Recommendation for a Picture Viewer

<p>Anyone know any good viewers other than windows[Live] photo viewer. colors seem to be off at times, and kind of basic.<br>

Has to be Lite(fast) , free , slideshows (fullscreen) , right click > export or edit in another application.</p>

<p>Windows 7 64bit/i3/8gbddr3</p>

<p>thanks!</p>

<p>Try this one ... http://www.irfanview.ca/</p>

<p><a href="http://picasa.google.com/">http://picasa.google.com/</a></p>

<p>I have tried many. I like FastStone Image Viewer. For me it is the best by far. Very small size, very fast viewing, free, does everything you mention above.</p>

<p>http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm</p>

<p>Here is CNET's review:<br>

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<strong>FastStone Image Viewer</strong> is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, retouching and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, PSD, EPS, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF, ARW, SR2, RW2 and DNG). <br /></p>

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<p>I had irfanView install and it wast showing images(black) and updated, same deal.</p>

<p>Picasa 3 Nice and smooth GUI, Color management , editing (edit RAW files!), histagram, social network exports. I don't like it creating a "library" have a couple hundred gigs took a long time , and a second scan with Color management option enable.</p>

<p>FastStone GUI is Dated , but like the shortcut icons(resize,compare), fast, color management, lots of options for slideshow, editing tools kind of buried like Photoshop but, I do like the fullscreen editing sliders. Nice reviewer and viewer.</p>

<p>thanks guys ! will continue trying these apps out.</p>

<p>+1 for FastStone Image Viewer. I've been using it for the past five years, and have been so happy with it that I've made donations twice, even though it's a freeware.<br>

<br /> Lately I've noticed that's rather slow reading the ORF files from my Olympus E-PM1. But no issues with CR2 or NEF files.<br>

<br /> It's a very capable, full-featured, program. And free! With it I batch convert, batch rename, create contact sheets, batch resize, screen capture, "draw" on the images (text overlays and arrows and such), etc. It's also a great thumbnail manager that stores cached thumbnails in its database, so that you don't re-generate thumbnails every time you go to an image folder.</p>

<p>I use Picasa a lot - once you let it run through your libraries (we have about 120GB) the first time it just has to update for any changes each time, and that works very quickly. Nice interface, decent slideshow capability, good web-library support for sharing photos. The downside is what Google plans to do with this tool as part of Google+ It seems to be morphing into something else and I'm not real happy with it. You have to manually switch back to "classic" Picasa to use the slideshow, for instance.</p>

<p>+2 for FastStone viewer. It's quick, it can zoom will the mouse wheel, it can do fullscreen, slide shows, edit, print and much more. It is also free! </p>

<p>Exifpro- has been around for 10 years and is still being updated. x64, very fast and only $20.</p>