ARW/SR2, CRW/CR2, DNG Digital Negative (file format) Digital Negative is an open raw image format owned by Adobe used for digital photography. It was launched on September 27, 2004. The launch was accompanied by the first version of the DNG specification, plus various products including a free of charge DNG Converter utility... , ERF, KDC, MEF, MRW, NEF, ORF, RAF, RAW, X3F, 3FR, RW2, PEF, SRF, DCM, RWZ Rawzor Rawzor is a proprietary lossless image compression software which compresses camera raw images without any loss in image quality or meta-information. It is available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.-Features:* Supports all major raw formats... , stereo pictures: JPS, PNS, BMS. |
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Supported desktop environments
| Name | Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
Mac OS Mac OS Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface... |
X Window System X Window System The X window system is a computer software system and network protocol that provides a basis for graphical user interfaces and rich input device capability for networked computers... |
AmigaOS AmigaOS AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. It was developed first by Commodore International, and initially introduced in 1985 with the Amiga 1000... |
MorphOS MorphOS MorphOS is an Amiga-compatible computer operating system. It is a mixed proprietary and open source OS produced for the Pegasos PowerPC processor based computer, PowerUP accelerator equipped Amiga computers, and a series of Freescale development boards that use the Genesi firmware, including the... |
IBM IBM International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas... z/OS |
OS/2 OS/2 OS/2 is a computer operating system, initially created by Microsoft and IBM, then later developed by IBM exclusively. The name stands for "Operating System/2," because it was introduced as part of the same generation change release as IBM's "Personal System/2 " line of second-generation personal... |
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| ACDSee ACDSee ACDSee is a shareware image organizer, viewer, and editor software for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X 10.5 and higher developed by ACD Systems. It was originally distributed as a 16-bit application for Windows 3.0 and later supplanted by a 32-bit version for Windows 95.ACDSee displays a tree view... |
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| Adobe Bridge Adobe Bridge Adobe Bridge is an organizational software application created and released by Adobe Systems as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite, beginning with CS2. Its primary purpose is to link the parts of the Creative Suite together using an interface similar to the file browser found in previous versions... |
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| CDisplay CDisplay CDisplay is a free sequential image viewer utility for Microsoft Windows used to view images one at a time in the style of a comic book. CDisplay was written to easily view JPEG, PNG and static GIF format images sequentially... |
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| Comix Comix (software) Comix is an image viewer specifically designed to handle comic book archives. It reads ZIP, RAR and tar archives, as well as plain image files. It is written in Python and uses GTK+ through the PyGTK bindings... |
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| digiKam DigiKam digiKam is an image organizer and editor using KDE Platform. It runs on most known desktop environments and window managers if the required libraries are installed. It supports all major image file formats, and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, or dynamic albums by... |
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| Eye of GNOME Eye of GNOME Eye of GNOME is the official image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment. Unlike some other image viewers, Eye of GNOME will only display images... |
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| EyeBrowse EyeBrowse EyeBrowse is an advanced graphics editing and management program which has fully featured multiple file and directory management and many tools to help you work with graphics. The software incorporates extensive support for all common file formats . You can display images in a tiled pattern, best... |
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| FastPictureViewer Fast Picture Viewer FastPictureViewer is a commercial 32 and 64-bit image viewer for Windows 7, Vista and XP. Its aim is to facilitate quick review, rating and annotation of large quantities of digital images in the early steps of the digital workflow, with an emphasis on simplicity and speed.As of v1.6, a basic... |
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| FastStone Image Viewer FastStone Image Viewer FastStone Image Viewer is an image viewer and organizer for Microsoft Windows, provided free of charge for personal and educational use, .- Features :Highlights:* Relatively fast HQ image/thumbnail viewing, using Lanczos resampling algorithm... |
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| Firehand Ember Firehand Ember Firehand Ember is a Windows-based image viewer, editor and organizer. It is no longer commercially available as the company ceased to exist following the death in 2006 of the program developer, Matthew Warren Smith, who was also the company owner.... |
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| F-Spot F-Spot F-Spot is an image organizer, designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop environment. The name is a play on the words F-Stop and G-Spot.-Features:... |
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| GQView GQView GQview is a free software image viewer created by John Ellis using the GTK+ toolkit, designed to run on the X Window System. For MS Windows, an unofficial port is also available.... |
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| GraphicConverter GraphicConverter GraphicConverter is computer software that displays and edits computer graphics files. It also converts files between different formats. For example, one can convert a GIF file to a JPEG file.... |
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| gThumb GThumb gThumb is an open-source image viewer and organizer for the GNOME desktop environment released under the GNU General Public License. It was originally based on GQView, and is designed to have a clean, simple interface.- Features :... |
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| Gwenview Gwenview Gwenview is an image viewer for the KDE Software Compilation desktop environment. The current maintainer is Aurélien Gâteau. The word "Gwen" means "white" in the Breton language and is commonly used as a first name.... |
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| ImageAXS ImageAXS ImageAXS is a software application for organizing and editing digital photos, originally created by Digital Arts and Sciences Corporation and later acquired by Caere Corporation . "ImageAXS" is a blend of the word Image and [sic] Access .Native applications for Windows, Mac OS were available... |
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| Imagine Imagine (graphics software) Imagine is an image and animation viewer developed by Chun Sejin for Microsoft Windows, capable of viewing numerous image formats, including ANI, ANM , BMP, CorelDRAW, CDT, PAT, CMX, CUR, DCX, DDS, EMF, GIF, ICL, ICO, JPE, JPEG, MacPaint, MNG, PBM, PCD, PCX, PGM, PIC, CEL, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP , RAS,... |
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| IMatch IMatch IMatch is shareware digital asset management application for Windows.IMatch is targeted at professional and serious amateur photographers because of its organizing functions and its noted capability for managing large collections .- Features :Imported images can be sorted and organized in categories... |
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| imgSeek ImgSeek imgSeek is a photo collection manager and viewer with content-based search and many other features. The query is expressed either as a rough sketch painted by the user or as another image... |
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| iPhoto IPhoto iPhoto is a digital photograph manipulation software application developed by Apple Inc. and released with every Macintosh personal computer as part of the iLife suite of digital life management applications... |
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| IrfanView IrfanView IrfanView is a freeware/shareware image viewer for Microsoft Windows that can view, edit, and convert image files and play video/audio files. It is noted for its small size, speed, ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats, and has some image creation and painting... |
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| KSquirrel KSquirrel KSquirrel is an image viewer for the KDE desktop environment with a disk navigator, file tree, thumbnails, extended thumbnails, dynamic format support, DCOP interface, KEXIF and KIPI plugins support. The current version is 0.8.0 . It supports , including PNG, JPEG, PSD, APNG, GIF, WMF, OpenEXR and... |
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| KPhotoAlbum KPhotoAlbum KPhotoAlbum is an image viewer and organizer for Unix-like systems created and maintained by Jesper K. Pedersen. The core philosophy behind its creation was that it should be easy for users to annotate images and videos taken with a digital camera... |
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| Lphoto Lphoto Lphoto is an open source image editor for Linux. The Lphoto open source project was started by and maintained by Linspire, a Linux distribution based on Debian and Ubuntu.In 2008, Linspire was acquired and then discontinued by Xandros... |
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| Phase One Media Pro Phase One Media Pro Phase One Media Pro is a commercial digital asset management cataloging program for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It is the next version of iView MediaPro which Microsoft acquired in June 2006, and sold again in May 2010 to Phase One in Denmark... |
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| Picasa Picasa Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by Idealab in 2002 and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my... |
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| Preview Preview (software) Preview is Mac OS X's application for displaying images and Portable Document Format documents. Like Mac OS X itself, it comes from NeXT's OPENSTEP operating system.... |
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| Shotwell Shotwell (software) Shotwell is an image organizer designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop environment. It has replaced F-Spot as the standard image tool for several GNOME-based Linux distributions, including Fedora in version 13 and Ubuntu in its 10.10 Maverick Meerkat... |
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| ShowImg ShowImg ShowImg is an open-source image viewer for the KDE desktop environment by Richard Groult. According to the website there have been no releases since the 0.95 release in 2006.-External links:*... |
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| Simple Comic Simple Comic Simple Comic is an open source comic book and manga viewer for Mac OS X. It supports reading both directories of images and comic book archives... |
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| STDU Viewer STDU Viewer STDU Viewer is a compact viewer for PDF, WWF, DjVu, Comic Book Archive , FB2, XPS, TCR, multi-page TIFF, TXT, PalmDoc , EMF, WMF, BMP, GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, PSD, PCX, DCX files... |
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| XnView XnView XnView is a cross-platform image viewer used for viewing, converting, organising and editing graphical & video files. It is free of charge for private, educational and non-profit organisations... |
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| Xv Xv xv is a shareware program written by John Bradley to display and modify digital images under the X Window System.While popular in the early 1990s , no official releases have been made since December 1994... |
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| Zoner Photo Studio Zoner Photo Studio Zoner Photo Studio is a software application for viewing, editing, organizing, archiving, publishing and sharing digital images. It also supports GPS-assisted geotagging and creation of 3D pictures.- Versions :... |
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- SView5 may also run on Linux/x86 and MacOS/x86 using MonoMono (software)Mono, pronounced , is a free and open source project led by Xamarin to create an Ecma standard compliant .NET-compatible set of tools including, among others, a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime....
Features
| Program | Fullscreen | slideshow | zoom (styles) |
cache decoded images | thumbnails (sizes) | thumbnail caching | navigation views | sort (schemes) |
search (criteria) | selection (styles) | metadata | adjust image (functions) | hotkeys | color management (ICC ICC profile In color management, an ICC profile is a set of data that characterizes a color input or output device, or a color space, according to standards promulgated by the International Color Consortium... ) |
other / special | JPEG Lossless operations | Unicode support | |
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| ACDSee ACDSee ACDSee is a shareware image organizer, viewer, and editor software for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X 10.5 and higher developed by ACD Systems. It was originally distributed as a 16-bit application for Windows 3.0 and later supplanted by a 32-bit version for Windows 95.ACDSee displays a tree view... |
1:1, fit width and/or height, lock |
previous, next |
user-defined |
database |
directory-tree, albums, calendar, favourites, search results | user-defined, name, date, size, type, ... |
individual, linear, block |
Exif |
many |
GPS Location, Scripts for batch/pre processing, automatic slideshow | rotation only |
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| CDisplay CDisplay CDisplay is a free sequential image viewer utility for Microsoft Windows used to view images one at a time in the style of a comic book. CDisplay was written to easily view JPEG, PNG and static GIF format images sequentially... |
1:1, fit over/under width/height, fullscreen, doublepage |
Fixed, with scroll |
Thumbnails(of current folder images or archive) | Rotate, Filter |
configurable |
Slider, automatic slideshow, mouse control | ||||||||||||
| Comix Comix (software) Comix is an image viewer specifically designed to handle comic book archives. It reads ZIP, RAR and tar archives, as well as plain image files. It is written in Python and uses GTK+ through the PyGTK bindings... |
1:1, fit over/under width/height, fullscreen, doublepage |
Fixed, with scroll |
Thumbnails(of current folder images or archive) | Rotate, Filter |
Slider, automatic slideshow, mouse control | |||||||||||||
| digiKam DigiKam digiKam is an image organizer and editor using KDE Platform. It runs on most known desktop environments and window managers if the required libraries are installed. It supports all major image file formats, and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, or dynamic albums by... |
fit, in/out |
previous, next |
adjustable size |
album-tree, tags, calendar, searches, map (geolocation) | tags, date, keywords, metadata |
file name, comments, most Exif and meta data |
linear, block, complex |
Exif and IPTC |
many editing function |
Geotagging GeoTagging Geotagging is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as a geotagged photograph or video, websites, SMS messages, QR Codes or RSS feeds and is a form of geospatial metadata... , batch processing, detect duplicate/similar images, export to Internet/social media/HTML |
in 90° steps |
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| Eye of gnome Eye of GNOME Eye of GNOME is the official image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment. Unlike some other image viewers, Eye of GNOME will only display images... |
+/-, 1:1, best fit |
image collection pane, only one row | Thumbnails(of current folder images) | Rotate |
unconfigurable |
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| EyeBrowse EyeBrowse EyeBrowse is an advanced graphics editing and management program which has fully featured multiple file and directory management and many tools to help you work with graphics. The software incorporates extensive support for all common file formats . You can display images in a tiled pattern, best... |
fit, in/out |
file-tree, ??? | Screen captures... | |||||||||||||||
| F-Spot F-Spot F-Spot is an image organizer, designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop environment. The name is a play on the words F-Stop and G-Spot.-Features:... |
list, file-tree | keywords |
Export to HTML, Flickr Flickr Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to... , or O.r.i.g.i.n.a.l. |
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| FastPictureViewer Fast Picture Viewer FastPictureViewer is a commercial 32 and 64-bit image viewer for Windows 7, Vista and XP. Its aim is to facilitate quick review, rating and annotation of large quantities of digital images in the early steps of the digital workflow, with an emphasis on simplicity and speed.As of v1.6, a basic... |
Auto-advance mode |
1:1, fit, 50%-6400% magnifier, click-and-hold zooming |
dynamic, adaptive |
96x96px, shown on navigation slider (Vista or later) |
(uses OS-managed cache on Windows Vista or later) |
Windowed or full-screen, back and forth navigation, bookmarks, navigation slider |
Filenames, file creation/modification date, Exif date taken, GPS timestamp | Copy, move, delete, rate, label |
Write XMP Rating/Label, IPTC medatata, Vista Rating, embedded or in sidecar files, shows shooting info (Exif) and realtime RGB histogram |
(supports custom monitor profile, direct conversion from image colorspace to monitor colorspace, ICC v4) |
Native 32 and 64-bit, Tethered shooting (MTP/PTP Media Transfer Protocol The Media Transfer Protocol is a devised set of custom extensions to the Picture Transfer Protocol . Whereas PTP was designed for downloading photographs from digital cameras, Media Transfer Protocol supports the transfer of music files on digital audio players and media files on portable media... over USB Universal Serial Bus USB is an industry standard developed in the mid-1990s that defines the cables, connectors and protocols used in a bus for connection, communication and power supply between computers and electronic devices.... ), Multicore-aware, DirectX DirectX Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with Direct, such as Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay,... accelerated, HD Photo / JPEG XR support. |
n/a | , native | |||||
| FastStone Image Viewer FastStone Image Viewer FastStone Image Viewer is an image viewer and organizer for Microsoft Windows, provided free of charge for personal and educational use, .- Features :Highlights:* Relatively fast HQ image/thumbnail viewing, using Lanczos resampling algorithm... |
1:1, fit width and/or height, lock |
5 predefined sizes |
database |
dir-tree | user-defined, name, date, file size, image size, type |
individual, linear |
JPEG comment |
many |
lossless transitions |
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| GQView GQView GQview is a free software image viewer created by John Ellis using the GTK+ toolkit, designed to run on the X Window System. For MS Windows, an unofficial port is also available.... |
fit, 1:1, in/out |
previous, next |
24x24 - 256x256 |
as png-files centrally or in sub-dir |
list, dir-tree, collection | collections, keywords, directory |
collections, keywords, filename, location, size, date, dimensions, comments, previous results |
block, linear, complex |
rotate, brightness, contrast |
find duplicates, sort manager, recent collections | ||||||||
| gThumb GThumb gThumb is an open-source image viewer and organizer for the GNOME desktop environment released under the GNU General Public License. It was originally based on GQView, and is designed to have a clean, simple interface.- Features :... |
random, forward, reverse |
fit, 1:1, remember, fit-if-larger, in/out |
48x48 - 256x256, 9 sizes |
Newer versions cache in a central directory | list, icon, subfolders, categories | catalogs, categories |
name, comment, date, category, folder, recursive-folder |
linear, block, complex |
manipulate color, flip/rotate, etc. |
bookmarks, comments, rename series, create index image, create HTML album | ||||||||
| ImageAXS ImageAXS ImageAXS is a software application for organizing and editing digital photos, originally created by Digital Arts and Sciences Corporation and later acquired by Caere Corporation . "ImageAXS" is a blend of the word Image and [sic] Access .Native applications for Windows, Mac OS were available... |
tags, comments, rename series, create HTML album | |||||||||||||||||
| IrfanView IrfanView IrfanView is a freeware/shareware image viewer for Microsoft Windows that can view, edit, and convert image files and play video/audio files. It is noted for its small size, speed, ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats, and has some image creation and painting... |
1:1, fit width and/or height, lock |
18 predefined sizes: 50×50–800×800 |
dir-tree, search results | name, date, file size, image width/height, type, user-defined |
name, date, metadata |
individual, linear |
JPEG comment, IPTC, Exif |
many |
Yes, custom monitor profile supported | Batch Conversion, Supports Adobe Photoshop Filter 8BF plugins, Screen Capture | crop plugin and rotate plugin available |
(with plugin) |
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| KPhotoAlbum KPhotoAlbum KPhotoAlbum is an image viewer and organizer for Unix-like systems created and maintained by Jesper K. Pedersen. The core philosophy behind its creation was that it should be easy for users to annotate images and videos taken with a digital camera... |
fit, in/out, presets |
views search results | by date | keywords, comments, title, any field from Exif metadata |
linear, complex |
per KIPI plugins |
configurable |
Quick-tagging using keyboard tokens | ||||||||||
| Media Pro | Fit to viewing area/height/width, 1:1, zoom to 1600% |
Yes, user-defined |
Database |
Catalog-sets, date, filetypes, events, author, people, by search, by keywords and all metadata | name, date, size, user-defined |
name, date, rating, file size, and many more. |
individual, linear |
EXIF, IPTC, and custom keywords |
Rotate, Red eye removal, saturation, color balance, levels and more |
Find duplicates, hierarchical keywords, distributable catalog with free Media Pro reader, offline browsing of images | ||||||||
| Picasa Picasa Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by Idealab in 2002 and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my... |
only in slideshow mode |
no view window, fit to viewing area, 1:1, zoom to 400% |
user defined |
database |
directory-tree, albums, timeline | name, date, size, user-defined |
name, date, rating, faces |
individual, linear |
Keywords |
basic |
collages, Geotagging GeoTagging Geotagging is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as a geotagged photograph or video, websites, SMS messages, QR Codes or RSS feeds and is a form of geospatial metadata... , Search for Faces, find duplicates |
rotation only |
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| ResourceSpace ResourceSpace ResourceSpace is an open source Digital Asset Management system originally developed for Oxfam. It has been released under a BSD-style license. It requires PHP, MySQL, and the GD Graphics Library, and works with most web server software such as Apache.... |
user defined |
database |
thumbs, list, events, tags | contact sheet |
date, relevance, colour |
Exif, IPTC, user defined |
rotate, gamma |
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| Shotwell Shotwell (software) Shotwell is an image organizer designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop environment. It has replaced F-Spot as the standard image tool for several GNOME-based Linux distributions, including Fedora in version 13 and Ubuntu in its 10.10 Maverick Meerkat... |
fixed size |
Thumbs, Events (dates), tags | Title, Exposure Date |
individual, linear, hide |
Read IPTC, Exif, XMP |
Exposure, Saturation, Tint, Shadows, Temperature, and more |
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| Simple Comic Simple Comic Simple Comic is an open source comic book and manga viewer for Mac OS X. It supports reading both directories of images and comic book archives... |
Magnifying loupe on cursor |
fullscreen thumbnails, thumbnails when hovering over progress bar, single page, double page |
Only by ascending file name. | rotate |
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| STDU Viewer STDU Viewer STDU Viewer is a compact viewer for PDF, WWF, DjVu, Comic Book Archive , FB2, XPS, TCR, multi-page TIFF, TXT, PalmDoc , EMF, WMF, BMP, GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, PSD, PCX, DCX files... |
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| Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Windows Photo Viewer is an image viewer developed by Microsoft that is included with Windows 7. It was also included with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 under the name of Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. It was temporarily replaced with Windows Photo Gallery in Windows Vista, but has been... |
1:1, fit, in/out |
rotate, lossless JPEG rotate, annotate TIFF images |
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| XnView XnView XnView is a cross-platform image viewer used for viewing, converting, organising and editing graphical & video files. It is free of charge for private, educational and non-profit organisations... |
1:1, fit width and/or height, lock |
previous, next |
user-defined |
database |
dir-tree, favourites, categories | name, date, size, type, etc.; no user-defined order |
name, date, file size, image size, meta data, ... |
individual, linear |
IPTC, Exif, JPEG comment |
many |
configurable |
Partial, no custom monitor profile | Supports Adobe Photoshop Filter 8BF plugins | Supported in XnViewMP XnView XnView is a cross-platform image viewer used for viewing, converting, organising and editing graphical & video files. It is free of charge for private, educational and non-profit organisations... |
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| xv Xv xv is a shareware program written by John Bradley to display and modify digital images under the X Window System.While popular in the early 1990s , no official releases have been made since December 1994... |
fixed size |
in subdirectory (.xvpics) |
name |
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view comments |
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| Zoner Photo Studio Zoner Photo Studio Zoner Photo Studio is a software application for viewing, editing, organizing, archiving, publishing and sharing digital images. It also supports GPS-assisted geotagging and creation of 3D pictures.- Versions :... |
1:1, fit width and/or height, lock |
in Viewer, previous and next |
user-defined |
database |
dir-tree, albums, CD compilations, media archive, search results, web albums | contact sheet, templates, calendars, paper saver |
name, date, size, type, etc.; user-defined order |
name, date, file size, meta data |
individual, linear |
IPTC, Exif, XMP, JPEG comment |
very many |
configurable |
sign images, 16 bits per channel, GPS support, merge pictures to HDR High dynamic range rendering In 3D computer graphics, high dynamic range rendering , also known as high dynamic range lighting, is the rendering of computer graphics scenes by using lighting calculations done in a larger dynamic range. This allows preservation of details that may be lost due to limiting contrast ratios... , WIC codecs support |
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| Program | Fullscreen | slideshow | zoom (styles) | cache decoded images | thumbnails (sizes) | thumbnail caching | navigation views | sort (schemes) | search (criteria) | selection (styles) | metadata | adjust image (functions) | hotkeys | color management (ICC ICC profile In color management, an ICC profile is a set of data that characterizes a color input or output device, or a color space, according to standards promulgated by the International Color Consortium... ) |
other / special | JPEG Lossless operations | Unicode support |
See also
- Comparison of raster graphics editorsComparison of raster graphics editors- List :- General information :Basic general information about the editors: creator/company, license etc.- Operating system support :The operating systems on which the editors can run natively , meaning which operating systems have which editors specifically coded for them - List :- General...
- Digital image editing
- List of raster graphics editors
- List of graphics file formats