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This article presents a comparison of image viewer
Image viewer

An image viewer or image browser is a computer program that can display stored graphical ; it can often handle various graphics file formats....
s and image organizer
Image organizer

An image organizer or image management application is application software focused on organizing digital images. Image organizers represent one kind of desktop organizer software applications....
s which can be used for image viewing.

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Name View functions Edit functions 3 Price
ACDSee
ACDSee

ACDSee is a shareware and software for Microsoft Windows developed by ACD Systems....
Thumbnails (user-defined sizes), fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, fit, view Exif info, view inside ZIP archives, ... Resize, crop, rotate, flip, jpeg lossless rotate/mirror, adjust exposure and colors etc, filters (sharpen, blur, average, emboss, ...), red eye removal, batch rename, edit Exif info, ... std: 49.99 USD
pro: 129.99 USD
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge

Adobe Bridge is an organizational program created and released by Adobe Systems as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite. Its primary purpose is to link the parts of the Creative Suite together using a format similar to the file browser found in previous versions of Adobe Photoshop....
Thumbnails, slideshow, filmstrip, preview, versions with alternates Stand Alone: rotate, rename, delete, move, copy, batch rename, add/Edit Metadata
Metadata

Metadata is "data about other data", of any sort in any media. An item of metadata may describe an individual datum, or content item, or a collection of data including multiple content items and hierarchical levels, for example a database schema....
, camera raw image adjustments (crop, resize, exposure, contrast, white balance, curves, etc...) Via Photoshop: contact sheet, merge to HDR
High dynamic range rendering

High dynamic range rendering , also known as high dynamic range lighting, is the Rendering of computer graphics scenes by using lighting calculations done in a larger dynamic range....
, PDF presentation, Photomerge, Web picture gallery
Included with various Adobe products 1
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom library organization, RAW
Raw

Raw describes a material that is in its nature unprocessed form, or has not had the final stages of processing. For example, raw food refers to food that has not been cookinged, and raw silk is the term for unprocessed silk....
 and JPEG
JPEG

In computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality....
 editing, slideshow tools, print layout and preferences, web gallery creation and uploading
  299 USD
Alchemy Mindworks Graphic Workshop Professional Thumbnails, thumbnail arrays of image collections, multiple browser windows, slideshow, text captions, print, rename, move and copy files, hard drive search, image database Over 50 graphic formats, conversion, image filters, effects, textures, fractals, dither, rotate, flip, scale, contrast, brightness, crop, acquire images from scanner/camera, video formats, any function in batch mode 44.99 USD
Thumbnails (small, large or extra large), slideshow, filmstrip, main view, view Exif and XMP IPTC data info, Image Comparison (2,3,4-way), Printing, Tagging, Convert, resize, sharpen and level raw images from Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Olympus, Sony, Fuji and Minolta cameras, Batch rename images and managing folders, Generate captioned web pages (watermarking, online ordering) 69.95 USD
Digikam
DigiKam

DigiKam is an and editor for the KDE desktop environment. It supports all , and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, or dynamic albums by date, timeline, or by Tag ....
Fit to window, zoom, pan, Light Table, Slideshow+Effects Rotate, crop, vertical/horizontal flip, lossless JPEG operations (90° steps), color management, 16bit color depth, Light Table, EXIF, IPTC
IPTC Information Interchange Model

The Information Interchange Model is a file structure and set of metadata attributes that can be applied to text, s and other media types. It was developed in the early 1990s by the International Press Telecommunications Council to expedite the international exchange of news among newspapers and news agencies....
, GPS metadata, adjust colors/brightness/levels, elaborate Black and White conversion, lens correction, anti-vignetting, sharpening tools, vibrance, many filters, Batch operations, export to archive, HTML, flickr, gallery2, picasaweb
free (GNU GPL)
Elgorithms MagicTracer
Elgorithms MagicTracer

Elgorithms MagicTracer is a computer application for converting raster graphics images to vector output. It is only available for versions of Microsoft Windows....
Fit to window, zoom Color editing, filters, color management, color-depth maganagement, rotate, crop, resize 49.95 USD
Eye of GNOME
Eye of GNOME

Eye of GNOME is the official for the GNOME desktop environment. Unlike some other image viewers, Eye of GNOME will only view images. It does, however, provide basic effects for improved viewing, such as zooming, fullscreen, rotation, and transparent image background control....
Fit to window, zoom, print, full-screen, slideshow, image collection, image information... Rotate, delete, flip, save as free (GNU GPL)
EyeBrowse
EyeBrowse

EyeBrowse is an advanced graphics editing program and management program which has fully featured multiple file and directory management and many tools to help you work with graphics....
Fit to window, zoom, file tree, file selector, print with print preview, keyboard control, hotkeys, screen captures... Image manipulation (blur, resize, crop, sharpen, rotate, negative, vertical/horizontal flip, grayscale, brightness & contrast), batch file management, undo/redo actions 0/20 USD
FastPictureViewer
Fast Picture Viewer

FastPictureViewer is a commercial for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. Its aim is to facilitate quick review and rating of large quantities of digital images in the early steps of the digital workflow, with an emphasis on simplicity and speed....
Borderless full-screen kiosk mode, Fit-to-window, 1:1, 50%-6400% magnifier, Multicore-aware, DirectX hardware accelerated. No image editing.






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This article presents a comparison of image viewer
Image viewer

An image viewer or image browser is a computer program that can display stored graphical ; it can often handle various graphics file formats....
s and image organizer
Image organizer

An image organizer or image management application is application software focused on organizing digital images. Image organizers represent one kind of desktop organizer software applications....
s which can be used for image viewing.

General information

Name View functions Edit functions 3 Price
ACDSee
ACDSee

ACDSee is a shareware and software for Microsoft Windows developed by ACD Systems....
Thumbnails (user-defined sizes), fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, fit, view Exif info, view inside ZIP archives, ... Resize, crop, rotate, flip, jpeg lossless rotate/mirror, adjust exposure and colors etc, filters (sharpen, blur, average, emboss, ...), red eye removal, batch rename, edit Exif info, ... std: 49.99 USD
pro: 129.99 USD
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge

Adobe Bridge is an organizational program created and released by Adobe Systems as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite. Its primary purpose is to link the parts of the Creative Suite together using a format similar to the file browser found in previous versions of Adobe Photoshop....
Thumbnails, slideshow, filmstrip, preview, versions with alternates Stand Alone: rotate, rename, delete, move, copy, batch rename, add/Edit Metadata
Metadata

Metadata is "data about other data", of any sort in any media. An item of metadata may describe an individual datum, or content item, or a collection of data including multiple content items and hierarchical levels, for example a database schema....
, camera raw image adjustments (crop, resize, exposure, contrast, white balance, curves, etc...) Via Photoshop: contact sheet, merge to HDR
High dynamic range rendering

High dynamic range rendering , also known as high dynamic range lighting, is the Rendering of computer graphics scenes by using lighting calculations done in a larger dynamic range....
, PDF presentation, Photomerge, Web picture gallery
Included with various Adobe products 1
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom library organization, RAW
Raw

Raw describes a material that is in its nature unprocessed form, or has not had the final stages of processing. For example, raw food refers to food that has not been cookinged, and raw silk is the term for unprocessed silk....
 and JPEG
JPEG

In computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality....
 editing, slideshow tools, print layout and preferences, web gallery creation and uploading
  299 USD
Alchemy Mindworks Graphic Workshop Professional Thumbnails, thumbnail arrays of image collections, multiple browser windows, slideshow, text captions, print, rename, move and copy files, hard drive search, image database Over 50 graphic formats, conversion, image filters, effects, textures, fractals, dither, rotate, flip, scale, contrast, brightness, crop, acquire images from scanner/camera, video formats, any function in batch mode 44.99 USD
Thumbnails (small, large or extra large), slideshow, filmstrip, main view, view Exif and XMP IPTC data info, Image Comparison (2,3,4-way), Printing, Tagging, Convert, resize, sharpen and level raw images from Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Olympus, Sony, Fuji and Minolta cameras, Batch rename images and managing folders, Generate captioned web pages (watermarking, online ordering) 69.95 USD
Digikam
DigiKam

DigiKam is an and editor for the KDE desktop environment. It supports all , and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, or dynamic albums by date, timeline, or by Tag ....
Fit to window, zoom, pan, Light Table, Slideshow+Effects Rotate, crop, vertical/horizontal flip, lossless JPEG operations (90° steps), color management, 16bit color depth, Light Table, EXIF, IPTC
IPTC Information Interchange Model

The Information Interchange Model is a file structure and set of metadata attributes that can be applied to text, s and other media types. It was developed in the early 1990s by the International Press Telecommunications Council to expedite the international exchange of news among newspapers and news agencies....
, GPS metadata, adjust colors/brightness/levels, elaborate Black and White conversion, lens correction, anti-vignetting, sharpening tools, vibrance, many filters, Batch operations, export to archive, HTML, flickr, gallery2, picasaweb
free (GNU GPL)
Elgorithms MagicTracer
Elgorithms MagicTracer

Elgorithms MagicTracer is a computer application for converting raster graphics images to vector output. It is only available for versions of Microsoft Windows....
Fit to window, zoom Color editing, filters, color management, color-depth maganagement, rotate, crop, resize 49.95 USD
Eye of GNOME
Eye of GNOME

Eye of GNOME is the official for the GNOME desktop environment. Unlike some other image viewers, Eye of GNOME will only view images. It does, however, provide basic effects for improved viewing, such as zooming, fullscreen, rotation, and transparent image background control....
Fit to window, zoom, print, full-screen, slideshow, image collection, image information... Rotate, delete, flip, save as free (GNU GPL)
EyeBrowse
EyeBrowse

EyeBrowse is an advanced graphics editing program and management program which has fully featured multiple file and directory management and many tools to help you work with graphics....
Fit to window, zoom, file tree, file selector, print with print preview, keyboard control, hotkeys, screen captures... Image manipulation (blur, resize, crop, sharpen, rotate, negative, vertical/horizontal flip, grayscale, brightness & contrast), batch file management, undo/redo actions 0/20 USD
FastPictureViewer
Fast Picture Viewer

FastPictureViewer is a commercial for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. Its aim is to facilitate quick review and rating of large quantities of digital images in the early steps of the digital workflow, with an emphasis on simplicity and speed....
Borderless full-screen kiosk mode, Fit-to-window, 1:1, 50%-6400% magnifier, Multicore-aware, DirectX hardware accelerated. No image editing. Single-click background copy/move to preset location, single-click rating/labeling (writes Adobe XMP sidecar files and/or embeds XMP metadata within JPEG/TIFF/HD Photo/JPEG XR), Windows Vista rating, Color management
Color management

In digital imaging systems, color management is the controlled conversion between the color representations of various devices, such as s, digital cameras, monitors, TV screens, film printers, computer printers, offset presses, and corresponding media....
 including custom target profile selection, Unicode
Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate Character expressed in most of the world's writing systems....
 support, EXIF shooting data (shutter speed, f-stop, ISO speed, exposure compensation...) and real-time, seamless R,G,B histogram
Image histogram

An image histogram is type of histogram which acts as a graphical representation of the tonal distribution in a digital image. It plots the number of pixels for each tonal value....
 in translucent floating window.
cost-free for personal use (freeware license), 29.90 USD for Professional edition
FastStone Image Viewer
FastStone Image Viewer

FastStone Image Viewer is an and for Microsoft Windows, provided free of charge for personal and educational use ....
Thumbnails (5 predefined sizes), fullscreen, slideshow, Exif, etc Rotate, move, rename, 150+ transitional effects, lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, scanner support, histogram, ... cost-free for personal use
Firehand Ember
Firehand Ember

Firehand Ember is a Microsoft Windows-based , editor and organizer.Firehand Ember comes in two editions, a lightweight free edition for image viewing and a heavyweight image processing edition....
   60 USD
FuturixImager
FuturixImager

FuturixImager is an for Microsoft Windows. Behind minimalistic user interface it has complete feature set of modern image viewer with additional functionality of basic image editor....
Full-screen, slideshow, zoom, histogram, metadata view, view-as-wallpaper; Effects/filters, pencil, flood fill, eraser; JPEG lossless rotation; printing, scanning; screen capture; cost-free Freeware
Freeware

Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee. Freeware is different from shareware; the latter obliges the user to pay ....
F-Spot
F-Spot

F-Spot is an , designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop....
Full-screen, slideshow, zoom, multiple sizes of thumbnails. Export: HTML, Flickr
Flickr

Flickr is an and video hosting service website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository....
, Gallery Project
Gallery Project

The Gallery Project is an open source project enabling management and publication of digital photographs and other media through a PHP-enabled web server....
, Picasa, Facebook
Facebook

Facebook is a free-access social network service website that is operated and privately held company by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people....
 (via extension) and O.r.i.g.i.n.a.l
Tags, rotate, hue, contrast, white balance, colour, sharpen, soft focus, crop, auto red-eye reduction free (GNU GPL)
GQView
GQView

GQview is a free software created by John Ellis using the GTK+ toolkit, designed to run on the X Window System. For MS Windows, an unofficial port is also available....
Full-screen, slideshow, zoom, color spectrum, 14 sizes of thumbnails Rotate, move, rename, hue, contrast, find/remove duplicates free (GNU GPL)
GraphicConverter
GraphicConverter

GraphicConverter is computer software that displays and edits computer graphics files. It also converts files between different file format. For example, one can convert a GIF file to a JPEG file....
Full-screen, slideshow, etc Rotate, move, rename... 35 USD
gThumb
GThumb

gThumb is an open-source and for the GNOME desktop environment released under the GNU General Public License. It was originally based on GQView, and is designed to have a clean, simple interface....
Full-screen, slideshow, zoom, color spectrum, three sizes of thumbnails Rotate, move, rename, hue, contrast, free (GNU GPL)
Gwenview
Gwenview

Gwenview is an for the KDE desktop environment. The current maintainer is Aur?lien G?teau. The word "Gwen" means "white" in the Breton language and is commonly used as a first name....
fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, rotate, adjust gamma/contrast/brightness, disk navigator, file tree, thumbnails, extended thumbnails, bookmarks... add border, filter, effects, resize, rename, raw image converter, recompress, edit color... free (GNU GPL)
Image Browser Arctic Fullscreen, Thumbnails, Stretch-mode (resizable), Original-Ratio view, Slide Show+effects, Exif, Effects such as blurr, rotate, loss-less JPG rotation, batch conversion, add border and text-stamp. Scanner support. cost-free Freeware
Freeware

Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee. Freeware is different from shareware; the latter obliges the user to pay ....
Imagine fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, rotate, thumbnails resize, rename, greyscale, negative, swap colors, filters (blur, edge, emboss, gaussian, sharpen, soften ) cost-free (Freeware
Freeware

Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee. Freeware is different from shareware; the latter obliges the user to pay ....
 without any limitation )
IMatch
IMatch

IMatch is shareware digital asset management Application software for Microsoft Windows. Imported images can be sorted and organized in categories....
Unicode  59.95 USD
imgSeek
ImgSeek

imgSeek is a photo collection manager and viewer with Content-based image retrieval and many other features. The query is expressed either as a rough sketch painted by the user or as another image....
Search similar images, Fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, thumbnails, disk navigator tree, tag treeview. Export: HTML Rotate, move, rename, hue, contrast, etc free (GNU GPL)
iPhoto
IPhoto

iPhoto is a Application software made by Apple Inc. exclusively for their Mac OS X operating system. The first version of iPhoto was released in 2002....
Thumbnails, fullscreen, slideshow Lossless JPEG rotate, Cropping (custom and template), Brightness/Contrast, Red-eye, Retouch, Color Enhancement, B&W and Sepia Conversion...2
IrfanView
IrfanView

IrfanView is a freeware 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, Pixel image editor, Paint.NET or GIMP....
Thumbnails (18 pre-defined sizes from 50×50–800×800 pixels), fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, fit (several options), view IPTC and Exif info, hex view; Format detection with offer to rename, set wallpaper, EXE/SCR creation, Burn slideshow to CD; directory tree 2 languages (ENG/GER) Add Text, Crop, Cut/Copy selected area, Paste-Into selected area, paste from PrintScreen, Resize/Resample, Rotate, Flip Vert/Horiz, JPG lossless transformations, Color Adjustments, Greyscale, Red-Eye Reduction, Sharpen, effects/filters, Own and 8bf (Photoshop) plugins compatibility, edit IPTC info, Move, Copy, Delete, Rename, Convert, batch conversion, batch renaming/resizing/cropping, panorama creation, send email via IrfanView Thumbnails/Plugins: contact sheet creation, thumbnail creation, web gallery creation educational use (schools, universities and libraries) and for use in charity or humanitarian organisations: cost-free
at place of business or for commercial purposes: 12.00 USD or 10 EUR
KSquirrel
KSquirrel

KSquirrel is an for the KDE desktop environment with a disk navigator, file tree, thumbnails, extended thumbnails, dynamic format support, DCOP interface, KEXIF and KIPI plugins support....
disk navigator, file tree, thumbnails, bookmarks, fullscreen, KIPI plugins ... resize, rotate, colorize, convert, print ... free (GNU GPL)
KPhotoAlbum
KPhotoAlbum

KPhotoAlbum is an and for Unix-like systems created and maintained by Jesper K. Pedersen. The core philosophy behind its creation was that it should be easy for users to annotate images and videos taken with a digital camera....
Zoom, Rotate, Metadata, Exif, thumbnails (customize size), slideshow, Categories As Available per KIPI plugins free (GNU GPL)
Lphoto
Lphoto

Lphoto is an open source for Linux. The Lphoto open source project was started by and is maintained by Linspire, a Linux linux distributions based on Debian....
Zoom, Slideshow, camera information, Crop, redeye, color tweaking, auto attach and resize for email, export to HTML, export to CD free (GNU GPL)
MST Viewer
MST Viewer

MST Viewer is a Document Management solution by MS Technology that allows users to view images and documents located in their Enterprise content management system....
Thumbnail, Zoom, Rotation, Multiple Page Support, Pan, Fit to Height and/or Width Cut, Copy, Paste, Merge, Crop, Annotate, Image Cleanup, Image Enhance, Scale-to-gray resizing for 1bit images, Bilinear Interpolation for resizing Bi-Level images, Bi-Cubic Interpolation for resizing color images, Converting, ... ?
PicaJet Supports EXIF, IPTC, XMP, unlimited keywords hierarchy. Flickr and Fotki uploaders 59.95 USD
Picasa
Picasa

Picasa is a software application for organizing and editing digital photographys, originally created by Idealab and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my house" and "pic" for pictures . In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa and began offering...
Zoom, lossless rotate, histogram, camera information Crop, straighten, redeye, colour tweaking, effects, batch edit, batch rename, video rendering, HTML gallery creation, photo browser application creator, screensaver cost-free
Pictomio 3D carousel ,filmstrip, thumbnail, Map (for geotagged Pictures), lossless rotate, slideshow, histogram, EXIF cut, copy, paste, rename,EXIF, add time offset, geotag, auto rotation, lossless rotate cost-free (Freeware
Freeware

Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee. Freeware is different from shareware; the latter obliges the user to pay ....
)
PMView Pro Zoom (multi-level, 1:1, fit-to-screen), Pan, Multiple image browsing, Deleting from view, Full-screen mode, file management functions, Format conversion, Screen capture, Modeless EXIF info Lossless JPEG transformations (rotate, mirror) with original date preservation, crop, resize, arbitrary rotation, image filters, sharpen, blur 49 USD
Preview
Preview (software)

Preview is Mac OS X's application for displaying images and Portable Document Format documents. Like Mac OS X itself, it comes from NeXT's OPENSTEP operating system....
Zoom, rotate, metadata Crop, straighten, color tweaking, profile assignment cost-free
ShowImg
ShowImg

ShowImg is an open-source for the KDE desktop environment by Richard Groult.See also *Comparison of image viewersExternal links...
fullscreen, slideshow, filters, search for similar images Batch rename, convert filetype free (GNU GPL)
Snapact Thumbnails (user-defined sizes), fullscreen, zoom, fit, print, view Exif info, file tree navigation, virtual albums, Mini-basket, Search results Crop, rotate, adjust exposure and colors etc, filters (sharpen, blur, brightness, contrast...), red eye removal, black & white... Cost-free for personal, non-commercial use (freeware
Freeware

Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee. Freeware is different from shareware; the latter obliges the user to pay ....
 license), prices starting from 24.95 USD for commercial Licenses
ThumbsPlus Thumbnails (user-defined sizes), fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, fit, view Exif info, ... Resize, crop, rotate, flip, jpeg lossless rotate/mirror, adjust exposure and colors etc, filters (sharpen, blur, average, emboss, ...), red eye removal, ... std: 49.95 USD
pro: 89.95 USD
Windows Picture and Fax Viewer
Windows Picture and Fax Viewer

Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is an developed by Microsoft that is included with the Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. It is based on GDI+ and is capable of viewing image formats supported by GDI+, namely, JPEG, BMP file format, Portable Network Graphics, Graphics Interchange Format , ICO , Windows Metafile, Windows Met...
fullscreen, slideshow, fit, zoom, print rotate, lossy JPEG rotate, annotate TIFF images – (included with Windows XP
Windows XP

Windows XP is a line of operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptop, and media centers....
)
Xee
Xee

Xee is a free software, light-weight image browser and for the Mac OS X operating system, developed by Dag ?gren....
Fullscreen, Exif data, archive browsing, same directory browsing, slideshow, OpenGL display Crop and rotate, lossless JPEG manipulation, file system manipulation 
XnView
XnView

XnView is a free cross-platform used for viewing, converting, organising and editing graphical & video files. It is freeware for private non-commercial, educational use and non-profit organisations....
Thumbnails (user-defined sizes), fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, fit, view IPTC and Exif info, ... Resize, crop, rotate, flip, jpeg lossless rotate/flip/crop, adjust exposure and colors etc, filters (sharpen, blur, average, emboss, ...), batch convert, batch rename, edit IPTC info, ... freeware for private non-commercial, educational use and non-profit organization; otherwise 26 EUR.
Xv
XV

XV may refer to:* the number 15 in Roman numerals* Air Vietnam IATA code* X video extension to the X Window System* Xv, a shareware image display and manipulation program for Unix...
View as ASCII or Hex, magnify, determine pixel values Crop, pad, resize, rotate, flip, brightness, contrast, gamma, saturation, hue, colormap, reduce colors, dither, convert, and more 25 USD
Zoner Photo Studio
Zoner Photo Studio

Zoner Photo Studio is a feature-rich and software for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista developed by Zoner Software. It also features many raster graphics editor functions including 16 bits per color channel....
Thumbnails (user-defined sizes), fullscreen, histogram, slideshow with transitional effects, auto rotation, JPEG lossless rotate, pan, zoom, fit, ITPC and Exif info, GPS support, full Unicode support... Resize, crop, rotate, flip, JPEG lossless rotate/mirror, adjust exposure, colors, contrast, saturation, hue, white balance, levels, curves, gamma correction, filters (sharpen, blur, soften, edge, emboss, average, grayscale, ...), .8bf (Photoshop) plugins compatibility, color management, batch operations, image conversions with reduced/dithered colors, batch rename, red eye removal, edit ITPC, XMP and EXIF info, time creation offset, merge to HDR
High dynamic range rendering

High dynamic range rendering , also known as high dynamic range lighting, is the Rendering of computer graphics scenes by using lighting calculations done in a larger dynamic range....
, PDF presentation, panorama creation, lens correction, anti-vignetting, web picture gallery, DNG/RAW image converter, TWAIN scanners support, send pictures via e-mail, 3D pictures, dynamic calendar generation, support for WIC codecs (RAW processing)...
Home: 49.99 USD
Pro: 99.99 USD
Name View functions Edit functions Price
Note 1: Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge

Adobe Bridge is an organizational program created and released by Adobe Systems as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite. Its primary purpose is to link the parts of the Creative Suite together using a format similar to the file browser found in previous versions of Adobe Photoshop....
 comes free with the Adobe Creative Suite
Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe Creative Suite is a collection of graphic design, video editing, and web development Application software made by Adobe Systems. The collection consists of Adobe's applications , that are based on various technologies ....
 CS2, Adobe Production Studio and Photoshop Elements 4 for Mac OS X. Adobe Bridge cannot be purchased separately, but Photoshop Elements is available from Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems Incorporated is an United States computer Computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. The company has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more-recent foray into rich Internet application software development....
 for 70 USD, and Photoshop is available for 400 USD.

Note 2: The latest version of iPhoto
IPhoto

iPhoto is a Application software made by Apple Inc. exclusively for their Mac OS X operating system. The first version of iPhoto was released in 2002....
 comes included with a Macintosh
Macintosh

File:Imac alu.pngMacintosh, commonly shortened to Mac, is a brand name which covers several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc....
 PC. iPhoto cannot be purchased separately, but is part of the iLife
ILife

iLife is a software suite from Apple Inc. for Mac OS X. The suite consists of iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, Garageband, and iWeb, which are for organizing, viewing and publishing digital content ....
-suite which is available from Apple Computer
Apple Computer

Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer Inc., is an United States multinational corporation which designs and manufactures consumer electronics and software products....
 for 79 USD.

Note 3: See also Comparison of raster graphics editors
Comparison of raster graphics editors

This is a comparison of raster graphics editors sorted by availability....
.

Supported file formats

Name File formats
ACDSee
ACDSee

ACDSee is a shareware and software for Microsoft Windows developed by ACD Systems....
BMP
BMP

BMP may stand for...
, EMF
EMF

EMF may stand for:In music:* EMF , a British band* E.M.F. , a 1983 album by GG Allin* Electronic Music Foundation, a not-for-profit organization...
, GIF, JPEG
JPEG

In computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality....
, PCX
PCX

PCX is an graphics file formats developed by the ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia, USA. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted MS-DOS imaging standards, although its use has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats such as Graphics Interchange Format, JPEG, and Portab...
, PIC, PICT, PNG, PSD
Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a Graphics software developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current and primary Market dominance for commercial Raster graphics and manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems....
, PSP
Corel Paint Shop Pro

Paint Shop Pro is a raster graphics editor and, later in the series, a vector graphics editor for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system that was originally published by Minneapolis-based Jasc Software....
, SGI, TGA, TIFF, WMF
WMF

WMF can stand for:* Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit foundation that runs various open-content wiki projects.* Windows Media Format, also known as "AVI" after the container format it uses....
, XBM
XBM

In computer graphics, the X Window System uses X BitMap , an American Standard Code for Information Interchange text monochrome , for storing cursor and icon bitmaps used in the X graphical user interface....
, various camera formats among others
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge

Adobe Bridge is an organizational program created and released by Adobe Systems as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite. Its primary purpose is to link the parts of the Creative Suite together using a format similar to the file browser found in previous versions of Adobe Photoshop....
Displays all file types supported by Adobe Creative Suite
Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe Creative Suite is a collection of graphic design, video editing, and web development Application software made by Adobe Systems. The collection consists of Adobe's applications , that are based on various technologies ....
Digikam
DigiKam

DigiKam is an and editor for the KDE desktop environment. It supports all , and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, or dynamic albums by date, timeline, or by Tag ....
JPEG
JPEG

In computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality....
, PNG, JPEG 2000
JPEG 2000

JPEG 2000 is a wavelet-based standard. It was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee in the year 2000 with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine transform-based JPEG standard ....
, BMP
BMP

BMP may stand for...
, GIF, PCX
PCX

PCX is an graphics file formats developed by the ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia, USA. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted MS-DOS imaging standards, although its use has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats such as Graphics Interchange Format, JPEG, and Portab...
, TIFF, WMF
WMF

WMF can stand for:* Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit foundation that runs various open-content wiki projects.* Windows Media Format, also known as "AVI" after the container format it uses....
, PNM, PPM, XCF
XCF

XCF, short for eXperimental Computing Facility, is the native image format of the GIMP image-editing program. It supports saving each Layers , the current selection, channels, transparency, paths and guides....
, XPM
XPM

) ADDING ITEMS:- DISAMBIG PAGES ARE NAVIGATION AIDS, *NOT* COMPLETE LISTS OF ALL POSSIBLE USES. See...
, PGX, all RAW formats, MPEG, MPO, MPE, AVI
Avi

Avi may refer to:* Avi , the pen name of children's author Edward Irving WortisAVI may refer to:* Audio Video Interleave, a multimedia container format...
, MOV
MOV

MOV may refer to:* MOV , a mnemonic for the copying of data from one location to another in the X86 assembly language* .mov, file extension for the QuickTime multimedia file format...
, ASF
ASF

ASF can stand for:In computing:* Advanced Systems Format , a Microsoft streaming format associated with Windows Media Player.* as file-extension for APL data files: the standard way for APL programs to store data on disk: filename.asf...
Elgorithms MagicTracer
Elgorithms MagicTracer

Elgorithms MagicTracer is a computer application for converting raster graphics images to vector output. It is only available for versions of Microsoft Windows....
PNG, JPEG
JPEG

In computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality....
, GIF, BMP
BMP

BMP may stand for...
, TIF, ICO
Ico

is a 2001 Action-adventure game video game published by Sony Computer Entertainment and released for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It was designed and directed by Fumito Ueda, who wanted to create a minimalist game around a "boy meets girl" concept....
, CUR
Cur

Cur refers to a mutt, a dog of mixed-breed dog, typically characterized as one who tends to growl frequently rather than maintain calm.It is also a derogatory term in American slang to insult someone by calling them a dog....
, PCX
PCX

PCX is an graphics file formats developed by the ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia, USA. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted MS-DOS imaging standards, although its use has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats such as Graphics Interchange Format, JPEG, and Portab...
, TGA
TGA

TGA can refer to:*Thermogravimetric analysis*Truevision TGA file format*Therapeutic Goods Administration*Transient global amnesia, a medical condition...
, RAS
Ras

In the field of molecular biology, Ras is the name of a protein, the gene that encodes it, and the family and superfamily of proteins to which it belongs....
, WMF
WMF

WMF can stand for:* Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit foundation that runs various open-content wiki projects.* Windows Media Format, also known as "AVI" after the container format it uses....
, EMF
EMF

EMF may stand for:In music:* EMF , a British band* E.M.F. , a 1983 album by GG Allin* Electronic Music Foundation, a not-for-profit organization...
, JPEG 2000
JPEG 2000

JPEG 2000 is a wavelet-based standard. It was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee in the year 2000 with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine transform-based JPEG standard ....
, JPC
JPC

JPC can stand for:* Joseph Priestly College* Jesmond Parish Church* Joint Parliamentary Committee, India* Java PC* Junior Police Call, an organization founded by Hong Kong Police targeted to the youth....
, PNM
Eye of GNOME
Eye of GNOME

Eye of GNOME is the official for the GNOME desktop environment. Unlike some other image viewers, Eye of GNOME will only view images. It does, however, provide basic effects for improved viewing, such as zooming, fullscreen, rotation, and transparent image background control....
PNG, GIF, JPG, BMP
BMP

BMP may stand for...
, PNM, RAS
Ras

In the field of molecular biology, Ras is the name of a protein, the gene that encodes it, and the family and superfamily of proteins to which it belongs....
, TIFF, ICO
Ico

is a 2001 Action-adventure game video game published by Sony Computer Entertainment and released for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It was designed and directed by Fumito Ueda, who wanted to create a minimalist game around a "boy meets girl" concept....
, XPM
XPM

) ADDING ITEMS:- DISAMBIG PAGES ARE NAVIGATION AIDS, *NOT* COMPLETE LISTS OF ALL POSSIBLE USES. See...
, SVG
EyeBrowse
EyeBrowse

EyeBrowse is an advanced graphics editing program and management program which has fully featured multiple file and directory management and many tools to help you work with graphics....
PNG, JPG, BMP
BMP

BMP may stand for...
, TGA
TGA

TGA can refer to:*Thermogravimetric analysis*Truevision TGA file format*Therapeutic Goods Administration*Transient global amnesia, a medical condition...
, TIFF, PCX
PCX

PCX is an graphics file formats developed by the ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia, USA. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted MS-DOS imaging standards, although its use has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats such as Graphics Interchange Format, JPEG, and Portab...
, WMF
WMF

WMF can stand for:* Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit foundation that runs various open-content wiki projects.* Windows Media Format, also known as "AVI" after the container format it uses....
, EMF
EMF

EMF may stand for:In music:* EMF , a British band* E.M.F. , a 1983 album by GG Allin* Electronic Music Foundation, a not-for-profit organization...
, DIB
Dib

Dib, dib or DIB may stand for:*Disability Insurance Benefits - a Title II benefit offered by the Social Security Administration*device-independent bitmap...
, GIF, ICO
Ico

is a 2001 Action-adventure game video game published by Sony Computer Entertainment and released for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It was designed and directed by Fumito Ueda, who wanted to create a minimalist game around a "boy meets girl" concept....
FastPictureViewer
Fast Picture Viewer

FastPictureViewer is a commercial for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. Its aim is to facilitate quick review and rating of large quantities of digital images in the early steps of the digital workflow, with an emphasis on simplicity and speed....
JPEG
JPEG

In computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality....
, JPE
JPE

JPE may refer to:* The Journal of Political Economy, a leading economics journal published by the University of Chicago* .JPE file extension used for JPEG images...
, JFIF, HD Photo, HDP, WDP, JPEG XR
(+ PNG
PNG

Portable Network Graphics is a Raster graphics Graphics file format that employs lossless data compression. PNG was created to improve upon and replace Graphics Interchange Format as an image-file format not requiring a patent license....
, BMP
BMP

BMP may stand for...
, RLE
RLE

RLE could refer to:*Run-length encoding*Real life experience*Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT*Right-to-left embedding, a Unicode format character controlling text direction...
, DIB
Dib

Dib, dib or DIB may stand for:*Disability Insurance Benefits - a Title II benefit offered by the Social Security Administration*device-independent bitmap...
, ICO
Ico

is a 2001 Action-adventure game video game published by Sony Computer Entertainment and released for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It was designed and directed by Fumito Ueda, who wanted to create a minimalist game around a "boy meets girl" concept....
, TIFF, MTIFF, DNG
DNG

DNG can have the following meanings:* Digital Negative * Delaware National Guard* Digital News Gathering* Double negative material, any material with both permittivity and permeability less than zero....
, NRW, NEF, CR2
CR2

CR2 may refer to:* .CR2 file format, the RAW image format of Canon 's digital cameras* CR postcode area, a postal district covering part of the London Borough of Croydon...
, ORF
Orf

Orf can refer to:*Orf , a disease found in sheep and goatsORF can refer to:*Open reading frame*Oral reading fluency*ORF , ?sterreichischer Rundfunk...
, PEF
PEF

PEF may stand for:* Private elitist forum In regard to online message boards.* Peak flow meter* Pentax raw file * Perpetual Education Fund...
, ARW
ARW

ARW may refer to:* Arawakan languages* Irish Army Ranger Wing*Arkansas Western Railway...
, RW2, SR2, SRF
SRF

SRF may refer to in technology:* Self-Resonant Frequency, a type resonance in electronic circuit* Server Response File* Ship Repair Facility ...
, DjVu
DjVu

DjVu is a computer file format designed primarily to store , especially those containing combination of text, line drawings and photographs. It uses technologies such as image layer separation of text and background/images, progressive loading, arithmetic coding, and lossy compression for bitonal images....
, WIC codecs
Windows Imaging Component

The Windows Imaging Component is a Component Object Model based imaging codec framework introduced in Windows Vista and Windows XP#Service Pack 3 for working with and processing digital images and image metadata....
 in the Professional Edition)
FastStone Image Viewer
FastStone Image Viewer

FastStone Image Viewer is an and for Microsoft Windows, provided free of charge for personal and educational use ....
loading of: PNG, JPEG
JPEG

In computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality....
, BMP
BMP

BMP may stand for...
, JPEG 2000
JPEG 2000

JPEG 2000 is a wavelet-based standard. It was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee in the year 2000 with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine transform-based JPEG standard ....
, GIF, PCX
PCX

PCX is an graphics file formats developed by the ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia, USA. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted MS-DOS imaging standards, although its use has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats such as Graphics Interchange Format, JPEG, and Portab...
, TIFF, WMF
WMF

WMF can stand for:* Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit foundation that runs various open-content wiki projects.* Windows Media Format, also known as "AVI" after the container format it uses....
, ICO
Ico

is a 2001 Action-adventure game video game published by Sony Computer Entertainment and released for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It was designed and directed by Fumito Ueda, who wanted to create a minimalist game around a "boy meets girl" concept....
, CUR
Cur

Cur refers to a mutt, a dog of mixed-breed dog, typically characterized as one who tends to growl frequently rather than maintain calm.It is also a derogatory term in American slang to insult someone by calling them a dog....
, TGA
TGA

TGA can refer to:*Thermogravimetric analysis*Truevision TGA file format*Therapeutic Goods Administration*Transient global amnesia, a medical condition...
, CRW
CRW

CRW can be:* Yeager Airport in Charleston, West Virginia, West Virginia * Counter Revolutionary Operations* Continuous-rod warhead* Skydiving...
, saving to: JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF, GIF, PCX, BMP, PNG, TGA
Firehand Ember
Firehand Ember

Firehand Ember is a Microsoft Windows-based , editor and organizer.Firehand Ember comes in two editions, a lightweight free edition for image viewing and a heavyweight image processing edition....
 
F-Spot
F-Spot

F-Spot is an , designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop....
CR2
CR2

CR2 may refer to:* .CR2 file format, the RAW image format of Canon 's digital cameras* CR postcode area, a postal district covering part of the London Borough of Croydon...
, CRW
CRW

CRW can be:* Yeager Airport in Charleston, West Virginia, West Virginia * Counter Revolutionary Operations* Continuous-rod warhead* Skydiving...
, DNG
DNG

DNG can have the following meanings:* Digital Negative * Delaware National Guard* Digital News Gathering* Double negative material, any material with both permittivity and permeability less than zero....
, GIF, JPEG
JPEG

In computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality....
, MRW, NEF, ORF
Orf

Orf can refer to:*Orf , a disease found in sheep and goatsORF can refer to:*Open reading frame*Oral reading fluency*ORF , ?sterreichischer Rundfunk...
, PEF
PEF

PEF may stand for:* Private elitist forum In regard to online message boards.* Peak flow meter* Pentax raw file * Perpetual Education Fund...
, PNG, PPM
Portable pixmap

The portable pixmap file format , the portable graymap file format and the portable bitmap file format specify rules for exchanging graphics files....
, RAF
C-Raf

c-raf is gene that Genetic code a protein kinase. That protein is sometimes called c-Raf and will be called "Raf-1" here. The Raf-1 protein functions in the MAPK/ERK pathway as part of a protein kinase cascade....
, RAW, SRF
SRF

SRF may refer to in technology:* Self-Resonant Frequency, a type resonance in electronic circuit* Server Response File* Ship Repair Facility ...
, SVG, TIFF
GQview
GQView

GQview is a free software created by John Ellis using the GTK+ toolkit, designed to run on the X Window System. For MS Windows, an unofficial port is also available....
See note
GraphicConverter
GraphicConverter

GraphicConverter is computer software that displays and edits computer graphics files. It also converts files between different file format. For example, one can convert a GIF file to a JPEG file....
190 types read, 79 types saved
gThumb
GThumb

gThumb is an open-source and for the GNOME desktop environment released under the GNU General Public License. It was originally based on GQView, and is designed to have a clean, simple interface....
See note
Gwenview
Gwenview

Gwenview is an for the KDE desktop environment. The current maintainer is Aur?lien G?teau. The word "Gwen" means "white" in the Breton language and is commonly used as a first name....
PNG, JPEG
JPEG

In computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality....
, MNG, GIF, XCF etc.
Image Browser Arctic Read/Write: BMP/DIB, ICO, JPG, JP2, J2K, GIF, PNG, TIF (multi-page supported), TGA, PCX. Read-only: EMF, WMF
Imagine ANI, ANM (Deluxe Paint
Deluxe Paint

Deluxe Paint is a bitmap graphics editor originally created by Dan Silva for Electronic Arts . The original version was created for the Commodore Amiga and was released in November 1985....
 Animation), BMP
BMP

BMP may stand for...
, CorelDRAW
CorelDRAW

CorelDRAW is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel of Ottawa, Canada. It is also the name of Corel's Graphics Suite. Its latest version, named X4 , was released in January 2008....
 drawing (CDR,CDT,PAT,CMX), CUR
Cur

Cur refers to a mutt, a dog of mixed-breed dog, typically characterized as one who tends to growl frequently rather than maintain calm.It is also a derogatory term in American slang to insult someone by calling them a dog....
, DCX
DCX (file format)

DCX is:* a file extension used for a Microsoft Visual FoxPro database container file* a bitmap graphics file in PCX, a format used by some computer fax and document management programs....
, DDS
DirectDraw Surface

The DirectDraw Surface file format, from Microsoft, is used for storing Texture and Cube mapping, both compressed and uncompressed. This makes the format useful for storing S3TC compressed data used in GPUs and consoles like the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360....
, EMF
Windows Metafile

Windows Metafile is a on Microsoft Windows systems, originally designed in the early 1990s. Windows Metafiles are intended to be portable between applications and may contain both vector and bitmap components....
, GIF, ICL
ICO (icon image file format)

The ICO file format is an image file format used for icon in Microsoft Windows. The CUR file format for cursor s is almost identical, as the only differences are the identification byte and a specification of a hotspot in the Header ....
, ICO
ICO (icon image file format)

The ICO file format is an image file format used for icon in Microsoft Windows. The CUR file format for cursor s is almost identical, as the only differences are the identification byte and a specification of a hotspot in the Header ....
, JPE
JPE

JPE may refer to:* The Journal of Political Economy, a leading economics journal published by the University of Chicago* .JPE file extension used for JPEG images...
, JPEG
JPEG

In computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality....
, JPG, MacPaint
MacPaint

MacPaint was a bitmap-based Computer graphics software program developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh 128K personal computer on January 22, 1984....
, MNG, PBM
Portable pixmap

The portable pixmap file format , the portable graymap file format and the portable bitmap file format specify rules for exchanging graphics files....
, PCD
Photo CD

Photo CD is a system designed by Kodak for digitizing and storing photos in a CD. Launched in 1992, the discs were designed to hold nearly 100 high quality images, scanned prints and slides using special proprietary encoding....
, PCX
PCX

PCX is an graphics file formats developed by the ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia, USA. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted MS-DOS imaging standards, although its use has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats such as Graphics Interchange Format, JPEG, and Portab...
, PGM
Portable pixmap

The portable pixmap file format , the portable graymap file format and the portable bitmap file format specify rules for exchanging graphics files....
, PIC, CEL
Autodesk Animator

Autodesk Animator was a 2D computer graphics Computer animation and painting program created in 1989 by Yost Group for Autodesk and ran on a Personal computer under MS-DOS....
, PNG, PPM
Portable pixmap

The portable pixmap file format , the portable graymap file format and the portable bitmap file format specify rules for exchanging graphics files....
, PSD
Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a Graphics software developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current and primary Market dominance for commercial Raster graphics and manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems....
, PSP (Paint Shop Pro image)
Corel Paint Shop Pro

Paint Shop Pro is a raster graphics editor and, later in the series, a vector graphics editor for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system that was originally published by Minneapolis-based Jasc Software....
, RAS
.ras

The .ras file extension can serve to identify raster graphics files on Sun Microsystems computer-systems....
, RLA
Alphabetical list of file extensions

This is an alphabetical list of filename extensions....
, RLE
Alphabetical list of file extensions

This is an alphabetical list of filename extensions....
, SGI (RGB,BW)
Silicon Graphics Image

Silicon Graphics Image or the RGB file format is the native raster graphics graphics file format for Silicon Graphics workstations.Common file endings are:...
, SPR (Pro Motion Animation), TGA
TGA

TGA can refer to:*Thermogravimetric analysis*Truevision TGA file format*Therapeutic Goods Administration*Transient global amnesia, a medical condition...
, TIFF, WBMP, WMF
Windows Metafile

Windows Metafile is a on Microsoft Windows systems, originally designed in the early 1990s. Windows Metafiles are intended to be portable between applications and may contain both vector and bitmap components....
, XBM
XBM

In computer graphics, the X Window System uses X BitMap , an American Standard Code for Information Interchange text monochrome , for storing cursor and icon bitmaps used in the X graphical user interface....
, XCF, XPM
XPM (image format)

X Pixmap is an American Standard Code for Information Interchange-text-based image format used by the X Window System. It was created in 1989 by Daniel Dardailler and Colas Nahaboo working at Bull Research Center at Sophia Antipolis, France, and was later enhanced by Arnaud Le Hors....
,
IMatch
IMatch

IMatch is shareware digital asset management Application software for Microsoft Windows. Imported images can be sorted and organized in categories....
over 50 types including RAW, also Unicode
imgSeek
ImgSeek

imgSeek is a photo collection manager and viewer with Content-based image retrieval and many other features. The query is expressed either as a rough sketch painted by the user or as another image....
12 types
iPhoto
IPhoto

iPhoto is a Application software made by Apple Inc. exclusively for their Mac OS X operating system. The first version of iPhoto was released in 2002....
PNG, JPEG
JPEG

In computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality....
, GIF, RAW (All QuickTime
QuickTime

QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, media clips, sound, text, animation, music, and QuickTime VRs....
 supported images), PSD (Leopard), AVI (Leopard), MOV (Leopard)
IrfanView
IrfanView

IrfanView is a freeware 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, Pixel image editor, Paint.NET or GIMP....
~70 types including : AIF, ANI/CUR, ASF, AU/SND, AVI, B3D, BMP/DIB, CAM (Casio JPG), CLP, DDS, Dicom/ACR, DJVU, ECW, EMF/WMF, EPS/PS/PDF, FITS, FlashPix (FPX), FSH, G3, GIF, HDR, ICO/ICL/EXE/DLL, IFF/LBM, IMG (GEM), JPG2000, JPG, JPM, KDC, LDF, LWF, MED, MID/RMI, MNG/JNG, MOV, MP3, MPG, MrSID, NLM/NOL/NGG, OGG, PBM/PGM/PPM, PCX/DCX, PhotoCD, PIC, PNG, PSD
Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a Graphics software developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current and primary Market dominance for commercial Raster graphics and manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems....
, PSP, RAS/SUN, RAW, Real Audio (RA), RLE, SFF, SFW, SGI/RGB, SWF (Flash/Shockwave), TGA, TIF, TTF, TXT, WAD, WAL, WAV, WBMP, WBZ/WBC, XBM, XPM, CRW/CR2, DNG, NEF, ORF, RAF, MRW, DCR, SRF, X3F, CAD formats. Partial support: MOV, QTIF, Mac PICT, FLI/FLC, SVG.
KSquirrel
KSquirrel

KSquirrel is an for the KDE desktop environment with a disk navigator, file tree, thumbnails, extended thumbnails, dynamic format support, DCOP interface, KEXIF and KIPI plugins support....
51 types
KPhotoAlbum
KPhotoAlbum

KPhotoAlbum is an and for Unix-like systems created and maintained by Jesper K. Pedersen. The core philosophy behind its creation was that it should be easy for users to annotate images and videos taken with a digital camera....
Photo formats supported by KDE; AVI, MPEG, RAW
Lphoto
Lphoto

Lphoto is an open source for Linux. The Lphoto open source project was started by and is maintained by Linspire, a Linux linux distributions based on Debian....
iPhoto Clone
MST Viewer
MST Viewer

MST Viewer is a Document Management solution by MS Technology that allows users to view images and documents located in their Enterprise content management system....
ASCII, ABIC, AFP (MO:DCA), BMP, Brooktrout, CALS, CLIP, DCX, DICOM, DOC, DJVU, EPS, GIF, IOCA (MO:DCA), JBIG, JBIG2, JPEG, JPEG2000, MO:DCA
MODCA

MO:DCA is an IBM compound document format for text and graphics elements in a document. The 'Mixed Object' moniker refers to the fact that a MO:DCA file can contain multiple types of objects, including text, images, vector graphics, and even objects marked as 'barcodes'....
, MO:DCA Uncompressed, PBM, PCX, PGM, PNG, PPM, PCL, PDF, PTOCA (MO:DCA), RLE, RTF, SVG, TIFF, TIFF Group 3/Group 4, TIFF JBIG, TIFF JPEG, TIFF Uncompressed, TXT, WMF, XLS, XML, XPS
Picasa
Picasa

Picasa is a software application for organizing and editing digital photographys, originally created by Idealab and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my house" and "pic" for pictures . In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa and began offering...
8 types including PNG, JPEG
JPEG

In computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality....
 and some movie formats
Pictomio JPEG
JPEG

In computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality....
, PNG
PNG

Portable Network Graphics is a Raster graphics Graphics file format that employs lossless data compression. PNG was created to improve upon and replace Graphics Interchange Format as an image-file format not requiring a patent license....
, GIF
GIF

The Graphics Interchange Format is a Raster graphics that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability....
, TIFF, BMP
BMP

BMP may stand for...
, TGA
TGA

TGA can refer to:*Thermogravimetric analysis*Truevision TGA file format*Therapeutic Goods Administration*Transient global amnesia, a medical condition...
 with codec: MPG
MPG

MPG or mpg is a three letter acronym with several meanings, including:*Miles per gallon, gasoline consumption measurement used in North America and the United Kingdom...
, MPEG, AVI
Avi

Avi may refer to:* Avi , the pen name of children's author Edward Irving WortisAVI may refer to:* Audio Video Interleave, a multimedia container format...
, WMV, ASF
ASF

ASF can stand for:In computing:* Advanced Systems Format , a Microsoft streaming format associated with Windows Media Player.* as file-extension for APL data files: the standard way for APL programs to store data on disk: filename.asf...
, VOB
VOB

A VOB file is a Container format contained in DVD-Video media. VOB is based on MPEG-2 program stream format, but with additional limitations and specifications in the private streams....
, QT
QT

Qt or QT may refer to:...
, MP4, WMA
WMA

Selfref|On Wikipedia, WMA may refer to...
, WAV
WAV

WAV , short for Waveform audio format, is a Microsoft and International Business Machines audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on personal computer....
, MP3
MP3

MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a digital audio Encoder format using a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, as well as a de facto standard encoding for the transfer and playback of music on digital audio players....
, OGG
Ogg

Ogg is a free file format, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The Ogg format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming media and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia....
PMView pro BMP (OS/2 & Windows), CUR, DCA, DCX, FITS, CCITT G3, GIF, ICO (OS/2 & Windows), IFF, IMG, JPG, LGO, MAC, MSP, PCD, PCX, PIC, PBM, PGM, PPM, PNM, PNG, PSD, PTR, RAS, RLE, SFF, SFW, SGI, SHW, TGA, TIF, WBMP, WPG, XBM, XPN, XWD
Preview
Preview (software)

Preview is Mac OS X's application for displaying images and Portable Document Format documents. Like Mac OS X itself, it comes from NeXT's OPENSTEP operating system....
All QuickTime
QuickTime

QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, media clips, sound, text, animation, music, and QuickTime VRs....
 images:
ResourceSpace
ResourceSpace

ResourceSpace is an open source Digital Asset Management system originally developed for Oxfam. It has been released under a BSD-style license. It requires PHP, MySQL, and the GD Graphics Library, and works with most web server#Software such as Apache HTTP Server....
Hundreds; all types supported by ImageMagick
ImageMagick

ImageMagick is an open source software suite for and display, supporting close to 100 image formats. It is mainly used to perform various transformation and conversion operations on images....
 and FFmpeg
FFmpeg

FFmpeg is a computer program that can record, convert and streaming media digital sound recording and video in numerous formats. FFmpeg is a command line tool that is composed of a collection of free software / open-source software library ....
 plus InDesign
ShowImg
ShowImg

ShowImg is an open-source for the KDE desktop environment by Richard Groult.See also *Comparison of image viewersExternal links...
JPEG
JPEG

In computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality....
, PNG, GIF, XCF, PSD
Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a Graphics software developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current and primary Market dominance for commercial Raster graphics and manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems....
 etc.
Snapact JPEG
JPEG

In computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality....
, PNG, GIF, BMP
BMP

BMP may stand for...
, TIFF, ICO
ICO (icon image file format)

The ICO file format is an image file format used for icon in Microsoft Windows. The CUR file format for cursor s is almost identical, as the only differences are the identification byte and a specification of a hotspot in the Header ....
, WBMP
Windows Picture and Fax Viewer
Windows Picture and Fax Viewer

Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is an developed by Microsoft that is included with the Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. It is based on GDI+ and is capable of viewing image formats supported by GDI+, namely, JPEG, BMP file format, Portable Network Graphics, Graphics Interchange Format , ICO , Windows Metafile, Windows Met...
JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF
GIF

The Graphics Interchange Format is a Raster graphics that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability....
, WMF
Windows Metafile

Windows Metafile is a on Microsoft Windows systems, originally designed in the early 1990s. Windows Metafiles are intended to be portable between applications and may contain both vector and bitmap components....
, EMF
Windows Metafile

Windows Metafile is a on Microsoft Windows systems, originally designed in the early 1990s. Windows Metafiles are intended to be portable between applications and may contain both vector and bitmap components....
, TIFF, ICO
ICO (icon image file format)

The ICO file format is an image file format used for icon in Microsoft Windows. The CUR file format for cursor s is almost identical, as the only differences are the identification byte and a specification of a hotspot in the Header ....
Xee
Xee

Xee is a free software, light-weight image browser and for the Mac OS X operating system, developed by Dag ?gren....
JPEG
JPEG

In computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality....
, JPEG 2000
JPEG 2000

JPEG 2000 is a wavelet-based standard. It was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee in the year 2000 with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine transform-based JPEG standard ....
, PNG, GIF, PSD
Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a Graphics software developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current and primary Market dominance for commercial Raster graphics and manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems....
, TIFF
Tagged Image File Format

Tagged Image File Format is a file format for storing raster graphics, including photographs and line art. It is now under the control of Adobe Systems....
, OpenEXR
OpenEXR

OpenEXR is a high dynamic range imaging , released as an open standard along with a set of software tools created by Industrial Light and Magic , released under a free software license similar to the BSD license....
, Radiance
Radiance (software)

Radiance is a suite of tools for performing lighting simulation originally written by Greg Ward. It includes a rendering as well as many other tools for measuring the simulated light levels....
, RAW
RAW image format

A raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be used with a bitmap graphics editor or Printing....
, PICT
PICT

PICT is a computer graphics file format introduced on the original Apple Macintosh computer as its standard metafile format. It allows the interchange of graphics , and some limited text support, between Mac applications, and was the native graphics format of QuickDraw....
, QuickTime Image
QuickTime

QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, media clips, sound, text, animation, music, and QuickTime VRs....
, MacPaint
MacPaint

MacPaint was a bitmap-based Computer graphics software program developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh 128K personal computer on January 22, 1984....
, Apple Icon
Apple Icon Image

The Apple Icon Image format is the icon format used in Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X. It supports icons of 16?16, 32?32, 48?48, 128?128, 256?256 and 512?512 pixels, with both bit and 8-bit Alpha compositings and multiple image states ....
, BMP, Targa
Truevision TGA

Truevision's TGA File Format, often referred to as TARGA File Format, is a raster graphics Graphics file format summary. It was the native format of Truevision's TARGA and VISTA boards, which were the first Graphics processing units for IBM PC compatible to support Highcolor/truecolor display....
, PCX
PCX

PCX is an graphics file formats developed by the ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia, USA. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted MS-DOS imaging standards, although its use has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats such as Graphics Interchange Format, JPEG, and Portab...
, ILBM
ILBM

ILBM is a subtype of the Interchange File Format used for storing picture data. ILBM stands for InterLeaved BitMap which refers to the way the pictures are stored....
, SGI
Silicon Graphics Image

Silicon Graphics Image or the RGB file format is the native raster graphics graphics file format for Silicon Graphics workstations.Common file endings are:...
, FPX
FlashPix

FlashPix is a Bitmap Computer graphics file format where the image is saved in more than one Display resolution. Though this makes it larger even than a TIFF file, when a request is sent for the file by a Web browser only the resolution required for the current screen resolution is sent to the browser; this therefore saves on Bandwidth and d...
, XBM
XBM

In computer graphics, the X Window System uses X BitMap , an American Standard Code for Information Interchange text monochrome , for storing cursor and icon bitmaps used in the X graphical user interface....
, Fax Document (fax, jfx, jfax), Comic Book Archive
XnView
XnView

XnView is a free cross-platform used for viewing, converting, organising and editing graphical & video files. It is freeware for private non-commercial, educational use and non-profit organisations....
reads about 400 formats, including: JPEG
JPEG

In computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality....
 (IPTC & Exif), BMP
BMP

BMP may stand for...
, PNG, FAX
Fax

Fax is a telecommunications technology used to transfer copies of documents, especially using affordable devices operating over the telephone network....
, GIF, TIFF (Multipage), NEF, CRW
CRW

CRW can be:* Yeager Airport in Charleston, West Virginia, West Virginia * Counter Revolutionary Operations* Continuous-rod warhead* Skydiving...
, PSD
Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a Graphics software developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current and primary Market dominance for commercial Raster graphics and manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems....
, EPS
EPS

EPS or Eps may refer to:...
, WMF
WMF

WMF can stand for:* Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit foundation that runs various open-content wiki projects.* Windows Media Format, also known as "AVI" after the container format it uses....
, DICOM; writes about 50 formats
Xv
XV

XV may refer to:* the number 15 in Roman numerals* Air Vietnam IATA code* X video extension to the X Window System* Xv, a shareware image display and manipulation program for Unix...
GIF, JPEG
JPEG

In computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality....
, TIFF, PBM, PGM, PPM
Portable pixmap

The portable pixmap file format , the portable graymap file format and the portable bitmap file format specify rules for exchanging graphics files....
, XPM
XPM (image format)

X Pixmap is an American Standard Code for Information Interchange-text-based image format used by the X Window System. It was created in 1989 by Daniel Dardailler and Colas Nahaboo working at Bull Research Center at Sophia Antipolis, France, and was later enhanced by Arnaud Le Hors....
, Sun Rasterfile, Targa
Targa

Targa is an old word for targe, shield. Targa or TARGA may also refer to:Car rallies*Targa Florio, Sicily, Italy*Targa New Zealand*Targa Newfoundland, Canada...
, RGB, BMP
BMP

BMP may stand for...
, PCX
PCX

PCX is an graphics file formats developed by the ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia, USA. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted MS-DOS imaging standards, although its use has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats such as Graphics Interchange Format, JPEG, and Portab...
, FITS
FITS

FITS or Flexible Image Transport System is a digital file format used to store, transmit, and manipulate scientific and other images. FITS is the most commonly used digital file format in astronomy....
, PM
PM

PM usually refers to post meridiem , "after noon" in the 12-hour clock, in contrast to ante meridiem . It may also refer to:...
, PostScript
PostScript

PostScript is a dynamically typed concatenative programming language programming language created by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in 1982. PostScript is best known for its use as a page description language in the electronic and desktop publishing areas....
, PNG (with patch)
Zoner Photo Studio
Zoner Photo Studio

Zoner Photo Studio is a feature-rich and software for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista developed by Zoner Software. It also features many raster graphics editor functions including 16 bits per color channel....
JPG/JPEG/JPE, HDP/WDP, TIFF/TIF, GIF/aGIF, PNG, PSD, PSB, PSP/PSPIMAGE, BMP/DIB/RLE, J2K/JPC/JP2, PAM, PBM, PGM, PNM, PCD, PCX, WBMP/WBM, TGA, ICO, MAC, WPG, BMI, MDM, THN, ARW/SR2, CRW/CR2, DNG, ERF, KDC, MEF, MRW, NEF, ORF, RAF, RAW, X3F, 3FR, RW2, PEF, SRF, DCM, stereo pictures: JPS, PNS, BMS.
Name File formats


Supported desktop environment
Desktop environment

In graphical computing, a desktop environment commonly refers to a style of graphical user interface that is based on the desktop metaphor which can be seen on most modern personal computers today....
s


Name Windows
Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces ....
XP x64
Windows XP

Windows XP is a line of operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptop, and media centers....
Vista x32
Windows Vista

Windows Vista is one member in a family of operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business Desktop computer, laptops, Tablet PCs, and media center PCs....
Vista x64
Windows Vista

Windows Vista is one member in a family of operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business Desktop computer, laptops, Tablet PCs, and media center PCs....
Mac OS
Mac OS

Mac OS is the trademarked name for a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems....
GNOME
Gnome

A gnome is a mythical creature characterized by its extremely small size and wiktionary:subterranean lifestyle. The word gnome is derived from the New Latin gnomus....
KDE
KDE

KDE is a free software project based around its flagship product, a desktop environment for Unix-like systems. The goal of the project is to provide basic desktop functions and applications for daily needs as well as tools and documentation for developers to write stand-alone applications for the system....
X Window System
X Window System

The X Window System is a computing software system and network protocol that provides a graphical user interface for networked computers. It implements the X Window System protocols and architecture and provides windowing system on raster graphics Visual display units and manages Keyboard and pointing device control functions....
AmigaOS
AmigaOS

AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. It was developed first by Commodore International, and initially introduced in 1985 with the Amiga 1000....
MorphOS
MorphOS

MorphOS is a computer operating system . It is a mixed proprietary software and open source OS produced for the Pegasos PowerPC -processor-based computer, most models of PPC-accelerator-equipped Amiga computers, and a series of Freescale development boards that use the Genesi Firmware, including the EFIKA and mobileGT....
IBM
IBM

International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue" , is a multinational corporation computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, New York, United States....
 z/OS
OS/2
OS/2

OS/2 is a computer operating system, initially created by Microsoft and IBM, then later developed by IBM exclusively. The name stands for "Operating System/2," because it was introduced as part of the same generation change release as IBM's "IBM Personal System/2 " line of second-generation personal computers....
ACDSee
ACDSee

ACDSee is a shareware and software for Microsoft Windows developed by ACD Systems....
   
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge

Adobe Bridge is an organizational program created and released by Adobe Systems as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite. Its primary purpose is to link the parts of the Creative Suite together using a format similar to the file browser found in previous versions of Adobe Photoshop....
   
Digikam
DigiKam

DigiKam is an and editor for the KDE desktop environment. It supports all , and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, or dynamic albums by date, timeline, or by Tag ....
   
Elgorithms MagicTracer
Elgorithms MagicTracer

Elgorithms MagicTracer is a computer application for converting raster graphics images to vector output. It is only available for versions of Microsoft Windows....
   
Eye of GNOME
Eye of GNOME

Eye of GNOME is the official for the GNOME desktop environment. Unlike some other image viewers, Eye of GNOME will only view images. It does, however, provide basic effects for improved viewing, such as zooming, fullscreen, rotation, and transparent image background control....
EyeBrowse
EyeBrowse

EyeBrowse is an advanced graphics editing program and management program which has fully featured multiple file and directory management and many tools to help you work with graphics....
   
FastPictureViewer
Fast Picture Viewer

FastPictureViewer is a commercial for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. Its aim is to facilitate quick review and rating of large quantities of digital images in the early steps of the digital workflow, with an emphasis on simplicity and speed....
FastStone Image Viewer
FastStone Image Viewer

FastStone Image Viewer is an and for Microsoft Windows, provided free of charge for personal and educational use ....
   
Firehand Ember
Firehand Ember

Firehand Ember is a Microsoft Windows-based , editor and organizer.Firehand Ember comes in two editions, a lightweight free edition for image viewing and a heavyweight image processing edition....
   
F-Spot
F-Spot

F-Spot is an , designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop....
GQView
GQView

GQview is a free software created by John Ellis using the GTK+ toolkit, designed to run on the X Window System. For MS Windows, an unofficial port is also available....
   
GraphicConverter
GraphicConverter

GraphicConverter is computer software that displays and edits computer graphics files. It also converts files between different file format. For example, one can convert a GIF file to a JPEG file....
gThumb
GThumb

gThumb is an open-source and for the GNOME desktop environment released under the GNU General Public License. It was originally based on GQView, and is designed to have a clean, simple interface....
Gwenview
Gwenview

Gwenview is an for the KDE desktop environment. The current maintainer is Aur?lien G?teau. The word "Gwen" means "white" in the Breton language and is commonly used as a first name....
Image Browser Arctic    
IMatch
IMatch

IMatch is shareware digital asset management Application software for Microsoft Windows. Imported images can be sorted and organized in categories....
   
imgSeek
ImgSeek

imgSeek is a photo collection manager and viewer with Content-based image retrieval and many other features. The query is expressed either as a rough sketch painted by the user or as another image....
   
iPhoto
IPhoto

iPhoto is a Application software made by Apple Inc. exclusively for their Mac OS X operating system. The first version of iPhoto was released in 2002....
IrfanView
IrfanView

IrfanView is a freeware 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, Pixel image editor, Paint.NET or GIMP....
   
KSquirrel
KSquirrel

KSquirrel is an for the KDE desktop environment with a disk navigator, file tree, thumbnails, extended thumbnails, dynamic format support, DCOP interface, KEXIF and KIPI plugins support....
KPhotoAlbum
KPhotoAlbum

KPhotoAlbum is an and for Unix-like systems created and maintained by Jesper K. Pedersen. The core philosophy behind its creation was that it should be easy for users to annotate images and videos taken with a digital camera....
Lphoto
Lphoto

Lphoto is an open source for Linux. The Lphoto open source project was started by and is maintained by Linspire, a Linux linux distributions based on Debian....
MST Viewer
MST Viewer

MST Viewer is a Document Management solution by MS Technology that allows users to view images and documents located in their Enterprise content management system....
Picasa
Picasa

Picasa is a software application for organizing and editing digital photographys, originally created by Idealab and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my house" and "pic" for pictures . In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa and began offering...
   
Pictomio    
PMView Pro    
Preview
Preview (software)

Preview is Mac OS X's application for displaying images and Portable Document Format documents. Like Mac OS X itself, it comes from NeXT's OPENSTEP operating system....
ShowImg
ShowImg

ShowImg is an open-source for the KDE desktop environment by Richard Groult.See also *Comparison of image viewersExternal links...
Snapact
ThumbsPlus    
Xee
Xee

Xee is a free software, light-weight image browser and for the Mac OS X operating system, developed by Dag ?gren....
XnView
XnView

XnView is a free cross-platform used for viewing, converting, organising and editing graphical & video files. It is freeware for private non-commercial, educational use and non-profit organisations....
   
Xv
XV

XV may refer to:* the number 15 in Roman numerals* Air Vietnam IATA code* X video extension to the X Window System* Xv, a shareware image display and manipulation program for Unix...
Zoner Photo Studio
Zoner Photo Studio

Zoner Photo Studio is a feature-rich and software for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista developed by Zoner Software. It also features many raster graphics editor functions including 16 bits per color channel....
 
Name Windows
Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces ....
XP x64
Windows XP

Windows XP is a line of operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptop, and media centers....
Vista x32
Windows Vista

Windows Vista is one member in a family of operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business Desktop computer, laptops, Tablet PCs, and media center PCs....
Vista x64
Windows Vista

Windows Vista is one member in a family of operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business Desktop computer, laptops, Tablet PCs, and media center PCs....
Mac OS
Mac OS

Mac OS is the trademarked name for a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems....
GNOME
Gnome

A gnome is a mythical creature characterized by its extremely small size and wiktionary:subterranean lifestyle. The word gnome is derived from the New Latin gnomus....
KDE
KDE

KDE is a free software project based around its flagship product, a desktop environment for Unix-like systems. The goal of the project is to provide basic desktop functions and applications for daily needs as well as tools and documentation for developers to write stand-alone applications for the system....
X Window System
X Window System

The X Window System is a computing software system and network protocol that provides a graphical user interface for networked computers. It implements the X Window System protocols and architecture and provides windowing system on raster graphics Visual display units and manages Keyboard and pointing device control functions....
AmigaOS
AmigaOS

AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. It was developed first by Commodore International, and initially introduced in 1985 with the Amiga 1000....
MorphOS
MorphOS

MorphOS is a computer operating system . It is a mixed proprietary software and open source OS produced for the Pegasos PowerPC -processor-based computer, most models of PPC-accelerator-equipped Amiga computers, and a series of Freescale development boards that use the Genesi Firmware, including the EFIKA and mobileGT....
IBM
IBM

International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue" , is a multinational corporation computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, New York, United States....
 z/OS
OS/2
OS/2

OS/2 is a computer operating system, initially created by Microsoft and IBM, then later developed by IBM exclusively. The name stands for "Operating System/2," because it was introduced as part of the same generation change release as IBM's "IBM Personal System/2 " line of second-generation personal computers....


Features

Program Fullscreen slideshow zoom (styles) cache decoded images thumbnails (sizes) thumbnail caching navigation views print sort (schemes) search (criteria) selection (styles) metadata adjust image (functions) hotkeys color management (ICC
ICC profile

In color management, an ICC profile is a set of data that characterizes a color input or output device, or a color space, according to standards promulgated by the International Color Consortium ....
)
other / special JPEG Lossless operations Unicode support
ACDSee
ACDSee

ACDSee is a shareware and software for Microsoft Windows developed by ACD Systems....

1:1, fit width and/or height, lock

previous, next

user-defined

database
directory-tree, albums, calendar, favourites, search results
user-defined, name, date, size, type, ...

individual, linear, block

Exif

many
  
rotation only
Digikam
DigiKam

DigiKam is an and editor for the KDE desktop environment. It supports all , and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, or dynamic albums by date, timeline, or by Tag ....

fit, in/out

previous, next
album-tree, tags, calendar, searches
tags, date, keywords, metadata

linear, block, complex

Exif and IPTC

many editing function
GPS location
EyeBrowse
EyeBrowse

EyeBrowse is an advanced graphics editing program and management program which has fully featured multiple file and directory management and many tools to help you work with graphics....
  
fit, in/out
    file-tree, ???         Screen captures...
F-Spot
F-Spot

F-Spot is an , designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop....
    list, file-tree 
keywords
       Export to HTML, Flickr
Flickr

Flickr is an and video hosting service website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository....
, or O.r.i.g.i.n.a.l.
FastPictureViewer
Fast Picture Viewer

FastPictureViewer is a commercial for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. Its aim is to facilitate quick review and rating of large quantities of digital images in the early steps of the digital workflow, with an emphasis on simplicity and speed....

Auto-advance mode

1:1, fit, 50%-6400% magnifier, click-and-hold zooming

dynamic, adaptive

Windowed or full-screen, back and forth navigation, bookmarks
Filenames, file creation/modification date, EXIF date taken, GPS timestamp
Copy, move, delete, rate, label

Write XMP Rating/Label, Vista Rating, embedded or in sidecar files, shows shooting info (EXIF) and realtime RGB histogram

(supports custom monitor profile, direct conversion from image colorspace to monitor colorspace, ICC v4)
Unicode
Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate Character expressed in most of the world's writing systems....
 support, Tethered shooting (MTP/PTP
Media Transfer Protocol

The Media Transfer Protocol is a devised set of custom extensions to the Picture Transfer Protocol . Whereas PTP was designed for downloading photographs from digital cameras, Media Transfer Protocol supports the transfer of music files on digital audio players and movie files on portable media players....
 over USB
Universal Serial Bus

In information technology, Universal Serial Bus is a Serial communications computer bus standard to electrical connector devices to a host computer....
), Multicore-aware, DirectX
DirectX

Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms....
 accelerated, HD Photo / JPEG XR support.
n/a , full
FastStone Image Viewer
FastStone Image Viewer

FastStone Image Viewer is an and for Microsoft Windows, provided free of charge for personal and educational use ....

1:1, fit width and/or height, lock

5 predefined sizes

database
dir-tree
user-defined, name, date, file size, image size, type
 
individual, linear

jpeg comment

many
   
lossless transitions
GQView
GQView

GQview is a free software created by John Ellis using the GTK+ toolkit, designed to run on the X Window System. For MS Windows, an unofficial port is also available....

fit, 1:1, in/out

next

24x24 - 256x256

as png-files centrally or in sub-dir
list, dir-tree, collection
collections, keywords, directory

collections, keywords, filename, location, size, date, dimensions, comments, previous results

block, linear, complex

rotate, brightness, contrast
  find duplicates, sort manager, recent collections
Program Fullscreen slideshow zoom (styles) cache decoded images thumbnails (sizes) thumbnail caching navigation views print sort (schemes) search (criteria) selection (styles) metadata adjust image (functions) hotkeys color management (ICC
ICC profile

In color management, an ICC profile is a set of data that characterizes a color input or output device, or a color space, according to standards promulgated by the International Color Consortium ....
)
other / special JPEG Lossless operations Unicode support
gThumb
GThumb

gThumb is an open-source and for the GNOME desktop environment released under the GNU General Public License. It was originally based on GQView, and is designed to have a clean, simple interface....

random, forward, reverse

fit, 1:1, remember, fit-if-larger, in/out
 
48x48 - 256x256, 9 sizes
Newer versions cache in a central directory list, icon, subfolders, categories
catalogs, categories

name, comment, date, category, folder, recursive-folder

linear, block, complex

manipulate color, flip/rotate, etc
  bookmarks, comments, rename series, create index image, create HTML album
Image Browser Arctic viewing-list, favorites, thumbnails
name, file size

individual, linear

Exif

many
  bookmarks, encryption, transitional effects, batch conversion  
IrfanView
IrfanView

IrfanView is a freeware 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, Pixel image editor, Paint.NET or GIMP....

1:1, fit width and/or height, lock

18 predefined sizes: 50×50–800×800
dir-tree, search results
name, date, file size, image width/height, type, user-defined

name, date, metadata

individual, linear

jpeg comment, IPTC, Exif

many
Partial, no custom monitor profile 
crop plugin and rotate plugin available

can see file structure, but not view image
KPhotoAlbum
KPhotoAlbum

KPhotoAlbum is an and for Unix-like systems created and maintained by Jesper K. Pedersen. The core philosophy behind its creation was that it should be easy for users to annotate images and videos taken with a digital camera....

fit, in/out, presets
    views search results  by date
keywords, comments, title, any field from Exif metadata

linear, complex

per KIPI plugins

configurable
  Quick-tagging using keyboard tokens
MST Viewer
MST Viewer

MST Viewer is a Document Management solution by MS Technology that allows users to view images and documents located in their Enterprise content management system....

1:1, fit width and height, 0%-infinite magnifier

Dynamic

Windowed, Splitter Panes, or Tree View
Filenames, alphabetic
File copy, move, delete, merge, create


customizable
  URL Downloading, Automatic pixel depth conversion, Image Cleanup, Image Enhance. on rotation and zoom 
Picasa
Picasa

Picasa is a software application for organizing and editing digital photographys, originally created by Idealab and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my house" and "pic" for pictures . In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa and began offering...

only in slideshow mode

no view window, fit to viewing area, 1:1, variable

2 pre-defined sizes

database
directory-tree, albums, timeline
name, date, size, user-defined

name, date, rating

individual, linear

Keywords

basic
  
rotation only
PMView pro Fit-to-screen, Fit-to-window, Fit-to-screen-if-larger, Fit-to-window-if-larger, 1:1, 1:2 1:4 1:8, 2:1, 4:1, 8:1, 100%
Multiple thumbnail sizes
File manager with preview, metadata tooltips, hot-key navigation (windowed and full-screen)
EXIF

resize, rotate, lossless JPEG transforms, crops, convert, resample, sharpen, filters and more

full customizable
  
With original date preservation
Program Fullscreen slideshow zoom (styles) cache decoded images thumbnails (sizes) thumbnail caching navigation views print sort (schemes) search (criteria) selection (styles) metadata adjust image (functions) hotkeys color management (ICC
ICC profile

In color management, an ICC profile is a set of data that characterizes a color input or output device, or a color space, according to standards promulgated by the International Color Consortium ....
)
other / special JPEG Lossless operations Unicode support
Pictomio
only in slideshow mode

fit to viewing area, 1:1, in/out

previous, next

2 pre-defined sizes

database
directory-tree, albums, thumbnails, filmstrip, categories, favorites
name, date, filesize, rating, colormark
grouping by:
rating, colormark, shortlist, year, month, day, type, orientation, pixelcount, volume, original path)

meta infos, tags, filename, category, album

individual, linear

EXIF, keywords, annotations

rotate
DirectX accelerated, Geotagging
GeoTagging

Geotagging is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as photographs, video, websites, or RSS feeds and is a form of geospatial metadata....
ResourceSpace
ResourceSpace

ResourceSpace is an open source Digital Asset Management system originally developed for Oxfam. It has been released under a BSD-style license. It requires PHP, MySQL, and the GD Graphics Library, and works with most web server#Software such as Apache HTTP Server....

user defined

filesystem
thumbs, list, themes
contact sheet

date, relevance, colour

EXIF, IPTC, user defined

rotate, gamma
  
Snapact
fit to viewing area, 1:1, in/out

previous, next

user-defined (with limits)

yes, on file system

folders/directory-tree, albums, search results, Mini-basket
 
individual, linear, block, complex

Exif

many
  Album synchronization with online account for photo sharing 
ThumbsPlus
1:1, fit width and/or height

user-defined

database
dir-tree
name, date, size, type, etc.; no user-defined order

name, date, file size, image size, meta data, image similarity

individual, linear

IPTC, Exif, jpeg comment

many
  can sort images by similarity to a sample image, loupe
Windows Picture and Fax Viewer
Windows Picture and Fax Viewer

Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is an developed by Microsoft that is included with the Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. It is based on GDI+ and is capable of viewing image formats supported by GDI+, namely, JPEG, BMP file format, Portable Network Graphics, Graphics Interchange Format , ICO , Windows Metafile, Windows Met...

1:1, fit, in/out

rotate, lossless JPEG rotate, annotate TIFF images
  
rotate only
XnView
XnView

XnView is a free cross-platform used for viewing, converting, organising and editing graphical & video files. It is freeware for private non-commercial, educational use and non-profit organisations....

1:1, fit width and/or height, lock

previous, next

user-defined

database
dir-tree, favourites, categories
name, date, size, type, etc.; no user-defined order

name, date, file size, image size, meta data, ...

individual, linear

IPTC, Exif, jpeg comment

many

configurable
Partial, no custom monitor profile   
xv
XV

XV may refer to:* the number 15 in Roman numerals* Air Vietnam IATA code* X video extension to the X Window System* Xv, a shareware image display and manipulation program for Unix...
 
fixed size

in subdirectory (.xvpics)
 
name

individual, all

view comments

many
  
Zoner Photo Studio
Zoner Photo Studio

Zoner Photo Studio is a feature-rich and software for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista developed by Zoner Software. It also features many raster graphics editor functions including 16 bits per color channel....

1:1, fit width and/or height, lock

in Viewer, previous and next

user-defined

database
dir-tree, albums, CD compilations, media archive, search results, web albums
contact sheet, templates, calendars, paper saver

name, date, size, type, etc.; user-defined order

name, date, file size, meta data

individual, linear

IPTC, EXIF, XMP, JPEG comment

very many

configurable
sign images, 16 bits per channel, GPS support, merge pictures to HDR
High dynamic range rendering

High dynamic range rendering , also known as high dynamic range lighting, is the Rendering of computer graphics scenes by using lighting calculations done in a larger dynamic range....
, WIC codecs support
  Fullscreen slideshow zoom (styles) cache decoded images thumbnails (sizes) thumbnail caching navigation views print sort (schemes) search (criteria) selection (styles) metadata adjust image (functions) hotkeys color management (ICC
ICC profile

In color management, an ICC profile is a set of data that characterizes a color input or output device, or a color space, according to standards promulgated by the International Color Consortium ....
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other / special JPEG Lossless operations Unicode support


See also

  • Comparison of raster graphics editors
    Comparison of raster graphics editors

    This is a comparison of raster graphics editors sorted by availability....
  • Digital image editing
  • List of raster graphics editors
  • List of graphics file formats