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Free Image Viewers and Browsers for Windows

Free Windows software for browsing and viewing the images and photos on your computer. These programs do not use a database for your images, but they provide fast viewing and thumbnail browsing of the images on your computer. They also allow you to perform basic file management, and some offer image editing and file format conversion features as well.

Corel Quicksort Free Picture Sorter

Corel Quicksort is a well-presented and effective free tool for viewing, sorting and sharing pictures, for both Windows and OS X users.

FastStone Image Viewer (Win)

"FastStone Image Viewer is an image browser, viewer, converter and editor with an easy to use interface and a nice array of features that include resizing, renaming, cropping, color adjustments, watermarks and more."

XnView (Win/Linux/Mac)

Imports hundreds of graphics formats and exports about 40 different formats. Features for resizing, adjusting, adding effects, slide show display, batch conversion, screen capture, printing, drag & drop, and more. Windows version available in 36 languages. Also English versions for Linux, Solaris, SGI, FreeBSD, Mac, BeOS, OS/2. Free for non-commercial use.

Vallen JPegger (Win)

This free image viewer requires no installation, supports 15 different languages, reads 40 file formats, and supports lossless JPEG rotation.

IrfanView 32 (Win)

IrfanView 32 is a small and speedy free image viewer and thumbnail browser for Windows.

ShellExtension (Win)

"ShellExtension adds an option to context menu that allows you to view a thumbnail of an image, convert it to any of supported formats and print them." Freeware.

imageN (Win)

Featured Download - This advertiser-supported freeware allows you to acquire, view, edit, convert, organize, and publish your digital images.

Abracadabra (Win)

View, edit and save many types of text and graphic files with Abracadabra's unique "hyperimage" way of navigating through files and directories. Freeware.

cam2pc (Win)

Freeware tool to help you download, browse, and manage pictures from your digital camera. Browse thumbnails or detail view, manipulate and backup EXIF data, batch process images, email photos directly from the program, create stand alone slide shows, and more. Dead pixel removal feature requires registration, otherwise it's fully functional donation-ware.

CDview (Win)

CDView provides a front-end to your CD image collection. Allows you to to browse images, view images full screen, save to your hard disk, search for images, and set your Windows wallpaper. Supports up to 5,000 images on one CD.

CoffeeCup Free Viewer Plus (Win)

Free image viewer with built in email, FTP, and Zip functions. Other features include a thumbnail wizard for making Web pages of images, image slicing, format conversion, more.

Ekspos Image Viewer (Java)

"Ekspos is platform independent Java image viewer program. It support most popular image format: JPEG, PNG, and GIF. Additional image format can be added through Java ImageIO plugin."

FastStone MaxView (Win)

"FastStone MaxView is a tiny, very fast and innovative image viewer that supports all major graphic formats. Its intuitive layout and commands allow everyone, from beginners to professionals, to view and manipulate images quickly and efficiently."

Fresh View (Win)

"Fresh View gives you the ability to organize and view multimedia files (images, audio, video)... watch movies, listen to music, view graphics in a slide show, convert graphics from one type to another, print, and create HTML albums." Freeware, but requires free registration after 20 days.

Image Guider (Win)

Free utility for browsing and organizing images on your computer. Thumbnail previews, drag & drop, view images linked from HTML files, rename, rotate, and more.

ImgViewer/32 (Win)

Simple viewer with slide show controls, text tool, undo/redo, brightness/contrast/gamma, adjustment, batch convert and resize, set as wallpaper, more. Freeware.

iView (Win)

Free image viewer with open/save support for BMP, JPG and TGA formats, and viewing support for GIF, PIC, TIF, CUT, PCD, PSP, PDD, PSD, RLA, SGI, RLE, PCX and others. Also includes TWAIN support and slide show function. English, Spanish, and Danish language support.

One Cat Viewer (Win)

View images, text, and movies or browse them as thumbnails or a slide show.

PhotoMesa Image Browser (Win)

PhotoMesa is a zoomable image browser. It allows the user to view multiple directories of images at once, and uses simple navigation commands to smoothly zoom in and out. Freeware.

PickAx (Win)

Freeware image browser with encryption. Load, view, print and save JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, PCX, TGA and GIF files. Also convert these file types to the secure Pick Ax file type, PAX. A PAX file is encrypted with a password that you choose and can only be viewed when the proper password is supplied.

Pictoscope (Win)

"Ergonomic image viewer with all you need to enjoy your digital images in various comfortable ways. Includes slide show features such as automatic script creation, automatic resize, session hibernation, photo editing on-the-fly etc."

Picture Slide Show (Win)

Displays all the pictures in a folder as a slide show. Supports ICO, BMP, EMF, GIF, JPG, PNG, and WMF formats.

STOIK Imagic 4.0 Free Browser (Win)

STOIK Imagic 4.0 Free Browser helps you "easily import, organize, automatically enhance and share your photos. This is a freeware limited edition of STOIK Imagic 4.0 award-winning integrated photo browser, viewer, image and video editor."

Visere (Win)

"An image viewing program that is free for personal use. Besides basic image editing functionality, such as: cut, copy, paste, crop, and undo, Visere easily renames, converts, and prints multiple files."

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