Simple image viewer?

zeno · Aug 2013

Just a quick question.. Which image viewer do you like to use? (For example when you are modeling from reference). The standard windows image viewer really pisses me off because so much screen space is wasted to buttons I don't use. I'm looking for a simple (seriously - if i want to crop the image or adjust the colour, i'll open up ps..), elegant solution.

Ideas? Thoughts?

Zeno

Stromberg90 · Aug 2013

This is the one I use http://www.xiles.net/nexusimage/
Very lightweight and easy.

Dataday · Aug 2013

Depends on the modeling application. Ideally you would have two monitors.

If limited to one monitor, then I generally load the image into the 3d modeler itself. For maya, it would be on a plane I can access easily, or with Blender (very good for pure modeling) you have an image viewer built into the application itself.

Actually even if you are not modeling in Blender, using its image viewer is probably the best. It lets you hide everything but the image and its a window you can move around the desktop. click drag to pan and mouse wheel to zoom. You could even switch to paint mode and draw directly onto it, this can use useful if you need visual guides. Either way its part of a complete 3d package and its free.

You can pop out windows or make use of the full interface.

cholden · Aug 2013

Yes! I've been using XnView for YEARS!

meshiah · Aug 2013

another vote for xn view. ctrl+h will quickly toggle alphas. you can run multuple slideshows,and just works great!

GrevSev · Aug 2013

Also use XnView. Its great for viewing videos too.

Isaiah Sherman · Aug 2013

I use Xnview especially since it can preview PSDs and TGAs.

delisef · Aug 2013

have you tried http://pixlr.com/editor/

Pretty cool.. Free photo editing.

Lamont · Aug 2013

I`m old fashioned.. I use Windows Picture Viewer.

zeno · Aug 2013

Thanks for all the replies!

The blender viewer seems to be exactly what I need - a no bullshit solution. However, I'm a maya user and installing blender just for the image viewer doesn't feel right.

Going to try out XnView and see how much I like it.

iniside · Aug 2013

I'm using XnView.

Anycase. It's really funny how hard it is to find simple image viewer with catalog tree, and without any editig options that support as many file types as possible..

marks · Aug 2013

Picasa photo viewer.

JFletcher · Aug 2013

We use IrfanView at work as a default viewer on most machines and I hate it to death, yes, it's nice that it can view TGA's and PSD's but it's so annoying to use, zooming in slows down the program, the scroll wheel, instead of being a zoom (like you'd expect it to) pans the image vertically EXCEPT when you have the image fullsize, then it magically decides to go to the previous/next image, zooming in resizes the god damn window and just in general navigation is sluggish.

granted you can probably change all these sort of settings but the fact that it's like that by default is enough to annoy me. I prefer good old fashioned windows photo viewer, but I think I'll check out this XnView, cheers!

Memory · Aug 2013

I had been using picasa photo viewer because I liked how it overlayed the screen and zoomed in with no lag (although it does blur/filter the image instead of showing actual pixels.) But if you are zoomed in and change window focus, it will remove its overlay and leave you zoomed in, but often times your window control (resizing, minimize, close, whatever) will then be offscreen. Kinda a drag... Does preview psd though. Think I will try this xnView!

meshiah · Aug 2013

another useful supplement to help with browsing speed. lets you see thumbnails of PSD's and tga's in windows explorer. it can do some other cool stuff i dont use. but its useful to me, sry if its off topic.

https://code.google.com/p/sagethumbs/

facesad · Sep 2013

i have both windows and online image viewers on my pc,they does a great job in processing images. really appreciate the simple and powerful image filtering color mode changing function. but i use windows image viewer most of the time.

Simple image viewer?

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