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(Message started by: BlueMeanie on Oct 7^th, 2005, 5:38pm)

Title: Picture viewer ?
Post by BlueMeanie on Oct 7^th, 2005, 5:38pm

Hey all,

I recently took everything off my computer and had to start from square one. Now i don't have any programs to view pictures. I used to us ACDSee, but they want $49.95 to download it. Is there anything out there that can be downloaded for FREE. It can be simple, just something to view pics with.

Title: Re: Picture viewer ?
Post by ivanov on Oct 7^th, 2005, 6:59pm

Go to http://www.versiontracker.com

They have a bunch of choices there - both freeware and
shareware. I run a Mac so I do not know how to advise you
on the best one.

Dan

Title: Re: Picture viewer ?
Post by Ueli on Oct 7^th, 2005, 7:33pm

I'm surprised again and again and again that people don't use the worlds best viewer, that is absolutely free with no strings attached:

Irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com/)

You can set up Irfanview so that your pictures fill the screen, no more scrolling to look at bed sheet sized pictures.
Some simple editing is possible: Resizing (useful for not blowing up browser windows, color- and contrast adjustment, sharpen, red eye correction, etc.
It is the only viewer I know that shows animated .gif's in animation.
You can create a thumbnail gallery of your pictures.
You can create a slide show with your pictures.
It can convert picture formats.

Irfanview also shows many movie types and can play sounds.

And unlike M$ stuff, it doesn't mess with the registry. If you don't like it any longer, just delete the files and it's gone without a trace.

Download it today from http://www.irfanview.com/

Ueli [smiley=smokin.gif]

Title: Re: Picture viewer ?
Post by BlueMeanie on Oct 7^th, 2005, 8:54pm

thanks guys. i'll for sure check them out tonight when I get off work.

Title: Re: Picture viewer ?
Post by Tim_Z on Oct 7^th, 2005, 11:31pm

I use Picasa from Google, I love it.

Title: Re: Picture viewer ?
Post by Kirk on Oct 8^th, 2005, 3:16am

Irfanview is the best I've seen for M$
The GIMP is the best I've seen for Linux.

Just my [smiley=twocents.gif] YMMV

Title: Re: Picture viewer ?
Post by Woobie on Oct 8^th, 2005, 8:43am

ThANKS Ueli!
Been playin with it and LOVE IT!

Never had heard of it... had always used ACDSee....

Thanks.
tina

Title: Re: Picture viewer ?
Post by floridian on Oct 8^th, 2005, 10:26am

on 10/08/05 at 03:16:45, Kirk wrote:

Irfanview is the best I've seen for M$
The GIMP is the best I've seen for Linux.

Just my [smiley=twocents.gif] YMMV

The GIMP is great for EDITING pictures - similar to photoshop but free. But that rascal is slow to load and not a good tool for viewing or organizing collections of images (or am I missing the secret features? ;).

I like picasa, but plan on checking out IrfanView.

Title: Re: Picture viewer ?
Post by Opus on Oct 8^th, 2005, 10:44am

on 10/08/05 at 10:26:55, floridian wrote:

In my opinion, the Gimp is a replacement for Photoshop. I use gThumb on Linux as a replacement for Irfanview. It does the same basic photo editing and has the forward/back browse buttons to quickly view images in a folder.

Opus/Paul

Title: Re: Picture viewer ?
Post by Ronny on Oct 8^th, 2005, 3:05pm

I use Faststone Image Viewer, marvelous program, reads every kind of pic, can do lots of other stuff too and its FREE

http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm