Image Viewers

I was wondering what image viewers for Windows out there are x64 compatible and can replace the default windows image viewer?

Looking for suggestions, pros/cons if youve used it, system resources, etc.

 

I have tried several and while many are nice, FastStone Image Viewer is by far my favorite. Available in both a portable and regular installed version. Free for personal use. http://www.faststone.org/

 

+1 for FastStone Image Viewer I have used it on x64 and am currently using it on x86. Feature rich, lightweight product.

 

I have tried a bunch of them- Irfanview, XnView, FastStone, etc but I always end back up with Zoner free.

http://free.zoner.com/

 

I've been using Irfanview for a long time. Lately I've been shopping around for something different but always end up back with Irfanview. I think it can be frustrating at first learning to use it, but it has a support forum and a good Help file included with the program. You don't have to go online every time you have a question. It's very lightweight and fast. Works with all versions of Windows.

 

Do any of the ones mentioned have skins that will resemble the Win 7 interface? It would look funny to have the default image viewer stuck in XP mode, but be installed on a current Win7 box.

 

Here a screenie of FastStone IV with the Vista/7 skin on an XP box. (I prefer the "Windows Dark" skin myself.)

 

Nice find there,looks like a useful app.

 

FastStone Image Viewer is a viewer very nice and very rich of features, I believe the best. Not too bad Picasa too, but you must work to set it, because it's a bit " invasive ". More classic XnView. I agree with acr1965: Zoner Photo Studio is nice, but FastStone Image Viewer has many options.

 

Anyone have any comment on resources for any of the programs listed?

 

FastStone is minimally invasive. Thus the portable version's availablility.

It runs quite light. I use it on my Win 7 Starter based Dell netbook and it comes up pretty quick and runs just as well on it as on a more muscular machine.

 

IrfanView, light, fast, powerful.
Mrk

 

Do any of these image viewers have batch photo resizing incorporated? I currently use Fotosizer for batch resizing. Its light, small install, fast, and very stable. It would be stupid to have multiple apps accomplish the same thing.

 

That's one thing I'll say for FastStone, it has a lot of skin options, more than any other that I've seen.

For all the features IrfanView has it's very fast and uses hardly any resources. It has a few skins for the toolbar but you can barely tell them apart, useless really. It has some pretty squirrelly-looking icons as well. If you associate any extensions with it, you may end up wanting to change the default icons to something else, unless you prefer squirrelly icons. It's easy enough to do though once you know how to do it.

 

Yeah, many can do it. FastStone does.

 

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2010/08/27/4-image-viewers-for-better-photo-viewing-and-protection-against-jpg-exploit/, Courtesy of Raymond Blog