Looking for Photo Viewer - free is good
Dec 13, 2013 10:54:26 #
I have used FastStone Image Viewer for years and it is the best. I love the way it displays my images and the speed at which it does so. It is free, but you can give a donation, which I did. I look at my RAW images right out of the card with it and do a preliminary sort before moving my RAW images to the external hard drive that houses them (I use the windows Explorer to do that). It is a great little program and I prefer it hands down to Bridge.
Dec 13, 2013 11:52:18 #
big-guy wrote:
Hi Hoggers, br br NOTE: this is not for standard ... (show quote)
You already have Irfanview. That is free, and is a very capable viewer. I would suspect that you would have to pay to get a better program...
Dec 13, 2013 15:58:22 #
I'm about tenth on the list for Faststone Image Viewer...
No software is more free than Faststone.
It has incredible post processing capabilities aside from being one of the best viewers and presentation program I have used.
There is also an 80 plus page downloadable user manual showing all the capabilities.
It is a "shell type" viewer, meaning it follows your My Pictures folder in exactly the same way as if you went into My Pictures through the Libraries icon. It does allow you to delete, and move files and folders, but it does so without disrupting the
Window system functions. It does not create it's own catalog, nor does it move files to some obscure proprietary location.
Has layers, curves, and batch functions like batch rename, batch exposure changes, etc.
I mention all these functions, but it can also be used in the simplest of forms..... simply as an image viewer.
Oh... and did I mention, along with the other posters who suggested it....it's free. I do donate however.
No software is more free than Faststone.
It has incredible post processing capabilities aside from being one of the best viewers and presentation program I have used.
There is also an 80 plus page downloadable user manual showing all the capabilities.
It is a "shell type" viewer, meaning it follows your My Pictures folder in exactly the same way as if you went into My Pictures through the Libraries icon. It does allow you to delete, and move files and folders, but it does so without disrupting the
Window system functions. It does not create it's own catalog, nor does it move files to some obscure proprietary location.
Has layers, curves, and batch functions like batch rename, batch exposure changes, etc.
I mention all these functions, but it can also be used in the simplest of forms..... simply as an image viewer.
Oh... and did I mention, along with the other posters who suggested it....it's free. I do donate however.
Dec 13, 2013 16:07:11 #
With all the accolades for Fastone and testing for the last couple of hours, consider me converted. :thumbup: :thumbup: I also discovered Fastone MaxViewer which also fits right in with our needs. As we are using it commercially we will pay for the licenses instead of donations.
Thanks to all that responded. :-D
Thanks to all that responded. :-D
Dec 15, 2013 02:36:37 #
amehta
Loc: Boston
big-guy wrote:
With all the accolades for Fastone and testing for the last couple of hours, consider me converted. :thumbup: :thumbup: I also discovered Fastone MaxViewer which also fits right in with our needs. As we are using it commercially we will pay for the licenses instead of donations.
Thanks to all that responded. :-D
Thanks to all that responded. :-D
FastStone MaxView lets you open and view a zip file if images without unzipping. I archive a session in a zip file before I start dealing with pictures. If I ever need to go back to the zip to check originals, MaxView lets me without wasting the time and space to unzip.
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