Most graphical editors are either for photos or video but FreeVimager allows you to do both, albeit to a limited extent.

It's particularly useful for anyone who normally uses their camera for both photos and videos (which most of us do). First of all, it's extremely lightweight for both an image and video editor weighing in at just over 10MB. The program allows you to view & edit graphics file in jpeg, bmp, gif, tiff (multi-page), png and pcx format which is a decent amount and sufficient for most home users. It's also remarkably flexible supporting every version of Windows from 95 onwards. One aspect which is particularly useful is that of multi-monitor support which basically means that you can work on multiple projects at once - for example one photos project and one video project. It's also suitable for those in the know or who need technical data when it comes to photos because it maintains EXIF data when resaving and editing photos so you can see at a glance the aperture, exposure and file size instantly. You can process an unlimited number of images at once as the program also comes equipped with a very basic slideshow creator. You can also preview print jobs, create collages and it optimises images for sending by e-mail (by basically reducing their size without losing the quality).

For anyone that uses their camera for both photos and videos regularly, then FreeVimager will give you enough power to do both at once without complicating life.

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If you're tired of the Windows native image viewer and want to use another tool to browse through your photos, look no further. We found it for you.

FastPictureViewer is a fast, straightforward photo viewer that lets you scan the contents of a whole photo folder in a very easy way. You can move along pictures with many different key combinations (arrow keys, + and – keys, page up and page down keys) and also the mouse wheel. Plus the mouse buttons can be customized to quickly zoom in a photo. The program works only with JPG and HD photo formats, and also supports XMP ratings which are compatible with popular photo tools like Adobe Lightroom.

That said, don't expect to find many other features in this program. FastPictureViewer doesn't include all the bells and whistles you could expect from an image viewer. I would say it's especially addressed to users who just need a tool to quickly review photos and pick those which need further editing.

The program features a sleek, dark interface with a minimalistic design that contributes to put all the attention on the photo itself.

FastPictureViewer is an attractive, easy photo viewer that's mainly focused on browsing large picture collections and doesn't include any extra tools like the ones you find in similar apps.

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Batch TIFF Resizer is a specialized batch image resizer which handles single and multi-pages TIFF image formats. Because of its multi-page support, it is increasingly use to store scanned documents such as architecture plans, contracts, invoices and the likes. This program is designed with these uses in mind.

Main features of the utility:

• Import TIFF, BMP and JPG images by file, by folder or through drag-and-drop
• Resize images by pixels, percentage, ratio and physical page sizes
• Change color depth to 1 bit, 4 bits, 8 bits or 24 bits images
• Change image dots per inch settings
• Rotate image pages
• Sharpen images
• Work with multiple folders at the same time
• Save resultant images as TIFF or as Acrobat PDF file format
• Combine TIFFs into multi-page TIFFs or Acrobat PDF files
• Spilt multipage TIFFs into multiple single page TIFF files
• Supports TIFF-JPEG, LZW, G1, G3, G4, pack bits and uncompressed TIFF algorithm
• Support PDF encryption (40 and 128bits)
• Supports PDF password protection
• Supports allowing/denying PDF printing in PDF viewer
• Supports allowing/denying PDF content copying in PDF viewer

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I have to admit, it would be nice to reply just on one photo editing and viewing program to manage my photos.

The problem at the moment is that I use Picasa for uploading but not for editing or management. Visions is designed to try and unite all the most important photos editing and managements tasks in one program, mainly viewing, editing and sharing. Editing photos is very simple in visions and the feel is really professional and solid. In particular, the program outs a heavy focus on the right tagging of photos via it's advanced Meta (EXIF) editor. The problem or advantage, depending on whether you use it regularly, is that the only way you can share photos with Visions is via Flickr so like it or not, you'll need a Flickr account. But what really shines out with Twins Visions is the 3D viewer which allows you to view and manage your photos in 3D. Via the 3D showroom, you can navigate through your folders, run slide-shows of your photos, manage your albums, perform quick photo collection tasks and execute advanced search queries on your collections.

This is an immensely attractive and powerful photo management/viewing application. However, it does require a Flickr account.

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You have just taken lots of beautiful pictures and you can't wait to share them with your friends but what about that file-size problem you had last time while you were uploading the photos to your favourite online photo service?

Now, we all know about JPEG and that files of this type usually have an acceptable size. However. it’s increasingly common nowadays to be faced with large, highly detailed images which can be difficult to share with friends without resorting to CD-ROMS. Image Compressor reduces the size of JPEG file (which is already a compressed format) by analysing every pixel in the image. With our test the file-size reduction from a standard JPEG was between 20% and 45%. After zooming in on the compressed image, we noticed that the quality was basically identical to its original.

The program also includes other features, like one to retouch photos with some Photoshop-style filters or the one that compares the technical properties of two images. I particularly liked the 3D web photo-album which creates a cool 3D scrolling effect for a selection of images (the rendering is better with no more than about 30 files). It's a shame though that the application doesn't provide an option to share the 3D presentation and if you simply copy and move or send the files, it doesn't work.

Image Compressor is a useful tool to have and it includes some impressive features. Recommended to anyone looking to reduce file-size but not compromise on quality.

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Anyone who works with images on a regular basis will be familiar with the default image viewer of Windows, and also with its very limited scope for doing anything meaningful. There is a healthy selection of alternatives but FastStone Image Viewer has come to our attention as one that deserves to be singled out not only because it is free but also because it brings to the table a strong combination of speed, usability and versatility.

While the viewing functionality is a no-brainer, FastStone comes with a range of methods with which to browse pics. First off, there is the standard file browser that displays thumbnails of your images with a preview window for the file that is currently selected. There is also an option to check out individual pictures at their original size in the “Windowed View”, which is along the same lines as the default image viewer in Windows. Finally you can see images in full-screen, switching between files using the keyboard, the middle mouse button or the slide-in toolbar at the bottom of the screen.

However, FastStone Image Viewer goes beyond simply displaying images. You can perform some quick edits to really bring out the best in your pics such as adding a stylish frame mark that acts as a mask to reduce the sharp edges or if you happen to be working with 3D there is also a very effective bump map option that will serve you well for texturing. There are of course the standard tools of brightness/darkness adjustment, sharpness/blur, grayscale, red-eye removal and more. For results better than those you get with FastStone, you would need to use a professional package like Photoshop.

Further great features come in the form of batch rename and batch convert options. These could prove invaluable to many web developers looking for a quick way to prepare their PSD files for the web. With the inclusion of these batch functions, it would have been good to push the boat out even further and have an option to apply batch effects, for example to brighten up a group of photos that were taken in a dark space but alas, it’s not there!

Looking for faults with FastStone Image Viewer is like looking for the corner of a circle although if you insist on nitpicking, you can say that in the thumbnail browser view dragging and dropping should be possible for moving files. However when you realize that it is possible to drag and drop with the left nav bar that argument looses its legs. As I mentioned, there is healthy competition in the image viewer arena, but thanks to the innovative features of FastStone Image Viewer the bar has been raised to new heights.

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If you're in the medical profession, then you'll know that DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is the industry standard to store, print and send images.

MiView is a free open source program which displays DICOM, ACR, NEMA and PAPYRUS, formats.
The main aim of MIView is to provide a platform that allows you to view any kind of medical image and perform basic manipulation of them. The program does require a decent graphics card because it has to handle images that support multiple shading depths plus it needs to be able to render images render images in real time. To be honest, unless you are needing to view XRays or technical medical documents, you won't really find much use for this viewer as simple and effective as it is. It's also prone to several bugs including some images do not display properly (by the developer's own admission) and the "Multislice" view does not work correctly. In addition, it's known that the viewing area is transparent upon initial startup on some ATI cards.

Nevertheless, if you're a medical professional on a budget, this could be the viewer you've been looking for.

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ACDSee Pro is one of the most comprehensive image viewers you'll find. Elegant and full of features, it's an essential for anyone working regularly with images.

To discuss and review all the features of this program would require an essay but from the quick viewing of images to support for a vast amount of image formats, audio and video, the possibility of examining within compressed files, retouching images, batch processing of images and mass conversion formats it's an impressive piece of software. This Pro version, as its name suggests, is particularly focused on the professional end of photography. It offers excellent support for RAW format images, new tools for editing and retouching images, more possibilities for processing huge images (now you can also apply sepia effects for example) and the interface has changed slightly to make the work flow even better.

Probably one of the best image programs out there outside of Adobe software.

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If you need some basic surveillance for your home or small business but can't afford a professional system, Secure Cam may be the right choice.

As I said, it's a fairly basic system but it may work for you if you don't need advanced features. Secure Cam is also very easy to use: simply run it after plugging in your camera and you're ready to go. One tip: to open the program's settings menu, double click on the camera image – after spending a while looking for it, I'm still wondering why they didn't add a standard Settings menu.

This configuration menu allows you to select the motion detection threshold and set the program to take pictures whenever there's movement in front of the camera. You can also overlay a text on the image as a watermark, and flip or rotate the image.

Secure Camera works pretty well and takes pictures in the right moment. Also, it includes a special viewer where you can review all the captured images frame by frame. On the downside, it doesn't feature the possibility to capture video or warn you in any way (e-mail, text message) every time it detects movement.

Secure Cam is a basic surveillance system with which you can keep an eye on your home or office with the help of your webcam.

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OpenSeeIt is a very basic image viewer that can handle a wide variety of formats. In a way, it's intended to work as a replacement for the Windows standard image viewer, although you may use it as a complementary tool as well.

I liked this viewer because it's small, it doesn’t require installation, it works with the most popular graphic formats and features a full-screen viewing mode that lets the user enjoy their pictures in all their beauty, without nagging borders or menus. Also, there's a Browser view that enables you to easily move around photo folders.

On the downside, I missed slideshows. The Slideshow menu does show up in the program's toolbar, but I didn't manage to get it to work.

A basic photo viewer that you can use instead of Windows standard tool.

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cPicture is a modern software to support your digital picture workflow. The application is very easy to use and comes without a database or installation. No additional Picture or Raw libraries that interfere with your other installed programs.

cPicture is the leading software for the lossless crop of JPEG pictures. It supports universal index prints for review, fast search, adding comments or simply browsing through your pictures, and watching your movies in 16:9.

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FastStone Free Capture (FSCapture) is a free image viewer, editor and screen capture that supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA. With its amazingly smooth and crystal-clear magnifier, every detail of images can be viewed gracefully in full screen without compromising the quality.

Its Resizing, Rotating, Cropping, Color adjusting tools with Undo support enable image enhancement easier than ever. Its screen capturing allows you to capture anything on the screen within just a couple of mouse clicks. Its drag & drop enables you to drag images from windows, Internet browsers and other programs directly to this program.Version 1.5 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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FuturixImager (formerly Futuris Imager) is a compact and customizable image viewer. It is capable of opening more then 45 graphical formats, including all the popular ones (GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, JPEG2000 and so on). Imager can also print, scan, perform basic edits, capture screens, show camera metadata (EXIF), import raw digital camera photos, generate histograms, and much more!

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Those wishing to read PDF documents on their PCs now have an alternative choice when it comes to viewing these files - PDF-XChange Viewer. This PDF viewer is is smaller, faster and more feature-rich than other available readers.

You might be surprised just how quickly your large PDF files open and pages smoothly refresh as they are scrolled. So, why not speed up and improve your PDF viewing experience by downloading this viewer and trying it out?

In addition to all the standard functions here are some of the features available in the PDF-XChange FREE Viewer:

• Add comments and annotations to any PDF file
• Markup pages with text and objects
• Type directly on any PDF page
• Export PDF pages or entire files to BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG and more
• Extract text from a PDF page or file
• Make your navigation of large PDF files both simple and enjoyable with the Loupe and Pan tools

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GoodLook creates an auto-executable SGA file from an image, so that anyone can independently visualize it whether or not they have the appropriate viewing program installed. Once they execute the file created with GoodLook, the user will be able to choose between seeing the image in it's original size or in an adapted format for the screen. In this latter case, they will have access to a magnifying glass that amplifies the selected part.

SGA is a type of self extracting archive that stores digital photo or other kind of graphics. You can both extract graphics from the archive and view the photos without extraction via an embedded viewer. This viewer fits the photos to the screensize and shows meta information relating to the pictures.

If you need to share and analyse photos in great detail, then GoodLuck is an excellent solution although be warned that creating the archives can sometimes be slow depending on how many images you have and what resolution they are in.

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Picasa is a lesson to the world in usability design. In less than five megabytes, this image organizer succeeds in being a completely rounded package with many editing tools that will satisfy part-timers and enthusiasts alike. However, what really makes Picasa stand out is the beautifully-executed interface, which proves a complete pleasure to use thanks to its speedy pace and some clever animations and fades.

Thanks to an initial image scan, you won’t ever have to go digging through your hard drive for last summer’s holiday snaps, and it will even order every picture you have chronologically, letting you quickly browse to any obscurely-named files in seconds. While Picasa can be used as a viewer, it has not been designed for that and so viewing should be left to another program such as the free FastStone Image Viewer. Where it does excel is in retouching your pictures with colour corrections and a few effects such as blur or film grain. Each edit can be done on the fly with an instant preview of the result and, of course, if something doesn’t quite work out, you can always go back via the undo button.

While these editing utilities cater for the majority of users’ needs, it would have made sense to include the ability to resize images, especially as Picasa includes features that make it easy to publish to the web in the form of a blog. You can also email any single or collection of images through Outlook or directly from Picasa if using your GMail account.

Some of the additional extras give this program a touch of class that you rarely find in Windows software, including the ability to make a collage from a set of images and a handy star rating system that lets you mark your favourite snaps and later single them out giving you the best of the best. Having been acquired by Google, Picasa is now freely available to the masses and is continually improving with each new iteration. With this in mind, it comes highly recommended for photography novices and pros, who have a significant number of images to organize on their PC.

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Vallen JPegger is a handy, multilingual, fulyl featured image viewer designed for large image libraries with thousands of files. The small, but perfectly formed, utility reads 40 different image file formats, supports lossless JPEG rotation and includes an unique MP3 Organizer including a simple player.

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Image viewer, editor, and convertor. PMView supports saving and loading of more than 40 different file formats, including JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, and PhotoCD. Automatic thumbnailing, thumbnail image browsing, screen capture utility, TWAIN interface for scanners, image filtering, and more. User customizable QuickScripts allow PMView Pro to remember settings and make everyday conversion tasks simpler.

PMView allows for printing an image using multiple sheets of paper, enabling the user to print out a huge poster using standard letter sized paper and gluing the parts together. In addition PMView is faster, smaller, and lighter on system resources than other leading image viewers.

File formats that can be read:

• OS/2 Bitmap (BMP)
• Windows Bitmap (BMP)
• Windows Cursor (CUR)
• DCA/Intel DCX (DCX)
• Flexible Image Transport System (FITS)
• CCITT Group 3 Facsimile (G3)
• Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
• OS/2 Icon (ICO)
• Windows Icon (ICO)
• Electronic Arts IFF (IFF)
• Digital Research GEM (IMG)
• JPEG File Interchange Format (JPG)
• OS/2 Boot Logo (LGO)
• MacPaint (MAC)
• Microsoft Paint (MSP)
• Kodak Photo-CD (PCD)
• ZSoft Paintbrush Format (PCX)
• PC Paint/Pictor Format (PIC)
• Bio-Rad PIC Image Format (PIC)
• Softimage Picture Format (PIC)
• PBMPlus Portable Bitmap (PBM)
• PBMPlus Portable Graymap (PGM)
• PBMPlus Portable Pixmap (PPM)
• PBMPlus Portable Anymap (PNM)
• Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
• Adobe Photoshop Document (PSD)
• OS/2 Pointer (PTR)
• Sun Raster (RAS)
• Compuserve RLE (RLE)
• Utah RLE (RLE)
• Structured Fax File (SFF)
• Seattle Filmworks (SFW)
• SGI Image File Format (SGI)
• PMView Slideshow File Format (SHW)
• Truevision Targa Format (TGA)
• Tagged Interchange File Format (TIF)
• WAP Bitmap Format (WBMP)
• WordPerfect Graphics (WPG)
• X Bitmap (XBM)
• X Pixmap (XPM)
• X Window Dump (XWD)

File formats that can be written:

• OS/2 Bitmap (BMP)
• Windows Bitmap (BMP)
• Windows Cursor (CUR)
• DCA/Intel DCX (DCX)
• Encapsulated Postscript (EPS)
• Flexible Image Transport System (FITS)
• CCITT Group 3 Facsimile (G3)
• Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
• OS/2 Icon (ICO)
• Windows Icon (ICO)
• Electronic Arts IFF (IFF)
• Digital Research GEM (IMG)
• JPEG File Interchange Format (JPG)
• OS/2 Boot Logo (LGO)
• MacPaint (MAC)
• Microsoft Paint (MSP)
• ZSoft Paintbrush Format (PCX)
• PC Paint/Pictor Format (PIC)
• Softimage Picture Format (PIC)
• PBMPlus Portable Bitmap (PBM)
• PBMPlus Portable Graymap (PGM)
• PBMPlus Portable Pixmap (PPM)
• PBMPlus Portable Anymap (PNM)
• Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
• Adobe Photoshop Document (PSD)
• OS/2 Pointer (PTR)
• Sun Raster (RAS)
• Compuserve RLE (RLE)
• Utah RLE (RLE)
• SGI Image File Format (SGI)
• Structured Fax File (SFF)
• PMView Slideshow File Format (SHW)
• Truevision Targa Format (TGA)
• Tagged Interchange File Format (TIF)
• WAP Bitmap Format (WBMP)
• WordPerfect Graphics (WPG)
• X Bitmap (XBM)
• X Pixmap (XPM)
• X Window Dump (XWD)

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RayViewer is a comic viewer specially designed to read digital comics. Its main interface is divided into two areas: the main window where you can see the comic and a a browsing window where you can browse along pages. There's also a toolbox which you can show or hide and from where you'll be able to change the program's main configuration options.

RayViewer features keyboard shortcuts for the most important actions, from turning the comic page to applying several filters to the image. These filters allow you to review your comics with a better image quality, by reducing noise, improving focus or increasing contrast, to name a few.

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This is the convenient portable version of the legendary FastStone Image Viewer that you can take anywhere with you on a USB stick.

FastStone Image Viewer is an image browser, viewer, converter and editor with an easy-to-use interface and a nice array of features that include resizing, renaming, cropping, color adjustments and more. It also includes an intuitive full-screen mode that provides quick access to EXIF information and thumbnail browser via hidden toolbars that emerge when you touch the edge of your screen with the mouse.

Other features include a high quality magnifier and built-in slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image frames, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA.

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