Best onscreen viewer - XP picture viewer?

[Carlosthetackle]

Breezebrowser seems to be a pretty good program, but when it comes to displaying the image to fit on your screen I am unimpressed with the results. Likewise with Zoombrowser. The interpolation is sloppy so the image is quite jaggy on screen. In fact, I have found the best results come from the default Windows XP picture viewer. Seems a shame, really.

Anyone else agree?

[sdommin]

I use ACDSee v5, which works very well for me.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Having a 10D and shooting RAW I have now gotten Breezebrowser for it's RAW tools etc...

However,. I still use ACDSee as my multipurpose file veiwer and all images are set to open in ACDSee by default on all my PCs.

ACDSee truly is the best File viewer I have used.

[pcguy113]

Another widely used program is ThumbsPlus from Cerious Software. It stores thumbs in a database, allows full screen viewing, slideshows, zoom in/out, etc.

www.cerious.com

You can download a full-function demo that is good for thirty days.

[Chris1le]

I've been using CompuPic Pro for years. It's great for organizing, quickly viewing a lot of images, slideshows, making CD's, resizing, etc... A fully functional 15 day trial can be found here.

Photodex CompuPic (http://www.photodex.com/)

[pradeep1]

I've found the WindowsXP viewer to be quite good. I use Breezebrowswer most of the time, but sometime when quickly working with files, it loads up just as fast and easily. The only problem is that I would not touch any editing or rotating functions on the WinXP viewer, since it may "damage" your digital negative.

Cheers

[nomel]

I love ACDsee...but not the newer versions. The newer ones seem to be MUCH more unstable, and less user friendly than pre 4.0. It's great though. Best I know of. Loads pictures extremely fast, and has nice back and forward buffering too. Slideshow, html album generator (kinda poopy) and reads and converts to lots and lots of different formats.

[g4sox]

Exif viewer is good, but I find the zoom refresh function slow. ACDsee5 works very well and has a lot of functions. Never had a problem with stability on Win98.

[MiG82]

I prefer Breezebrowser because it applies sharpening when you view photos. Other viewers usually resize the image to a convenient size but leave it soft.

[paul162brown]

Since getting XP I have stuck with the file viewer facilities in that. I do a little editing in Photoshop and do all of my viewing and file and folder work using XP. I am happy with how it works but suspect this is largely because I find it really easy to use being a bit new to all this digital and computer stuff!