What photo viewing application do you use?

[Garbz]

I'm on the search for a new photo viewing application and I am interested in what people here use?

I have for many years used ACDSee v3. Yes I know v10 is out but v3 was tiny, very light weight, viewed full screen, and changed images with a scroll wheel which is exactly what I needed. Except now I need an application that's colour managed.

Since ACDSee 10 has bloated to a full out image editing program and is still not fully colour managed I'm look for alternatives.

[jols]

ha ha

some of the stuff you said i dont know what your talking about, but i view my pics on picassa

[Scurra]

I use Iview MediaPro3, because it offers a quick method of going through all my raw files.

But I also have a copy of lightroom kicking around somewhere that i'm trying to get to grips with.

[Renair]

well i just use normal windows vista gallery as all your doing is viewing them, you dont need anything fancy.

[Big Mike]

I use Irfanview, it's a very lightweight program for viewing image. It can recognize my RAW files and it has some pretty decent batch processing applications. Best of all, it's free.

[Atropine]

I check my raw files (cr2) directly in windows gallery (vista) and pick the ones I like and open them with Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw for further editing. It's simply the most streamlined way for me and it works perfect.

[TCimages]

I use the DPP software that came with my Canon. Works very well for my RAWs that at are stored on Networked Attached Storage.

[mrodgers]

Irfanview again, or ThumbsPlus. I use ThumbsPlus (for years) mostly when viewing. I also use it for file organization on my pictures. I use a base "sort" folder for copying from the camera to the computer, then view in ThumbsPlus to select and move them to individual categorized folders.

[Garbz]

I'll have a look at Infranview, playing with ACDSee Pro2 now which is colour managed but I doubt worth it's insane pricetag.

Did check out thumbsplus which didn't meet my "easy full screen and scrolling" criteria, but the colour management did work well.

Vista Gallery and Windows picture and fax viewer both suffer from "microsoft being half assed" syndrome. They are "colour managed" as the website points out. Which is to say that they obey the colour space of the file so if you open an AdobeRGB file it'll display correctly, but they don't honour the output colour profile. Which means all photos look oversaturated red / green on my screen and any other screen that dares to be good enough to display a wider range of colours.

[joecap]

I agree with Big Mike.
I have used Irfan View for years, there is nothing better for just viewing images.
It also does easy re-sizing, file conversions, some pretty hefty editing, and supports many Photoshop filters.

[68Whiskey]

I a actually use Dell Image Expert Premium. It is simple and I love it.

Here is a screenshot of what it looks like.
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...limgexpert.jpg

[Garbz]

Bah just my luck. As appealing Irfan View sounds it lacks output colour management just like Windows picture viewer.

[taracor]

Well.. I use Nikon Picture Project. It's alright I guess, my computer isn't so great, so loading takes a loong time but the program is alright. Nikon also has this program you can download from their site that lets you export the pictures out of the Picture Project collection so you can re organize them and view them with a different programs, which is nice because in the actual program, you can put photos in all sorts of folders and collections, but the physical files are stored in folders sorted by date, so having the program to export all of them and re organize the real files is helpful. Nikon also has something called "View NX" I haven't tried it yet, but it looks pretty cool. (anyone have any experience with it?)

I like iPhoto from what I've seen, and lightroom, but since I'm poor and have a windows machine, that doesn't work so well. As for linux...I still haven't found any good viewing/sorting programs. GIMP is amazing, but its an editor..

[rooky]

I view with windows vista photo gallery then open in photoshop 7.0.1 for any adjustments.

[Sark]

I like Faststone Image Viewer.

It can use the mouse wheel to navigate back and forward through the images. If you associate your files with the viewer, you can work with Windows Explorer and it's just a matter of double clicking the first file in a folder and it will open in fullscreen. Then just scroll to view all images in that folder. Esc takes you back to the original folder, or double clicking opens the Faststone browser window. You can also enable Colour Space awareness for your images.
On a dual monitor setup you can enable it to show the browser on one monitor and the full screen image on the other.
There's a compare option to show several images side by side (complete with there histograms if you want). It will create the usual multi page PDF's, slideshows and screensavers and has most functions you'll need in its batch processing dialogue.

Worth a look, if only because it's free.

Sark

[Garbz]

Hmmm also looks nice but again it's only source space aware. I need the other end of colour management. An application which will correct the colour to look right on my screen which does not use the sRGB gamut.

[Chris Stegner]

Wow, not a Bridge user in the group? Actually quick, down and dirty stuff I use iPhoto, but mainly bridge. I like that I can group images within Bridge. I do a lot of Panoramas so I go though my shots and "group" them together in final panorama image folders.

Are any of the packages mentioned Macintosh compatible? I do think Bridge is slow so I'd like to find a small "footprint" package.

[lifeafter2am]

Lightroom. Organizes everything, makes life easy, backs up to NAS easily.

[Jim H]

Primarily Bridge. Lightroom when I know I need to set a white balance across a ton of images from the same shoot.

[Parago]

Lightroom. Love it, love it, love it. Don't know how I've ever lived without it.