image viewer - actually free

[andrewjohn81]

I've been using Xnview, but realized it's not actually free. I was hoping to get something that everyone here could use, but this is a corporation.
Most "free" ones seem to only be free for personal use. I need something that's free for commercial use as well.

Anyone know of such software?

If not, maybe something that's less than 1Kusd for unlimited users?

[instinct]

Free for personal, 10 Bucks for commercial use:
http://irfanview.com/

Regards,
Thorsten

[andrewjohn81]

That's also a nice software, I've used it, but I'm looking for Free for Commercial use. Although, that's a better price than xnview at least.
I just noticed IMGV open source. I'll take a look at that one. May not be so great though.

[andrewjohn81]

ha, yeah, that software kind of sucked for what I need.
It looks pretty cool, but needs a lot of work to be useful for most people.

[glorybound]

Gimp

http://www.gimp.org/

Will give PS a run for it's money, and free!

[andrewjohn81]

OMG, I can't believe I didn't think of that. I feel absolutely stupid. And that adds some serious editing abilities as well.
We already have photoshop, but the bridge really blows. It's so heavy on resources, and somewhat cumbersome to use as well.


edit: wait...does GIMP actually have an image browser? I'm not seeing it if there is.

[dbuchhofer]

picasa is a very very nice straight image viewer now.. even if you completely ignore the thumbnail and organization aspects of it, its blazing fast to view even huge images...

and i was curious now that you asked, so http://picasa.google.com/support/bin...86&topic=14110

[andrewjohn81]

yeah, Picasa is probably the best option I could find. It is pretty fast, you are correct. I'm not too crazy about the interface, but being free for whoever wants it is pretty cool.
I like to be able to browse in thumbnails, then go to the larger view from there. Picasa can only browse thumbnails of folders you have listed in Picasa I think. So what if you want to check out a CD/DVD or something like that?

I'll probably focus in the Picasa direction though. Thanks.

Let me know if you find anything else. I haven't found anything really. I looked at a bunch. the only ones I could find that looked good were Linux only. They could probably be compiled for windows, but I don't have a compiler and wouldn't know where to start even if I did. A few for linux look pretty damn good though. Reminds me I wanted to try Ubuntu again on one of my really old computers at home.

[bardo]

Have you seen here??

http://www.faststone.org/

[andrewjohn81]

yeah, that one's not free for corporations. looks nice though. I use to use their screen grab software before they started charging for it.

[Dschaga]

I switched to windows explorer and i'm happy with it.
Some filesformats doesn't offer a preview, but most of the formats in my pipeline do. ..raw is possible with a powertoy from microsoft, PSD and others from here http://www.koshigaya.de/?content=tools or only PSD here(but haven't tried it by myself) http://ps.herjern.com/2007/11/18/how...s-in-explorer/

the only formats i miss are the both hdr formats hdr and exr ..haven't found a solution yet.

A Friend of mine is btw using Adobe Bridge - not a bad choice, but also not free

[RErender]

DJV is an opensource framecycler, it handles EXR plus most 8 bit formats http://djv.sourceforge.net/