There are lots of photo viewers and editors out there - some of them even free. So what was the reason for me to create another one?

Like many people, I also do a lot of digital photography and I wasn't able to find a single photo viewer / browser I was really satisfied with. Most programs I used or tested were either too complicated or just plain ugly in their user interface (some even seem to come from an ancient time, like the 90s). None of them made use of the two-screen environment many users have nowadays - they all tried to integrate the preview into the main window or even allowed previewing only after selecting an image, not simultanously.

This program is created the way I always wanted it for myself: you can quickly index and view large image collections with a resizable thumbnail view and pick one of them for large view in a separate, resizeble viewer window. But wait - there's a lot more: you can select a beautiful magnifier glass with changable magnification rate (drag mouse wheel) to see details of your image in the preview window at the best available detail level, independently from the size of the preview window! You also can apply basic image editing operations like cropping, resizing, tilting, brightness, contrast and more; intuitively and with minimal time investment. There is also an integrated slideshow viewer with a large collection of beautiful transition effects and other tools.
Give Photo Browser a try and have fun!

Main Features

• Two-Window (resizable) interface: one window to browse your files, another window for the preview or slideshow
• Two alternative viewing modes: fit-to-window (resizable window) or original size, with zoom factor (10..200%)
• High quality, fast thumbnail generation (bicubic resizing with sharpener filter is applied), even for > 10 Megapixel photos
• Magnifier glass with changeable magnification factor (drag mouse wheel to zoom in or out)
• Slideshow feature with 22 transition effects (3D transitions included: page flipping and rotating cube)
• Lossless rotation, EXIF support, crop / resize / tilt and simple but powerful image editor
• Batch processing with watermark/stamping tool, resizing and renaming; export to PDF / print of "contact sheets"
• Works great, even with huge image sizes (like those 4600x3500 pixel images from 16 Megapixel cameras)!
• Supported image formats: JPG/JPEG (with EXIF info), JP2 (JPG 2000), PNG, GIF, BMP, TIF/TIFF, TGA, PCX, ICO
• ...and the common RAW formats DNG, CRW, CR2, RAW, NEF, PEF, RAF, SRF, SR2, ARW

The main (preview) window is resizable. Integrated magnifier glass (Click to magnify screenshots)

File browser with thumbnail area Generate thumbnails with sizes from 32 up to 256 pixels

Feature Summary

Create thumbnails of your image collections in variable sizes and store them in a database file. Quickly browse through huge image collections, after they have been indexed. Thumbnail size can be 32 to 256 pixels, the browser window can be resized without limits Thumbnails are generated with the highest possible quality (bicubic resizing with sharpener filter applied) Separate, resizable preview window with stepless image size reduction (can also be made full screen and moved to a second monitor) Two viewing modes: fit-to-window (resizable window) or original size, with zoom mode from 10% to 200%. Displays Animated GIFs correctly. Magnifier glass with changeable magnification rate (drag mouse wheel) Slideshow mode with selectable interval (4..10 sec) and 22 different transitions (3D transitions included, like page flipping and rotating cube) or random Show preview on mouse click or mouse-over in the browser window Display embedded EXIF information for JPEG photos, by moving the mouse over the thumbnail (also shows file size and image size) Thumbnails are stored in a small and compact Microsoft SQL Server CE database file, which can be moved to any place you like Folder history and editable favorites list, to quickly jump to any recently visited folder Batch processing tool to apply a watermark/stamp text to all images in a folder and resize images to a given maximum width/height. Renaming tool to apply new names to all images in a folder, with a user-defined prefix and a number with a variable number of leading zeros

Export "contact sheets" with variable image size / table columns to PDF, for archiving or printing and print the current image in full-page mode Lossless Rotation (90° clockwise or counterclockwise) Rename single images or save them to a new location Image editor with basic image editing features (without the huge and confusing filter collection nobody needs): Cropping (locked ratio: original or 1:1, 2:1, 16:9, 3:2, 4:3, 5:4 - or free ratio, landscape or portrait orientation) Resizing (set one side and the other is calculated according to the image ratio) Tilting (+/-30°) Adjust Brightness... Contrast Gamma Color Saturation Sharpener Filter Convert to Grayscale The editor allows you to see the complete (resized) image or the original size (with panning) and to reset all filters (also temporarily while clicking the preview, to compare with original) You always save a copy of the original image (with selectable JPEG compression, up to 100% quality) by default, to keep your originals untouched, but you are also able to overwrite the originals if you choose Runs on Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 (32 bit and 64 bit) Check out the fully functional Trial Version for 15 days - and if you like it, buy a key! One license is valid for up to two computers you are using. Free updates for life!

The program comes with a simple, but powerful cropping and image editing tool: (click to magnify)

Crop, tilt and resize your image

Apply several filters at once; "fit-to-window" or 1:1 size preview

More integrated tools: (click to magnify)
Batch processor for applying a watermark (stamp) text and/or to resize all images in a folder; export to PDF (contact sheet) tool.

Apply a watermark (stamp) text and resize all images in a folder

Export and print a "contact sheet" with variable image sizes

» Download free Trial Version Download from this site: No Adware * No Spyware * No Viruses * No Toolbars No Subscription * No Hidden Features * Guaranteed Microsoft .Net Framework 4 (Client Profile) Package (system library) is required to run this program. Compatible with Windows 8 / 7 / Vista / XP (32/64)

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