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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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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MyPhotoIndex is a very basic photo viewer with which you can directly import pictures from your camera.

The program scans your whole system (or just the folders you select) in search of images, and can also connect to your digital camera and extract more images from it. Photos are displayed in resizable thumbnails and also in full screen, and can be tagged or added to favorites.

In fact, tagging is one of the most outstanding features in MyPhotoIndex, as it enables you to organize and search your whole collection in a more efficient way. You can also sort them by date, group (family or friends) or event, which makes then easier to search for a certain image.

On the downside, the program's tools are quite limited – as regards photo managing - and almost completely inexistent regarding photo editing.

MyPhotoIndex is a photo viewer with tagging capabilities, but unfortunately it falls short of expectations in many other aspects.

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Having different types of files in your computers means needing a separate viewer for each of them... well, not necessarily. That is, if you have Universal Viewer installed on your system.

This easy tool enables you to open and visualize many kinds of files, from text documents to MP3 music, as well as image files and Internet documents. This is very useful for just viewing files, but when it comes to working further with them you may miss some more advanced tools.

In spite of this, Universal Viewer is an efficient viewer and can handle text files over 4 GB, something that not all text editors are capable of.

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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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Windows features an embedded image viewer to take a quick look at your pictures.

However, this viewing tool soon falls too short when trying to view certain graphic formats, especially other than the most popular ones like JPG, BMP, PNG or GIF. This is where ImageXtender comes in handy, as it improves Windows standard image viewer so that it's able to open more than 200 graphics formats. At least this is the theory, because I must admit I did have problems to open some files (such as a PSD file from Photoshop) after installing ImageXtender and also rebooting the PC – just in case.

The good thing about ImageXtender is that you don't need to learn how to use it. It patches the standard Windows image viewer, adding new functionality without changing its interface at all. This means you wouldn't even notice that ImageXtender has been installed, if it weren't for the new program group in the Start menu, from which you can change the program's preferences.

ImageXtender looks promising but still fails to display some graphic formats.

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There are many image viewers out there but ImageSorter is probably one of the most original ones you can find.

This image browser lets you sort your photos according to common criteria like size or name, but also to more original elements such as color. You can arrange photos on the program's interface by color groups, which undoubtedly helps to find photos in a much faster way.

What's more, while having color selected as the arranging criterion you can use the program's sphere visualization, a really attractive 3D interface that you can move around with your mouse to browse pictures.

ImageSorter doesn't include any other features besides photo viewing. I missed having at least some basic editing tools. Also, I found it quite weird that the program selects files with just a single click, instead of the standard double click used in almost any other software application.

Despite being an original approach to image viewers, ImageSorter is probably too basic when compared to other similar tools.

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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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With CoView you can comfortably read your favorite digital comics on your computer. This tool has been designed with the comic as the most important element, removing anything else from the interface. This special design leaves a lot of room for the comic itself but it makes the program a bit hard to manage because there are no menus and everything is controlled with hotkeys.

The first key you need to know is F1, to open the menu, and then i, to change language. Unfortunately it seems that language settings are not saved and you'll have to switch to English every time you run the program

CoView allows you to read comics almost in any format: it supports special comic file types such as CBR and CBZ, but also images stored in archives or simply saved in folders. You can browse through them and read just like you turn the pages of a real comic. Plus, with the zoom tool you won't miss a single detail of the drawings, and the bookmark tool will enable you to continue your reading just where you left it.

Coview is a digital comic reader with support for many formats. It's a bit confusing at the beginning but turns out to be a great tool for all comic fans.

Download CoView 1.0.28 in Softonic

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

Download PDF-XChange Viewer 1.025 in Softonic

Picgl is an image viewfinder designed to organize the you digital photos. Once your photos are loaded into the program by browsing to them using Windows Explorer, the program automatically creates thumbnails. It has several ways of presenting or displaying the gallery of images as via slides with many different transitions.

In addition it adds a few useful functions such as the option to change the format and size, repair the brightness, change the saturation, add masks and filters etc. All-in-all, Picgl has an extremely attractive interface for such a basic program and is very easy to use. It's very useful to be able to see your images in thumbnail form although this is nothing new for image browsing programs.

The major downside is that it doesn't seem to employ any particular method for ordering your images and the instructions are virtually non existent because the developers are based in China. Nevertheless, it doesn't hog system resources and does the job.

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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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Screen captures are useful for various reasons. You can use them to highlight a certain aspect of a program to friends, make presentations or explain a technical problem you’re having. At Softonic, we usually use SnagIt to take screenshots but MWSnap does the job equally as well and best of all, it’s completely free.

MWSnap is a small but powerful screen capture program capable of taking whole desktop shots, a highlighted window, an active menu or a fixed or free rectangular part of the screen. It can save images in all of the major image formats (JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG and GIF) and also includes a zoom, a ruler and a colour picker. However, one of the most useful features specific to MWSnap is the autosave feature. This is brilliant for when you are filling in forms online and need to keep the details safe – just one click and it’s all saved automatically. MWSnap seems to be able to capture just about anything too – any size, shape or form. If something on the screen is too small you can always magnify it and capture it that way.

On the downside, the selection of hotkeys is limited. For example, you can’t just simply assign the PrtScn key to save screenshots. You have to use a combination of Shift, Ctrl, Alt and the function keys to take screenshots without the mouse. It could also do with a few more editing features such as the snazzy faded and jagged edge effects available in SnagIt. Some users also find that memory usage shoots up when taking captures which can make your system unstable although we didn’t experience this.

All in all, this an excellent free screen capture tool although if you’re looking for advanced editing features, you’d be better with SnagIt or FastStone Capture.

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View images in countless formats, and apply a variety of effects with this small, fast, and powerful application. Dimin Viewer incorporates unique visualization ideas, like Panoramic Photographs Tool and Big Image Navigator. It also features multi language interface to feel yourself at home!

Take a look at what this program can do for you:

• Thumbnail view with cache
• Easy Read/Write multi-page images e.g. TIFF, GIF
• Multi-monitor support, full screen monitor selection
• Skin support
• Smart sorting methods for Play List and Thumbnails
• Slide show with different effects
• Multi folder file manager tool, very convenient for fast image organizing
• Batch conversion and file rename tools
• Advanced filter scripting
• Advanced zoom tool allows perform most common operations using only your mouse Zoom, Hand move, Walk on Play List, etc.
• Really cool modern user interface naturally blending with Windows XP and Windows Vista
• Supports many image formats, including popular such as: JPEG, GIF, TIFF, JPEG-2000, also supports many Digital Cameras RAW formats and provides RAW image size guessing function
• Advanced Metadata support, including EXIF, IPTC, GeoTIFF, GeoJPEG-2000, Fluoview TIFF, etc. Embedded IPTC viewer/editor, read/write support for EXIF, GeoTIFF and GeoJPEG2000, cross conversions and enhanced metadata preview

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FileSee is a powerful All-In-One file viewer. It is a tool that helps you to view files quickly. FileSee is a mixtinite of Text file viewer, image viewer, pdf viewer, flash player, mp3 player, midi player, hex file editor, html viewer, Zip file decompresser, filename manager, desktop searching engine, dll viewer, wav2mp3 converter, pdf text extracter, etc. FileSee has Windows Explorer similar interface.

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