Looking for a powerful image viewer for windows

rtos

It need to be super fast

It need to have an option to switch background color for alpha viewing

It need to be able to handle lot of files (we do a shit ton of renders at work)

I've Irfanview and a few others but none really impressed me in term of versatility. I need something oriented towards digital artists, and not photographers.

Thanks

thomasp

Fastest I know is 'Imagine': http://www.nyam.pe.kr/dev/imagine/

Can be configured pretty well. One downside though: if it encounters a faulty image in the current directory - as in one that it cannot process (known format but somehow invalid file) - then it will simply exit as soon as it touches it. So if you are in browser mode and open up a directory that contains such a file it's going to vanish as soon as it's trying to build the thumbnail of the affected file. Quite irritating when you don't know what's going on.

If only the author came around to fix this.

For everything else there's XnView MP. Not as fast but very versatile. https://www.xnview.com/de/xnviewmp/

And for image sequence playback you'll want to have a look at DJV: http://djv.sourceforge.net/

JFiggy84

I'd give a look at RV, it's used at my work and can open EXR's which I find handy. You can even play image sequences inside RV, and view any channel. I'd say the only drawback is it does chug a bit when opening.