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Irene Tonini
I'm looking for a simple, fast image viewer. All I want is full screen viewing, and the ability to preload the next image (to avoid waiting for large images to load). I don't need any fancy stuff (e.g. thumnail viewer, retouching etc).
The closest I found is XnView. It can preload the next image, however it is not a high quality resample. So moving to the next picture is quick, but it takes another second or two to display the high quality image. This results in what my wife describes as the image "moving slightly".
I'm looking for a simple, fast image viewer. All I want is full
screen viewing, and the ability to preload the next image (to avoid
waiting for large images to load). I don't need any fancy stuff
(e.g. thumnail viewer, retouching etc).
The closest I found is XnView. It can preload the next image,
however it is not a high quality resample. So moving to the next
picture is quick, but it takes another second or two to display the
high quality image. This results in what my wife describes as the
image "moving slightly".
IrfanView is my default image viewer and I can thoroughly recommend it. Set it up: Options > Properties > Full screen and ensure the 'Use resample function' & 'Hide mouse cursor' checkboxes are checked, press the 'Misc 1' tab and check the 'Start in full screen mode' checkbox. Start it up by sending one image in a folder to the program, then you can use the mouse left/right buttons or the left/right keyboard arrows to navigate through the folder.
I think you will like this.
There is now XnViewMP (free for personal use) which has both 32 and 64 bit processing, supports multithreading, and precaches images as you view them. It also has batch processing capabilities, picture resizing, advanced JPEG encoding options etc. The only downside - some nasty bugs and weird keyboard shortcuts (which can be customized, to match IrfanView). I tried 3 different versions as it upgrades itself, and it is very fast. They also have Linux version of it.
I know it's early days for the OM-1, but I'm wondering if anyone is aware of any free file viewers that work with the OM-1's raw (.ORF) files at this point. At this point I'm mostly interested in a lightweight browser, preferably free, for rapidly culling images on the road on a Windows 10 laptop.
The default Windows 10 photo viewer also shows arrows that serve the same purpose, but they only appear sometimes. Other times, the arrows don't appear and the viewer behaves as if there are is no next/previous image to jump to. I can't see any pattern regarding whether they will appear for a given folder.
When I access a picture by opening the link found in Quick access in the File Explorer interface, the navigation arrows at the bottom will be dimmed-out. The same thing happens if you access that picture from the link found in the Recent Items section. Essentially, those are links to just that photograph, and not the folder that it resides in.
Separate and somewhat related, if you are interested there are some good tutorials online that show you how to enable Windows Photo Viewer to be the default application for all of the standard picture formats:
On the other hand, the basic image viewer included with most Linux desktop environments might not be enough for your needs. If you want something with a few more features, but still want it to be lightweight, then take a closer look at these four image viewers for the Linux desktop, plus a handful of bonus options if they don't meet your needs.
You drive Feh from the command line: just point it at an image or a folder containing images and away you go. Feh loads quickly, and you can scroll through a set of images with a mouse click or by using the left and right arrow keys on your keyboard. What could be simpler?
On the surface, Mirage is kind of plain and nondescript. It does the same things just about every decent image viewer does: opens image files, scales them to the width of the window, and lets you scroll through a collection of images using your keyboard. It even runs slideshows.
Still, Mirage will surprise anyone who needs a little more from their image viewer. In addition to its core features, Mirage lets you resize and crop images, take screenshots, rename an image file, and even generate 150-pixel-wide thumbnails of the images in a folder.
Viewnior bills itself as a "fast and simple image viewer for GNU/Linux," and it fits that bill nicely. Its interface is clean and uncluttered, and Viewnior can even do some basic image manipulation.
If the command line is more your thing, then display might be the viewer for you. Both the ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick image manipulation packages have an application named display, and both versions have basic and advanced options for viewing images.
Geeqie is one of the lighter and faster image viewers out there. Don't let its simplicity fool you, though. It packs features, like metadata editing and viewing camera RAW image formats, that other viewers lack.
I have tens of thousands of small image files like game screenshots that are a pain to backup, and would rather just put them in an uncompressed container (archive in "store" mode). Without extracting them for viewing. I used ACDSee in the past, it could enter archives in its explorer view, but was slow to change between images. I now use XnView MP which is pretty good, but it doesn't have that archive plugin which regular XnView has (which is as slow as ACDsee). Anyway, XnView MP is very fast when facerolling the right arrow or just generally scrolling with the mouse wheel. It loads a low-res quick preview of a file and only then renders the good quality version (something like Lightroom). This kind of quickness is essential to me. Does anybody know another solution that is both fast and can browse archives?
Quick Picture Viewer is also capable of editing images, though it has very basic functions. Click on the edit button and you'll see a menu drop-down with options to flip the image horizontally/vertically, rotate the picture clockwise/counter-clockwise or by 180Â.
Ctrl + E opens the image in your default picture viewer, it can be useful if you've set it to open in a proper image editor like Paint.NET, GIMP, etc. Toggle a checkboard background with Ctrl + Shift + C.
The statusbar at the bottom of the window displays the current image's folder path, file name, file size and resolution. For more information regarding the picture's properties, hit Ctrl + I, which loads the details in a popup window.
Quick Picture Viewer has no right-click menu, so you'll have to rely on the toolbar icons or get used to the keyboard shortcuts. But the program is well optimized, and opens images very quickly. It used around 75MB RAM when I was browsing folders with Full HD images.
This short article covers how to create a smoothly flickable image browser in Qt Quick. We will use a ListView and the FolderListModel to create an image viewer in 25 lines of code. While it may seem a trivial problem, it requires several concepts to be applied right. Step by step we will show that a ListView can indeed serve us well as a smoothly scrolling image browser.
To follow this tutorial you need the qmlviewer tool and folderlistmodel labs component. If you are running a recent version of Linux, simply install the qt4-qmlviewer, libqt4-declarative-folderlistmodel and libqt4-dev packages.
Save the file as FlickScroller.qml in the same directory . Our approach is trivial: Create a horizontally oriented ListView, use a FolderListModel to retrieve the image names and use an Image component to show the images. While this seems to be the obvious way to tackle the problem, you will see several issues here. Run the code in qmlviewer to see what's wrong. First of all, the images are deformed. Secondly, the performance is ugly at best - far from being smooth flick scrolling, although ListView usually supports that nicely.So, what is happening here? Basically ListView is generating on-demand Image delegates when they are needed for displaying items, i.e. when the items enter the viewport. Which is fine so far because we couldn't preload an entire image folder. Usually you would have hundreds of images on your device. We can improve the loading speed by setting the Image.sourceSize attribute. Internally it will use QImageReader and load the amount of pixels needed, which will require less memory and will load faster. Add the following line to the image attributes and try it out:
Once we've got the basic image flicking working, we might engage onto more advanced features we might expect from an image viewer, but our goal here is achieved: proving the power of a ListView in Qt Quick. If you run it on your system, you might still see some jitters. For a fully perfect solution you still have to consider your graphics drivers and ensure it works in sync with the monitor. Usually invoking the qmlviewer with the -opengl parameter should do.
FastStone has been my favorite application on Windows for years. It makes viewing pictures and light editing a joy. Its user interface is brilliant, with full screen uncluttered view as default, yet with all the tools still easily available at any time by just touching the edges of the screen. With the recent update (v7.7) it finally gets a perfect 10/10, thanks to several new features related to RAW+JPEG handling and filtering. At last folders with both file types are now convenient to ...
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