Image viewer options?

[django56]

Now that is pretty easy to get a Linux computer up and running, consider trying Ubuntu for an OS.



Gnome Image Viewer works great for just looking at images. You can use the mouse to move the image around and zoom in on any part. Does not have the ability to brighten or color correct. Can be used to Save As.



Should you want to modify a photo Darktable is amazing. (IrfanView does not have a linux variation). it is non-destructive and lets you resize groups of images at the same time. can be a step learning curve.



Should you want to do some mass renaming. files offers lots of options and numbers images properly. Windows starts with 1 instead of 001.

[solarbear]

i use pinta for a simple viewer/editor in Linux. For resizing i use xnconvert for the initial 70% compression, then faststone on Wine for fine tuning/resizing/batch renaming. Irfanview needs MS dll to work.

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...postcount=1741

how i used to get ms paint to work with wine was to drop all the paint associated dll s into the same folder as paint. Then i found Pinta, and now i am ms disavowed

[sayansg]

I use mpv as an image viewer. Because it can use HQ glsl shaders like RAVU, SSimSuperRes, SSimDownscaler, KrigBilateral and my favourite, FSRCNNX. mpv also has great built-in prescalers, scaler for Luma upscaling, Chroma upscaling and Downscaling. If primary goal is image quality, few software provide as many options as mpv. The trouble is mpv is first and foremost a video player, indeed, THE best video players across all platforms. Only VLC would come close. But that is another discussion.

Using FSRCNNX and mpv's built-in ewa scalers, I made a little bash script that I use to view Slideshow. The argument of the script needs to be a Directory/Folder. Of course, those familiar with mpv can easily tweak the command to view single image or load all image in current folder including that image.

I use it in Linux ( Debian Bullseye and Arch Linux ), so keep that in mind if you tweak it in Windows. The advantage is the improvement in quality. In order to use a Convolutional Neural Network and to be able to show images in real-time, Luma-upscaling needs to be prioritised since the human eye is far less sensitive to changes in Chroma than Luma. Ravu-r3/4, SSimSuperRes, KrigBilateral, FSRCNNX are 2X upscalers. So if the image quality is less than half the resolution of your monitor/TV, apply it twice for 4X upscaling. KrigBilateral is also 2X chroma upscaler. To save gpu+cpu resource, I use mpv's built-in cscaler ewa_lanczossharp and dscaler=catmull_rom. SSimDownscaler is a superior downscaler but the difference is minimal and takes a lot more processing power. The follwing bash script is used to view Randomized Slideshow at 5 sec interval. Two keybindings are setup. One to delete the currently playing image, one to save it to ~/Pictures. Most hardware made in the past 10 years should be able to play this in real-time.


#!/bin/bash

cd "$1"
mpv --fbo-format=rgba16f --gpu-api=opengl --term-status-msg= --sub-auto=no --audio-file-auto=no --mute=yes --no-osc --msg-level=all=status --no-config --glsl-shaders-append="~/.config/mpv/shaders/FSRCNNX_x2_16-0-4-1.glsl" --image-display-duration=5 --fullscreen --cscale=ewa_lanczossharp --correct-downscaling=yes --linear-downscaling=no --deband=no --shuffle --dscale=catmull_rom --input-conf=~/.config/mpv/input.conf *

The input.conf has these 2 extra lines.
Ctrl+DEL run "/usr/bin/rm" "-v" "${path}"
Ctrl+s run "/usr/bin/cp" "-v" "${path}" "~/Pictures/"


Also, an appropriate .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications and with adding PATH in .bashrc, a script in ~/.local/bin with the above command makes a nice little image viewer.


The glsl shaders can be found here.

https://gist.github.com/igv
https://github.com/igv/FSRCNN-TensorFlow/releases

P:S: Remove or change the --gpu-api option if you're using this in Windows.

[zvagardovas]

https://nomacs.org/download/

[sayansg]

Yeah, nomacs is my 1st choice when it comes to GUI image viewer.

Also, digikam is a great Image Organizer.

https://www.digikam.org/download/

[protonx80]

https://sourceforge.net/projects/jpegview/

windows ... is very fast ... and gives me in my opinion the best quality rendering

althought there isa jpeg in the name .. it has managed to open almost all images ive thrown to it

[zvagardovas]

https://es.bandisoft.com/honeyview/

[jstevens]

Hi All,
I was wondering if there are any image viewers that can view layered files like Photoshop PSD files or the old Ulead Photoimpact UFO file format? I've been using FSViewer, Xnview, XnviewMP, Honeyview, and Irfanview. While Xnview can view PSD files, none of them can view the UFO file format which is what I really want. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Thanks.