Local Image Viewer - TGA, TIFF, ETC

Shogun3d

Hey guys,
I've been searching for an image viewer that allows me to preview files that win/vis/7 normally can't view such as tga's tiffs, etc. Any good recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks

EsotericAgenda

InfanView?
http://www.irfanview.com/

Unleashed

I quite like xnview

EsotericAgenda

Ya xnview probably better

SyncViewS

Freeware: FastStone Image Viewer

Joshua Stubbles

XnView

Yozora

+1 to xnview

Shogun3d

Thanks guys

renderhjs

posted this already a few times:

renderhjs wrote: »

just in case,- related XnView tuning thread:
http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=64773

Pedro Amorim

ACDSee

renderhjs

/I always used ACDsee in the past (win 95, NT4, 98 days) but it became just like Nero Burning ROM bloated and with that obsolete. It crashes way to often in newer versions and does stuff I simply do not want the tool to handle for me.
XnView was the closest freeware alternative that can be limited that I found. I never liked IrvanView because of its plain ugly (in a professional way) interface. I have read several times about fast stone being a pretty decent and quick image viewer but it seems to have different mechanics as the ACDsee roots which I so like.

SyncViewS

ACDSee was good till version 3.1, from 4 it started suffering an abnormal bloating growth. What's now? ~200mb for an image viewer + many other things I'd never use? Seriously?

IrfranView back in the days did the job, but image file icons were a pain, just one with the red splatted squirrel (?) with no indication of extension or differentiation by color. You needed to read the file extension to know what it was. I don't know what current release does about it, never tried again.

FastStone (I run version 3.6, 4.0 is available) looks a loot like the old ACDSee 3.1, both for browsing and viewer, and has quite nice file icons, categorized by a small colored label, and nothing too fancy.

xnView is one I haven't tried yet. How are its file icons? For me this is an important matter as it affects my performances when working with files. Don't need anything awesome, just clear and enjoyable.

I use exclusively the viewer part of these programs and need good file icons. If anyone knows something even more lightweight, I'd be glad to try it.

MoP

I still use Irfanview, I find it's great for most things and I like the batch conversion/save stuff.
I agree with SyncviewS though, it is a bit annoying that all the icons are the same, I often open JPGs and TGAs and get confused by which is which until I check the extension.

Eric Chadwick

Xnview's file icons are pretty good.
http://i3.tinypic.com/x21o4l.png

SyncViewS

Nice! thanks Eric, I'm going to give it a try. From software screenshots I see it supports tabs too, a handy feature I miss in FastStone.

swytch

render,

I hear you about IrfanView's interface. It is somewhat customizable, though. I spent a little time and made a custom Toolbar skin for it. I'd post it, but I don't have a way to host the link. Now if I could just change that 'cat-splat' logo beyond changing the icon file...

Blaizer

Acdsee pro here

metalliandy

I use MysticThumbs

MoP

I used to use MysticThumbs until I realised it was grinding my system to a halt every time I looked in folders which had large PSDs in them (eg. several hundred layers, 2048x2048 containing diffuse/spec/normals/gloss maps) - I think it actually tries to read the whole PSD in order to build a thumbnail.
I thought PSDs stored a "full resolution composite" that could be read a lot faster than the whole file, maybe mysticcoder didn't implement this yet.

I had to get rid of it because of this, shame really, it was great for TGA thumbnails in explorer.

renderhjs

I assume MysticThumbs pollutes the folders in the same way the annoying XP thumbnail generator does - by storing in every single folder .thb files. I so hate that and I burn every person I see that zips, uploads or copies those files - because its file pollution.

metalliandy

MoP wrote: »

I used to use MysticThumbs until I realised it was grinding my system to a halt every time I looked in folders which had large PSDs in them (eg. several hundred layers, 2048x2048 containing diffuse/spec/normals/gloss maps) - I think it actually tries to read the whole PSD in order to build a thumbnail.
I thought PSDs stored a "full resolution composite" that could be read a lot faster than the whole file, maybe mysticcoder didn't implement this yet.

I had to get rid of it because of this, shame really, it was great for TGA thumbnails in explorer.

I had that problem too but it was fixed a few versions ago(1.95) and now it works great on my system
The PSD for my bed i posted a while back is 4kx2k with multiple layers (maybe 60+?) and it used to destroy my system when generating the images within explorer, but now it uses the embedded thumbnails, so you should be good to go

v1.95 - 17/11/09
- Optimized PSD loader. Faster, most formats supported and fixed. HDR (32 bit) image support. Resource hogging fixed & thumbnails are generated much faster.

Eric Chadwick

Thumbview is also nice, it's just for thumbs in Windows Explorer, not a viewer.
http://www.seriema.net/thumbview/index.php?page=compatibility