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An image viewer or image browser is a computer program that displays a stored graphical image; it can often handle various graphics file formats. Such software usually renders the image according to properties of the display such as color depth and display resolution.

One may use a full-featured bitmap graphics editors (such as Photoshop or the GIMP) as an image viewer. But these have editing functionality one may not need. A simple viewer lacks much of this functionality and therefore starts faster. Also, viewers do have simple functionalities that editors usually lack, such as stepping through all the images in a folder (possibly as a slideshow).

Image viewers give maximum flexibility to the user by providing a direct view of the folder structure available on a hard disk. Most image viewers do not provide any kind of automatic organization of pictures and therefore the burden remains on the user to create and maintain their folder structure.

Many image viewers feature:
  • Basic viewing operations such as zooming and rotation.
  • Slideshow
  • Printing
  • Cataloguing
Common image viewers include:

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Slideshow is a modern concatenation of "Slide Show". A slideshow is a display of a series of chosen images, which is done for artistic or instructional purposes.
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ACDSee is a shareware image organizer software for Windows developed by ACD Systems. The current version is 10.0 (build 219). Besides the usual thumbnail viewing of folders and file type conversion, key features of ACDSee include slideshow presentations, CD/DVD burning, HTML
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XnView is a multi-platform software used for viewing, converting, organising and manipulating graphic & video files. It is free of charge for non-commercial usage and easy to use.
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IrfanView is a freeware image viewer for Microsoft Windows that can view, edit, and convert image files and play video/audio formats. It does not have extensive image creation and painting capabilities like Adobe Photoshop or GNU's GIMP.
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Free for non-commercial use only
Website: www.faststone.org/

FastStone Image Viewer is an image viewing application for Microsoft Windows. While competing in the same segment as ACDSee, Irfanview, Picasa and others, it features image editing features normally found
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Kuickshow is a free software image viewer and slideshow program for the KDE desktop environment.

It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

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Maintainer: Paolo Bacchilega

OS: Linux, Solaris, BSD, other Unix-like

Use: Image viewer
License: GPL
Website: [1] gThumb
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loading of: PNG, JPEG, BMP, JPEG 2000, GIF, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO, CUR, TGA, saving to: JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF, GIF, PCX, BMP, PNG, TGA Full-screen, slideshow, multiple sizes of thumbnails, Exif, etc Rotate, move, rename, 150+ transitional effects, lossless JPEG transitions,
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Common image organizers features are:

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Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is an image viewer. It is a part of the Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. It is capable of viewing JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF, WMF, EMF and TIFF format files.
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