IrfanView
Compact and efficient image application offering viewing, editing, and conversion with batch processing, multi-language support, plugin extensibility, and ad-free operation suitable for Windows and portable use.
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- Free Personal
- Proprietary
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- Windows
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This has been such a steady, reliable and excellent helper for 30 (!) years now. I can't stress how much this little tool can do. You will likely ever only use a small subset of the functionality, and I advise you to learn the keyboard shortcuts for those functions, but these "little" things will make night-and-day difference in your workflows.
Its small. It starts super quick. It does not install complicated and works great on USB sticks. Simply the best and SOO worth it. Still actively...
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I have used it for years and closely followed is development. I moderate at the IrfanView support forums so I get to learn what amazing tricks it can do with Batch operations and command lines that I would seldom need myself.
The 64-bit version can open a 256 Megapixel NASA image in less than 7 seconds, and is able to load large RAW images too, much quicker than the 32-bit version. It is no substitute for PhotoShop, but it does a lot.
Contrary to popular belief, it is not free, except for personal use. Commercial users are morally obliged to pay for registration of €10 per copy, which is next to nothing even for a small business user. Education and charity use is also free; and there are no nasty surprises if you fail to register your copy.
This has been such a steady, reliable and excellent helper for 30 (!) years now. I can't stress how much this little tool can do. You will likely ever only use a small subset of the functionality, and I advise you to learn the keyboard shortcuts for those functions, but these "little" things will make night-and-day difference in your workflows.
Its small. It starts super quick. It does not install complicated and works great on USB sticks. Simply the best and SOO worth it. Still actively supported by a great Dev - for 30 years now. Supports all graphic formats and then some.
The little things that are "killer" for me:
Copy & paste from the clipboard then very fast (shortkey) remove/crop same-color borders all around. SUCH a time save when you have to do screenshots of windows on background all the time.
While 99% is a image viewer (super fast. Just double click an image in a folder, then use the mouse-wheel to scroll through.), it also offers a very small "paint" editor. Super great for making little annotations (like arrows on a screenshot).
Great image viewer, supports a lot of image formats.
FOSS, lightweight, extensible
good, functional, quite ugly, some of the default config settings are a bit strange.
It's ok, but the interface is clunky. I've used this for a couple of months. Here are the main reasons I'm moving away from it:
1- If you are looking at large images, it automatically opens them at the largest possible window size for your screen. If you scale the window down, the image does not scale with it, so you have to zoom out as well. If you try to view the next image, instead of keeping your zoom settings it opens the next image at the largest possible window size again.
2- The crop options are limited. You can hand-draw a box and then crop to that, but if you want specific pixel dimensions you have to use the image resize/resample menu option, and then it just crops those exact pixels out from the centre, without scaling the image to the widest point. I typically want an image viewer to be able to quickly scale and crop to thumbnail size. Crop should be a top-level menu item for an image viewer, as should rotate. It took me a while to even find the options (this is true of other features in irfanview - the menu items are complex and unclear)
3- the roadkill splat logo is really offputting.
The best, most complete, free viewer I've ever tried. Beats any paid viewer I've ever tried. Mega features. Solid.