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This article presents a comparison of image viewers and image organizers which can be used for image viewing.
Contents |
General information
| Name | View functions | Edit functions 3 | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACDSee | Thumbnails (user-defined sizes), fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, fit, view Exif info, view inside ZIP archives, no Unicode support, ... | 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: 49.99 USD pro: 129.99 USD |
| Adobe Bridge | Thumbnails, slideshow, filmstrip, preview, versions with alternates | Stand Alone: rotate, rename, delete, move, copy, batch rename, add/Edit Metadata, camera raw image adjustments (crop, resize, exposure, contrast, white balance, curves, etc...)
Via Photoshop: contact sheet, merge to HDR, PDF presentation, Photomerge, Web picture gallery |
Included with various Adobe products 1 |
| Adobe Photoshop Lightroom | library organization, RAW and JPEG editing, slideshow tools, print layout and preferences, web gallery creation and uploading | $299 | |
| Digikam | Fit to window, zoom, pan, Light Table, Slideshow+Effects | Rotate, crop, vertical/horizontal flip, lossless JPEG operations (90° steps), color management, 16bit color depth, Light Table, EXIF, IPTC, GPS metadata, adjust colors/brightness/levels, elaborate Black and White conversion, lens correction, anti-vignetting, sharpening tools, vibrance, many filters, Batch operations, export to archive, HTML, flickr, gallery2, picasaweb. | $0 (GNU GPL) |
| Elgorithms MagicTracer | Fit to window, zoom | Color editing, filters, color management, color-depth maganagement, rotate, crop, resize | $49.95 |
| Eye of GNOME | Fit to window, zoom, print, full-screen, slideshow, image collection, image information... | Rotate, delete, flip, save as | $0 (GNU GPL) |
| EyeBrowse | 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 |
| FastPictureViewer | Borderless full-screen kiosk mode, Fit-to-window, 1:1, 50%-6400% magnifier, Multicore-aware, DirectX hardware accelerated. | No image editing. 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 including custom target profile selection, Unicode support, EXIF shooting data (shutter speed, f-stop, ISO speed, exposure compensation...) and real-time, seamless R,G,B histogram in translucent floating window. | Free for personal use (freeware license), $29.90 for Professional edition |
| FastStone Image Viewer | 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 use |
| Firehand Ember | $60 | ||
| FuturixImager | Full-screen, slideshow, zoom, histogram, metadata view, view-as-wallpaper; | Effects/filters, pencil, flood fill, eraser; JPEG lossless rotation; printing, scanning; screen capture; | $0 Freeware |
| F-Spot | Full-screen, slideshow, zoom, multiple sizes of thumbnails. Export: HTML, Flickr, Gallery Project, and O.r.i.g.i.n.a.l | Tags, rotate, move, rename, hue, contrast, crop, resize | $0 (GNU GPL) |
| GQView | Full-screen, slideshow, zoom, color spectrum, 14 sizes of thumbnails | Rotate, move, rename, hue, contrast, find/remove duplicates | $0 (GNU GPL) |
| GraphicConverter | Full-screen, slideshow, etc | Rotate, move, rename... | $35 |
| gThumb | Full-screen, slideshow, zoom, color spectrum, three sizes of thumbnails | Rotate, move, rename, hue, contrast, | $0 (GNU GPL) |
| Gwenview | 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... | $0 (GNU GPL) |
| Imagine | fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, rotate, thumbnails | resize, rename, greyscale, negative, swap colors, filters (blur, edge, emboss, gaussian, sharpen, soften ) | $0 (Free without any limitation [1]) |
| IMatch | Unicode | $59.95 | |
| imgSeek | Search similar images, Fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, thumbnails, disk navigator tree, tag treeview. Export: HTML | Rotate, move, rename, hue, contrast, etc | $0 (GNU GPL) |
| iPhoto | Thumbnails, fullscreen, slideshow | Lossy JPEG rotate, Cropping (custom and template), Brightness/Contrast, Red-eye, Retouch, Color Enhancement, B&W and Sepia Conversion... | $0 2 |
| IrfanView | Thumbnails (18 pre-defined sizes from 50×50–800×800 pixels), fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, fit (several options), view IPTC and Exif info, hex view; Format detection with offer to rename, set wallpaper, EXE/SCR creation, Burn slideshow to CD; directory tree
2 languages (ENG/GER) |
Add Text, Crop, Cut/Copy selected area, Paste-Into selected area, paste from PrintScreen, Resize/Resample, Rotate, Flip Vert/Horiz, JPG lossless transformations, Color Adjustments, Greyscale, Red-Eye Reduction, Sharpen, effects/filters, Own and 8bf (Photoshop) plugins compatibility, 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 |
educational use (schools, universities and libraries) and for use in charity or humanitarian organisations: $0 at place of business or for commercial purposes: US$12.00 or €10 |
| KSquirrel | disk navigator, file tree, thumbnails, bookmarks, fullscreen, KIPI plugins ... | resize, rotate, colorize, convert, print ... | $0 (GNU GPL) |
| KPhotoAlbum | Zoom, Rotate, Metadata, Exif, thumbnails (customize size), slideshow, Categories | As Available per Kipi Plugins | $0 (GNU GPL) |
| Lphoto | Zoom, Slideshow, camera information, | Crop, redeye, color tweaking, auto attach and resize for email, export to HTML, export to CD | $0 (GNU GPL) |
| MST Viewer | Thumbnail, Zoom, Rotation, Multiple Page Support, Pan, Fit to Height and/or Width | Cut, Copy, Paste, Merge, Crop, Annotate, Image Cleanup, Image Enhance, Scale-to-gray resizing for 1bit images, Bilinear Interpolation for resizing Bi-Level images, Bi-Cubic Interpolation for resizing color images, Converting, ... | For Commercial Use Only |
| Picasa | Zoom, lossless rotate, histogram, camera information | Crop, straighten, redeye, colour tweaking, effects, batch edit, batch rename, video rendering, HTML gallery creation, photo browser application creator, screensaver | $0 |
| Pictomio | 3D carousel ,filmstrip, thumbnail, Map (for geotagged Pictures), lossless rotate, slideshow, histogram, EXIF | cut, copy, paste, rename,EXIF, add time offset, geotag, auto rotation, lossless rotate | $0 Freeware |
| Preview | Zoom, rotate, metadata | Crop, straighten, color tweaking, profile assignment | $0 |
| ShowImg | fullscreen, slideshow, filters, search for similar images | Batch rename, convert filetype | $0 (GNU GPL) |
| ThumbsPlus | Thumbnails (user-defined sizes), fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, fit, view Exif info, ... | Resize, crop, rotate, flip, jpeg lossless rotate/mirror, adjust exposure and colors etc, filters (sharpen, blur, average, emboss, ...), red eye removal, ... | std: 49.95 USD pro: 89.95 USD |
| Windows Picture and Fax Viewer | fullscreen, slideshow, fit, zoom, print | rotate, lossy JPEG rotate, annotate TIFF images | $0 (included with Windows XP) |
| Xee | Fullscreen, Exif data, archive browsing, same directory browsing, slideshow, OpenGL display | Crop and rotate, lossless JPEG manipulation, file system manipulation | |
| XnView | 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, educational use and non-profit organization; otherwise 26€. |
| Xv | 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 |
| Zoner Photo Studio | Thumbnails (user-defined sizes), fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, fit, ITPC and Exif info, ... | Resize, crop, rotate, flip, jpeg lossless rotate/mirror, adjust exposure and colors etc, filters (sharpen, blur, average, emboss, ...), red eye removal, batch rename, edit ITPC and Exif info, ... | Home: 49.99 USD Pro: 99.99 USD |
| Name | View functions | Edit functions | Price |
Note 1: Adobe Bridge comes free 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 for $70 and Photoshop is available for $400.
Note 2: The latest version of iPhoto comes free with a Mac. iPhoto cannot be purchased separately, but is part of the iLife-suite which is available from Apple Computer for $79.
Note 3: See also Comparison of raster graphics editors.
Supported file formats
| Name | File formats |
|---|---|
| ACDSee | BMP, EMF, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PIC, PICT, PNG, PSD, PSP, SGI, TGA, TIFF, WMF, XBM, various camera formats among others |
| Adobe Bridge | Displays all file types supported by Adobe Creative Suite |
| Digikam | JPEG, PNG, JPEG 2000, BMP, GIF, PCX, TIFF, WMF, PNM, PPM, XCF, XPM, PGX, all RAW formats, MPEG, MPO, MPE, AVI, MOV, ASF |
| Elgorithms MagicTracer | PNG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIF, ICO, CUR, PCX, TGA, RAS, WMF, EMF, JPEG 2000, JPC, PNM |
| Eye of GNOME | PNG, GIF, JPG, BMP, PNM, RAS, TIFF, ICO, XPM, SVG |
| EyeBrowse | PNG, JPG, BMP, TGA, TIFF, PCX, WMF, EMF, DIB, GIF, ICO |
| FastPictureViewer | JPEG, JPE, JFIF, HD Photo, HDP, WDP, JPEG XR (+ PNG, BMP, RLE, DIB, ICO, TIFF, MTIFF, DNG, NRW, NEF, CR2, ORF, PEF, ARW, SR2, SRF, DjVu, WIC codecs in the Professional Edition)[1] |
| FastStone Image Viewer | loading of: PNG, JPEG, BMP, JPEG 2000, GIF, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO, CUR, TGA, CRW, saving to: JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF, GIF, PCX, BMP, PNG, TGA |
| Firehand Ember | |
| F-Spot | CR2, CRW, DNG, GIF, JPEG, MRW, NEF, ORF, PEF, PNG, PPM, RAF, RAW, SRF, SVG, TIFF |
| GQview | See note |
| GraphicConverter | 190 types read, 79 types saved |
| gThumb | See note |
| Gwenview | PNG, JPEG, MNG, GIF, XCF etc. |
| Imagine | ANI, ANM (Deluxe Paint Animation), BMP, CorelDRAW drawing (CDR,CDT,PAT,CMX), CUR, DCX, DDS, EMF, GIF, ICL, ICO, JPE, JPEG, JPG, MacPaint, MNG, PBM, PCD, PCX, PGM, PIC, CEL, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP (Paint Shop Pro image), RAS, RLA, RLE, SGI (RGB,BW), SPR (Pro Motion Animation), TGA, TIFF, WBMP, WMF, XBM, XCF, XPM, |
| IMatch | over 50 types including RAW, also Unicode |
| imgSeek | 12 types |
| iPhoto | PNG, JPEG, GIF, RAW (All QuickTime supported images), PSD (Leopard), AVI (Leopard), MOV (Leopard) |
| IrfanView | ~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), JPG2000, JPG, 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, NEF, ORF, RAF, MRW, DCR, SRF, X3F, CAD formats. Partial support: MOV, QTIF, Mac PICT, FLI/FLC, SVG. |
| KSquirrel | 51 types |
| KPhotoAlbum | Photo formats supported by KDE; AVI, MPEG, RAW |
| Lphoto | iPhoto Clone |
| MST Viewer | ASCII, ABIC, AFP (MO:DCA), BMP, Brooktrout, CALS, CLIP, DCX, DICOM, DOC, DJVU, EPS, GIF, IOCA (MO:DCA), JBIG, JBIG2, JPEG, JPEG2000, MO:DCA, MO:DCA Uncompressed, PBM, PCX, PGM, PNG, PPM, PCL, PDF, PTOCA (MO:DCA), RLE, RTF, SVG, TIFF, TIFF Group 3/Group 4, TIFF JBIG, TIFF JPEG, TIFF Uncompressed, TXT, WMF, XLS, XML, XPS |
| Picasa | 8 types including PNG, JPEG and some movie formats |
| Pictomio | JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, TGA with codec: MPG, MPEG, AVI, WMV, ASF, VOB, QT, MP4, WMA, WAV, MP3, OGG |
| Preview | All QuickTime images: |
| ResourceSpace | Hundreds; all types supported by ImageMagick and FFmpeg plus InDesign |
| ShowImg | JPEG, PNG, GIF, XCF, PSD etc. |
| Windows Picture and Fax Viewer | JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF, WMF, EMF, TIFF, ICO |
| Xee | JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, GIF, PSD, TIFF, OpenEXR, Radiance, RAW, PICT, QuickTime Image, MacPaint, Apple Icon, BMP, Targa, PCX, ILBM, SGI, FPX, XBM, Fax Document (fax, jfx, jfax), Comic Book Archive |
| XnView | reads about 400 formats, including: JPEG (IPTC & Exif), BMP, PNG, FAX, GIF, TIFF (Multipage), NEF, CRW, PSD, EPS, WMF, DICOM; writes about 50 formats |
| Xv | GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PBM, PGM, PPM, XPM, Sun Rasterfile, Targa, RGB, BMP, PCX, FITS, PM, PostScript, PNG (with patch) |
| Zoner Photo Studio | JPG/JPEG/JPE, HDP/WDP, TIFF/TIF, 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, ERF, KDC, MEF, MRW, NEF, ORF, RAF and RAW [2] |
| Name | File formats |
Supported desktop environments
| Name | Windows | Vista x32 | Vista x64 | Mac OS | GNOME | KDE | X Window System | AmigaOS | MorphOS | IBM z/OS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACDSee | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Adobe Bridge | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Digikam | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ||
| Elgorithms MagicTracer | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| Eye of GNOME | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| EyeBrowse | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| FastPictureViewer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| FastStone Image Viewer | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| Firehand Ember | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| F-Spot | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| GQView | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ||
| GraphicConverter | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| gThumb | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Gwenview | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| IMatch | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| imgSeek | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | ||
| iPhoto | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| IrfanView | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| KSquirrel | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| KPhotoAlbum | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Lphoto | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| MST Viewer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | ||
| Picasa | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
| Pictomio | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Preview | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| ShowImg | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| ThumbsPlus | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| Xee | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| XnView | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ||
| Xv | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Zoner Photo Studio | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ||
| Name | Windows | Vista x32 | Vista x64 | Mac OS | GNOME | KDE | X Window System | AmigaOS | MorphOS | IBM z/OS |
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) | other / special | JPEG Lossless operations | Unicode support | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACDSee | Yes | Yes | Yes 1:1, fit width and/or height, lock |
Yes previous, next |
Yes user-defined |
Yes database |
directory-tree, albums, calendar, favourites, search results | Yes | Yes user-defined, name, date, size, type, ... |
Yes | Yes individual, linear, block |
Yes Exif |
Yes many |
Yes | Yes rotation only |
No | ||
| Digikam | Yes | Yes | Yes fit, in/out |
Yes previous, next |
Yes | Yes | Yes album-tree, tags, calendar, searches | Yes | Yes tags, date, keywords, metadata |
Yes | Yes linear, block, complex |
Yes Exif and IPTC |
Yes many editing function |
Yes | Yes | GPS location | ||
| EyeBrowse | Yes fit, in/out |
file-tree, ??? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Screen captures... | ||||||||||||
| F-Spot | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | list, file-tree | Yes keywords |
Yes | Export to HTML, Flickr, or O.r.i.g.i.n.a.l. | ||||||||||
| FastPictureViewer | Yes | Yes Auto-advance mode |
Yes 1:1, fit, 50%-6400% magnifier, click-and-hold zooming |
Yes dynamic, adaptive |
No | No | Yes Windowed or full-screen, back and forth navigation, bookmarks |
No | Yes Filenames, file creation/modification date, EXIF date taken, GPS timestamp | No | Yes Copy, move, delete, rate, label |
Yes Write XMP Rating/Label, Vista Rating, embedded or in sidecar files, shows shooting info (EXIF) and realtime RGB histogram |
No | Yes | Yes (supports custom monitor profile, direct conversion from image colorspace to monitor colorspace, ICC v4) |
Unicode support, Tethered shooting (MTP/PTP over USB), Multicore-aware, DirectX accelerated, HD Photo / JPEG XR support. | ||
| FastStone Image Viewer | Yes | Yes | Yes 1:1, fit width and/or height, lock |
No | Yes 5 predefined sizes |
Yes database |
dir-tree | Yes | Yes user-defined, name, date, file size, image size, type |
Yes individual, linear |
Partial jpeg comment |
Yes many |
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| GQView | Yes | Yes | Yes fit, 1:1, in/out |
Yes next |
Yes 24x24 - 256x256 |
Yes as png-files centrally or in sub-dir |
list, dir-tree, collection | Yes | Yes collections, keywords, directory |
Yes collections, keywords, filename, location, size, date, dimensions, comments, previous results |
Yes block, linear, complex |
Yes | Yes rotate, brightness, contrast |
Yes | find duplicates, sort manager, recent collections | |||
| gThumb | Yes | Yes random, forward, reverse |
Yes fit, 1:1, remember, fit-if-larger, in/out |
Yes 48x48 - 256x256, 9 sizes |
Partial Newer versions cache in a central directory | list, icon, subfolders, categories | Yes | Yes catalogs, categories |
Yes name, comment, date, category, folder, recursive-folder |
Yes linear, block, complex |
Partial | Yes manipulate color, flip/rotate, etc |
Yes | bookmarks, comments, rename series, create index image, create HTML album | ||||
| IrfanView | Yes | Yes | Yes 1:1, fit width and/or height, lock |
No | Yes 18 predefined sizes: 50×50–800×800 |
No | dir-tree, search results | Yes | Partial name, date, file size, image width/height, type; no user-defined order |
Yes name, date, metadata |
Yes individual, linear |
Yes jpeg comment, IPTC, Exif |
Yes many |
Yes | Yes crop plugin and rotate plugin available |
No can see file structure, but not view image |
||
| KPhotoAlbum | Yes | Yes | Yes fit, in/out, presets |
Yes | views search results | by date | Yes keywords, comments, title, any field from Exif metadata |
Yes linear, complex |
Partial | Yes per Kipi plugins |
Yes configurable |
Quick-tagging using keyboard tokens | ||||||
| MST Viewer | Yes | No | Yes 1:1, fit width and height, 0%-infinite magnifier |
Yes Dynamic |
Yes | No | Yes Windowed, Splitter Panes, or Tree View |
Yes | Yes Filenames, alphabetic | No | Yes File copy, move, delete, merge, create |
Yes |
Yes | Yes customizable |
URL Downloading, Automatic pixel depth conversion, Image Cleanup, Image Enhance, Scale-to-gray resizing for 1bit images, Bilinear Interpolation for resizing Bi-Level images, Bi-Cubic Interpolation for resizing color images. | |||
| Picasa | Partial only in slideshow mode |
Yes | Partial no view window, fit to viewing area, 1:1, variable |
No | Yes 2 pre-defined sizes |
Yes database |
directory-tree, albums, timeline | Yes | Partial name, date, size, user-defined |
Yes name, date, rating |
Yes individual, linear |
Partial Keywords |
Partial basic |
Yes | Yes rotation only |
Yes | ||
| Pictomio | Partial only in slideshow mode |
Yes | Yes fit to viewing area, 1:1, in/out |
Yes previous, next |
Yes 2 pre-defined sizes |
Yes database |
directory-tree, albums, thumbnails, filmstrip, categories, favorites | Yes | Yes name, date, filesize, rating, colormark grouping by: rating, colormark, shortlist, year, month, day, type, orientation, pixelcount, volume, original path) |
Yes meta infos, tags, filename, category, album |
Yes individual, linear |
Yes EXIF, keywords, annotations |
Partial rotate |
Yes | No | DirectX accelerated, Geotagging | ||
| ResourceSpace | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes user defined |
Yes filesystem |
thumbs, list, themes | Yes contact sheet |
Yes date, relevance, colour |
Yes | Yes | Yes EXIF, IPTC, user defined |
Yes rotate, gamma |
No | ||||
| ThumbsPlus | Yes | Yes | Yes 1:1, fit width and/or height |
No | Yes user-defined |
Yes database |
dir-tree | Yes | Partial name, date, size, type, etc.; no user-defined order |
Yes name, date, file size, image size, meta data, image similarity |
Yes individual, linear |
Yes IPTC, Exif, jpeg comment |
Yes many |
Yes | can sort images by similarity to a sample image, loupe | |||
| Windows Picture and Fax Viewer | Yes | Yes | Yes 1:1, fit, in/out |
Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes: EXIF | Yes rotate, lossless JPEG rotate, annotate TIFF images |
Yes | Yes rotate only |
Yes | ||
| XnView | Yes | Yes | Yes 1:1, fit width and/or height, lock |
Yes previous, next |
Yes user-defined |
Yes database |
dir-tree, favourites, categories | Yes | Partial name, date, size, type, etc.; no user-defined order |
Yes name, date, file size, image size, meta data, ... |
Yes individual, linear |
Yes IPTC, Exif, jpeg comment |
Yes many |
Yes configurable |
Yes | |||
| xv | No | Yes | No | Yes fixed size |
Yes in subdirectory (.xvpics) |
Yes | Partial name |
No | Partial individual, all |
Partial view comments |
Yes many |
Yes | ||||||
| Zoner Photo Studio | Yes | Yes | Yes 1:1, fit width and/or height, lock |
Yes in Viewer, previous and next |
Yes user-defined |
Yes database |
dir-tree, albums, CD compilations, media archive, search results, web albums | Yes contact sheet, templates, calendars, paper saver |
Yes name, date, size, type, etc.; user-defined order |
Yes name, date, file size, meta data |
Yes individual, linear |
Yes IPTC, Exif, jpeg comment |
Yes very many |
Yes configurable |
Yes | sign images, 16 bits per channel, GPS support | ||
| 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) | other / special | JPEG Lossless operations | Unicode support |
Notes
- The filetypes that can be displayed by GQView depends on the image-processing libraries (libjpeg, libpng, etc.) installed on the operating system.
- Prices will vary over time, and between suppliers, and are for approximate indication only
- iPhoto is part of iLife, which includes a DVD authoring package (iDVD), a video editor (iMovie), a music player (iTunes), a multimedia web publisher (iWeb), and an audio-sequencing program (GarageBand)
- ACDSee supports 61 various image formats and writes to 16. Reads 9 compression formats and writes to 2. Also ACDSee supports 33 Video Formats (Reads)
- FastPictureViewer's DirectX hardware acceleration support depends on the actual video card installed and the amount of available video memory. The commercial version also supports previewing some camera RAW formats for which a WIC-enabled codec exists. Such RAW codecs are currently available from Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, Sony and for Adobe DNG but the actual list supported by the viewer currently only includes Nikon NRW, Nikon NEF, Canon CR2, Adobe DNG and DjVu.
- Picasa has an experimental GNU/Linux version that runs under WINE.
- A large majority of Windows based image viewers do not have Unicode support. Some exceptions that do work with Unicode include ExifPro, FastPictureViewer, Imatch and Ashampoo Photo Commander.
References
- ^ FastPictureViewer's Image Formats Compatibility Chart
- ^ File Formats supported by Zoner Photo Studio
