Image viewer
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An image viewer or image browser is a computer program that displays a stored graphical image; it can often handle various graphics file formats. Such software usually renders the image according to properties of the display such as color depth and display resolution.
Some people use full-featured bitmap graphics editors as image viewers. A person with, for example, Adobe Photoshop may have no need for a separate image viewer. Others may find that full-featured bitmap graphics editors load too slowly and keep a separate viewer for simply displaying images.
Many image viewers feature:
- Basic viewing operations such as zooming and rotation.
- Slideshows
- Printing
- Cataloguing
Common image viewers include:
- Kuickshow - part of KDE (Linux)
- GThumb - part of GNOME (Linux)
- Windows Explorer - file manager with built-in functionality for image viewing (Windows)
- ACDsee, XnView, IrfanView (Windows)
There are also some Free / Open Source alternatives for Windows, such as GQView, imgv or Cornice (all of them cross-platform).
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