Image viewer

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An image viewer or image browser is a computer program that displays a stored graphical image; it can often handle various graphics file formats. Such software usually renders the image according to properties of the display such as color depth and display resolution.

Some people use full-featured bitmap graphics editors as image viewers. A person with, for example, Adobe Photoshop may have no need for a separate image viewer. Others may find that full-featured bitmap graphics editors load too slowly and keep a separate viewer for simply displaying images.

Many image viewers feature:

• Basic viewing operations such as zooming and rotation.
• Slide shows
• Printing
• Cataloguing

Common image viewers include:

• Kuickshow - part of KDE (Linux)
• GThumb - part of GNOME (Linux)
• ACDsee, XnView - proprietary (Windows)
• Windows Explorer - file manager with built-in functionality for image viewing (Windows)
• IrfanView - Windows

See also

• Comparison of image viewers
• Windows Picture and Fax Viewer

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