What photo viewing application do you use?

[Garbz]

Yeah CS3 despite being an upgrade actually runs well on my old laptop. The entire suite that is. CS2 was terribly slow especially on loading times. I was most impressed that adobe managed to literally half and then some the CS3 startup times for Photoshop and come close to that with Bridge too.

 

[D-50]

CS3 sound nice then. After becoming fed up with a slow computer I purchased a new comuter solely for photo editing. No internet no other appilcations (aside from Itunes). I'll tell you what my computer runs like you would imagine a computer should, things open immediately and editing time has been cut in half, large file load in the blink of an eye. I opened 25, 50mb tiffs in CS2 and it took about 30 second to open them all. I strongly suggest dedicating a computer to photo editing. Yeah its a pain to go between computers when you need to upload a file but the time you save editing more than makes up for the hassle. Also there is not the temptatio to surf the net while editing photos.... All business!

 

[Garbz]

Bit of knowing how windows works, and computer maintenance does go a long way. I do the equivalent of a full format every 2 months. Especially for this reason. I say equivalent because I don't actually format, I just have an image of my C: on another computer which I load back regularly.

 

[Zorac]

depends on the day and what im doing, sometimes viewnx, sometimes fsviewer, sometimes adobe bridge

 

[Alex_B]

XnView, it is for free, easy to use, convenient for me

 

[Drake]

ACDSee 5, for performance reasons. I need just a browser - to have a quick look through my photos, delete the crap ones, rotate some of the keepers, with a quick access to a full-screen feature. That's it, no need for more stuff. Now I usually shoot RAW so the Bridge from CS2 has become my primary photo browser. I only wish it had a 100% preview feature like the CS3 one, or at least it would be nice to have such a plug-in. It would help to determine sharpness without launching the cameraraw plug-in.

 

[250Gimp]

I use Bridge with CS2, but on my computer I would not consider it a 'light' application.

Drake, just select your photos in Bridge and run a full screen slide show, but use the cursor to move from photo to photo and delete the ones you don't like.

That's what I do.

Cheers

 

[Drake]

I've just found a better one, you can select multiple images and open them all at once in the cameraRAW. This way it's easy to zoom in to 100%.